Kirby/Wood Tattoo

NOT me! This SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE fan and his arm art were found on the Net.

Gil Kane/Ralph Reese

Wally Wood is generally thought of as having been an excellent inker for the work of the great Gil Kane. Today over at DIVERSIONS OF THE GROOVY KIND (which glitches my PC for some reason lately but it's still worth it) you can see what I believe to be the only example of Kane being inked by former Woodworker (and a wonderful stylist in his own right) Ralph Reese veru much in the style of his mentor. The story is "The Eavesdropper" from DC's FORBIDDEN TALES OF THE DARK MANSION # 13 in 1973. Thanks, Groove!

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/11/praising-kane-13-pages-of-bad-luck-with.html

The Mummy

No, not the usual Warren one by Woody with Russ Jones. No, THIS Warren one, with Dan Adkins, was the inside front cover of EERIE # 5...and strangely enough also of EERIE # 14 just a couple of years later.

Woody's Classic Covers # 34

Here are the front and back covers to the NOMAN volume of the Tower paperback series that collected T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS stories in the mid-sixties. Note that whoever laid out the cover had no idea that the background villain was NOT just another drawing of NoMan himself! Thus the word balloon. The back cover is by Woody with, I'm pretty sure, Dan Adkins. The front MAY be by Reed Crandall with or without Wood and both seem at least a bit retouched by other hands. Interior art also includes work from Mike Sekowsky and Gil Kane.

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Tribute

If you're on Facebook, the perpetual FACEBOOK COMIC CON is presenting a tribute to Wallace Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. It's been up for some time now and continues through November 16th. Not much going on there sadly other than some nice fan art like this NoMan scene by Jay Piscopo but maybe Wood fans can change that. Check it out here sometime in the next 11 days:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fevent.php%3Feid%3D118136936259&h=ebd61bce5955ace1ee70cc69ec21d2e7

Around the World in Eighty Days

Mr. Door Tree collects a most rare and eclectic selection of record album covers from the sixties and seventies by such comics luminaries as Barry Windsor-Smith, Russ Manning, Bill Ward, Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta and others, all in nice,clickable large scans. Here's the only Wood one (with Dan Adkins) from the series of classic literature LP's Wally illustrated covers for but the rest are all choice and rarely seen. Check them out yourself at:

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/11/record-jackets-art-by-bill-ward-frank.html

Mad's Comic Opera

One of Woody's most popular pieces for MAD would have to be the MAD COMIC OPERA in which our hero gets to draw all sorts of comic strip characters from Dick Tracy and Dagwood to Tarzan and Charlie Brown all mimicking the styles of the original artists! See it today over at
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/10/comic-opera.html