A Batch of Links

Douglas Wolk reviews an interesting batch of superhero comics in the New York Times.

I'm a sucker for the really early superhero comics. They're like primitive folk art. There's a wonderful, manic incoherence to some of them that I find fascinating. It's like depression-era urban art brut.

Here's a marvelously lurid cover by Jack Cole featuring the Claw, one of the golden age's most diabolical villains.