Return of Conan--Cover and Original Art

20,000 Leaks

Over at Pappy's place, you can find Woody's PANIC parody of Disney's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, written by Jack Mendelsohn who is also known for co-writing a later submarine story--YELLOW SUBMARINE.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2011/04/number-926-got-whale-of-tale-to-tell.html

Comic Strip Christmas

Ron Sutton comes through again with an amazing scan of this MAD original art. Embiggen for hours of fun!

22 Panels Arm Art

No less than three different folks linked me to this perhaps overzealous Wood fan in recent days. Check him out!

http://www.djcoffman.com/2011/03/31/wally-woods-22-panels-tattoo-sleeve-completed/

Smokin'!

The Nickel Library

THE NICKEL LIBRARY was a fun idea that was done under somewhat shady circumstances and never got anywhere near its planned 500 issues. Basically, each one is one page, costing a nickel, highlighting a cool, rare comics-related image. The goal was to have 500 which one could then collect and store in a binder. Wood appeared several times including with this highly detailed piece probably from or intended originally for one of the digests.

Wood-1970

Here are a couple of little-seen shots of Wally Wood from Phil Seuling's 1970 Comic Art Convention...as seen in Marty Greim's COMIC CRUSADER fanzine from not long afterwards.