The Tong Ball Gaggle Mystery by Vaughn Bode

 First is how I first saw a tong ball gaggle, in the pages of Junkwaffel #4, then how it first appeared, in the pages of the fanzine Gosh Wow! #2.  I never understood the square box at the bottom, but now I do, and, in the words of Jimmy Fallon, it was "a box of lies!"  Gosh Wow! #3 has no tong ball story, no tong ball portfolio, no Vaughn Bode atall.  Maybe because it was almost a year later, maybe because (as the back cover shows) it introduced a long story about Moondog by George Metzger.  Whatever the reason'n, I want my MTV (er...I want my Bode tong ball story and second portfolio)!  If anything is out there, please holla

Young Berni Wrightson

 Have I mentioned how much I dig young Berni Wrightson art?  Prior to 1969, apparently it all went unsigned or had this signature

Great Nebraska Sea by Wally Wood

 S'more great Wood from Galaxy magazine.  Best line in this 1963 story, is that the trouble started in 1973

Fistful Of Frank Frazetta

 

The New Ant-Man! by Jack Kirby

 I mean the new Giant-man!  Almost sixty years before ant-man went gigantor in the movie, but Jack was consistently ahead of his time (and alla our time)

Chicon IV Cover by Bill Reinhold

Don't know Reinhold from Adam, but I wish I did, cause I love this
 

Cap'n America #110 Splash by Jim Steranko

 I laid off of it over a decade, but man, this first take of Cap'n A has always been a fav.  In middle school, we useta hang out in the drainage tunnels under Colorado Springs, and this looks like home