Thursday, June 28, 2018

Fantastic Four #77 Cover by Jack Kirby


Okay.  I lied last post when I said the art's better B4 color.  These are both che great.  This monochrome color is a nice variation on the single color that was all the rage at Mar-vel at the time

4 X Berni Wrightson




All in color for a dime my burro!  I likes the original art before the color, most times

Ben Grimm by Jack Kirby


Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Doc Doom by Wally Wood


First is the pop of the reprint in The Marvel Comics Art of Wally Wood, then the original splash.  Dug how he channeled EC and Tower on this

Monday, June 25, 2018

Topps Dracula by Jack Kirby

I know this is from the nineties, but Jack still had mad skills, and I still wanna see this as one giant trad'n card (what they call a picture)

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Iron Man by Mike Zeck


Green Lantern by Gil Kane



Night Images by Rich Corben


Okay, just one image from the amaz'n Night Images, where Corb and Frazetta illustrated the pomes of one Robert E. Howard, here the illustration for A Word From The Outer Dark, an ode to barbarians

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Doctor Doom by Jack Kirby




While tirelessly research'n my last post (okay, while mindlessly surf'n the net), I came upon this first image, and realized I'd never thought about the original art for this Marvelmania poster grail (I'm leav'n off a good dozen OTHER images I've posted of this), and so, let's get all Zen with another Unconscious Competence example, and feel the Force

Friday, June 15, 2018

Flash Gordon by Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta



Al will always be (to me) the quintessential Flash Gordon artist, but I've often grooved on Frank's sketches

Sub-Mariner by Jack Kirby