nbsp;First time I saw this was when I bought Savage Tales #4, and gotta say I was a little miffed. This is a mini poster that is on the inside covers. I bagged and boarded the mag years ago, so I see the great Neal Adams cover a ton, but hardly ever see this, and only by holding up the...

nbsp;First is the Spidey pencils for the Marvelmania cover that I know and love, then the art as it exists today (I dunnae who inked), then a copy from a late seventies fanzine with Sam De la Rosa and Willie Blyberg inks. Both those gents had nice careers in fanzines and comics, and I dig...

nbsp;The last two have an interest’n tale. Twenty years ago, I was new to ebay, and discovered Fantastic Fanzine #12 (the Kline cover) was for sale for a low opening bid, and nobody else bid on it, but I received Fantastic Fanzine #11 (the Steranko cover) instead. Even back then, FF #11...

nbsp;Awesome splash from Superman ( ) Special #2 in 1984.  The classic use of perspective alone made me glad I chanced upon this in a shop’s discard box.  Very water-logged, but not sumpn I would have ever seen otherwise

The cover to Avengers #158 was 1977, but Jack still put a lotta pop into his art, and his fistful of Avengers covers were che georgeous.   I was a junior in college, but still enjoyed pronouncing versus as the letters V and S 

We’ve had Fate come along on here before, except for the ad 

The sci-fi book club had all kinds of awesome goin on 

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nbsp;The fun has arrived, just 42 years too late. Few posts back I said I was spring’n for this, and che glad I did. Not only the Wally Wood cover and his Wizard King Ad (compare how I can see clearly now), but right next to the ad is this beautiful Al Williamson intro to the EC covers...

Scott Free and Barda are a couple, and just a couple of the bazillion characters that make up Kirby’s Fourth World.  Cannae wait to see John Morrow’s Fourth World Companion (JK Collector #80), but it’s still 2 weeks away 

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nbsp;This original art is on ebay right now(cheap, by the by), but I’ve only seen it as an ad for Kull magazine (in Kull magazine). My subconscious recalls originally a fanzine publication, so help the forgetful elder out here, if you know where it was at firstLater that same day....Gary...

Roy only had two illos in this amaz’n fanzine, but they were primo 

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nbsp;First is a creators’ universe trad’n card from 1993, then an ad for The Young Gods from Previews in early 1996,  then a published mug from Storyteller later in 1996 

and another opportunafish to put up the Jack Kirby dragon rider 

nbsp;Yep, the same guy who eventually gave us Thanos did an early 70s fanzine illustration of everyone’s fav barbarian

nbsp;Saw this in Overstreet #9 (the 1979 guide) years ago at Hayley’s Comics (yep, the Hayley family went there), but dinnae buy a useless guide just for this.  Wish I had, and will now obtain it at exorbideant price.  stay tuned

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. --Robert E. Howard 

nbsp;As we get closer to Kirby Collector 80, I’m stoked to see more about all that Fourth World crowd, but especially this guy

nbsp;I was nine and jelly of my buddy Toby, who had this, but then I got tall handle bars and a banana seat on my bike, so....

Yeah, yeah, just new to me, this was nestled in the 1970 fanzine Fantastic Fanzine Special #1, which I never bothered to get cause the cover was not my cupa.  Dumb on my part.  If you havenae, please search Kline on here for my ode to the best fan artist 

Lotsa other Sherlock Holmes on here, and The Complete Sherlock Holmes remains a favorite read 

Probly said this in the way back, but Wayne and I were both long-time parents in our early forties when these cards came along, and both think of ourselves as fairly suave, debonair guys, so we cracked up when we found ourselves geek’n out with admiration when we looked at these one day when they...