Thursday, April 30, 2015

The Incredible Hulk by Jack Kirby

This one, for me, is right there with Jack's Marvelmania poster of the Hulk (which is the next cover of The Jack Kirby Collector, as I've said over and over---wee psyched I am---like Yoda I speak).  Except this one was probably drawn in the blink of an eye

The Ultimate Villain by Jim Steranko



Another Flashing Swords #1 Hardbound by Frank Frazetta


First is a new version of the painting that I just saw, better than many, and then I've put up the actual dust jacket again.  Still the greatest version, methinks

Marvel Two N One #27 Cover by Jack Kirby


For me, the colorist makes Deathlok rock.  Sue may have been pregnant at the time, since Reed and The Thing are already in trouble, but her shield only protects her

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Shazam! by Bob Kline

Cap'n Marvel, Marvel Girl, and Marvel Boy

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A Perfect Replica of the Accursed Cap'n America by Jack Kirby

This splash from the Cap'n A Omnibus is clean and bright, a great repro of the splash in #106, so I gotta say this is a perfect replica of a perfect replica

Chandler At The Neptune by Jim Steranko




This scene has haunted me for nigh on forty years.  When I first saw it, I was a club'n king, but all our clubs in the seventies were dance clubs.  I love to dance, and we had Pandora's, Tulagi's (where they once premiered Michael Jackson's Thriller on a giant screen above the dance floor), and The Rush, that held a thousand dancers on multi-level dance floors

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Marvel Super-Heroes #54 Cover by Jack Kirby



Great pencils of The Hulk that got turned into a very ho-hum cover

Thongor in the City of Magicians by Frank Frazetta












I once had a similar post (this one's betta) called Thor's Flight, in which I said I liked the "ghostly quality" of the paperback cover.  still do

Twice in Time Cover by Wally Wood

1958, and wether Wally was drawing or painting, he did the greatest machinery

Jim Kelly and Bruce Lee by Neal Adams



Enter the Dragon was che cool, but I'd love to see the flick Adams was envisioning, with Kelly and Lee taking on "the man"

Web of Horror #1 Cover by Jeff Jones








First image is big, but unfortunately it's a partial scan of the back of my copy of the mag, which, although currently bagged and boarded, had "a life no ways tame," as Robert E Howard would say

The Complete (Sorta) Four Ages of Conan by Barry Smith














Okay, I left out the Kenneth Smith colorization of these, mainly cuz I cunnae find all four, but please, if you like these, seek out that version also, as every format of this is beautiful, in my opinion