Wow, I'll tell you. You throw your back out, don't post a cover for a few days, and come back to awesomeness! ;)
@Chuck_Melville Loved those covers and stories, especially the Neal Adams and the Secret Six.
@Caliban Loved that Alan Davis cover with all the aliens. Really a sense of fun to that.
@dubbat138 I pretty much always love the giant page count DC books...don't remember seeing that Kubert before, since I'm mainly familiar with the later 100-page giants...and glad to see The Sixth Gun getting some love. That Hurtt cover was great.
@WetRats I had forgotten Plop! I had a long (by kid standards) run of those back in the day. Can't even remember what they were like inside, though. Was it a bunch of short stuff, like Mad? My memory is REALLY failing me here.
Here's the random Marvel 1973 cover for today....by you-know-who...
@WetRats I had forgotten Plop! I had a long (by kid standards) run of those back in the day. Can't even remember what they were like inside, though. Was it a bunch of short stuff, like Mad? My memory is REALLY failing me here.
Short, macabre silly stories. Always ended with a PLOP!
I've come to think that Thriller was the kind of comic book series that Quentin Tarantino would have written, if he wrote comic books. It was fast paced with lots of guns and and swords, and a team of specialists who worked for a disembodied wraith-like leader. Originally by Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden, the second half of the series was done by Bill Dubay and Alex Nino, who did the above cover.
You could hear the jaws of an entire fandom drop when this cover hit the shops. Alex Ross' paintings of the Marvel heroes was so crisp and detailed, you would swear that he had somehow crossed parallel worlds in order to take snapshots of them. Never did the Marvel Universe ever seem so real!
I really don't care for zombies or zombie stories. Not my cup of tea, and, frankly, I think they've been done to undeath. However, I did enjoy one zombie series: the tales of the unfortunate Simon Garth, the headlined Zombie of the appropriately titled, Tales Of The Zombie, a soulless businessman who runs afoul of a voodoo cult and loses -- well, what little soul he had. And his life. Written by Steve Gerber, drawn by Pablo Marcos, gorgeous cover by fantasy artist, Boris Vallejo.
Back in the 80's, I brought my portfolio to a local con where artist Bob Wiacek was one of the guests, and he graciously looked through it and offered some advice here and there. One of the drawings included was a rendition of Rocket Raccoon, who had recently appeared in an issue of the Hulk. "Hey!" Wiacek said, "Mike Mignola is doing a whole mini-series of Rocket Raccoon! You should see his pages!"
Frankly, I was horrified. At that time, Mignola was still breaking in and was best known for the work he turned in to various fan publications, like the The Comic Reader. I didn't have a high opinion of his work; he was very much the poor man's Bernie Wrightson at that time. "No, no!" Wiacek insisted, "I've seen the pencils for this book! They're great! You should see them!"
Well, about a month or so later, I did, courtesy of the Amazing Heroes magazine -- and Wiacek was right. The penciled images that AH ran as a part of a preview were gorgeous. I dunno what happened, but Mignola had crossed over to a very fine professional artist. And never looked back. (Or maybe I was suffering from fannish myopia, as fans often do, and just couldn't see the real talent that was lurking beneath all of those earlier fan drawings of his.)
@Caliban Cool Cover! Was the "greatest story" in there "The Dead Man" or a Dredd story? And who wrote it? (You've got the writer in me wondering.)
Yet MORE Gil Kane/Ernie Chan swordplay today, from Marvel 1973....
Great cover! Kane did a great Man-Thing, and of course by that time he was a natural for barbarian action scenes. Also, this was the last issue of Fear that Man-Thing appeared in, and featured the first appearance of Howard the Duck.
@RobAnderson The Tale of the Dead Man is one of the greatest 2000AD stories of all time written by 2000AD legend, John Wagner (who I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year), and drawn by John Ridgway
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Thx @WetRats - for awesome and truly twisted stuff
@Chuck_Melville Loved those covers and stories, especially the Neal Adams and the Secret Six.
