Paint Your Wagon by Frank Frazetta

Yeah, yeah, never even knew about this!  sheeeesh

 

Beggars Can"t Be Choosers by Jack Kirby

Dunno why this Headline Comics cover made me think of that phrase, but I heard it throughout my youth, and in my late teens, I got to say it to myself one time.  I was so fed up with AM radio and all the bubble-gum music we were hearing repetitively on the top ten teen tunes, I was hitch'n a ride one time, and as i opened the passenger door to get in, I said in my most humorous voice, "Oh, man, I hope you have FM radio!"  The driver smiled and shouted in the same humorous voice, "well, no, I don't!"  Then he peeled out and left me laying on my tush on the shoulder of the road

 

Dynamo? by Wally Wood

Dig'n this sketch of a dynamic poser, but I have no idea who it is.  The belt seems kinda familiar, but...

 

Doctor My Eyes by Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby

Onea the Heavenly Choir panels for me.  First saw it when I was ten years old (have I ever mentioned I was all and only Marvel for about five years?  then Jack went to DC and Berni did Swamp Thing), then acquired Strange Tales #126 again at the beginning of this century, mainly cause Jack did this small panel of Doc Strange on the cover.  But then, lo and behold, there was that HC panel again

 

Glub! by Vaughn Bode

First is how this appeared inside the (what many consider) greatest fanzine of all time,  Squa Tront #4, then how it appeared on the umpteenth printing of the underground, Junkwaffel #2.  Coupla things: I personally don't think of ST4 as the greatest fanzine (although it is stored in my short box of ALL the greatest fanzines), and this latter printing of Junkwaffel 2 isn't cause I'm indifferent (it is, after all, how we first saw Cobalt 60), but all the printings of Junkwaffel look the same to me, so I kept the cheapest versions and sold the first printings I originally got at the head shops

 

My Annual Star Hawks Post

Okay, several years behind, but who's count'n?  As with most things, I blame the lapse on the pandemic

 

Charg by Jim Steranko

One of several favs from Steranko's work on The Shadow

 

Another Fanzine Frank Cirocco

dig em love em

 

Black Book Valentine Lightray VS Heroes & Villains Lightray by Jack Kirby

Currently have neither, but over the years (decades?  heck, centuries) I've had both versions of Jack's love-letter to Roz

 

Comic Picture Lover's #5 Fanzine by Neal Adams and Berni Wrightson

I know, I know, that's not what CPL stands for (I keep asking what IDK stands for, but nobody has a clue).  And furthermore, what's so contemporary if Wrightson's centerfold is dated 3 years earlier?  Second Doc Savage is from a fanzine, just not this one

 

Savage Tales #3 Cover by Barry Smith

Ooops-only the shouldawouldacoulda cover

 

Free Fallin' by Berni Wrightson

Yeah, yeah, and much later, by Tom Petty.  Embiggen and jump back, cause this is way detailed

 

Odkin Finds The Sword by Wally Wood

Don't get me wrong-The colorized French book of the complete Wizard King O The World is an amazeballs story, but this scene isn't done justice in the tiny panel published there.  This first appearance, in the che great fanzine Witzend #4, is just georgeous

 

Fanzine Cover #2 Of Collage #2 by Gil Kane

Here's sump'n I really dig about this whole magilla-a biggerbetterfasterstronger image I already posted.  About a year ago, I found out Blackmark was spotlighted in Collage #2, but I couldn't see the cover very good, and now........  And speak'n of covers, I just realized I've done a fair amount of Blackmark posts, but neglected the original cover of that ground-breaking paperback

This Fritz is added after a coupla comments

 

Ebbets Field by Jack Kirby

Almost a decade ago, I put up the trad'n card and pencils of this che nice Thundarr scene, but that gigantor (embiggen, please) original art--wow

 

Fistful Of Astronauts by Wally Wood

 

The Battler by Neal Adams

Onea of these is new on here

 

A Honeycomb Kid by Jack Kirby

Jack had three of these in the cereal boxes in 1984, but I was "far-out and blemish free ," so I had no idea they even existed

Half-Caf Conan by Barry Smith

First is how half a Conan appeared in Conan Classics #9, then how it originally appeared as the contents page for Savage Tales #3.  Okay, about this title:  for years, I've had three or often four K-pods of coffee (onea the reasons I dig all the coffee-stained artwork out there) by midday, every day.  A while back, my wife noticed there was a milder coffee pod called Half-Caf, and she suggested I start drink'n that one, cause everytime I do a chore/project/job, it's always half-caffed