Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Incredible Hulk by Jack Kirby
This one, for me, is right there with Jack's Marvelmania poster of the Hulk (which is the next cover of The Jack Kirby Collector, as I've said over and over---wee psyched I am---like Yoda I speak). Except this one was probably drawn in the blink of an eye
Another Flashing Swords #1 Hardbound by Frank Frazetta
First is a new version of the painting that I just saw, better than many, and then I've put up the actual dust jacket again. Still the greatest version, methinks
Marvel Two N One #27 Cover by Jack Kirby
For me, the colorist makes Deathlok rock. Sue may have been pregnant at the time, since Reed and The Thing are already in trouble, but her shield only protects her
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
A Perfect Replica of the Accursed Cap'n America by Jack Kirby
This splash from the Cap'n A Omnibus is clean and bright, a great repro of the splash in #106, so I gotta say this is a perfect replica of a perfect replica
Chandler At The Neptune by Jim Steranko
This scene has haunted me for nigh on forty years. When I first saw it, I was a club'n king, but all our clubs in the seventies were dance clubs. I love to dance, and we had Pandora's, Tulagi's (where they once premiered Michael Jackson's Thriller on a giant screen above the dance floor), and The Rush, that held a thousand dancers on multi-level dance floors
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Thongor in the City of Magicians by Frank Frazetta
I once had a similar post (this one's betta) called Thor's Flight, in which I said I liked the "ghostly quality" of the paperback cover. still do
Jim Kelly and Bruce Lee by Neal Adams
Enter the Dragon was che cool, but I'd love to see the flick Adams was envisioning, with Kelly and Lee taking on "the man"
Web of Horror #1 Cover by Jeff Jones
First image is big, but unfortunately it's a partial scan of the back of my copy of the mag, which, although currently bagged and boarded, had "a life no ways tame," as Robert E Howard would say
The Complete (Sorta) Four Ages of Conan by Barry Smith
Okay, I left out the Kenneth Smith colorization of these, mainly cuz I cunnae find all four, but please, if you like these, seek out that version also, as every format of this is beautiful, in my opinion
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