Funny Stuff: John Costanza One-pagers

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! While John Costanza is best remembered as an ace comicbook letterer, he's also a dyn-o-mite cartoonist, to boot! He did tons of humor strips for Gold Key, lots of humor fillers for DC's war mags, and every once in a while he'd do a one-page filler in some other DC comics. In Aquaman #'s 49 and 51 (November 1969, February 1970), Costanza gave us Scuba-Man. Super-Goof appeared in Detective Comics #392 (August 1969), and in Teen Titans #27 (March 1970) and Tomahawk #140 (March 1972) his fillers sort of echoed the lead feature's setting (the moon for the Teen Titans issue and the great outdoors for Tomahawk). Rarely seen stuff here, Groove-ophiles! Hope ya dig it!

Grooviest Covers of All Time: Neal Adams--6 from '69

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Just for fun, here are six Neal Adams DC masterpieces from 1969. What more could any comics fiend want for the occupation of their ocular organs?

Admiring Adams: Little Known Early DC Covers

Back in the dawn of the Groovy Age, when Neal Adams came on the scene at DC, they put him on a few strips (Deadman in Strange Adventures, Batman team-ups in Brave and the Bold, Superman/Batman in World's Finest, lots of mystery stories for House of Mystery, the Unexpected, and the rest), but they really worked him on their covers. The entire Superman Family of comics, Batman, Detective, Adventure, World's Finest, Tomahawk, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, the mystery comics, and even the romance comics. Here are a few very early, very cool Adams covers from the late 1960s--including Neal's first DC Cover! Can you guess which one it is? (I'm presenting the covers in random order, so no hints from me!)

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Holiday Tales: "A Different Kind of Christmas Story"

Fans of DC's Golden and Silver Ages can tell you that DC produced quite a few unique books during their heyday. One of those featured a Revolutionary War hero (kind of modeled after Daniel Boone) called Tomahawk. The character Tomahawk (Tom Hawk) made his debut in Star Spangled Comics #69 (cover dated June, 1947), where the strip ran until issue #130 (cover dated July, 1952). Tomahawk also appeared in World's Finest Comics from issue 33 (cover dated March, 1948) through #101 (cover dated May, 1959). Tomahawk's own comic ran 140 issues, from 1950-1972. Cool and creative concepts tended to have a long life back in the "good old days". Toward the end of Tomahawk's run, the mag was re-titled Son of Tomahawk. Our hero was allowed to grow old and retire, letting his son, Hawk (Hawk Hawk?), take over the adventuring (something that pretty much only happened in Imaginary Stories, over on the superhero side of DC). Written by Bob Kanigher, drawn by Frank Thorne, and edited by Joe Kubert (who provided the awesome covers), Son of Tomahawk, featured some really cool stories in the early 70s. Here's one of my favorites, from Son of Tomahawk #138 (October/November, 1971), "Christmas"!