Pop links: Free McCartney download! Dylan X-mas album a go! Lou Fine and Reed Crandall! Batman meets the aliens! Abbey Road at 40! More!

Paul McCartney is offering a free download of his tune "Great Day," featured in the new Judd Apatow movie "Funny People," here. The song was originally released on Paul's Flaming Pie album.

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That Bob Dylan Christmas album is coming, Billboard reports.

...at least four songs have already been recorded for the album including, "Must Be Santa," "Here Comes Santa Claus," "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

Dylan, who was born Robert Zimmerman, will join a music business tradition of Jewish artists who release Christmas-themed albums, including Neil Diamond and Phil Spector. Irving Berlin, who wrote the yuletide classic "White Christmas," was also Jewish. Although he was born Jewish and seems to have returned to the faith, Dylan went through a "born again" Christian phase from 1979-1981, releasing several gospel-style albums including "Slow Train Coming" and "Saved."

I've gotta hear this...

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents a whole bunch of Lou Fine and Reed Crandall-illustrated Doll Man stories from 1940.



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Batman sure met a lot of aliens in 1961.



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Pappy presents a very Will Eisneresqe spook story illustrated by the great Jerry Grandenetti.



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See a trailer for the upcoming "Where the Wild Things Are" adaptation.

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Forty years after the album was released, fans are still getting their photos taken Beatles-style crossing Abbey Road, the BBC reports.