Lady Cop

Oh yes. Oh-ho yes. It's Lady Cop, the Bronze Age comic that singlehandedly props up the entire internet, as blog after blog after blog chuckles about and rips apart one of the greatest What the f#%?!! comics in the entire history of, well, everything really.
What's that? You don't know about Lady Cop? Is that what's troubling you, boy?
Lady Cop was another barking mad issue of 1st Issue Special ( was it the 1st issue or the 4th issue? Who can say? ) and is an absolute treasure trove for fans of wrong-headed, crazynuts comics. I mean, you can see what normally reliable writer Bob Kaniger was going for: A girl witnesses a murder, is driven to join the police and we see her through her first couple of days, with all the variety the job entails. Add some background with a typically sexist '70's boyfriend, and it would all be perfectly fine and dandy.
The art, by Lois Lane's John Rosenberger and Vince Colletta is also perfectly acceptable ( barring one panel I'll get to in a minute ) and maybe girl readers would actually go for a police heroine, but it's in the execution where it all falls apart. There's so much craziness here, that once you've finished with how crazy this comic is, there's another whole lake of crazy to dive into. For instance:
People actually call Lady Cop Lady Cop. To her face.
One of the many exciting subplots she gets involved in is offering advice to a girl with VD.
The mysterious murderer in the cowboy boots, who's as integral to Lady Cop's origin as Joe Chill is to Batman's.... is never seen again.
Lady Cop is sexually assaulted, and escapes by kicking her assailant in the knackers.

Wait. You do have a boyfriend, right, Lady Cop? You know where a guy's nuts are? 'Cos from where I'm sitting from you've just brushed the lower part of your leg up against that perp's inner thigh.
I could go on ( and on ) about the myriad of delights to be found here, but I'll save the rest for you to discover for yourself. Except: The scene in the police academy training room with all the other inductees. Are they referred to by similar sobriquets, d'you think? Y'know, maybe there's a Brave & The Bold style team-up opportunity here.
Lady Cop with Black Lady Cop, Coloured Incorrectly Asian Lady Cop, Token Male Hispanic Cop etc etc. I'd buy that comic.

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.