Xmas 30C

One of my all-time favorite teams is the Legion of Super-Heroes (AKA the original Guardians of the Galaxy). I love the mix of high-concept science fiction and super-heroics.
From the Legion's grooviest period, as evidenced not just by the opening panel, but also Phantom Girl's ginchy outfit and the Star Trek inspired cruisers-

Star Light, Star Bright... from DC Super Star Holiday Special (1980)

A Toast To One Man's Memory

Saturday Solutions was rather late after last night's Skyrim session ran right through posting time, followed by crash sleep. So here's an extra post - another tale from our recently departed Len Wein-

A Toast To No Man's Memory by Len Wein and John Severin for Creepy #121 (1980)

Saturday Solutions 008

Here's the key to yesterday's puzzle:

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

Blue Tooth

Bad toothache erupted. Minimal post for

Today, Wally Wood mimics Al Capp to show us a secret bit of L'il Abner & Daisy's story...


NOTE: The images from this post contain 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.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.



That bit of hidden history comes courtesy of Wally Wood's Gang Bang #1:


Okay - I'm going to go play with some string and a doorknob. I'll leave you with another quick bit of Wood:

Lil An' Abner by Wally Wood for Gang Bang #1 (1980), Man Of Steel, Woman Of Stone from Gang Bang #3 (1981)

Sunday Afternoon WTFunnies? (King Kirby 092)

In an earlier edition of Sunday Morning Funnies during the King Kirby 100 we featured a story entitled Spider-Man Tickles The Torch!
Let's look at another related story-

One might ask just how this is related to the previous story, beyond both having Jack Kirby riding pencils.
We've seen how gifted Kirby was with his comic stylings when called upon, and yet there's absolutely no sign of it in either story. The same holds true for Wally Wood's tone in the inks. There's a very simple reason for that. In both cases, Jack wasn't drawing comedy.
In the tradition of Fractured Flickers, the folks at Crazy magazine took old stories and "re-dubbed" them with new dialogue tracks. Of course, "the folks at Crazy magazine" was Marvel Comics, so they had a vault of old tales to use.
Here's the original version of the story above, from Journey Into Mystery #51-

And here's the original version of Spider-Man Tickles The Torch! Kirby & Steve Ditko from Amazing Spider-Man #8:

I like to think that Jack actually got paid for the re-use of his work, and that - unlike some other times - approved of the changes.
But somehow i doubt it.

pages from Journey Into Mystery #51 (1955) and Crazy #s 66 & 82 (1980, 1982)