Wayne Howard Self-Portrait

I'm told this is a self-portrait of sometime Woodworker Wayne Howard, best known for his channeling of Woody on Charlton's MIDNIGHT TALES run of the 1970's.

Came the Dawn

We may have linked to an earlier re-presentation of this story but here it is again from GRANTBRIDGE STREET. It's a beautifully drawn and well written EC tale from SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES. Enjoy CAME THE DAWN!

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/05/came-dawn-by-al-feldstein-and-wally.html

One of a Kind Wood Anniversary Gift

Marsha from Washington State wrote me this morning to thank me for this site. Always good to hear, of course, but in her case, it was because she was able to use the site a little more specifically recently. With her permission, I'll let her tell it:

Hello! My husband and I recently celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary and I  couldn't have made my gift to him without your site. We have self imposed  guidelines and budget constraints for gift giving, every gift has to be  home-made and we can spend no more than $10 each on materials. I first saw Wally  Woods 22 panels on your site awhile back and bookmarked the image for future  use. I've attached a pic of the final result. All of the images came from your site or from links you provided. The frame and  board (approx. 32.5" x 56.5") were purchased at the Goodwill for 5.99 plus tax,  and the rest of my budget went to black spray paint. I printed out the back  ground images on my inkjet, took them to work and ran them through the  photocopier so I could mod-podge(matte finish) them to the board. After the  background was complete I printed out Wally's 22 panels on thin photo-paper and  used spray adhesive to attach them to the background. 

Thank you again, 

 Marsha in Washington State=

Thanks so much for writing, Marsha! May you have many more great years and great anniversary gifts to come!
 

When Al Met Wally

A. L. Sirois, a successful artist (as well as a writer and musician) himself for many years now, started out as a Woodworker in the seventies during Woody's last peak period. Here, on his always interesting blog, he tells of his first meetings with his mentor.

Apologies to Al for borrowing an image of him from Facebook.

http://www.alsirois.com/2009/wordpress/?p=134

DD & the Fellowship of Fear

From the other side of the pond, Joe Bloke shares with us an early--pre-red costume--DAREDEVIL story by Stan Lee and Wally Wood!

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/05/daredevil-trapped-by-fellowship-of-fear.html

Jungle Jim Revisited

The Internet being a vast and mighty place, today we find the same JUNGLE JIM stories from yesterday along with the third story from the same issue over at Pappy's! The difference here is that Pappy gives the ever-helpful Bhob Stewart space to explain the creation of the stories in this issue! Seems they are by Wood...sorta......with the help of about a dozen or so diverse hands including Bhob himself on scripts and Steve Ditko on pencils for the cover story as seen here.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/05/number-741-stewart-and-woods-jungle-jim.html

Jungle Jim

Woody is given credit for these two stories from a 1969 Charlton issue of JUNGLE JIM but the first one especially looks like his inks over layouts/pencils from lesser hands. With Charlton's less than stellar printing, however, it's hard to say. Where does that girl's nose keep disappearing to??

http://www.thecharltonstory.com/2010/05/witch-doctor-of-borges-island-and.html