Saxcrifice by Frank Frazetta

Third image is what we got on the paperback cover of Conan The Avenger, but the watercolor and roughs show Conan lost an axe.  This leaves Conan in the rare sitch of being bare-handed, and while his paws look like more than a match for any jar of pickles, I still wish the final painting had the axe

 

The Barrel-Chested Barbarian by Berni Wrightson

Another look at a whoisthisis by Berni.  Just saw the first, but the wrinkly one has been on here forever.  If you can lead me to a better image of it, please holla

 

Another In The Lower Depths by George Metzger

In the not-so-distant, I put up the first four, and folks said they hadnae seen em, so here's another one, from the fanzone Voice of Comicdom #14.  I dig that the title is made from girders, and at the other end, a woman is hav'n her tenth forbidden child.  I know a woman who's had 10, and she told me it just gets easier and easier, with the oldest ones help'n with parenting, errands, and chores

 

The Green Turtle by Jim Steranko

Yeah, Steranko has rendered a lotta great golden age heroes, but nothing compares to this guy.  His cape alone is worth the price of admission.  "Ten dollars gets you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!"  Ah, Monster Truck rallies

 

The Invisible Girl by Jack Kirby

If I'm grok'n correctly, this is weirdly wunnerful.  First is the 2nd printing of the Marvelmania Fantastic Four poster, with Sue Storm actually turn'n on (or off) her invisibilty.  It also looks a lot like the time Jack colored it himself (second image) with Reed's boogered arm, but beautifully understated colors.  Third is the first print'n, and it's always bugged me, with Reed's one sunburned cheek

 

The Scarlet Citadel? by Roy Krenkel

Dunno if this counts, but it is from the book Fantastic Worlds of Robert E. Howard, which Russ told me about in the wayback when I was grous'n about not find'n more than a title page rough for Roy's last hurrah, illustrating Howard's Scarlet Citadel.  Apparently, I must obtain this tome and see what's what, cuz this looks like it's actually Hadon of Opar

 

Who Is This Is by Wally Wood

Course, I wanna see this biggerbetterfasterstronger, but I'm just as thirsty to know who wore a clock on his chest.  My best guess right now is "Back at One Man"

 

Mr. A. by Steve Ditko

If you search Mr. A. on here, you won't find this one (okay, now you will).  The use of black'n white was truly incredible, but Ditko gave me the heebie-jeebies when talk'n about right and wrong.  I never tell a lie, except for what I just said, and I'm honest to a fault.  Then when I get to the fault, I fall in, and try to drag everything and everyone with me

 

Mantor and Raplor by Gil Kane

Another Sectaurs delectable I'd never seen!  Speak'n of Raplor, I'm giving out onea my coveted non-prizes if you know the source of this ancient rap lyric:

If every rapper was a lover, I'd be Don Juan

If every rapper was a spy, I'd be James Bond

Make all the other rappers look dirty and polluted

Because of the way my rap is executed

 

Gil Kane and Jim Steranko Together Again!

Oh, my heck!  I had no idea Kane did anything for Sectaurs, but the Steranko piece has been on my radar since 1995.  If you know of more Kane and/or Steranko on Sectaurs, please holla

 

Abe Lincoln by Jack Kirby

The one time I go to DC, I get off the Metro, ask a metro worker where's a good breakfast, he directs me to a greasy spoon across from Ford's Theater and, well, the rest is history

 

Colorful Ben Grimm by Jack Kirby

The Thing is, as you may know, the Cap'n luvs him some double entende, so when onea comicdom's most colorful characters is also onea the most colorful splash pages, I start to chortle and rub my hands together like a villian using a hot-air dryer VS a paper towel

 

Buster (Flash Gordon) Crabbe by John Fantucchio

Sometimes I amaze myself at what I've forgotten to post.  Love Flash, in fact, I believe right behind Conan, Flash Gordon is the most prolific character on here.  Love Fantucchio, so kinda weird this wasn't already on here.  Love Larry Crabbe, even though the extent of our "friendship" is a few minutes we sat and talked at a table of nutritional supplements set up in a hallway in a shopping mall in Phoenix around 1980

 

The Bob Kline Self-Portrait

From the pages of onea the all-time great fanzines, MCR  (Modern Comics Review) #4

 

The Unknown Ones Splash Page by Al Williamson

...and I gotta assume a touch of Roy Krenkel.  I was one years old when this came out, and even then I was smil'n with delight.  Reminds me of the comedian who saw a couple at a rodeo with their newborn, and realized "It WAS his first rodeo, and he WAS born yesterday"

 

Prince Valiant by Hal Foster

In the wayback, I got into the colorful Prince Val sundays, so take a gander again, but this daily got neglected, and I dig it so much

 

Russ Manning and Larry Todd

Finally!  Only been doing this blog for 16 years, so of course this is the first Manning up here (endless great Tarzans to choose from, Cap'n, you might say with a snort, but the heart wants what the...)!  Russ did that image as a sci-fi fanzine cover in 1948,  and if you squint and look sideways, you can catch a glimpse of Todd's organic space voyager twenty sump'n years later

 

And In This Corner Part Tres

As I said before, onea my fav corner boxes was Conan by Barry Smith.  The young charg'n barbarian of the first 11 issues was ah-ite, but the guy on the last 13 issues was che cool.  Designed for the box, and then think'n outside the box, this mature Conan with an axe to grind really resonated

 

And In This Corner Part Deux

As Russ mentioned on the last post, Marvel's corner boxes mostly started out as headshots, and Jim Steranko inherited a corner box with a Kirby headshot of Nick Fury.  But this beauty full figure from Strange Tales 166 helped pump the premiere of Fury's own title.  Obviously, I really dug the black'n white corner box on Shield #4

 

And In This Corner

Onea the great innovations at Marvel was the corner box, and Gil Kane did an amazeballs job on Cap'n Marvel, I think.  I can't be sure, cause the tiny print'n is so poor.  If you know of a biggerbetterfasterstronger, please holla.  The second image is what I wish was the corner box

 

Nick Fury Hoists Old Glory by Jim Steranko

Only the first image is new on here, a colorization of the second image that had everything but.  Course, the guys at Iwo Jima will always be number one in hoist'n the red, white, 'n blue, but Fury was not too shabby