Saturday, June 15, 2024

Galactic Head by Spain Rodriguez



 Ok, not at all like GH by Kirby, but still, Manny did a che cool cover

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  1. RussJune 16, 2024 at 8:00 AM

    Like many undergrounders, he was a Wood fan too...but, you're right, if you read interviews with those early UG creators, they felt some connection with what was going on in early Marvel, what Spain identified as a "psychedelic subtext". It's hard to realize how unusual those Kirby, Ditko and Steranko pages were, and how much a part of the counterculture they were, if only briefly. I'm not that fond of Larry Welz as an artist, but you can see Marvel's influence in his Captain Guts comics, particularly the third issue, featuring "Wyatt Winghead" and "Nebula, Queen of the Outerworld".

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    1. Cap'n's ComicsJune 16, 2024 at 11:28 AM

      Didn't realize most of this, but as you say it, yeah, you can see a lotta homage to what they love. I really dig Larry Todd's renditions of channel'n EC

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  2. RussJune 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM

    I wish someone would reprint all those old Nickel Library pages; they'd be impossible to collect these days.

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    1. Cap'n's ComicsJune 16, 2024 at 9:49 PM

      "It's deja vu all over again," as Yogi Berra once said. Feel down in my deepest guts that we've somehow had the Nickel Library eulogy on here in the past (but acourse I can't find it). Not only some great undergrounders, but Frazetta and Wally Wood and Kirby and Alex Toth and...yeah, a re-do on the NL would be che awesome

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    2. RussJune 17, 2024 at 7:48 AM

      You got me, Cap. Again. I found this post, anyway, with some asshat named Russ pontificating in the comments as if he knows something. https://capnscomics.blogspot.com/2015/09/if-larry-todd-had-worked-at-ec.html

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    3. Cap'n's ComicsJune 17, 2024 at 1:23 PM

      A fun old post that ties nicely with what's here, but I'm start'n to freak out that my memory of honoring the Nickel Library was just in my "Beautiful Mind." If that's truly the case, I think I gotta work up a 5cent post that's worth more than a wooden nickel

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