Covering Marvel Annuals

Y'know - back in them old days, Marvel had some pretty cool annual covers.
For example, here's a personal favorite:

Nice, huh?
Here's a handful of other covers of a similar nature-

If you hadn't sorted it before now, that 'similar nature' is these are the covers to hardback annuals from the UK. They know how to do annuals so much better than US companies.

covers from UK Marvel Annuals (1960s, 1970s)

Whatcha Gonna Munch?

It's Public Service time once again. Today we'll be sharing one of our House Yummies - the Peanut Butter Pan Cookie. After a few rounds of testing, this rapidly became a fixture snack here in the Hermit Cave.
We assume that complex and involved recipes are not the plan for munchies, and this one is nice and simple.

Preheat your oven to 350 and have a standard 13"x9" cookie sheet standing by.

First - you'll need some peanut butter cookie dough, and mixes are fine here. I generally use Betty Crocker's  17.5 oz bag mix - $1.99 at Target. To compile the mix, you'll also need an egg, 3 tablespoons of cooking oil, and one tablespoon of water.
As Always - mix the egg and liquid ingredients first, then add the dry ingredients (the cookie mix, in this case). Mix until you've got a uniform consistency - watch for those little dry lumps hiding out in the dough.

Second - you'll need some chocolate. I prefer Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate bar - about 8 squares cut into quarters. Plain M&Ms are good for parties - cheaper & nice colours.

Now,  press the dough out into the cookie sheet. It might seem a little thin, but it'll rise. Scatter your chocolate bits of choice over the dough to get a good spread, then push them down into the dough.
Don't worry about chocolate poking up out of the dough. The chocolate will melt down and the dough will rise up and they'll all be happy together.

You might have noted that the package calls for 375 on the oven when making cookies. We've gone a little cooler at 350, and we're going to cook for a little longer - about 16 minutes. You might like a little longer, you'll have to experiment for your personal preference. I like 16 minutes on my oven.

Pull your pan from the oven and let cool for as long as you can stand. (15 minutes is plenty good)
Don't have a cooling rack? Counter stack some cheap chopsticks to create an airflow space beneath the pan.
You can cut it up into whatever size snacking hunks you like. It'll make a dozen 3"x3.25" cookie bars if you do a 3x4 grid.
Or one really big cookie with a jug of milk.

And, yes - there is half a pan sitting in the kitchen now. But i'm off to experiment for dinner - making some Broccoli Chicken with red pepper & sesame seeds.
So off to the cue with this batch of yummy goodness.

House Yummies recipe by -3- and Cartman

Blue Moons

It's time to shake off those not-another-week blues with

This week, let's visit with one of the classics when it comes to beautiful women and erotic fantasy art - Frank Frazetta. Like many others, i grew up with Frazetta posters on my wall (an upcoming post, almost certainly) and Frank taught me all about admiring the butt. (Hence today's title.) Frazetta isn't one of those artists with a secret erotic artist side - he was bold and brash, filling his work with scantily clad, if at all, sexy women - both as maidens to be rescued and warriors to be feared.
So, like Frank, let's go big today with a dozen and a half images from his amazing body of work:

NOTE: The collection of paintings and drawings from this post contain (excellent) nudity, and thus have been moved to our back room for adult content. The text remains that you may make a fair guess as to whether or not you wish to look at the pics. You probably do.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.

all art by the late immortal Frank Frazetta

Sunday Super Funnies Timewarp

Wasn't i here before? I don't think you were with me last time. Now we're late with the Sunday Funnies!
Who can we turn to for help?
How about - a Sunday Superman Selection!

That comes from Wally Wood way back in the days when Mad was a color comic book, before relaunching as a black & white magazine to escape Comic Code tyranny. The cover, by Harvey Kurtzman, from that issue (#4):

Now let's shift to more modern comics, via the web.

Our first is modern in origin, but actually older in design aesthetic. It comes from Kerry Callen, and you can find more of his Super Antics on his blog.

Superman/Batman fun from the Brazilian Dragonarte site:

That last one looks like the URL ends in .bk - it's actually .br (Brazil)

And to make sure i'm not inundated by Batfanatics, here's a counterpoint from Nebezial:

comics from Mad #4 (1953) and attributed websites (see links)

Dark Shadows (Not THAT One)

Back before it was a TV show, Dark Shadows was a comic book. At first glance, they might seem rather similar...

But, damn...    Things got a little different inside...

Still. I would have watched that tv show. Sadly, the GCD has no clue who wrote or drew this tale.

Don't Be A Stumbling Spook from Dark Shadows #2 (1958)

Saturday Solutions 008

Here's the key to yesterday's puzzle:

Puzzle & Solution from Marvel's Fun & Games #10 (1980)

A Web Of Words - Friday Fun & Games 008

It's fairly amazing how pain can distort one's sense of the passage of time. Only late in the evening does it finally occur to me that today is Friday! It's time for

 Fortunately, we have a puzzle on stand-by! It's a simple work fill puzzle-

It's also a good thing we've only got 3 readers, or someone might've gotten upset.

Yeah, like i'm going to tell you where to look for the answers. Come back tomorow

Modern Advertising

Advertising has changed a lot over the years. I'm just not sure if it's getting better or worse. Half of these ads are fake, half are real.
The line seems a bit thin at points...

 Especially with promo lines like We've Got BIG ONES

 

Of course, these people have since re-purposed as online schools to suck up public education funding.

That's a lot closer to the 'real' version of this ad campaign than one might suspect.

One Dollar for a BB Machine Gun? No way that's a real ad, right?

ads from Crazy, Man, Crazy #s 1 & 2, My Greatest Adventure # 13, Fantastic Four #36, and Man Comics #5

One dax, Two dax...

You know who i miss?

Paradax and Zenith pretty much had the 80s superhero scene covered. (But we'll stretch the definition and make room for Tank Girl & Johnny Nemo anyway)

Paradax by Milligan & McCarthy from Strange Days and The Best Of Milligan & McCarthy (pure 1980s)