Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Train of Thought #5 by Jack Kirby
Here's a paradox (yeah, yer right--that's exactly what the Cap'n of a boat says when you can disembark on either side): Kirby's Red Skull has never looked so good to me, and I can hardly see him
Monday, June 29, 2015
The People That Time Forgot by Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta
Guess who just found a pristine copy of the original paperback (first image)? My guess is 1961, but the only date in this entire gem is 1918, the original publication year by Burroughs
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Tarzan And The Lost Empire by Frank Frazetta
I wanted sump'n special for today's post, and I think Fritz's first paperback is pretty special. Tonight I reach three quarter of a million views, and all I can say is thankyouthankyouthankyou
Friday, June 26, 2015
It's Here!!!!!! by Jack Kirby
Thank you, John Morrow, for making a Cap'n dream come true! I've been chomp'n at the bit for months over this, I know (pardon muwah), but here tis, a great mag with a great-great cover. About twenty years ago, I sent a conglomeration to John in the hopes of getting a free issue (lame, I know, but that's me), and he sent me a very gracious note saying he had never seen the unpublished Big Barda comic book cover, and I was in Kirby Collector heaven, and I have been ever since. The Jack Kirby Collector re-fanned a flame that felt like it had gone out, and that flame has been burn'n ever since. As most folks know, that passion led to me starting this blog a little over five years ago (thanks also to Tony Robertson for the blog idear), and I've been having a blast ever since
Thursday, June 25, 2015
World Beater Destroyer by Frank Frazetta
When the World Beater posters started coming out in the seventies, they had them all at Rocky Mountain Records and Tapes, but I only picked up one