Bat Day With Berni Wrightson

The bazillionth proof of Cap'n is so broke he can't even pay attention.  First is an example of Bat Day from 1964, Major League Baseball's brilliant promo idea to give thousands of day-drink'n baseball fans their own bats (hence the term "slugger"), then Berni's take on Bat Day some 9 years later, which I'm finally see'n after 51 years.  I was real hit-and-miss (pun intended) with National Lampoon, obvi

 

Panel From Cap'n America 101 Page 9 by Jack Kirby

...and Syd Shores.  Now I wanna see Tales of Suspense 99 through Cap'n A 103 in all its pencils

 

Again With The Tars Tarkas by Berni Wrightson

Tars musta been four-warned about John Carter

 

Smart House by Frank Frazetta

If you weren't a kid or had kids run'n around in 1999, you should go back and watch the Disney TV movie

 

List Of Rackets by Jack Kirby

This cover to Headline Comics #44 was all that and a cupa joe.  "We weren't sure you were a crook, but then we found your secret list of rackets."  Just the littlest thing can trip the villain up
 

The Other Other Place by Gil Kane

Coupla years ago, we looked at the 3 illos Kane did for Harlan Ellison's far-out story, but first is the original monster, and oddly familiar beasts in the other places of Chane and Blackmark

 

Herniated Folder

Okay, folders weren't quite full like a lotta times, but I had these pictures bulging out in odd places.  Per usual, I'm almost positive this is just a new riff on some same ol same ol, but, man, I sure dig em

 

First Pay-Per- View by Steve Ditko

Doc Strange VS Dormammu does sorta remind me of some a the great fights hyped on the tube, but when I wrote "first," sump'n made me flash on Ricky and Fred watch'n the big fight on the black 'n white screens of the fifties.  My son just paid to watch Ultimate Fighting from the giant bubble in Vegas.  stranger than fiction
 

The Black Book Valentine Highfather Page by Jack Kirby

Onea the best illos, methinks, in the great Valentine Jack gave Roz, and she gave us

 

Coupla Green Lantern Covers by Gil Kane