Today in Comics History, August 1, 1954: Today's your last day to write lyrics for this delusional woman

from World's Greatest Songs #1 (Marvel/Atlas, September 1954), script by Stan Lee (?), pencils and inks by Dave Berg

And now, a public service announcement from everyone except Captain America.

By popular demand*, here's the full page that featured the header image I'm using today:


Contest ad from Marvel Mystery Comics #27 (January 1942)
*The phrase "by popular demand" is used here in the same way that Walt Disney's Comics and Stories used to use it, meaning "hey, look at this old piece we had lying around in inventory!"

Got to face the face

A wee bit back...oh, must be...seventy-three, seventy-four weeks ago...I posted a "while Bully's away" activity to have you fill in the rather blank expressions on this classic cover of World's Finest Comics:



Far from being an attack by the Living Eraser, it's actually an invitation to create the new faces of Batman and Superman, and brave and creative were those who stepped up to the plate (or to MS Paint or Photoshop Elements), like...



Keenan Funk brings on the...ah, funk, with the two biggest badasses (or is that baddest bigasses?) in the crossover universe between Earth-DC and Earth-WWF: The Hulkster and the Hexster will show you the hurt, baby! I'm told Josie came up with the idea for this mash-up. Thanks, Josie! I love you and the other Pussycats!



TB Tabby has got the power...Nintendo Power! Howard and Nestor swing into action from the pages of that late great videogame magazine's comic, proving you can fight crime with 64 well-chosen bits! Long before you kids and your wireless Wii, these two ruled the videogame world. Bring 'em back, Nintendo!



Brian Hughes over at Again With the Comics is reading my mind, because he's contributed a team-up of the two heroes I keep looking for week after week in 52: the triumphant return of Wonder Tot and Mister Genie! Can a twelve-issue Grant Morrison maxiseries be far behind? We can only hope, Brian, we can only hope.


Thank you all for parctiapting with creative and outrageous new Batmen and Supermen! Everybody who participated wins a much-coveted Bull-Prize, so if you haven't already, email me your mailing address (to bully AT nyc DOT rr DOT com). I hereby promise you no salesmen will call, I will not put you on any spam mailing list, and hey, I think you'll actually like the prize! But most of all, I thanks ya for reinventing the World's Finest for three comic books I'd surely declare the Most Fun Comics of the Week! Congrats and thanks, Keenan, TB, and Brian!