Christmas Came Early With Art Cooper

Oh, my heck!  Art Cooper, the great Canadian fanzine artist of the early seventies' Spectrum fanzines, just recently bestowed an early Christmas present on me!  He found five drawings around his office that I've never seen (and if you search him on here, you'll know I've enjoyed a ton a "art by Art" in the wayback).  Crazy schedule around here, so here's onea the five, the possibly unseen try-out illo of Kadaver, that Art ended up illustrat'n in Orb magazines #4 and #5 (here's 4's splash).  More later!  But thanks so much, Art

 

Clay Duncan by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

 

Cap'n America #111 Cover by Jim Steranko

How about that?  This fundundant image is up a ton in the wayback, and yet all four a these are new on here.  I assume the 25 in grease pencil on the original cover is a mark-up at a used store or shop, but ya never know.  Coulda come that way at a seven eleven, with 24 more copies tied in a bundle under it.  I've even seen wildness where it coulda been a kid number'n his comics, or mak'n a note about how long a Bobby's World episode REALLY is, or.....

 

Lion Man and Skanner by Gil Kane

If I said I knew of these great illos before now, I'd be lion!  Actually, I dunno if I was even aware that Kane had done animation work (shades a Jack Kirby), so now there's like a whole new meadow on the horizon.  Yeah, sometimes I wax poetic, and sometimes, it's just ear wax

 

Suspended Reality Helicopter by Wally Wood

I know some guys used a lotta product on their hair back in the fifties, but, c'mon!  The choppers blades are spin'n, and nobody's hair is mussed?  Also, if you're using a rope ladder, couldn't you wait a moment until it lands and just step off?  My high school basketball nickname was helicopter.  I would hold both arms straight out from my sides and spin around, look'n for the ball

 

Crash Landing by Bob Kline

As Luke Skywalker would say, "I got a bad feel'n about this!"  Second image is how I saw it in the che great fanzine Anomaly #1, and third is somea the original art.  But when was it painted?  I cannae recall if it was onea the colored images on Bob's amazeballs Tweety Bird posts called Picture A Day, and I dunno how to see all that magnificence anymore

 

Another Super Vehicle by Jack Kirby

 

Somea the animation stuff was truly amaz'n.  please embiggen