Mike Lynch has scanned and uploaded a number of old gag books in the past few months, but the desert-island theme of this collection really caught my eye (for what I assume are obvious reasons). Most of the humor is stale, un-P.C., and dated, but I still get a kick out of the fine line work on display.

[Link: SOUTH SEA CARTOONS compiled & edited by Harold Myers]

This might be an opportune moment to invite everyone to revisit my own tribute to lame, insensitive, tropical-island humor, the April, 1935 issue of Ballyhoo Magazine.

[Link: Ballyhoo Magazine -- Hula Hula Number]

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Over at Atomic Surgery, Jack Kirby explains human (and Sub-mariner) evolution in his own inimitable way, from an issue of "The Eternals".
[Link: Jack Kirby Explains the Origin of Mankind]
[Link: The Evolution of Homo Mermanus]

You can viddy the entire issue at Newsarama.

Meanwhile, Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents an excellent unpublished satire of pre-Comics Code crime and horror comics:

[Link: Weird Dead Comics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

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