Thursday, February 6, 2025

Flash Gordon by John Adkins Richardson

Oh, yeah, that adage about "wait a little while and weather what ya hafta/ give it the time and it will come to you" is again abundantly clear with this one.  First the centerfold of RBCC #66 (see the wayback), but here as an actual print.  sweet

 

Lone Tiger by Wally Wood

I've put up this Comic And Fantasy Art Amateur Press Association cover before, but this one's biggerbetterfasterstronger (please embiggen), and look up Lone Tiger in the wayback to get more



 

Pete And Re-Pete by Jack Kirby

Pete was one very lucky fan!  The third image of Orion is kinda puzzl'n to me-if it's not the same image that was eventually given to Pete, how did every little detail come out so spot on?  And, finally, how we saw it published as the cover to DC Showcase #94







 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Airborne by Rich Corben

First the endpapers from the great hardbound Flights Into Fantasy, then a splash from the great fanzine Hot Stuf' #1



 

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Flash Gordon (?) by Bob Kline

From the che great Robert Kline Portfolio (and, therefore, also probly from a fanzine), this looks like Flash, but does Dale know about this blonde belly-dancer?  And are they even on Mongo?  Whomever it is, Bob was rock'n it yet again

 

Monday, February 3, 2025

Frazetta Forever by Berni Wrightson

Here's an odd thing for me-an early Wrightson I DIDN'T like (somehow in my mad mind, I'd grouped it with Berni's fan drawing in Creepy #9).  Been look'n at it forever of course (well, since 1969's Fandom Annual #2), but I simply had no idea how poorly it had been printed, and now I luvit
Oooops!  Many days later, and here's the OTHER Frazetta Forever, and the back of the trad'n card I was struggl'n to recall where else I'd seen it 





 

Another Reaction To Jimmy Olsen #138 by Jack Kirby

In the wayback, I put up the unpublished cover from the Masterworks portfolio, but now the Collector has had it inked and colored beautifully.  I assume the collage behind Neal Adams' Supes on the published cover was by Jack, and finally, the tiny but georgeous reactor sequence on the inside







 

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Wizard King Of The World Cover by Wally Wood

Oh, my heck!  Always thought I had this great cover "covered" with my french copy of the book and my Woodwork gazette, but man, that original art just "rises up"


 

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Shelf Stuff Conan (?) by Barry Smith

Shelf Stuff has always been onea those tasty treasures to me, and this is onea the best illos in it, methinks.  That helmet is all that and a bag a chips, and besides not knowing if it's Conan, I wanna know how those arrows were shot

 

Coupla Images From The Deadly Cargo Of Spaceship 90 by Steve Ditko

Space Adventures #32, right before Cap'n Atom arrived.  Just me, probly, but it kinda looks like the "strange object in space" coulda been the proto for my fav all-time ship, the Millenium Falcon (that, or the roomba)





 

Friday, January 31, 2025

New Frank Frazetta!!!

Yeah, yeah, just new to me, cause this fanzine sketch is now fifty years old, and I just saw it.  sheesh  The other two images are just here cause I can't help feel'n the new axe drawing seems incredibly familiar





 

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Inferno Envelope by Mike Kaluta

Honestly, I never cared for the Inferno Eight that Mike did back in 75, but as we all know, I miss a lotta things, and just saw this


 

Friday, January 17, 2025

The Headline Comics Cover That Never Was by Jack Kirby

As Jim Gaffigan would say,"When's he gonna stop talk'n about Kirby Krime Kovers?  Is the whole show about this?  I can't believe I paid good money for this!"  Ah-ite, maybe I'm a little obsessive at times, but ya gotta luvit!  Headline Comics #44 was practically "in the bag" when the first premise was dropped.  Somebody must've realized the crook's plan "I thought nobody would remember what I looked like!" wasn't necessarily a great starting point.  Che cool to think of Jack as a police sketch artist, though



 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Batman Up A Tree by Berni Wrightson

Must say I never heard of 2010's Hidden Treasures until just now (but we all know Cap'n has the attention span of a goldfish, so maybe I DID see it some other time).  The pups are outside as we speak, sit'n quietly and star'n up at a squirrel stuck directly above them in a tree, so they are probly good to go all afternoon



 

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

FOOM Conan by John Buscema

This is my current fav Conan by Big John, but I have a dilemna due to my younger snobbishness.  I decided when Barry Smith left Conan, I was done, also.  Missed a lotta great Gil Kane and John Buscema, and other various great artwork(still have Silver Surfer #4 and Sub-mariner #4, at least).  My question is this, was this Conan splash in a regular mag?  I'd love to see the rest, if there is more



 

Sunday, January 12, 2025

King Ptui (Errr, King Ptolemy) by Mike Kaluta

So, over a decade ago, I was enamored with The Swords of Shahrazar by Robert E. Howard as illustrated by Kaluta (the big post had it all except for the last image here), but I kinda sorta neglected the earlier volume The Lost Valley of Iskander.  Here's the color plates






 

Friday, January 10, 2025

Justice Traps The Guilty #5 Cover by Jack Kirby

I can't believe all the years I spent completely ignorant of the plethora of Kirby Krime Kovers out there.  Dad joke:  A man walks up to his friend's widow at the funeral.  "May I have a word with you?," he asks.  "Certainly, " she says, "what is it?"  "Plethora," is all he says.  She smiles at him and says ,"Thank you.  That means a lot"

 

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Conan #16 Cover by Barry Smith

This one never gets old.  Okay, I now am ready to take the pup out in the sub=zero night to stave off the frost giants while she goes tinkle






 

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Conan The Destroyer 2025 by Frank Frazetta


Happy New Year!  Wish the original Buccaneer was around for a calendar, but this version of the Destroyer is che nice
 

Coupla More Fanzine Frank Cirocco

Much like an unfinished Wrightson, or a Kaluta Shadow, or a Severin Kull, I kinda obsess ("kinda," Cap'n?  KINDA?) over the early fanzine drawrings of Cirocco










 

Monday, January 6, 2025