Abe Lincoln by Jack Kirby

The one time I go to DC, I get off the Metro, ask a metro worker where's a good breakfast, he directs me to a greasy spoon across from Ford's Theater and, well, the rest is history

 

Colorful Ben Grimm by Jack Kirby

The Thing is, as you may know, the Cap'n luvs him some double entende, so when onea comicdom's most colorful characters is also onea the most colorful splash pages, I start to chortle and rub my hands together like a villian using a hot-air dryer VS a paper towel

 

Buster (Flash Gordon) Crabbe by John Fantucchio

Sometimes I amaze myself at what I've forgotten to post.  Love Flash, in fact, I believe right behind Conan, Flash Gordon is the most prolific character on here.  Love Fantucchio, so kinda weird this wasn't already on here.  Love Larry Crabbe, even though the extent of our "friendship" is a few minutes we sat and talked at a table of nutritional supplements set up in a hallway in a shopping mall in Phoenix around 1980

 

The Bob Kline Self-Portrait

From the pages of onea the all-time great fanzines, MCR  (Modern Comics Review) #4

 

The Unknown Ones Splash Page by Al Williamson

...and I gotta assume a touch of Roy Krenkel.  I was one years old when this came out, and even then I was smil'n with delight.  Reminds me of the comedian who saw a couple at a rodeo with their newborn, and realized "It WAS his first rodeo, and he WAS born yesterday"

 

Prince Valiant by Hal Foster

In the wayback, I got into the colorful Prince Val sundays, so take a gander again, but this daily got neglected, and I dig it so much

 

Russ Manning and Larry Todd

Finally!  Only been doing this blog for 16 years, so of course this is the first Manning up here (endless great Tarzans to choose from, Cap'n, you might say with a snort, but the heart wants what the...)!  Russ did that image as a sci-fi fanzine cover in 1948,  and if you squint and look sideways, you can catch a glimpse of Todd's organic space voyager twenty sump'n years later

 

And In This Corner Part Tres

As I said before, onea my fav corner boxes was Conan by Barry Smith.  The young charg'n barbarian of the first 11 issues was ah-ite, but the guy on the last 13 issues was che cool.  Designed for the box, and then think'n outside the box, this mature Conan with an axe to grind really resonated

 

And In This Corner Part Deux

As Russ mentioned on the last post, Marvel's corner boxes mostly started out as headshots, and Jim Steranko inherited a corner box with a Kirby headshot of Nick Fury.  But this beauty full figure from Strange Tales 166 helped pump the premiere of Fury's own title.  Obviously, I really dug the black'n white corner box on Shield #4

 

And In This Corner

Onea the great innovations at Marvel was the corner box, and Gil Kane did an amazeballs job on Cap'n Marvel, I think.  I can't be sure, cause the tiny print'n is so poor.  If you know of a biggerbetterfasterstronger, please holla.  The second image is what I wish was the corner box

 

Nick Fury Hoists Old Glory by Jim Steranko

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

 

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

 

Some Outasight Black'n Whites

 

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

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

 

Black Bolt Business by Jack Kirby

First is another splash from The Silver Age Of Comic Book Art, then the image from the get-go

 

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