Christmas Came Early With Art Cooper

Oh, my heck!  Art Cooper, the great Canadian fanzine artist of the early seventies' Spectrum fanzines, just recently bestowed an early Christmas present on me!  He found five drawings around his office that I've never seen (and if you search him on here, you'll know I've enjoyed a ton a "art by Art" in the wayback).  Crazy schedule around here, so here's onea the five, the possibly unseen try-out illo of Kadaver, that Art ended up illustrat'n in Orb magazines #4 and #5 (here's 4's splash).  More later!  But thanks so much, Art

 

Clay Duncan by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

 

Cap'n America #111 Cover by Jim Steranko

How about that?  This fundundant image is up a ton in the wayback, and yet all four a these are new on here.  I assume the 25 in grease pencil on the original cover is a mark-up at a used store or shop, but ya never know.  Coulda come that way at a seven eleven, with 24 more copies tied in a bundle under it.  I've even seen wildness where it coulda been a kid number'n his comics, or mak'n a note about how long a Bobby's World episode REALLY is, or.....

 

Lion Man and Skanner by Gil Kane

If I said I knew of these great illos before now, I'd be lion!  Actually, I dunno if I was even aware that Kane had done animation work (shades a Jack Kirby), so now there's like a whole new meadow on the horizon.  Yeah, sometimes I wax poetic, and sometimes, it's just ear wax

 

Suspended Reality Helicopter by Wally Wood

I know some guys used a lotta product on their hair back in the fifties, but, c'mon!  The choppers blades are spin'n, and nobody's hair is mussed?  Also, if you're using a rope ladder, couldn't you wait a moment until it lands and just step off?  My high school basketball nickname was helicopter.  I would hold both arms straight out from my sides and spin around, look'n for the ball

 

Crash Landing by Bob Kline

As Luke Skywalker would say, "I got a bad feel'n about this!"  Second image is how I saw it in the che great fanzine Anomaly #1, and third is somea the original art.  But when was it painted?  I cannae recall if it was onea the colored images on Bob's amazeballs Tweety Bird posts called Picture A Day, and I dunno how to see all that magnificence anymore

 

Another Super Vehicle by Jack Kirby

 

Somea the animation stuff was truly amaz'n.  please embiggen

Triceratops by Roy Krenkel

Once ina while, I see an illo and just go, "that's awesome"

 

1981 Blackmark VS 1977 Blackmark by Gil Kane

Funny how neither The Comics Journal nor the fanzine portfolio mentioned the character's name

 

Psycho 7 Splashes by Jim Pinkoski and Dennis Fujitake

Just the other, I was post'n about the beauty presence of Fujitake in TBG, when Russ reminded me again that Skywald was doing a lot of fanzine-like stuff in 1972, including, amongst many of the usual suspects, Dennis.  The classic saying is, "you don't have to tell me twice," well, in my case, you usually do haveta tell me twice (at least).  Anyhoo, here's two awesome splashes off a eBay, but please see Russ' link for the whole she-bang.  Thanks, Russ!  Two great fanzine artists at their zeniths

 

Not King Kull by John Severin

As I've said in the past, the best Kull is a Severin Kull, and vicey-versa, the best Severin is a Kull Severin.  Well......this is right there with a Kull Severin AND a Severin Kull, methinks

 

EvenMoreEmbiggened by Frank Frazetta

First image is bigger than the second, which I posted in the wayback (okay, just the beginning of the summer, but it feels long ago), and then some illos of Conan The Buccaneer from over the years.  I didn't gush about it back in June, but I'm way pleased they finally did a nice big print of the painting Fritz destroyed to make the Destroyer.  I know Frank said it was crap, but I've always loved it

 

Dennis Fujitake Rocks The Buyer's Guide

Okay, try'n to get this sequence right.  First is how a lot of us first saw Fujitake (didn't even know about the nifty fanzine Star Studded #18 until this century, and promptly obtained it).  Next is my all-time fav Fujitake, onea of the most fundundant images on here.  Then Dennis did a great one-page story for issue #7 (oops!  got so impatient for #8's cover, I messed up the sequence!).  Love the two table statues.  Then, his third (and last?) TBG cover.  Then an interior illo from beneath the che great Neal Adams' cover.  If he appears more in TBG, please holla  

 

Fandom Spectacular Dropped In!

Okay, it showed up in my mailbox, but I'm pretty stoked.  Bob Kline's cover is the highlight, and that's up better in the wayback, but there's a buncha Fantucchio(here's the intro of Mysterious Hero w/o the verbage), and probly the first reprint of Deadlock by Wally Wood from Weird Fantasy #17 (y'know, where we first hear phrases like Squa-tront and Spa-fon)

 

New Genesis Monitors by Jack Kirby

If these cool cats took to the sky in other parts of the Fourth World, please holla.  They asked me to be a hall monitor in middle school (junior high), then realized I was the main reason they needed a hall monitor

 

Catch Ya On The Rebound

New looks at recent stuff by George Metzger and Michael Golden

 

Triple Thor by John Fantucchio

Okay, noth'n new here, cept I finally put all three up together.  Onea  my fav things about fanzine passion has been see'n Big John's unique take on the "common" heroes and heroines.  If I can shrug off my Sherlock lethargy again, I'd like to put ALL his takes up together