The Thing N°6. 1983. US.
… TVTA has a ‘Thing’ about comic book art!
Welcome, vintage mates, to another selection of comic book covers and art spanning the 1960s to present. Feast your goggles on amazing art candy by Bill Sienkiewicz, George Perez, Al Williamson, Mike Mignola, Neal Adams, Moebius, André Chéret, Brian Bolland, Alex Toth, Alex Roth, and the late Ron Smith. As always, thanks for looking 🙂
Marvel and DC
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- Daredevil N°235. 1986.
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- Marvel Age N°71. 1989. Moebius.
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- 1985. Mike Mignola and Al Williamson. US.
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- The Defenders. 1983. US.
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- The New Mutants N°25. 1985. Bill Sienkiewicz.
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- Tales of the Teen Titans N°51. 1985. George Perez.
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- Wonder Woman and Superman kiss. 1987. US.
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- Mego Wonder Woman and Hall of Justice. 1977. US.
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- 1989. US.
Batman Black and White
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- 1996. US.
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- 1996. US.
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- 1996. US.
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- 1996. US.
The Phantom
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- The Phantom N°41. 1972.
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- The Phantom. 1943 reprints.
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- The Phantom. 1943 reprints.
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- The Phantom. 1943 reprints.
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- The Phantom. 1987.
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- Lee Falk’s The Phantom N°9. 1989.
TV related
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- Bionic Woman. Télé Junior. 1980.
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- Starsky and Hutch. 1978.
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- Jabberjaw, Scooby-Doo, Hong Kong Phooey. Télé Parade. Mensuel N°5. 1978.
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- Jabberjaw and The Neptunes. Télé Parade. 1977.
Conan, Sonja, Rahan
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- Conan the Barbarian. N°175. 1985. Owsley/J Buscema/Chan/Chiang/Roussos.
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- Conan and Sonja. Mickey N°380. 1984.
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- Rahan. Pif Gadget N°555. 1979.
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- Rahan. Pif Gadget N°395. 1976.
I’d like to dedicate this post to the talented comic book artist Ron Smith, who passed away last week, aged 94. Ron worked on many British comic titles like Hotspur, The Wizard, The Topper, The Dandy, The Beezer, The Victor, and Warlord, but he will always be most famously remembered for his prolific work on Judge Dredd. The last three covers are by Ron Smith.
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- 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd. 1983.
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- 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special. 1983.
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- 2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd. 1983.
Fond farewells Ron Smith, 1924 – 2019
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Batman, The Phantom… and 2000AD! comic-book heaven right there my friend! 🙂
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Thanks Arcane. A fine trio, yes 🙂
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Great post!! Love all of the covers. Adore the Silver Surfer & Wonder Woman and Superman kissing the best! Oh, Starsky and Hutch is a hoot. HOOT!
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Thanks Resa. The ad of Superman and Wonder Woman kissing really caught my eye too. And I used to love watching Starsky and Hutch.
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Kissing always catches my eye. Tokens of love melt me. Yes, S&H… lol!
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Some great comic book covers there, my faves are Daredevil and the Incredible Hulk! I have that Batman movie adaptation somewhere as well, nice cover for that one too. As I remember it was quite a faithful take on the movie. Great to see some Phantom as well, always nice to see these old classic heroes 🙂
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Yep, the Batman movie adaption is faithful and has great art. I was pleased to add some Phantom, the 1972 French album I have has some cool reprints of covers from the 1940s.
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The Batman movie adaptation was really good. Sometimes film versions in comics dont always translate very well, but in this instance it worked. The Phantom is such a great hero form the 40’s era of comics, brilliant fun 🙂
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Man, that Hulk (311) is incredible. Such a striking image.
The Batman Black & White stuff is exceptional, too.
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Yep, that Hulk N°311 cover is pretty dark isn’t it.
As for the Batman Black and White… such a brilliant comic with lots of variation in style from the creators.
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So much to enjoy here. I recognise that Batman ’89 cover from the Commodore 64 version of the (incredibly difficult) game – it was used for the loading screen. Now I know where it came from!
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That’s cool the same image was used for a Commodore 64 game. We had the Commodore and I would have loved to have played Batman on it.
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Check out the music for it, if you haven’t heard it. It’s fantastic!
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What a cool little track! Love it, thanks for sharing it here 🙂
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You’re welcome. 🙂 Track 2 for Axis Chemical is hugely nostalgic. What I really like is that the game was ported across the various computers of the time, so there are a few variations of each track.
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