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Another rare Golden page, this one the unpublished cover for what would haave been MISTER MIRACLE 26 in 1978, if not for the "DC Implosion". For many years, I only had a badly xeroxed copy of this from CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE 1 and 2, that collected all the comics and covers from the cancelled DC Implosion books.
This is the only version I've seen in color, perhaps finally reprinted somewhere else.

Michael Golden also illustrated MISTER MIRACLE 23-25 in 1978 (following the Englehart and Rogers run in issues 19-22). To my knowledge, only the cover was finished for issue 26, no story or interior art completed. Issue 23 is inked by Joe Geilla, 24 and 25 are inked by Russ Heath, as is this cover for 26.

You can view all these issues here:
https://comiconlinefree.net/mister-miracle-1971/issue-23/full
https://viewcomiconline.com/mister-miracle-1971-issue-24/
https://comiconlinefree.net/mister-miracle-1971/issue-25/full

Golden in 1977-1978 did work at DC for HOUSE OF MYSTERY 257 and 259, HOUSE OF SECRETS 148, 149 and 151, GHOSTS 88, SECRETS OF HAUNTED HOUSE 10, DC SPECIAL SERIES 15 (BATMAN SPECTACULAR), BATMAN 295 (full issue), and 303 (backup story), BATMAN FAMILY 15-20, and DETECTIVE COMICS 482. I love this early Golden work for DC, his pages were beautiful, from the moment he entered comics.
Golden's earliest work at Marvel is in MARVEL CLASSICS COMICS 28 in 1977, and in DEFENDERS 53 and 54 , Nov and Dec 1977.

The DC Implosion cancelled most of these titles and created a huge inventory of stories at DC, and very little need for new work from freelance artists at DC for a long time, that drove Golden over to Marvel, just in time to be appointed the series artist for MICRONAUTS 1-12, and gorgeous covers on a dozen or so issues after that run.

Golden also did beautiful covers later on in 1981 for DEFENDERS 94 and 96
https://viewcomiconline.com/defenders-v1-094/
https://viewcomiconline.com/defenders-v1-096/

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I've been rediscovering Mike Grell lately, particularly the first 10 years or so he was drawing comics. This is Grell's cover for the late lamented
AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS fanzine, issue 12, dated August 1976, during Grell's run on SUPERBOY/LEGION 202-224, and 235 from 1974-1977.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Superboy-1949/Issue-203?id=29078

I especially love his WARLORD run in issues 1-50 (preceded by his origin story in 1st ISSUE SPECIAL 8) :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/1st-Issue-Special/Issue-8?id=85366
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Warlord-1976/Issue-1?id=85637


And only slightly less, his later STARSLAYER 1-6, and JON SABLE FREELANCE 1-43 runs.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Starslayer/Issue-1?id=122616
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Jon-Sable-Freelance/Issue-1?id=98833

And here's a nice gallery of Grell commissions :
https://www.thelegionofsuper-heroes.com/Pub%20Gallery%20Mike%20Grell.html

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Grell's pin-up contribuion to SUPERMAN 400 in 1984. This a signed version from an overpriced portfolio made of the pin-up pages in that issue.
All the pages may have been signed as this one is by Grell, but I don't recall these pages being signed when I looked at the actual portfolio.

Here's the full issue, with all the stories and pin-ups :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Superman-1939/Issue-400?id=16245

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http://theages.superman.nu/400/grell/grell-pinup.gif

The same Grell page in color, as it appears in SUPERMAN 400.

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A gorgeous Rafael Kayanan commission page from 2018.
I'm not a big Galactus fan, but... wow.

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GREEN LANTERN 87 introduced the black substitute Green Lantern, John Stewart, in a story by O'Neil and Adams/Giordano.




The same issue had a second Maggin and Adams/Giordano Green Arrow story, here is the decorative first page for that second story.




The full issue, for your reading pleasure, at :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Green-Lantern-1960/Issue-87?id=28308

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Frank Brunner "Scarface Duck" poster, done in 1976, shortly after he left Marvel and the HOWARD THE DUCK series (all told, Brunner only did Howard The Duck stories in GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING 4 and 5, and HOWARD THE DUCK 1 and 2. Brunner also did a really nice SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN story, and a nice run of Doctor Strange stories in MARVEL PREMIERE 9-14 and DOCTOR STRANGE 1-5 in 1973-1975.)

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Giant-Size-Man-Thing/Issue-4?id=86494
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Giant-Size-Man-Thing/Issue-5?id=86497
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Howard-the-Duck-1976/Issue-1?id=30723
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Howard-the-Duck-1976/Issue-2?id=30734

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Savage-Sword-Of-Conan/Issue-30?id=65360

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Marvel-Premiere/Issue-10?id=49416
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Doctor-Strange-1974/Issue-1?id=33743

I always felt lucky to have found a copy of this poster in 1981, and to have been able to add it to my home comic art gallery, for lo these many years.

Brunner also did a few duck stories and other stuff for STAR REACH and QUACK.

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Quack/Issue-1?id=174136 (same story also reprinted in issue 6)

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Star-Reach/Issue-3?id=115001 (Brunner stories in STAR REACH issues 3, 5, and covers on 10, 12 )

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It also looks great under a black-light !

That is amazing.

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I like Kayanan's work enough that I created a whole topic for him:

Rafael Kayanan topic
https://www.rkmbs.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1231917#Post1231917

I especially like his Conan work (all linked there), in SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, CONAN THE ADVENTURER, and an all splash-page story in CONAN THE SAVAGE.




Another cool artist vision of Galactus is in the SILVER SURFER:PARABLE graphic novel, by Stan Lee and Moebius.
I liked it so much, I bought it in both hardcover and trade form.
It was also published as a 2-issue miniseries.

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Silver-Surfer-Parable/TPB?id=103600

I like in the trade version (1988), it has a behind-the-scenes text section with detailed pencil drawings by Moebius, some of those decorative pages not included in the final story.
The linked version is a later trade version, that collects the Lee/Moebius story along with another separate graphic novel by Lee and Pollard.

Obviously, Moebius' work is amazing, but his influence on Kayanan (who I'd never heard of before) is just as plain. I really enjoy that hyper-detailed drawing. Brian Bolland did it on Camelot 3000 when he realised his pencils were going to be inked over by someone he didn't specially know in the US, so he pencilled the fuck out of them. You really see this by issue 11. The cover with the alien queen is intense with detail.

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Just in time for Halloween...



Since the previous image expired, here again is Richard Corben's cover for Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell album, released in late 1977.

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And here's the Wrightson cover for Meat Loaf's second album, in 1981.






While the first one is still up, this image is a clearer scan than the first one I posted.

While Brian Bolland did a lot of nice covers and back-up or single-issue stories, I guess this CAMELOT 3000 series was Bolland's first major breakout series work.

But I can think of a number of other covers Bolland has done that took my breath away.


Here's a cover Bolland did for ZATANNA'S SEARCH, a 2004 collection reprinting the earliest Zatanna stories, from circa 1964-1967 :






And this cover from SUPERMAN 422, August 1986.

With an updated image.

Simonson shattered the logo on his first issue as writer/artist, replacing it next issue with a new logo. That could be seen as symbolic of how he would go on to shatter the rules and continue to blow our minds every issue for the next 5 straight years.