Western Publishing Infopage- Four Color #816 (July 1957)

A Scotsman who gets 29 miles per gallon.......

Oh wait, they're  talking about GASOLINE!

At any rate, if this 1957 monster coul get that kind of mileage, think what today's cars could do if the EPA weren't around. Of course, the air would probably be black.....

Comic book Full Page Panels- The War Of The Worlds

Published in Gilberton's Classics Illustrated #124, H G Wells' story was drawn by Lou Cameron and had several Full Pagers and even one explosive Double Page Panel. First printed January 1955.

Wilson painting for Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #11

September 1965

click to enbiggen

My Favorite Martian infopage

The afomentioned back cover of issue #2, by Ray Bailey

Issue 2 DID have some interesting inside covers, though:

orginal art from Dell Four Color #1024

Here is an inked page  by Alex Toth for F 1024 from 1959

Wilson cover for SUPERCAR #1 November 1962

Loved this show as a kid. First Anderson show to be telecast in US.

Comic Book Short Story ~ Hard Luck Harvey

From the first of two stand-alone* TWILIGHT ZONE comics Western packaged for Dell in 1962.
 Art is by Mel Crawford and Frank Giacoia.

*not in the Four-Color numbering. In fact, ID #01-860-207 ,  somewhat resembles a Gold Key index.

Woody Woodpecker & a Blast From The Past

Many boomers learned to read with the help of Whitman, Golden Books, Wonder Books and the like. Here is one of my favorites from 1954.

LOOK Magazine, February 27, 1940

 

 

Early appearance by Supes...note that the colorist had never seen the comicbook.







Two years before Pearl Harbor, some people just couldn't wait to get into it.....