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D. D. Degg Updated: June 25, 2025 at 10:52 am EDT 1 minute 5 comments

Ink Blotters

Calendars are being offered for 2026, but we’re going back to 1946/47 with the Internet Archive and some Bull of the Woods ink blotters by J. R. Williams of Out Our Way fame courtesy of Mike Rhode.

Those would have been perfect for your workshop. Also Mike presents a set of undated cartoon ink blotters featuring golfers by Divot Diggers cartoonist Vic Forsythe (of Joe Jinks fame) for your man cave.

Here is the cartoon as it appeared in a Novenber 1926 newspaper:

Mike also provides the images on Flickr: Bull of the Woods and Golf Cartoons.

Buck Rogers

Elsewhere another Mike, this one is cartoonist Lynch, gifts us with a cover gallery of Buck Rogers Big Little Books and Better Little Books featuring art by Dick Calkins and maybe Russell Keaton and Rick Yager.

Hey Look

From 1946 to 1949 Harvey Kurtzman created about one Hey Look! comic strip/page for Stan Lee’s Timely (now Marvel) comic books. Evan Lewis seems to be determined to post all those pages in their original color.

Action Comics #1 (Cover Only)

We have recently mentioned original Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers art and Bill Watterson Spaceman Spiff original art up for auction at Heritage. Now up is the cover wrap for Action Comics #1.

It’s the most famous image in comic book history — and here’s your chance to own a piece of it! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire the cover wrap of Action Comics #1, the book that launched Superman, the superhero genre, and an entire industry. Bright and well-attached, this extraordinary find includes the entire cover, front and back.