Always Bet Green by Steve Ditko

  

The ancient (1965) fanzine cover to all stars! is che great, but I love the fully colored version I found on a Spanish blog.  If you know who colored it, please holla.  We've only mentioned 2 or 3 colorists on here, and I am always indebted to some cool shades.  Shoulda said the roulette phrase always bet red, like the original monochrome cover, but the new colors look cool on the dino, too, and I actually do always bet green on roulette.  Course, I go home broke like everybody else, but it's fun while it lasts

 

4 X Bob Kline

Okay, move along, move along!  Noth'n new to see here, but that first one pops this time (please embiggen), and these are all four Kline Fanzine Prime:  Fantastic Fanzine, I'll Be Damned, Anomaly, and RBCC

 

Coupla OG Barry Smith

First is the Warrior of Lemuria poster, but biggerbetterfasterstronger than my waybacks of this, then a try-out page by Barry that I just saw, then the Kirby inspiration for young Barry (except it didn't exist until several years later-so it's Deja Vu in reverse, or my old buddy Vuja Dave)

 

Maximum State by Jack Kirby

One day in the wayback, I get to work and they say, "Hey, Cap'n we just got this great new printer!  Would you mind try'n it out?"  This is onea dozen pictures I printed (just now found it amongst my stacks), and acourse it's from New Gods #5, but where did I find those colors?  If you have any idea, please holla

 

The Warlord by Gil Kane

First is a page from the iconic Blackmark paperback, then half of a half-page ad for Blackmark from The Buyer's Guide For Comic Fandom #7 (both from 1971).  The pencils are slightly different, but I dig see'n both, and how about the quarter-page ad right above it?  Some guy named Frazetta, and THAT ad was a full page in Rocket's Blast

 

Justice inc. #2 Cover by Jack Kirby

Still onea my all-time fav comic book covers.  The Avenger, as the ad read, doesn't just fight crime...he destroys it!  Dunno why, but I did not hang onto this

 

Another Mr. A by Steve Ditko

How can such simple lines be so captivate'n?  The master of Spiderman, Doc Strange, The Creeper, and The Blue Beetle strikes again

 

Ferry Dust by Berni Wrightson

If you're being taken across this river (Styx) by this ferryman, then you are dust.  Another fundundant image, but this one is biggerbetterfasterstronger (please embiggen)

 

Batman by Dennis Fujitake

First is the original, then how I first saw it as the backa some fanzine (an Amaz'n Heroes, maybe?).  Said it before, but my delight with earlier Fujitake was all the spacemen and/or barbarians, not the superheroe thang

 

A Barry Smith I Completely Forgot!

Sheeeesh!  Here's the design from the back of the Fantastic Islands Portfolio by Barry Smith.  I had the seven hundreth signed copy I bought like forty-five years ago (that's a zerox of the plate I attempted to color), but I sold it fairly quickly, and forgot that amongst all the copies, I had copied the front and back of the big envelope it was in.  Yesterday, I'm doing a recycling sweep through all my stacks, and see the first image again.  I've posted the colored plates three times in the wayback, but never the nifty little square.  It's like I sometimes say, I've forgotten more than most comic art fans will ever know

 

New Fanzine Art by Jim Pinkoski!

Yeah, yeah, just new to me.  Here's another chance to win onea the Cap'n's Coveted Non-Prizes.  In the wayback, I posted another Pinkoski Picture from the same fanzine, sooooo...your mission (if you decide to accept it, Mr. Phelps) is to tell me the name of that fanzine

 

Neighbors by Berni Wrightson

 

Onea the images I seem to never tire of is the side-by-side houses from A Look Back.  pure gold

Have Mercy! by John Fantucchio

Ming The Merciless, and the last image is new! (yeah, yeah, just new to me)  Everytime I see a new Fantucchio, I get fantashivers

 

The P Is Silent by Bob Kline

Only the last one is new to me, but it helped me to finally put two and two together (ha!).  Bob, like many of the young bucks doing art in the classic fanzine era, had a great obsession with dinosaurs

 

Eternals Promo by Jack Kirby

First is the presentation piece as it appeared in a latter-day fanzine, then the presentation piece as the two-page pencils Jack showed Marvel (somebody instantly changed The Gods to The Eternals to avoid a fight with DC), then finally, the ppromo as we saw it

 

Star Hawks' Rex's Hair by Gil Kane

When Star Hawks was being published in the papers, on Monday thru Saturday, it didn't come up, but on Sundays, Rex's hair appeared to be prematurely white, like Kane himself and somea his other characters, notably Cap'n Marvel and Savage.  The last image is from France, and I dunno what was going on there, but if you search France Star Hawks on here, it's all that brown hair for Rex