Thursday, January 11, 2024

The Hole in Space by Mike Kaluta



...and the Cap'n!  Kaluta's bulbuous spaceship was a decade before mine, but I swear I was in a trailer in the middle of the desert when I came up with this, and had never even seen Mike's early (earliest?) fanzine work
 

The Ultimate Steranko Ad by Jim Steranko




 We saw this in the wayback, and I know I spoke before, but those three little pics of the FF, Hulk, and Red Skull leave me do'n Billy's rebel yell.  Holla if I can see these better

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Test Pilot! Splash by Jack Kirby


The only other time I mentioned Strange Tales #68 from 1959, I was showing the cover, but there was some nifty interiors, also

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Genghis by Steve Ditko




 Yeah, I'm old.  My mind is clouded.  But at least I float when I sit down (much like a hot-air balloon, I believe, my gases are lighter than my surroundings, and the noise scares the dogs)

S'more Berni Wrightson











Mostly fundundant, but 2 are new, and not make'n the upcoming 3 million views cut, so....
 

Sunday, January 7, 2024

A Week Later by Jack Kirby










 Okay, it's been a week since I offered a noncoveted non-prize to whoever told me where the image on the back of the Fourth World Omnibus initially appeared.  Now that I got off my duff and looked, it appeared twice before it made that back cover.  So, a non-prize is wing'n its way to the Cap'n (wait, it was already here)

Riddle Me This by Dan Adkins







 So, a while back, Russ reminded me of the big fanzine topic in the early 70s, does Dan Adkins copy his stuff? (I'm purposely avoid'n the word "always" here, cause I never, ever like to use absolutes.)  It came up for me again when Russ told me the great Dynamo portrait is a swipe from a Doc Savage paperback, and again later when he answered my query about the big space head on the back of a fanzine-Paul Newman, of course.  Anyhoo, here I am again, baffled by the amazeballs Hulk by Dan Adkins--is it really from somewhere else?  I think I finally solved one on my own, by the by.  I think Conan is a swipe of a body builder in a comic book ad.  And my fav DA is up here again, Starhawk, and a coupla years later Dan swiped from hisself!  If you think the Marvelmania Starhawk is a swipe, though, please holla