DeliBebek

I bought some Silver Age goodies from Ed. The comics were exactly as described, packaged perfectly and shipped quickly. Very personable and professional service as well. thanks, Ed.

Cue speculation on UXM 317. I'm surprised about Blink. Was she in the New Mutants title that just got cancelled?

I like it. It's a key scene in the series, a double-page and lots of effort in that linework.

Yes, he did, especially on those Bronze Age covers. I wonder what percentage of Marvel covers he pencilled during the 1970s.

I've got a Clint, but it doesn't look like the same Clint!

WTF is that? I just mess my pants laughing! Look at that six pack he has. That's what I call "washboard abs." Wow, that is simply glorious I get the idea this is made up of three photo references and an amateur attempt to connect them into one drawing. I've certainly done worse drawings, which were fortunately never printed on a comic book. Also, did Conan show up because his name was spoken, or was it the Odinson reference?

Salvaged from a PGX holder: The wash makes it look rough around the edges, but it's actually got a great spine.

I feel like I'm looking at a transcript of the Watergate tapes, here. Cool stuff, all around. Reminds me of things I still have tucked away in boxes here and there, which never came close to being published (because they weren't quite as good as what you're sharing here. )

Was that logo cross-stitched?

I enjoyed that short series. I got my #1 graded. I have the first two issues of the first series, but not graded. It must have been more durable than I'd realized, since it popped up at another publisher a couple of years later.

And this one has as much detail inside as it does on the cover.

This one proves that some of these comics produced professionals now and then. Ron Lim did the interiors as well.

I'm guessing they only had enough money for two colors?

Ouch, I practically grew up on FF. It's such an ICONIC cover....how can you not want a copy for that reason alone? Wen I started reading/collecting comics in 1987 as a kid and Marvel fanboy it was Uncanny X-men and ASM first, followed by GI Joe and Transformers. The FF was a. Third tier title by then......just like today........If I wanted a Marvel SA key outside of AF 15 now it would be a Hulk 1 or X-Men 1, not a lowly FF 1. Besides, why buy the knock off (FF 1) when you can get the original, BB 28, instead? If you're looking at it as a collector, your point of view makes more sense. As a reader, FF 1-102 beats the first 102 JLA appearances.

"We can dance if we want to…" Wait, is that Rog-2000 back there?! And whoever was coloring it reached a certain point and said, "What color is the gun? Is it a gun? It's late to the printers? Here!"

So many things catch my eye about this cover. Yes, the nipples that show through not only the shirt but the leather jacket! The muppet-alien peeking out from behind the spaceship! The triple alignment of moons!

I have Dark Regions #1, with a Chuk the Barbaric backup. Ugly stuff.

Mark Paniccia? Longtime editor for Marvel Comics. Funny how these people stay in the business and do well in other roles. But yeah, slinging a sword doesn't work.

This is not bad for a high school art project. The acronym is the funniest part to me, and it shows they were having fun and not taking themselves too seriously.

80s demons rock! