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Whoaahhhhhhh, not something you see every day, for sure.
I'll have to look for this issue. Congrats on your amazing score.
Oh, my! And has Sue ever looked prettier, seriously?
Ghastly! His ink bill must've been enormous. :-D
Offbeat! I dig this unique take on the character and the story. The bowl described in the original tale would've had to be impossibly huge to house this representation of this Stygian deity, but tut tut, let it pass. I also like that this is pencil only. It adds to the appeal.
Wow, this really sings for me, Eric! It's colorful, but the color doesn't overwhelm the characters. I enjoyed the description, too, especially the analogy you made with the slo-mo stuff in certain directors' oeuvres (the same might be said about some directors who have itchy fingers with zoom lense). This piece is a showstopper...well played!
Marshall was on fire on this strip. The hues add so much to the eye appeal. The last panel is killer!
Another fine series when illustrated by Gray. I think there was a series? Or maybe it was a single story. Anyway, this page is lovely. I should be most excited by the beautiful Asian femme fatale. But the horizontal middle panel takes the prize here.
I LOVED this series when Gray was drawing it. There's never been anything like it since. This page is luscious, and chock full of detail and texture.
Good Gordo! Hulk Like! We don't see nearly enough Gordo here. And I agree 100% with everything you wrote. Arriola's ink line and design sense go down real easy.
He said so much with so little, and always managed to be graphically unteresting. Cute as a button example.
Sweet commission. Death's Head was one of the more visually inspired DD villains.
A really fine Arantza, Malcolm. And I love her self-confident eyes. I became aware of this artist's work when she was doing vampire girl illustrations for SQP's Crimson Embrace books, and made it a point to acquire two of them.
What a cover. It's fascinating from a graphic perspective how the shadow of the creature's head on the building at right manages to look like the rest of its body behind a translucent screen. It makes the viewer do a double take.
You were the one who opened my eyes to the beauty of Starr's work on this strip, so I guess you could say I'm sadly still minus my one swell outstanding example. For me, his work was about the lovely inking, and the characterization in every face he ever drew. The last panel here is particularly beautiful.
Tony, great to see you with a well-stocked gallery on CAF again. I love the "calorically challenged" guy in this example. Godwin drew such distinctive and unique people! They all have such immediately clear personalities, even before you read a word of their dialogue.
I love the wash technique Wood was using for his Mad work during the period.
I seem to recall reading somewhere the supposition that the Modigliani-looking woman at right was intended as a cameo representation of Tatjana Wood, supported by the "W" on her blouse.
This is truly bizarre! What the---? I still can't wrap my head around the fact that you've accumulated 187 Hulk pieces to date, Danny. Now that's collecting dedication! I think the beautiful Alcatena montage remains my #1 in your galleries.
Very nice! More sensual because it's discreet, and the pose is so natural.
Love me some Black Cat. The concept was threadbare, but I still think this is one of the sexiest and cutest superheroines of all. Great splash. It would be terrific to own one of these. Congrats.
Not from Penthouse Comix (unless it was reprinted there later). This was a back cover on one of the SQP Crimson Embrace collections.
Oh yeah, that's a fantastic book. And we have Milton to thank for making it possible for Marilyn to give us Bus Stop, too.
Milton Greene is my favorite MM photographer too (Marilyn Monroe, not Mother's Milk!). Lovely work here by James.
Wow! So tired of seeing all the slutty MJs on CAF. Refreshing change of pace...this is the Miss Watson Peter must've fallen hard for!
I don't normally comment on art that's for sale on CAF. But this is pretty sweet. The artist has done Bruce proud here. This and Curt Swan's are the only versions of Shadow Lass that mattered. I hated that '80s reimaging of the character.
Congrats, John! Kirby and Wood together is "WOW!" And the photo of Jack and Roz from the '50s you shared is priceless.
Holy smoke, is this wonderful. The detail uin the texturing is fantastic. Congratulations!
What an absolutely fantastic example. You couldn't ask for better in a Sky Masters example than a strip from the Mayday story. There is real drama and poignancy in that last panel. Kirby is celebrated for the force and power in his art and the wild imagination, but I don't hear as much about his narrative subtlety. Congratulations, John! I'm happy for you.
Congrats on getting it back. I had one of these once upon a timem and regretted parting with it almost immediately and throughout the decades. Nice to have a page here with Jan featured prominently in most panels. These are nifty pages!
I love Overseas Weekly pages like this by Wood that invite the eye to swim in all the intricate and lovingly rendered details. This sequence has the requisite lovely Wood girl, and that fantastic horizontal panel atop the second tier. Congratulations on landing such a great example!
Once upon a time, I believed naively that the time might come when I, too, would post a piece in CAF that was impressive enough to garner over thirty comments. Soberly, I know now that this is unlikely to happen.
Your wonderful piece here is every bit deserving of all its accolades! This reminds me hugely of the great superhero illustrations he used to do for Marty Greim's fanzine, Comic Crusader. CONGRATS, ROBERT!!!!
Wood's male characters were always firm-jawed, often double-lit, and steely-eyed. The beauty of the ink line is always the major draw on a Wood page. These S&S Marvel and Warren stories have always been my favorites among his works. And I dig those crazy horned caps that he drew so often.
Wood's art was consciously harkening back to his inspired EC work during this period. The laborious zip-a-tone application enhanced the beauty of the inks, and created art that was distinctive and luscious.
Blown away. Absolutely wonderful, especially mounted together as here. True Art.
It took the CAF Best Of contest to bring this to my attention. (I voted for it.) Offbeat and beautiful. Stunning, actually. And I wonder what the medium is. It's a Wow!
Aw, yeah. 100% with you here on the magnificence of this art page and this memorable story. An adolescent high point in comics reading for me as well. Big congrats!
"Hulk ready for Chrissmas now!" Seriously, I prefer a scary-looking Hulk as seen here to a "Stoopid Hulk" interpretation, and Jethro did a great job of conveying that. The original conception by Kirby was damned terrrifying, and the character lost something over the years for me when this aspect was downplayed.Congrats, Danny, wow, your collection has really grown, and seems to be procreating!
The beauty of those clean inked lines and contours is something to behold. And those are indisputably Kirby-drawn buildings in the background.
Quit tomcattin', Axa! Single panel daily strips are always a little special (insets regardless).
I don't believe in hell. I think we're living in the closest thing to it. Just in my lifetime: JFK. RFK. MLK. John Lennon. Sal Mineo. Wally Wood. Kent State. My Lai. Al the school shootings and mass shootings. 9-11. Gaza. Our psychopath "president". Human tragedy upon human tragedy.
Rob will always live in memory as Meathead and as Snake on The Partridge Family to me.
This looks like an older piece, from his prime era that initially caused me to look closer at his work. I love that era.
Great catch! Knowing of Wood's personality and his attitudes towards his mainstream '60 comic book work as revealed in print in the Bhob Stewart book, I think the interpretation I've heard is valid as far as what Wood seems to be saying ruefully and cynically here.
No comments on this? That's simply insane. The face on that badass Drac takes the kewpie doll prize here. Who would win in this epic confrontation? My money's on Big Frank. Looks like the fetching victim will be of no help whatsoever. Beautiful Timm piece, congrats!
