The Lonely

From BLACK CAT MYSTERY #48, by Howard Nostrand

???

I have no idea when this was done or what it was for or who Sordino was.

The White Spirit

By Wally Wood, either from BLUE BOLT WEIRD #118, or JUNGLE JO #1. Maybe this ad can trace where this came from.

The Dark Knight Blows It

In art school my friends Tom and Marc and I were making our own comics and eventually met a lot of like-minded individuals. One such person made the comic above. The covers were made with a primitive color-xerox method called Omnicrom. You would put a copy inside a sheet of colored cellophane, then wring it through a heated machine and when it came out the copy would be all that color. Theoretically you could do the same thing with an iron but it would be a bigger pain in the ass. Used Omnicrom sheets still had any of their color where there wasn't any toner, so the artist of these comics used those to make the covers. That way you could use several sheets and get pieces of them on your black ink, sometimes with the "ghosts" of whatever the sheets bonded with previously.

'The Dark Knight Returns' had just been published in book form and the author of this comic would put copies of it inside copies of the book at bookstores and comic stores. He disavows any connection with this since it violates copyright, he has family members he doesn't want to see it, and lastly it was at least 20 years ago. He does consider this the greatest achievement of his four years at the School of Visual Arts. Since he asked to remain anonymous I was going to make up a backstory about him finding religion, but if found out that would question the credibility of everything else I posted here.

Jungle

from WITCHES TALES #19, Harvey 1953, by Howard Nostrand

Still More Pert Herman

Here's a strip from the 80s Bobby Weiss and I made that I don't think was published anywhere. I think it's from 1986 or 1987. The other guy in the strip is Paul Healy, a friend of ours we used to make fun of in our comics. He never actually went "Aaa!" but we always had him doing that because it captured the essence of Healy.

Another friend of ours, John Rotondi. We used to make up things about people, then make fun of them for those things.

Map of Doom

Here's this, from WEIRD HORRORS #9 from St. John in 1953, by Joe Kubert.

My Stand-in for Love

One of the comics where I don't know the original source. The artist looks like Alex Toth or Steve Ditko and it's from sometime between 1950-1954. If anyone has more information, let me know.

Update: It's Joe Kubert and was also published under the name LOVE CAME SECOND from Hollywood Confessions #1