Werewolf By Night vs Krogg The Lurker From Beyond

One of those comics I always seemed to have two copies of throughout the Bronze Age, no matter how many times I swapped one of them, Werewolf By Night #8 was actually the first issue I ever read of Jack Russell's hirsute alter ego. And I loved it, even though it screams filler.
Behind a magnificent Mike Ploog cover, there's a solid, unshowy Werner Roth art job over a tight Len Wein script. Ok, Roth was no Ploog, but it's perfectly acceptable, if slightly tame, stuff.
Werewolves, meanwhile, have always been my favourite monsters, though I generally had a bit of an issue with the Marvel Werewolf due to the fact I always kinda wished he had a bit more of a personality.
I get that the original idea was I, Werewolf and the narration was fun and all, but I always wanted there to be a bit more to him than grr, hunt, kill.
In fact, there's a Giant-Size Creatures I'll post at some point where Wolfie gets the hots for, and is rejected by, Tigra, and that's much more in line with what I wanted.
But I've always liked this one, warts and all, and the villain more than makes up for the Werewolf's lack of dialogue. Geez, is Krogg The Lurker From Beyond verbose. He could out talk The Leader or Doc Doom, this guy. Plus he's a rabbit, which is cool.
Fun to note also the scene where Krogg eats the souls of the two luckless hunters, inbetween panels. There's the Comics Code in action.

The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad

Here's Marvel's version of perennial Bank Holiday movie The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, a film that runs through the whole of the Bronze Age, alongside all those Doug McClure vehicles like The People That Time Forgot and Warlords Of Atlantis. 

Like I said, Golden Voyage seems to have been on British TV every single Bank Holiday since it's original release in 1974, and though it's more than a bit creaky now, it's always nice to see any Ray Harryhausen in place of endless CGI in our movies.
Plus, it has a cult cast list Alex Cox would weep over, starring as it does Danger Diabolik / Barbarella's John Phillip Law, Best Dr. Who ever Tom Baker, and The Professional's Martin Shaw, hilariously pretending to be an Arab seaman. And Caroline Munro, of course.

The movie adaptation is surprisingly faithful, with Len Wein lifting dialogue wholesale from the script, and splitting it over two issues gives it the room not to have to squeeze everything in, such as by comparison, House Of Hammer's otherwise excellent movie strips had to.
It's got a solid, unshowy art job from George Tuska & Vince Colletta, who even manage to catch both Baker & Shaw's likenesses in the occasional panel, and even a Romita opening splash, for no real reason.
Sinbad never really caught on in comics ( unless of course, Dynamite are doing a version. I don't know, are they? ) perhaps getting lost amongst all the other sword-swinging heroes of the time. Which is a shame, as he kind of precedes all of them.
It's nothing amazing, but it is a nice memento of a quintessential Bronze Age fantasy movie. It'll keep you going till next week anyway, when it'll be on TV again. Here's Part 1:

Len Wein In Rutland

God, now we lost Len Wein as well. How is that even possible?
I really wanted to post that great clip from the Jack Kirby: Storyteller documentary, with Len & Marv becoming little kids again while talking about visiting Jack's house in their youth, but couldn't locate it sadly. The whole thing is on youtube tho', so watch it, if only to see how neither of these guys ever stopped being fans.
As well as creating two characters you may've heard of, Wein was also The Hulk's AND The JLA's best writer for my money and, as I say, a genuine fan right to the end.
So here's a classic fannish moment, an unofficial Marvel / DC crossover that Len cooked up with buddies Steve Englehart & Gerry Conway. It's the ultimate Rutland Halloween story, as The Beast fights The Juggernaut, the JLA face off against Felix Faust, and Thor battles Loki.
But those aren't the main story. The main story is the tale of how Len, Steve, Gerry & Glynis got to Rutland. And how everybody keeps trying to steal Englehart's car.
It'll make you smile. Which is what Len Wein spent his life making us do.