Saturday, March 22, 2025

Some Dragonflames by Paul Gulacy




Although I'd been told somebody was channel'n Steranko, I pretty much ignored Master Of Kung-Fu for a coupla decades, and never even perceived this paperback until just the other day.  Onea my most ambitious posts from the wayback is MOKF by Gulacy, so I finally caught on.  That first interior drawing really resonates Steranko's Chandler (and the stained-glass swag lamp was in a ton of homes in the seventies, including a coupla my cribs)


























 

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Fantastic Fanzine Ad by Frank Frazetta

On the back of the fanzine Art & Story #1.  Far-out



 

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Coupla Conan Variations by Barry Smith

Two I've had up before, but the first is here with che nice colors (by Barry?) and the second has been up as the fanzine cover, and as nice, big art, but not as both


 

Monday, March 17, 2025

Another Blackmark (?) by Gil Kane

Good thing he wrote Blackmark on this,  or I might be think'n it was a skinny Kane Conan.  Also, if you gave this guy a crewcut, it'd be His Name Is Savage.  Angry eyes takes me back to top forty radio in the seventies

 

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Coupla More Fly'n Tigers by Wally Wood

Course Lone Tiger was up a lot in the wayback, and some more convolutions are in the works, but these two are che nice



 

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Bullseye by Jack Kirby


Said it before so I'll say it again:  Bullseye brings me great joy.  Although Big Bear gives him a run for the money, I find Bullseye to be Jack's happiest character.  First image was never up here (I believe), the Bullseye trad'n card.  Then the lousy scan I made from my Black Book Valentine to Roz before ship'n it off to an eBay customer at the turn o the century.  Then my fav Kirby drawing of Bullseye, then a detail of my fav (please embiggen), then the drawing that started this very blog











 

Monday, March 10, 2025

Strange Tales #132 Cover by Steve Ditko

.............and the cover in our dimension, as mostly done by Jack Kirby.  Odd thing is, I love the cover Jack did 2 issues earlier (specially w/o the Torch and Thing as Beatles), but the Kirby part of 132s cover  may be my least fav art ever
A day later (and a dollar shorter) here's the page from whence came the mock-up, and that same story's splash, also rock'n the magic bolts and contorted fingers and groovy little statues