When I was a kid, I'd only seen one sample of The Spirit and that had been a reprint of the origin in a copy of Jules Feiffer's The Great American Comic Book Heroes. I wasn't terribly impressed. But I was only ten, and that first story was crude compared to Eisner's later work.
In the mid-60's, Harvey Comics, an outfit best known for Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Little Dot and Casper The Friendly Ghost, put out two issues of reprints -- and I was blown away. The stories and the storytelling were like nothing my adolescent eyes had ever seen. But then it went away, and it was nearly a decade before I saw another Spirit reprint...
In the 70's, Marvel hit gold with monsters and the supernatural, in particular with Tomb Of Dracula. This issue, scripted by Gardner Fox, was the last before Marv Wolfman's stellar run with Gene Colan. Cover by Neal Adams.
The 80's brought us the first video games, and those, in turn, brought us the first video game comics. DC gave us the Atari Force, a pretty decent series that will probably never be reprinted, sad to say. Cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.
Joe Kubert did most of his vast volume of work at DC, but on occasion he did jobs for the other companies. In the 90's, he slipped off to Marvel to draw a six-part story written by Chuck Dixon for Punisher War Machine.
It was one of the very few times I ever bought a Punisher book.
I edited this series for MU Press in the 90's. It was a shared world fantasy in the vein of similar works such as Tales Of The Vulgar Unicorn or Wild Cards, and combined comic stories with prose stories. The storyline involved an alternate earth where Man never evolved, but all of the other animal species did.
The cover was laid out by Phil Foglio and painted by Dave Garcia. If you closely look at the scrolls, Dave signed his and Phil's name, and then inserted my first name. That was overly generous of him, but it was an undeserved credit as all I did was take a pencil and correct the armor worn by the warriors in order to make it conform to that worn inside the book. Phil and Dave did all the heavy lifting on this cover.
EDIT: This was actually a wrap-around cover, but the only online image I can find of the entire cover doesn't seem to want to load up here, so I guess we'll have to settle for just the front portion. Sorry about that.
That Web of Spiderman cover was the absolute high point of the series. Partly because the series was usually sub-par, partly because it was one of the great covers.
From May 1973 it's a science fiction anthology title World Unknown. Inside are two interesting short stories. One of which is Gil Kane's adaptation of Edmond Hamilton's "He that hath wings". Great stuff.
I remember buying this off the racks and LOVING the "angel" story! Gil Kane did an awesome job. I wasn't sure but looked it up and I see that this comic also had an adaptation of the great Frederik Pohl story "The Day After the Martians Came" (from the classic Harlan Ellison "Dangerous Visions" collection).
Time for some Swamp Thing covers. This is Stephen Bissette, John Totleben & Tatjana Wood on the cover of my favourite stand-alone Swampy story. Has a similar feel to the Hob Gadling The Wake story in Sandman.
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When I was a kid, I'd only seen one sample of The Spirit and that had been a reprint of the origin in a copy of Jules Feiffer's The Great American Comic Book Heroes. I wasn't terribly impressed. But I was only ten, and that first story was crude compared to Eisner's later work.
In the mid-60's, Harvey Comics, an outfit best known for Richie Rich, Hot Stuff, Little Dot and Casper The Friendly Ghost, put out two issues of reprints -- and I was blown away. The stories and the storytelling were like nothing my adolescent eyes had ever seen. But then it went away, and it was nearly a decade before I saw another Spirit reprint...
Cover by Will Eisner, of course.
In the 70's, Marvel hit gold with monsters and the supernatural, in particular with Tomb Of Dracula. This issue, scripted by Gardner Fox, was the last before Marv Wolfman's stellar run with Gene Colan. Cover by Neal Adams.
The 80's brought us the first video games, and those, in turn, brought us the first video game comics. DC gave us the Atari Force, a pretty decent series that will probably never be reprinted, sad to say. Cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.
One of the most atmospheric Spider-Man covers ever drawn, by an artist who seldom ever draws superheroes at all: Charles Vess.
Joe Kubert did most of his vast volume of work at DC, but on occasion he did jobs for the other companies. In the 90's, he slipped off to Marvel to draw a six-part story written by Chuck Dixon for Punisher War Machine.
It was one of the very few times I ever bought a Punisher book.
I edited this series for MU Press in the 90's. It was a shared world fantasy in the vein of similar works such as Tales Of The Vulgar Unicorn or Wild Cards, and combined comic stories with prose stories. The storyline involved an alternate earth where Man never evolved, but all of the other animal species did.
The cover was laid out by Phil Foglio and painted by Dave Garcia. If you closely look at the scrolls, Dave signed his and Phil's name, and then inserted my first name. That was overly generous of him, but it was an undeserved credit as all I did was take a pencil and correct the armor worn by the warriors in order to make it conform to that worn inside the book. Phil and Dave did all the heavy lifting on this cover.
EDIT: This was actually a wrap-around cover, but the only online image I can find of the entire cover doesn't seem to want to load up here, so I guess we'll have to settle for just the front portion. Sorry about that.
Michael Golden
Dick Giordano
Jade Moede
Don Perlin
Jackson 'Butch' Guice
Bob Layton Sr.
Barry Windsor-Smith
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Mike DeCarlo
Mike Zeck
John Beatty
Mike Zeck
Paul Neary
Joe Sinnott
Paul Neary
Mike Zeck
John Romita Jr.
Josef Rubinstein
Mike Zeck
A 1973 adaptation of a Robert E. Howard story with cover pencils by Gil Kane & inks (?) by Ralph Reese
This is Stephen Bissette, John Totleben & Tatjana Wood on the cover of my favourite stand-alone Swampy story. Has a similar feel to the Hob Gadling The Wake story in Sandman.
Yes it is.
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