Dating Disasters
I did this for Boulder Magazine a couple of years ago and had a good time working on it. This was one of three illustrations I did to accompany an article on when dates go bad. This is my favorite …...
View ArticleWhat I Miss About Comics…The 98lb Weakling Epidemic
I don’t think First Lady Pat Nixon fretted about this particular plague at the time. This is also from Charlton’s All New Fightin’ Marines No. 116 which has been a positive treasure trove for these...
View ArticleTo Each His Own
Above is the detail from another comic book ad aimed squarely at pimply adolescents with power fantasies. Though 35 days to a Herculean physique seems like an eternity compared to the other fellow’s...
View ArticleA Familiar Face
As is usually the case, I was looking for something else when I came across an old stash of comics books. I immediately forgot about whatever I was originally looking for as I gleefully thumbed through...
View ArticleMail Order Muscles
Charles Atlas is the body builder that everybody knows from comic book advertisements, but if you actually bought and read comic books regularly any time between the 1950s through the 1970s, you would...
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