It was a random ebay thing from decades ago...I think it was 20$ or something...but, yeah...I liked those lines !

Aww...these are fun to see. I sure do miss Jim.....

Thanks! And...yeah...so true.....never enough ! :)

And this was one of his extra bonus pieces he sometimes sends along with the main piece purchased!

It was pretty darned cool ! And....all these new pieces were from there !

I was just going to say this exact same thing, word for word !
I swear, I was even the same age!

Yeah! I love the rythm and dynamism of the piece.
It strikes me as being similar to a lot of the music I listen to...spooky and powerful !

I love Brent's work! (And...for added fun...I see he used The Laocoön group sculpture as inspiration for this. That's a cool reference!)

Yeah! And the linework too! His incredible underlying draftsmanship must have given him so much confidence , enabling him to put those unbelievable lines down exactly how and where they should be...with precision and a painterly flourish at the same time !

Davis was simply the best !
None better....

Very cool! MacNelly is probably my all-time favorite political cartoonist, stylistically speaking. And still on my bucket list of artists to get !

Ah! I love the art for this story! Incredible stuff!

Great stuff! I’m pretty darned obsessed with this particular story…just incredible art !

I suppose. Maybe I'm being too literal. It's not an illustration (as in, it's not a piece that was created in the service of something else, like an ad or a book or a product)...and I didn't comission this piece.
But...all of that may not matter...it is what it apears to be......a very cool drawing!

It's too bad they don't have a way to just call it a "sketch" or drawing or something....because this wasn't done in a sketchbook....but it's not a prelim or a sketch cover or anything like that....so, what do you call it?

Wow! So you're the guy who got this ?!

And...I'm biased...but I think it's pretty too :)

When it comes to McKeever's stuff, "Pretty" may be in the eye of the beholder.
But...I agree it's effective!

Morrie!!! Keep the faith!
He was one of my favorite people...
So sweet and thoughtful....and a great and toweringly important figure at the same time.

Hmmm...so you know Andrew too....and Mick and Ryan and Brent...
Do we know each other?
(actually...I'll be super embarrassed if the answer is "yes")

You can't beat Ryan and Mick!

Thanks! Doing backgrounds for these was my very first paying job in comics. And...I couldn't have asked for a better, more generous and helpful person to start out with than Chuck!
Do you have my email?
I can give you a Chuck update.

One of the first super-hero comics I bought....a great early memory!

I used to copy the way he drew robots and shiny stuff and his Kirby dots and broken machinery ...all kinds of stuff from this issue!

Yeah...there must be a way I can delete spam comments...right?

Cool!
And I know what you mean about his originals being out of reach...
Even if I could, somehow, afford one...they seem very hard to come by.

A great page, and that last panel is really something !

I will admit I have a pretty good handle on tasteful understatement. :)

Cool! I remember this! (Mick Gray and I did backgrounds for Chuck on this story)
Good times...

Holy Smokes! An original Albert Dorne illustration! You don't see one of those every day!

The FF really was "the World's Greatest Comic Magazine" wasn't it?

Guess who was dumb enough to let this page go back in the 90’s ...
Me.
I bought it for 60.00 at a convention in the very early 80’s, when I was a teenager.
Also...if you’re curious about Terry Austen’s signature on the back...he was at the same convention, so I took it over to have him sign it...but I cringed when he was going to sign it on the front...and asked if he could sign it on the back.
He was kind of offended...but...oh well...

I loved this book too. And Adam's art was some of my favorite I've seen from him.

Swamp Thing vs a dinosaur!
What's not to love?

Wow! This is great! The design, draftsmanship and execution are all incredible.