Friday, March 7, 2014

He Walked Among Us by Wally Wood








Great time of year for this story, and always a great time to look at Wally's amaz'n art

Thursday, March 6, 2014

The Ghost, 13, and Cap'n Atom by Steve Ditko







Captain Atom #89 is one of the great unsung hero comics.  Trippy, witty, and showcasing Ditko at the height of his pencil'n powers.  Methinks they used the wrong cover, however, but maybe Charlton thought The Ghost had been seen too much.  I crack myself up

Fantastic Four 100 by Jack Kirby











Okay, this is sad---we were playing sandlot football in between two family housing buildings in Nurnberg, when Scottie Scott came running up with the brand-new FF #100.  The game stopped because I was all-time QB and I wanted to see this comic.  "Whoa!  Great cover!"  "Oh, yeah, baby!"  "Hey, everything's tiny!"  "What gives?"  "You can barely see the pictures!"  "This sucks!"  "Rip-off!"
After a minute or two, we went back to our game.  Here you see what I consider the best of a bad lot, some of the interiors.  And a great cover (Well, my copy's not so great--for one thing, the Hulk has a big crease on his back, and we all know, "Nobody give Hulk crease on his back!")
Jack's alter-ego, The Thing, sums it up great in one of these panels, if I sub one word, "Hey!  What's goin' on here?  The whole blamed comic is comin' apart!"
As the poet once said:  Not with a bang, but a whimper

Another Shoe Shine for Chandler by Jim Steranko

Finally, a scan of this sketch worth embiggening.  I put it up in the not so distant, but it was blurred, and I put it up in the more distant, but it was a screen shot from a video, and very blurred.  Again, this is from Comics Sketchbooks, one of the many Steranko items available on Amazon.  Great listing of ALL Steranko items at Tony Robertson's site The Drawings of Steranko

Man...Machine...Merger by Jack Kirby



Ever hear the old say'n "He's gett'n too big for his britches!"?  My computer sounded like a jet plane taking off as I posted these.  Embiggen if you dare!  The centerspread from 1971's Kirby Unleashed

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Isle of the Beast! by Steve Ditko






Another great Warren wash Ditko did in the 60s, this time from Eerie #9