Only the first image is new on here, a colorization of the second image that had everything but. Course, the guys at Iwo Jima will always be number one in hoist'n the red, white, 'n blue, but Fury was not too shabby
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
The Colors Of The Fanzine Anomaly 3
The first two issues of this fanzine were, while wunnerfully printed , black'n white, and usually when young fanzine publishers stepped up to color, it was the cover. Jan Strand, however, went genius on us, and had a Bob Kline colored picture a few pages in, and then a Rich Corben colored picture a few pages before the end, and they were the same piece a paper
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Friday, June 26, 2026
Heads Will Roll by Berni Wrightson
Toll bridge, Troll bridge, sump'n sump'n in Seattle, rolltrolltoll. Just another example why I ain't a poet. First image is new on here, but it's not much clearer than the wayback version (heavy sigh)
Ed The Daredevil by Barry Smith
First image is from a fanzine interview with Barry, and the full verbage in that arrow was Interview Continued before I cropped, then my fav DD pose from issues 50-52
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
The Space Guardian by John Fantucchio
wow. Just saw this ad for The Champion #7 fanzine in ANOTHER fanzine, and I'm lov'n that it had a Fantucchio I'd never seen, but acourse I want moremoremore. Here's the other SG on here from the wayback, when I thought Steranko came up with him. If I'm read'n right, though, Big John created this guy, and I'm hoping he's as abundant as Mysterious Hero. If you can lead me to more, please holla
Monday, June 22, 2026
The Enemies of the Colony Splash by Wally Wood
aaaaand the best view of the centanks that came from that story (there was another centank earlier in the tale, but he was just a bobble head smok'n a pipe, and this guy looks like what a half man/ half tank SHOULD look like
Ming The Merciless VS Flash Gordon by John Fantucchio
Oh, my heck! When this post title has been up here before, it was always about the che great Collector fanzine cover, not this pic that;s been around since 1968 as part of a fanzine's photo spread from a convention
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Father's Day by Jack Kirby
As a dad, I see elements of both these dads in myself. Speak'n of dad-do you know why you can't run through a campground? You can only ran through a campground, cause it's past tense (past tents). Steranko once told a dad joke during a fanzine interview in the early seventies: "I went to the doctor the other day, and he said I had Parkinson's Disease...and Parkinson had mine!" Dark, but still a classic dad joke
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Friday, June 19, 2026
Unused Black Krackle by Jack Kirby
This Black Panther splash didn't make it into the comic, which is a shame to me, as I've always dug me some Kirby Krackle. Late last century, I was at the comic shop re-purchasing some BPs when Steve made an astute observation while ring'n me up. "This may well be the most under-rated comic series of all time," he said. Way before the movies, and pretty spot-on, I thought, but Steve was always more than a "comic shop guy." He was my Obi-Wan of comics. He saw me picking up some Stalkers, and led me to the Jungle Jims where Wally Wood and Ditko had first teamed up. He led me to Web O Horror and Kirby Unleashed (befoe eBay!). Bazillion other treasures, too, but mainly I miss his words of wisdom.
Anyhoo, I got another Cap'n's Non-Prize bubbl'n over here. Of the twelve issues of Kirby's Black Panther, which splash replaced this jewel? Diversions of the Groovy Kind has had all the splashes up for 16 years, if that can assist
Thursday, June 18, 2026
The Silver Age Trad'n Card by Barry Smith
See some waybacks for Avengers 100, but it's great to see this handshake without all the word ballloons. This moment was years before Howie came up with the fist-bump
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Superman by Clyde Caldwell
I said it 53 years ago (I know it's dated 72, but I didn't see it until 1973, in TBG #40), and I'll say it again, this is weird, but che wunnerful. Dated the same year as my fav Clyde (Conan, on here in the wayback), this shares that rich, decadent strangeness that I like to call fanzine Caldwell
Saturday, June 13, 2026
The Ultimate Triumph Endpapers by Frank Frazetta
This Fire'n Ice plate was up on here a coupla times in the wayback, but not in this big, colorful format. The biggest UT joy for me (when I remember to dig it out) is see'n this version at the beginning and end of the book. please embiggen
Friday, June 12, 2026
Coupla Charlie Chan Covers by Jack Kirby
Both che great, and bang-bang on the publication. There were some others, but you know how picky I am (stop think'n about my nose! that's allergies! "that's no banana, that's my nose!"). Dunno how Jack did it, but they both have awesome panoramas on regular size covers
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
A Fistful Of Steve Fritz
The Star Studded's been on here forever and a day, but Fritz was a true fan artist for the fanzines (woulda loved to've seen him at Marvel, DC, or Charlton, but I never spotted him). If you know of other Fritz's, please holla
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