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

 

Four That Got Away by Frank Frazetta

Folks have heard me grouse individually that these amaz'n covers don't exist in these formats anymore (which is all well and good until somebody takes an eye out....er, I mean until somebody goes to make a poster or print or calendar or coffee table book).  The Mars cover kinda still exists, but I miss the cartoony feel that was lost

 

Give Me Liberty by Steve Ditko

Recently had the one-year anniversary of wish'n I could see this entire little strip from the fanzine The Collector #29, and, viola (as Bugs Bunny always pronounced voila), here tis.  Speak'n of one-year anniversaries, exactly one year after the pandemic began, I did a big post with all my fav Static images, but I left out these two.  Oooops! (coupla minutes after I posted this)  My bad.  I just went back and looked at the date on my big Static post, and it was one day, not one year, after the pandemic began.  For me, it began on Friday, March 13th, 2020, when I was told to go home from work

 

Daredevil by Wally Wood

Onea my wishes has always been that he kept going (and done Tower comics at the same time)

 

Four Arms by Jack Kirby

Personally wish this one coulda developed further.  He struck me as hav'n that super-joy we saw with Big Bear in the Forever People, and they sure needed him in Jiminy Olsen

 

Hopalong Cassidy by Gil Kane

Oh, my heck!  Two names I been familiar with pretty much my whole life, but I never connected them (seven degrees of Kevin Bacon?}.  Che cool that young Gil Kane drew the actor with silver hair and dark brows long before he himself had silver hair and dark brows.  Yeah, yeah, his name is Savage and Cap'n Marvel had that look, too, I guess

 

The Scientists Revolt by Rich Corben

Coupla great illos for what I find to be sump'n totally outa left field for Edgar Rice Burroughs.  As Gil Scott-Heron once wrote, the revolution will not be televised

 

Lights! Cameras! Action! Jack Kirby!

From Cap'n America, The Prisoner, and Jiminy Olsen.  Here's my current manisfestation of my on-going dilemna:  I know there's more Kirby Kameras out there (or am I think'n of ray guns?).  Help theol Cap'n out, and refresh me on others

 

Wolfbane by Wally Wood

We (and the woke comic planet in general) have often yakked about the amazeballs work Wood did for Galaxy Magazine, but these illos from the October and November 1957 issues have gotta be the cream of the crop

 

Thane by Neal Adams

Was Thane ever developed into a story?  Seems like I saw sump'n somewhere...

 

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