Title: Strange Tales #181, Cover*
Artist: Jim Starlin (Penciller) , Alan Wess (Inker)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Cover
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 3902
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Comments: 50
Added to Site: 1/26/2012
Location: Strange Tales, Doctor Strange and Warlock
Artists:
Jim Starlin
(Penciller)
,
Alan Wess
(Inker)
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Ron, I have an update for you to consider. You wrote the following in paragraph four:
"That run introduced Gamora, Pip, and Death (of course she had been around for a while, but not as such an obvious character), and made Thanos the star he is today. The legendary battles with Thanos’ death wish continued into the Avengers and Starlin’s run on Captain Marvel."
The Captain Marvel run (issues 25-34) and storyline preceded Starlin's work on the Strange Tales and Warlock run. This included the crossovers into the Avengers, Marvel Feature, and Daredevil and had Thanos with his first death wish arc that shook up the Marvel Universe. In the Stange Tales (where Starlin introduced the Magus) and Warlock storylines (issues 9-11), Thanos actually became an ally to Warlock in order to defeat the Magus, Warlock's future self. All of the this Starlin magic came to a conclusion with Avengers Annual 7 and Marvel Two in One Annual 2 for Thanos' second death wish arc.
Regardless, this cover is incredible as this issue provided Starlin the ability to mock the absurdity of Marvel management during the mid-1970s. Congratulations very late from me with your acquisition. PRC
Marvel really gave Starlin a group of inkers (Weiss, here, his Gemini buddy, Al Milgrom and Steve Leialoha) that meshed seemlessly with his style (albeit all in different ways). I would not trade any of these inkers for the others on the stories/covers they worked on with him. Nevertheless, I would have loved to have seen Weiss ink Starlin on a more regular basis. (Of course, that could be a more general statement in that I would have loved to have seen Weiss do more comic book work, period -- and I definitely include Steelgrip Starkey in that statement. But, I digress.)
WOW!!! Congratulation on this spetacular cover! What a classic!
Such a classic cover. I think Warlock is Starlin's best art (when he did the whole thing himself). All these covers are fabulous, and this is one of the best!!!
And great collection!
Congrats.
Superb example of Starlin's "cosmic" style! A masterpiece!
Winner!!
Oh, man! I really love what Alan's inks do for Jim's pencils. This is a flat-out amazing cover!
Two thumbs up with a twist!
I don't know why I've never commented on this cover before, but it's time to rectify that. Strange Tales #181 is a stunning example of a great Warlock cover. Jim Starlin's art has never looked better, and the image of Warlock laying in agony on the ground is jawdropping. It's like one of those neoclassical sculptures in museums of Greek heroes withing in agony. Alan Wiess' inks help bring the scene to life, but it's Starlin's pencils that really nail the scene. Then, as if to add a sense of the cosmic craziness of the the story, it turns out that Warlock's tormentor is named "The Madness Monster!" And that monster is being directed by...A Clown??? All of this drawn with utter sincerity by Starlin as if it makes perfect sense. But it does, of course, make a certain kind of sense in the cosmic universe as conceived of by Jim Starlin. Anyway, it's a killer cover and I love it a lot.