Retro Jack Kirby

As Big Bear of The Forever People would say, "this is pure camp!"  Okay I dunno what to call the style of the first and third images here, but I know I dig it.  Happy New Year!

 

Conan Kick'n It by Barry Smith

Much like Our Man Flint (who came along 3 decades AFTER our barbaric hero), Conan had the wonderful ability to get much-needed rest even while sail'n (or, in Flint's case, fly'n) into the fray

 

"New" Looks For A Coupla Frank Frazetta Favs

Never thought about Fritz (or the other usual suspects, for that matter) on cardboard until this came along.  As Wolfgang useta say on Laugh-In, "very interesting....but stupid..."  Similarly, as I see Lost On Venus flipped and re-colored...I'll stick with the original, please

 

Some Broken Sparrow by Larry Todd

Can't show the whole beauty cause I no longer have Nightmare #6.  Back in the 80s, I tore the cover off the mag, put the cover in onea my binders, and threw the mag's guts away.  If you could see how this tale ends, you would haveta say I was not only a dummy, but onea the kings of irony

 

Where Is This Is? by Mike Kaluta

Okay, I've lost track of what barbaric Marvel mag I cut this out of, but I dunno if the actual magazine would solve this, anyhoo.  The picture appears at the end of a review of the Conan LP Tower of The Elephant/ Frost Giant's Daughter.  That ain't no Zamora, The City of Thieves (trust me, I would know), but...where is it is?  I luvit so much, but have no clue.  If you know, please let me know

 

Tarzan Shoots An Arrow by Roy Krenkel

As Longfellow once wrote, "I shot an arrow into the air/ it fell to earth/ I know not where."  Actually, Henry, I think you're way ahead of the game, cause that means it didn't come straight back down.  Gravity, after all, can sometimes be a harsh mistress.  The third image is how I first saw this in the DC Korak letters pages.  I guess it was also in the DC Tarzans, but I only got the Koraks.  Kaluta was rock'n the Carson Of Venus back-ups, after all

 

Think'n About Beyond Time And Again by George Metzger

First is a dedication sketch George did in the front of a copy of the hardbound, and then I put up a panel from page 2 of the actual story cause the sketch mirrors the story panel.  In the sketch Seth, the hero, has a thought balloon that not only contained the dedication and artists' sig, but onea the were men of Doc Nameless is hang'n down from it!  Genius, methinks, cause I've never seen that use of a thought balloon.  The story panel has a word balloon coming from Seth as he sits and reads a scroll.  I also read stuff aloud when I'm all alone, and I've often wondered why...  I also dig the way Seth's foot is rest'n in shallow water.  If you've never been to the great sand dunes in southern Colorado, you should go at least once.  Medano Creek at the base of the dunes is a spring and summer phenom of shallow water on sand that is incredible to just walk through

 

New Flame Horse by Gil Kane!

Yeah, yeah, just new to me, that first image of the inked splash.  Little bit up in the wayback, but I wanna see moremoremore. By the by, it may just be me, but I like the roughs better 

 

Merry Christmas From Cap'n Marvel and John Fantucchio

What an amaz'n forgetter I am!  In the not-so-distant, I put up a cover of The Lone Ranger for the publication Cooper's Hero Hobby.  Lots of us had never seen it (ok, Russ and I had never seen it, and lots of folks came by to see it).  Then, I immediately forgot all about C'sHH!  Who knew big John had done another cover for them?  Also kinda cool that I now find it this timea year

 

Gnarly Roots by Berni Wrightson

"Gnarly roots" always makes me thinka Tolkien

 

Christmas Came Early Part Deux With Art Cooper

Okay, here's the other four illos Art found while clean'n his office, then somea my Art favs from the wayback.  Thanks sooooo much, Art!  Merry Christmas!  You're the best

 

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