Happy New Year 2014 with Captain Marvel 1949

CAPTAIN MARVEL STORYBOOK was a short-lived series from Fawcett, blending comics with prose. Maybe they would have been more successful in another format, like the Big Little Books of the era. Instead, it was done like a comic book and unlike Captain Marvel himself, it did not fly. This is the last issue, number 4.

13 Li'l Abner Sundays from 1960 in black and white

Scanned from sharp Xerox copies of Sunday pages which were pasted into a scrapbook.

Copyright © 1960 United Features Syndicate, Inc.

Al Williamson's FLASH GORDON #1, 1966

Here is a post-Christmas treat: FLASH GORDON #1 by Al Williamson, published in 1966. The Mandrake the Magician strip is by Don Heck and André LeBlanc.

Copyright © 1966 King Features Syndicate, Inc.