You never know what's going to turn up, even so many decades after the fact. Over at the Heritage Auction site, they have a variety of offerings on display for an upcoming auction dedicated to original comic book artwork. https://comics.ha.com/c/search/results.zx?dept=1938&mode=live&auction_name=7468 And among the many treasures that can be seen there are the unused pencils for … Continue reading SUPERMAN #43: The Lost Pencils of Joe Shuster
I always preferred buying original books to reprints, in part because many of the reprints of the times were cut down to fit shorter page counts. But this didn't really become a major issue for me for another year or so yet. At the time that I made this post-grade-school-graduation trip to Bush's Hobbies, I … Continue reading BHOC: GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR #5
Last weekend, we posted a piece containing the original artwork to a never-completed 1969 MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER story intended for issue #29. The art had been auctioned off a few years ago, and the Heritage Auction listing indicated that the full script was included with it. However, the listing only showed the first page of … Continue reading The Unseen MAGNUS, ROBOT RIGHT #29 Script
MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER is a well-remembered adventure series published by Gold Key comics during the Silver Age. Set in the far-off year of 4000 AD, it concerned the exploits of Magnus, a quasi-super hero who used his steel-shattering strength to battle threats to humanity caused by the plethora of robots that had been created to … Continue reading The Unseen MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER #29
Here's some more new business building on old business that has just cropped up. It's been a number of years now since I first wrote about the catastrophic journey of getting the Giant-Man story that saw print in TALES TO ASTONISH #61 to print: https://tombrevoort.com/2020/10/31/lee-ditko-orlando-rockwell-the-multiple-car-crash-of-tales-to-astonish-61/ And also a few years since Dick Rockwell's unused splash … Continue reading Lee & Ditko & Orlando & Rockwell: Another New Discovery in the Multiple Car Crash of TALES TO ASTONISH #61
It's no great secret that the relationship between editor and scripter Stan Lee and artist and plotter Jack Kirby had grown fraught by 1969. Having at least co-invented the characters who ad saved the company and done the lion's share of the story work that continued to make the Marvel books he worked on shine, … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: THE TROUBLED BIRTH OF THOR #169
The question came up again this week, prompting a bunch of discussion (often blaming one person in specific for perceived slights): why did the announced and eagerly-anticipated 1983 crossover book starring the Avengers and the Justice League of America never see print and remain uncompleted? There are a bunch of fan rumor and innuendo and … Continue reading Why Did The 1983 JLA/AVENGERS Crossover Not Happen?
The legend surrounding the origins of Superman has been codified into a sort of simplistic myth-version over the years, the story of two young friends who had a world-beater of an idea, pursued it over the course of half a decade, facing rejection and ridicule along the way, only for it to turn out to … Continue reading The Seldom-Seen Jerry Siegel & Russell Keaton SUPERMAN samples
As we did a few weeks ago, today we're going to take a look at the Heroes Reborn CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 packaged and produced by Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios as part of the four-book deal that became known as Heroes Reborn. Liefeld's CAPTAIN AMERICA wound up produced under a bit of a cloud within fan … Continue reading CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 – Heroes Reborn
Rob Liefeld has been a figure of divisiveness virtually since he first burst onto the scene three decades ago. There are those who absolutely adore his kinetic, detailed, action-oriented style and boundless enthusiasm and others who decry what they see as his weaknesses in anatomy and perspective and his sometimes-aggressive persona. But whether you like … Continue reading AVENGERS #1 – Heroes Reborn
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