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
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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
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
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
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Batman by John Fantucchio
Been put'n up Fantucchio pretty much from the get-go, but I don't think I had any Batman by him the first fiteen years on here (wow-time flies when you're hav'n fun!). First is my fav Batman that John did, a beauty sketch for the kid who had just started The Buyer's Guide For Comic Fandom-Alan Light (and then the cover of the newspaper adzine issue 2 in which that sketch appeared, another beaut by Dennis Fujitake, and the first time I'd seen HIS work)
Thursday, March 27, 2025
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
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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
Saturday, March 22, 2025
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)