Whatever Happened To... Rex The Wonder Dog & Detective Chimp?

Back to the back pages of DC Comics Presents now, for another Whatever Happened To...? and this time it's a double bill of semi-forgotten Silver Age characters, as we welcome back Rex The Wonder Dog & Detective Chimp!
And in case you all think I've gone mad, check it out:
Rex comes with a dynamite, you should excuse the phrase, pedigree having been occasionally written by Bob Haney and drawn by both Alex Toth and Gil Kane, and Bobo, the Detective Chimp? He's a chimp. Who's a detective. The defence rests.
Of course, Bobo has been re-updated, resurged and re-booted now, but I'm not sure Rex has had the same kinda luck, and certainly back in the Bronze Age, no one gave a stuff about our hirsute heroes.
Rex & Bobo shared a respectable 46 issue run in the '50s, with The Wonder Dog getting top billing, and getting up to all sorts, including facing off against dinosaurs:

Becoming a Red Indian chief:

And even teaming up with Bambi:

But both Rex & Bobo seemed to spend most of their time hanging round the local circus, as in these two tales starring each battling beastie:

But whatever happened to Rex The Wonder Dog & Detective Chimp? Well...

The Kids From Rec. Road In: Star Warz!

This week at The Kids From Rec. Road, a classic from the '70's! Yes, it's an original strip from the Bronze Age as we rip-off Star Wars ( hey, everybody was doing it! ) with art from a teenage Sean Phillips, natch!
While at:

We're talking Movie adaptations. Good idea? Bad idea? 'Real' comics or not? Join in the discussion, but only after you've felt The Farce, Luke, over at kidsfromrecroad.blogspot,com

Elric Of Melnibone: While The Gods Laugh

Elric Of Melnibone is, after Conan, THE major Sword & Sorcery character, and in many ways is almost the anti-Conan. He's a sorcerer as well as a warrior, and spends an awful lot of time brooding about the bad lot he's been dealt in life. Two things our favourite Cimmerian would never be seen doing.
He's also the main entry point for most readers into creator Michael Moorcock's vast Multiverse of characters, and is everybody's favourite version of that particular cycle's Eternal Champion.
He's one of the great characters in fiction, endlessly fascinating and three-dimensional, but hasn't always been served well in comics. Possibly because his saga has a definite ending, it's hard to do a lot of stories about him, so those that have been done are perhaps seen with a more critical eye than a longer lasting character like Conan.
One artist absolutely born to draw Elric is Craig Russell, who joins with ace adapter Roy Thomas here for While The Gods Laugh. Not only is this the archetypal Elric story in terms of it's definition of both his and his world's view, it's a perfect introduction to the doomed prince, telling you everything you need to know about him.
Russell here contributes an absolute tour de force, and rarely is an artist so well suited to a character. Every once in a while, talk of an Elric movie is banded around, and last time I checked Paul Bettany was up for the role, apparently a choice Moorcock himself was keen on. Although, of course, no less a thesp than Luke Goss played what was really a version of the albino warrior in the 2nd Hellboy movie:

Whoever ends up with the role, and if it ever even gets made, could do worse than study Russell's art here. This is Elric in the absolute, living flesh.