Totally Wally Wood

While you can embiggen these out the wazoo, the title of this post is totally bogus.  Although Wally did three complete issues for Total War, he didn't do the covers.  waaaaaaaaaaah

 

Riders On The Storm

Neal Adams, Bob Kline, Jack Kirby, and Frank Frazetta with more proof that great minds think alike.  Need another proof? Like you, even though it's not summer, I have an incredible urge to go get ice cream from a kid weild'n a scoop

 

Some Dragonflames by Paul Gulacy

Although I'd been told somebody was channel'n Steranko, I pretty much ignored Master Of Kung-Fu for a coupla decades, and never even perceived this paperback until just the other day.  Onea my most ambitious posts from the wayback is MOKF by Gulacy, so I finally caught on.  That first interior drawing really resonates Steranko's Chandler (and the stained-glass swag lamp was in a ton of homes in the seventies, including a coupla my cribs)

 

Fantastic Fanzine Ad by Frank Frazetta

On the back of the fanzine Art & Story #1.  Far-out

 

Coupla Conan Variations by Barry Smith

Two I've had up before, but the first is here with che nice colors (by Barry?) and the second has been up as the fanzine cover, and as nice, big art, but not as both

 

Another Blackmark (?) by Gil Kane

Good thing he wrote Blackmark on this,  or I might be think'n it was a skinny Kane Conan.  Also, if you gave this guy a crewcut, it'd be His Name Is Savage.  Angry eyes takes me back to top forty radio in the seventies

 

Coupla More Fly'n Tigers by Wally Wood

Course Lone Tiger was up a lot in the wayback, and some more convolutions are in the works, but these two are che nice

 

Bullseye by Jack Kirby

Said it before so I'll say it again:  Bullseye brings me great joy.  Although Big Bear gives him a run for the money, I find Bullseye to be Jack's happiest character.  First image was never up here (I believe), the Bullseye trad'n card.  Then the lousy scan I made from my Black Book Valentine to Roz before ship'n it off to an eBay customer at the turn o the century.  Then my fav Kirby drawing of Bullseye, then a detail of my fav (please embiggen), then the drawing that started this very blog

 

Strange Tales #132 Cover by Steve Ditko

.............and the cover in our dimension, as mostly done by Jack Kirby.  Odd thing is, I love the cover Jack did 2 issues earlier (specially w/o the Torch and Thing as Beatles), but the Kirby part of 132s cover  may be my least fav art ever

A day later (and a dollar shorter) here's the page from whence came the mock-up, and that same story's splash, also rock'n the magic bolts and contorted fingers and groovy little statues

 

Swamp Thing #3 Cover by Berni Wrightson

Have I groused enough about get'n rid of my hardbound Look Back?  Miss it like crazy

 

Coupla Forgotten Shadows by Jim Steranko

Forgotten by me, that is.  In the wayback, had up lots of the paperback covers, and lots of the unseen shadows, but (except for the fifth image) I never got around to these two

 

Stuntman #3 by Jack Kirby

Just realiz'n I shoulda saved this post for the first day next month, cause "April Fool's!  There is no Stuntman #3!"  Another quizzical heart-breaker, since the first two Stuntman comics were amazeballs.  sigh.  The bookends here are the covers of The Jack Kirby Treasury (first my copy that embiggens to mercurtroid, then a "nice" copy of the cover), which contained the only colored work I've seen of this non-book