In Which A Great Mystery Is Solved by Frank Frazetta

Okay, I know I say this a lot, but never before with such a big grin on my face: Noth'n is new here except for the first image!  It's the original painting for The Moon Men!  After more than fifty years!  For milliennium (okay, for about a decade) and over a bazillion posts (okay, about a dozen), you've got to hear myself and others grouse about this "missing" painting.  None of the coffee table books mentioned it or said, "here it is," or anything.  It wasn't repainted like Buccaneer.  It wasn't stolen like Conan of Aquilonia.  Turns out that original is noted as being purchased in Sept 1974, a year or less after it was published (no publication date in the first Ace editions with this cover, but a Kent cig ad in the middle of onea my copies says 1973), and about a year before the first Frazetta coffee table book (Betty Ballantine was a super-genius). viola, now it all makes sense

 

 

Conan In The Garden by Barry Smith

Ohmyheck.  This original of the Robert E. Howard plate is just georgeous, and embiggens as much as you want

 

Detroit Triple Fan Fair 1969 by Jack Kirby

In the wayback, I was so happy to put up Jack's Loki w/o Coletta inks, but I didn't know where it was from

 

Who Is This Is?

Dig it so much!  I suspect it's George Metzger, but he didn't sign a lotta stuff, and I don't have this pub, so I dunno.  It's the back cover of the last issue (#16) of the "big people's" fanzine, Graphic Story Magazine, so it really is their parting shot.  George had a mighty presence in GSM, but hopefully someone can look inside and verify

 

The Silent Seven by Jim Steranko

This is start'n to sound like a broken record, but the only new image on here is that first one.  I guess we could call it an unused Unseen Shadow.  Then we have the three 7s from the wayback, and then my fav Steranko Shadow, for another silent cover-The Silent Death

 

John Carter Of Mars by Frank Frazetta

Yesterday's Bob of Mars made me think of this again.  While the wayback (a decade ago) has a much better post of this, which I called Thuvia, this embiggens as big as you wanna

 

John Carter Of Mars by Bob Kline

I never tire of this fanzine cover, and here's a much sharper version than my beat copy of The Collector #27