Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Doc Polaris by Gil Kane

Onea the coolest things from the Kane Green Lantern was this guy, methinks.  He just had a very magnetic personality.  The second image embiggens nicely






 

Monday, April 14, 2025

The Ancient One by Steve Ditko

First is an unfinished pin-up of The Ancient One and Doc Strange (bummer to me, cause the coupla Strange pin-ups I've seen that were finished were che nice).  Then we have a panel from Strange Tales #136 that is an ancient one, but not THE ancient one.  It's Genghis, who knows EVERYTHING, but has gone insane.  I stuck him on here cause I love this panel and personally woulda loved The Ancient One to look more like this, with toothless gums and a wild, impossible double-goat and the ultimate Ditko fingers akimbo


 

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Heroes Unlimited #2 Cover by Jim Steranko



The two role-play'n books were limited on the Steranko-only on the covers (search Heroes on here for gobs), but I dig me some Steranko pencils
 

The Iron God by Jack Kirby

....and 21 years later, another Iron guy




 

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Ned Young

Been a hot minute {and the first two pages of Sister Planet are better than the first first two pages I had up afore).  Ned Young did a massive vanish'n act as far as I can tell





 

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Gigantor Nick Fury by Jim Steranko

So, what had always been the "tiny" Nick Fury from all the great Steranko covers is now humonguous, thanks to a double page spread of the Shield #1 cover that is just under one foot by two feet






 

More Beyond Time and Again by George Metzger



They useta say I had a face that would stop a clock, but I think it'd be way cool to have a face that WAS a clock

 

Monday, April 7, 2025

Doc Strange by Steve Ditko

Master of the Mystic Arts, but Totally Incompetent at Tidying Up (wow, I just flashed on the classic youtube video about the magic coffeetable)



 

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Color To B&W To Color by Jack Kirby


First the beaut centerspread from Kirby Unleashed, then five years after that, the black 'n white version on the covers of the Museum a Comic Art, then 2 decades later, the pencils of Odin from the Black Book Valentine to Roz, then 3 decades later (now) we get to see it colored.  Have I said how much I dig colorful stuff changed to black 'n white?  Every time I try, it's just greytone








 

Friday, April 4, 2025

New Superman by Jim Steranko!

Yeah, yeah, just new to me.  Course I dug the 1000th cover of Action Comics in the not-so-distant, and the great story in the great Superman #400 in the way-back, but that first one is Daily Planet to me.  #news to me







 

Johnny Thunder by Gil Kane







Once again, hafta say I'm so broke I can't even pay attention, but I had no idea

 

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Perfectly Frank Berni Wrightson

Berni grokked Frankenstein more than anyone before or since, methinks, and the art he did of the creature is onea the pillars (along with Swamp Thing) of his amaz'n work.  Here we see the visualization of Mary's sharpest facet of her creation, the exquisite anguish of the creature realiz'n the travesty of his very existence.  While there's much to be said for the adage "the unexamined life isn't worth living," I don't know if it holds for the creature's contemplation of himself.  Only the first image is new on here






 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Strange Tales #158 Splash by Jim Steranko

Just an amazeballs picture.  Steranko anatomy was it's own paradigm, unique from anything we knew before, and besides everything else happen'n here, this is onea the best or maybe THE best Steranko machinery panel.  Speak'n of paradigms, remember that long moment when comics were 20 cents?  Some of my favorite covers have that price etched across them





 

Tangling Up Torbin by Gil Kane

Star Hawks gave us a ton a great images, but I particularly like this image of the giant being snagged