Thursday, July 31, 2014
Four Ages of Conan by Barry Smith
Each plate is first shown in original b&w publ. (please embiggen) then the hand-colored version, and the very last is the best example of Kenneth Smith's (no relation-but Ken was a great fan artist w/self publ. Phantasmagoria) colorization. If you wanna be a completist with this wunnerful quartet, somewhere else on here is ANOTHER colorization from The Studio coffee table book (also by Barry, I presume, but not as subdude as these), and if you really need to, somewhere is Ken's other colorizations. I don't know about you, but look'n at these, I feel Barry could have said, "Poke me with a fork, I think I'm done." There may have been a fifth age-Conan the Thief- but if there was, I haveta assume it was stolen
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Some Conan Saga by Barry Smith
Although it was great to see Conan #7 in pencil form, most of the printing quality was poor on these reprints. The new covers sure rocked, tho
Monday, July 28, 2014
Queen Cleopatra by Jeff Jones
Yeah, looks like I've played a ton of miniature magnetic chess on this cover, but pardon me, I like to play chess on the road, and I can't play chess in my head like John McCain did in the POW camp in Nam---heck, I can't even remember if I've posted this cover before! I'm pretty sure I have (Cap'n's Comics: "Fun and repetitive, fun and repetitive...."), but I'm not THAT sure
Another 100th Issue Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby
I know I've put up a lot of versions of this, but I dig it, and I don't think I've ever commented on the 100th Anniversary Blurb on a comic that had been around about eight years at the time---probably too late to get myself a No-Prize, I'm guess'n
TV Guide Ad by Barry Smith (Thanks, Rick!)
If folks look at some of the comments by Rick over the last couple of weeks, you can learn all about this amaz'n art. Thanks again, buddy
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Three Unused Tupenny Conan Plates by Barry Smith
There's two more that I "spect" are also unused Tupennies, but I'm not as sure of them as these three