RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Prometheus and Grimm's Misfit Island of Comic Images

Yeah, the whole set of those were pretty cool.

I like how the artist did a Justice League on U.S. currency, and then an Injustice League on North Korean bills!

DEATH SENTENCE 1, variant cover (Forbidden Planet exclusive cover).
Love the girl on the john in her bunny slippers, panties around her ankles!

A DAREDEVIL glow-in-the-dark cover.

The only other glow in the dark cover I've seen, outside of three Kelley Jones BATMAN issues(530-532), co-starring Deadman. An effect that I thought perfectly blended with a ghost character!

Nice.

That's an Adam West-ish looking Batman. Although the Bat-hound possibly pushes the timeline back to maybe the Jack Schiff pre-Infantino (i.e., pre-1964) period.

In the biographical book THE AMAZING WORLD OF CARMINE INFANTINO, Infantino says when he was given the books in 1964, BATMAN and DETECTIVE were on the verge of cancellation, sales were so low. And his "new look" was a trial, where if sales didn't improve in 6 months, they'd have cancelled them!

Hard to believe, with the billion-dollar franchise Batman is today.
Sales rose with Infantino's run on the series, and then skyrocketed with the Batman TV series.
I always think of the Neal Adams period (1968-1974, he took over after another slump in sales) as the high point of BATMAN and DETECTIVE. But sales from the 1970-1974 period no doubt pale, relative to the 1966-1968 period of the Adam West series.

I'd say the artist pretty clearly mashed up West Batman with Schiff Batman

I found this double-page Steranko spread in my internet travels, but it was not sourced.



I'd love to know where it's from.
Possibly from an issue of his MEDIASCENE magazine.


Enlarged:
page 1
page 2

I thought I'd seen this art before!

I looked through AMAZING ADVENTURES 27, Nov 1974, one of the McGregor/Russell Killraven issues.
A version of the above page (cropped and small) appears on page 12 in an ad for Steranko's MEDIASCENE
magazine. The ad probably appears in all the Marvel titles for that month.
So it must have appeared in a MEDIASCENE issue prior to that date.

A nice Steranko CONSPIRACY OF THE PLANET OF THE APES painted cover.

Snuggle in there,buddy,as long as she will let you!

These issues from the John Ostrander/Tom Mandrake run of "The Spectre" utilized glow-in-the-dark features very effectively.

SPECTRE third series, issues 1, 8 and 13.
Nice! Ones I haven't seen before.

I'll have to look for them next time I'm in a store.

The glow-in-the-dark covers add perfectly to the mood of ghost and mystery characters like Deadman, Batman and the Spectre.

I was just looking at my 2nd series issues a month or so ago, back when I posted my Tom Artis topic.

That was the good Spectre series. I still remember the gumballs with the evil bugs in them.

Not at good as the Fleisher/Aparo run in Adventure but definitely the second best. And both were miles ahead of every other Spectre series.

you and your old people comics.



I'm waiting for Geof Johns to write anew Spectre series. That will be the best.

Holy shit! They work! I just turned out all the lights in my room and could still see them. Awesome!

I can still see them even if the monitor is right next to a black man!

I hate to break it to you, but the Ostrander/Mandrake run is about twenty years old. It IS "old people comics."

I love this painting by MAD artist Jack Rickard, with Alfred E. Neuman doing a werewolf-like transformation into publisher Bill Gaines!

If I saw this one when it came out, the cover for MACHINE MAN 19.
Somehow I missed it the first time around.



Nice Miller/Austin cover, dated Feb 1981.

And from the same period, here's MARVEL TEAM-UP 100 cover by Miller/Janson (reprinted with a different cover in MARVEL TEAM UP 250. And in the very nice COMPLETE FRANK MILLER SPIDERMAN hardcover.)

Another of my favorites from Miller (DAMN that frigging bicycle ad!)

That last one looks like Neal Adams to me, but is clearly signed by Simon Bisley.

Remarkably clean work for Bisley.

"Bunnylicious" by underground artist Robert Williams.


Williams often does wild, surrealist, and disturbingly violent material in recent years. I saw a lot of his original paintings in a "Lowbrow Art" exhibit at a gallery in Fort Lauderdale a few years back.

I love the idea of turning a cute little bunny rabbit into a fearsome predator that turns the tables on African safari adventurers.

I think only Wrightson's "Gentlemen of adventure" print more successfully parodies the same theme.

Since I mentioned Wrightson's Gentlemen of Adventure:




It first saw print as the cover of CREEPY 113 (Nov 1979), and later was released as a limited-edition print in 1988, sold through Bud Plant and similar outlets.

It's one of a select few that I have matted and framed on my wall.

A bit of levity for tax day, here's one of my favorite covers, from DC COMICS PRESENTS 93, May 1986.



I love the spaghetti-tangled mess of elongated characters. Plastic man, Elongated Man, Jimmy Olsen (as Elastic Kid), all fighting a villain named Malleable Man, with a daunted Superman caught in the crossfire.

Superman was worried because he might be touching someone's elongated dick accidentally.

Might be?? Look at his face! Looks like someone found another Superman weakness

IN THE ASS!

I've clicked on this topic and re-read these comments a dozen times, and every time it makes me laugh.

Maybe Lex Luthor should be working on a dick-touching weapon to finally defeat Superman.

A nice Byrne page, from sometime during his FF run.

If I've seen this one before, I'd forgotten it.
Possibly a poster Marvel released back then.

G-man posted some Kirby Superman toy licensing stuff Back around page 70 of this topic.

Here's some more licensing stuff Kirby did.




Kind of cool to see a Kirby version of Tarzan!

"The vertigo of bliss" by Biffy Clyro.
Apparently some alternative rock band, with a cover by Milo Manara.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vertigo_of_Bliss