@Caliban Loved that Alan Davis cover with all the aliens. Really a sense of fun to that.
@dubbat138 I pretty much always love the giant page count DC books...don't remember seeing that Kubert before, since I'm mainly familiar with the later 100-page giants...and glad to see The Sixth Gun getting some love. That Hurtt cover was great.
@DAR Fat Flash cracks me up...
@WetRats I had forgotten Plop! I had a long (by kid standards) run of those back in the day. Can't even remember what they were like inside, though. Was it a bunch of short stuff, like Mad? My memory is REALLY failing me here.
Here's the random Marvel 1973 cover for today....by you-know-who...
Linda M. Medley
James A. Owen
Martin Thomas
Martin Wagner
I've come to think that Thriller was the kind of comic book series that Quentin Tarantino would have written, if he wrote comic books. It was fast paced with lots of guns and and swords, and a team of specialists who worked for a disembodied wraith-like leader. Originally by Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden, the second half of the series was done by Bill Dubay and Alex Nino, who did the above cover.
You could hear the jaws of an entire fandom drop when this cover hit the shops. Alex Ross' paintings of the Marvel heroes was so crisp and detailed, you would swear that he had somehow crossed parallel worlds in order to take snapshots of them. Never did the Marvel Universe ever seem so real!
I really don't care for zombies or zombie stories. Not my cup of tea, and, frankly, I think they've been done to undeath. However, I did enjoy one zombie series: the tales of the unfortunate Simon Garth, the headlined Zombie of the appropriately titled, Tales Of The Zombie, a soulless businessman who runs afoul of a voodoo cult and loses -- well, what little soul he had. And his life. Written by Steve Gerber, drawn by Pablo Marcos, gorgeous cover by fantasy artist, Boris Vallejo.
Back in the 80's, I brought my portfolio to a local con where artist Bob Wiacek was one of the guests, and he graciously looked through it and offered some advice here and there. One of the drawings included was a rendition of Rocket Raccoon, who had recently appeared in an issue of the Hulk. "Hey!" Wiacek said, "Mike Mignola is doing a whole mini-series of Rocket Raccoon! You should see his pages!"
Frankly, I was horrified. At that time, Mignola was still breaking in and was best known for the work he turned in to various fan publications, like the The Comic Reader. I didn't have a high opinion of his work; he was very much the poor man's Bernie Wrightson at that time. "No, no!" Wiacek insisted, "I've seen the pencils for this book! They're great! You should see them!"
Well, about a month or so later, I did, courtesy of the Amazing Heroes magazine -- and Wiacek was right. The penciled images that AH ran as a part of a preview were gorgeous. I dunno what happened, but Mignola had crossed over to a very fine professional artist. And never looked back. (Or maybe I was suffering from fannish myopia, as fans often do, and just couldn't see the real talent that was lurking beneath all of those earlier fan drawings of his.)
Cover above is inked by Al Gordon.
Even his zombies stop to pose heroically.
Per GCD, today's random 1973 Marvel cover is by Gil Kane and Ernie Chan (as Ernie Chua)...
Here's a John Ridgway cover on prog 652 for one of the greatest 2000AD stories of all time
http://2000adonline.com/news/08-08-2012/the_art_of_dredd/
Arthur 'Art' Adams
Bill Sienkiewicz
Dave Manak
Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz
@Caliban Cool Cover! Was the "greatest story" in there "The Dead Man" or a Dredd story? And who wrote it? (You've got the writer in me wondering.)
Yet MORE Gil Kane/Ernie Chan swordplay today, from Marvel 1973....
The Tale of the Dead Man is one of the greatest 2000AD stories of all time
written by 2000AD legend, John Wagner (who I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year), and drawn by John Ridgway
collected volume
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Dead-Man-John-Wagner/dp/1906735190/