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