Words and Pictures

Missing Occupations Technology has a way of making once-important occupations fade away. Buggy-whip maker and paste-up artist come to mind....

Unseen Gene I've looked around but no one seems to have mentioned this interesting anomaly from EC's Two Fisted Tales #39, dated ...

Repulsive Romance I've been on a romance comic spree, prowling those wonderful archive sites, Digital Comics Museum and Comic Boo...

Alan Mistero in Action! In my last post I introduced you to Alan Mistero, bare-chested hero of a mid-1960s Italian comic series. Today you...

He's StilI a Mistero to Me I  don't know what attracts me to clunky Golden and Silver Age Italian comics. Maybe it's t...