Week 45: DC Copper
Last week I put up five splash pages from the very early Copper Age circa 1980 and got called out for only putting up Marvel. This week I make amends by featuring some DC splash pages from the same era,…
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Week 19: Don’t Mention It
This week I thought I’d highlight the artists that the commentors mentioned on this week’s ‘Time to Collect: Artists’ post. Gene Colan came up in the discussion, we were disputing whether he is a truly great cover artist. I know…
Covered 365: Day 364
Adventure Comics #364, DC Comics, January 1968. Artist: Curt Swan. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. I’m going light today because…
Covered 365: Day 360
Uncanny X-Men #360, Marvel Comics, October 1998. Artist: Jae Lee. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Jae Lee’s cover to X-Men…
Covered 365: Day 352
Daredevil #352, Marvel Comics, May 1986. Artist: Shawn McManus. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. I’m gonna go out and say…
Covered 365: Day 346
Thor #346, Marvel Comics, August 1984. Artist: Walt Simonson. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. There were only 24 covers to…
Covered 365: Day 343
Daredevil #343, Marvel Comics, August 1995, Artist: August 1995. A show of hands please, who’s still in this trek to 365? Day 343 is the day of the hand, we’ve had fun with hands all year long and today I…
Covered 365: Day 341
Daredevil #341, Marvel Comics, June 1995, Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Good pep talk from Chris yesterday…
Covered 365: Day 326
Action Comics #326, DC Comics, July 1965. Artist: Curt Swan. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Gah !!!!!!! I started working…
Covered 365: Day 289
Action Comics #289, DC Comics, June 1962. Artist: Curt Swan. Shwing! Wait! What the heck is going on here? Does Superman have a thing for a woman that looks like his cousin? Keith Giffen did do some fine work on…
Covered 365: Day 279
Four Color #279, Eastern Color, June 1950, Artist: Bill Wright. We’re getting less and less to choose from folks, there were only 38 covers to pick from today. Clearly the best of the lot was Bill Wright’s delightful Mickey Mouse…
Covered 365: Day 277
Daredevil #277, Marvel Comics, February 1990, Artist: Rick Leonardi. There are now less that 50 actual covers to choose from each day, that’s not saying there will be a lack of winners. Let’s see what today brought us. I really…
Covered 365: Day 276
Action Comics #276, DC Comics, May 1961, Artist: Curt Swan. Curt Swan wins the day with his very busy cover to Action Comics #276, it’s 1961 and doesn’t Supergirl look a little like Marilyn Monroe? I’m not sure why I…
Covered 365: Day 266
Marvel Tales #266, Marvel Comics, October 1982, Artist: Ron Lim. The thing that struck me about Ron Lim’s cover to Marvel Tales #266 was the way he drew Spider-Man, that’s my Spider-Man! That’s the way I like him drawn. Dick…
Covered 365: Day 252
Superman #252, DC Comics, June 1972, Artist: Neal Adams. Today it came down to a beautiful wrap-around cover versus a beautiful cover swipe. I’m not afraid to go with a swipe if I think it worthy but today I have…
Covered 365: Day 201
Superman #201, DC Comics, November 1967. Artist: Curt Swan. Does Superman #201 look familiar? Kind of? How about the caption “Clark Kent Abandons Superman. Kurt Swan must have really liked Amazing Spider-Man #50 that came out just a few months…
Covered 365: Day 126
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #126, DC Comics, January 1970 – Artist: Curt Swan. I never thought I’d pick a Jimmy Olsen cover. Don’t laugh but I cannot remember ever holding this comic, I mean I must have but if I…
Covered 365: Day 98
Jimmy Olsen #98 – DC Comics, December 1966 – Artist: Curt Swan. I can just picture the Marvel staff meeting in December 1966 – “look at these numbers people, we must be doing something right, lets keep up the good…
Web Arted Feb 19th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Zeck, Beatty, Hogarth, Lee, Williams, Adams, Swan, Klein.
Web Arted Feb 12th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Lee, Williams, Kubert, Buscema, Swan, Klein, Kane, Staton, Giacoia.