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Cap’n’s Comics
19 august
04h54
Red, White’n Blue Jack Kirby
Here’s five variations on the theme, but I feel there’s probly more. If you know of sump’n sump’n else Jack did with this, please holla
17 august
20h57
Collection Covers by Steve Ditko
Hear’n about (thanx, Russ ) and look’n up Ditko Batman made me take another gander at these wunnerful covers, but once again, I’m left wanting a...
00h53
Heritage Silver Surfer Cover by Jack Kirby
Help us, Obi-Wan, you’re my only hope Where did this originally appear? It twern’t down any of MY rabbit holesThe next morn’n, and I’m...
16 august
04h52
Warrior Fanzine Cover by Barry Smith
Conan on a funky horse...but still Conan First image is new on here, a biggerbetter fasterstronger of an old fav
09 august
04h36
Saxcrifice by Frank Frazetta
Third image is what we got on the paperback cover of Conan The Avenger, but the watercolor and roughs show Conan lost an axe. This leaves Conan...
06 august
05h04
The Barrel-Chested Barbarian by Berni Wrightson
Another look at a whoisthisis by Berni. Just saw the first, but the wrinkly one has been on here forever. If you can lead me to a better...
05 august
06h16
Another In The Lower Depths by George Metzger
In the not-so-distant, I put up the first four, and folks said they hadnae seen em, so here’s another one, from the fanzone Voice of Comicdom #14...
04 august
05h24
The Green Turtle by Jim Steranko
Yeah, Steranko has rendered a lotta great golden age heroes, but nothing compares to this guy. His cape alone is worth the price of admission...
03 august
19h50
The Invisible Girl by Jack Kirby
If I’m grok’n correctly, this is weirdly wunnerful. First is the 2nd printing of the Marvelmania Fantastic Four poster, with Sue Storm actually...
01 august
06h08
The Scarlet Citadel? by Roy Krenkel
Dunno if this counts, but it is from the book Fantastic Worlds of Robert E. Howard, which Russ told me about in the wayback when I was grous’n about...
31 july
05h48
Who Is This Is by Wally Wood
Course, I wanna see this biggerbetterfasterstronger, but I’m just as thirsty to know who wore a clock on his chest. My best guess right now is...
28 july
19h52
Mr. A. by Steve Ditko
If you search Mr. A. on here, you won’t find this one (okay, now you will). The use of black’n white was truly incredible, but Ditko gave me...
25 july
14h27
Mantor and Raplor by Gil Kane
Another Sectaurs delectable I’d never seen Speak’n of Raplor, I’m giving out onea my coveted non-prizes if you know the source of this ancient...
24 july
20h12
Gil Kane and Jim Steranko Together Again
Oh, my heck I had no idea Kane did anything for Sectaurs, but the Steranko piece has been on my radar since 1995. If you know of more...
22 july
21h06
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...
20 july
04h42
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...
19 july
05h38
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...
17 july
02h39
The Bob Kline Self-Portrait
From the pages of onea the all-time great fanzines, MCR (Modern Comics Review) #4
16 july
03h50
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...
13 july
23h12
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
23h04
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,...
10 july
05h10
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...
09 july
20h50
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...
06 july
00h25
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...
02 july
04h49
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...
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