Saturday, June 3, 2017

Pirates! by John Buscema

Savage Sword of Conan #4 was a nifty mag.  It started with a great Boris cover (and I dunnae even like Boris), and it had the Conan portfolio by Rich Corben, an expanded Blackmark chapter by Gil Kane, an amaz'n ad by Tim Conrad, and this story.  Great way to spend a buck
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8 comments:

  1. MikeJune 6, 2017 at 5:35 AM

    Absolutely. I still have them that carried the original REH stories.

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  2. Cap'n's ComicsJune 6, 2017 at 8:33 AM

    Was so foolish I dinnae keep em, but recently went and got back the first five

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  3. MikeJune 6, 2017 at 9:41 AM

    Want to borrow mine?

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  4. Cap'n's ComicsJune 6, 2017 at 4:57 PM

    That's very nice, but as the beautiful waitress once told Jack Kerouac, I don't (he thought it was very lyrical that she said I don't instead of I can't). You said once how surprised you were that my collection was so much smaller than it would seem from da blog, and it is indeed almost minuscule, but it is definitely by design. What I keep (and look at over 'n over) is a distilled, rarified set of my favs in art, hence re-obtaining just the first five of this mag. Dunnae get me wrong, in paperback I have almost everything written by REH, and if anyone could format it to Marvel, it was Roy Thomas, but I have this obsession to get my physical files down to their most concentrated essence

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  5. MikeJune 7, 2017 at 4:48 AM

    Heck my actual real uncollected version of comics is a stack 18 inches high. All the rest are reproduction compilations on my bookshelf. Those days are gone of having yellowing real comics, and even those REH/Thomas magazines are showing their age.

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  6. Cap'n's ComicsJune 7, 2017 at 6:54 AM

    Right there with you, brother. Kinda nice to look at, say, all of Buscema's Silver Surfer, close a book, turn off the light, and go to sleep

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  7. MikeJune 7, 2017 at 8:51 AM

    Actually...I found that reading a fiction or non-fiction book before sleep can't compare to a comic for relaxing. Call me strange but I find this true.

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  8. Cap'n's ComicsJune 8, 2017 at 12:38 PM

    It's frightening how in synch we are....as I've said before, check out Yukio Mishima if you've never had the pleasure, but my "go-to" bedsides are Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Conan, and Strider

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