Hodiah Twist In: The Hero-Killer Principle!

As promised over at The Kids site, here's one of only two full-length outings for Don McGregor's 1930's set Holmesian detective Hodiah Twist.
Twist is a broken man, having lost everything in the stock market crash, and haunted by the suicide of his wife, has retreated into a fantasy of becoming like a certain consulting detective.
This gives McGregor an opportunity to discuss one of his long-running themes and fascinations: The nature and reality of heroism itself. Though being Don, he gives you value for money by setting this discussion within the most brilliantly pulpy set-up ie. The hunt for a werewolf on the 'El' Train.
Tony DeZuniga sympathetically inks Gene Colan so he isn't swamped ( as could sometimes be the case with Tony ), and the whole thing is simply the class act you'd expect from these gentlemen.
Makes you wish Don had been able to do more with Hodiah.

Earl Norem

A major part of the Marvel black & white mags, and therefore of my own particular Bronze Age, were the glorious cover paintings by Earl Norem, who seemed to contribute to just about every title in the line.
Earl had previously toiled in the 'Men's Sweat' magazines, contributing magnificent work like this:

And this:

But even if we hadn't known that's where he earned his chops, you could kind of tell from his Marvel covers anyway. His figures have absolute weight and reality, and are just this side of over the top. Here's some of my favourites: