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I've always admired the work of comic book artist Graham Nolan and am pleased to hear he's returning to comics after stints working on the Phantom and Rex Morgan M.D. newspaper strips. Nolan will be working on Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four, one of the publisher's "youth"-aimed comics, which I think is a great idea. I'd like to see DC and Marvel put veteran super-hero writers and artists on all such books, providing an "old school" take on these characters for both new and aging (like me) readers to enjoy.

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories displays some more great Virgin Finlay pulp art.

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Jon's Random Acts of Geekery has been, and will be, featuring some great Halloween-themed posts this month, including this nifty one, featuring images of a "Creature from the Black Lagoon" book adaptation for kids.

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DC Comics has again generated some cheap press coverage by killing off another character--this time it's poor old Pa Kent (who actually died in the first Superman tale 50 years ago and was later revived for Superboy stories and again in the 1980s, I think, for the post-Crisis reboot and the 1990s "Lois and Clark" TV show).

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Those Fabulous 50s presents some more Harvey Kurtzman magazine strips.

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Today's Inspiration has been posting some great cover paintings from British war comics.

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Mystery and comics scribe Max Allan Collins is completing an unfinished Mickey Spillane "Mike Hammer" novel.

The Goliath Bone (Harcourt, $23), based on Spillane's rough draft, goes on sale Monday, 61 years after Hammer, the iconic hard-boiled private eye, solved his first case in I, the Jury. It will be the 14th Hammer novel.

"It's hard to imagine what popular culture would be like right now without Mike Hammer," says Collins, 60, who began writing fan letters to Spillane when he was 13.


015101454X The Goliath Bone

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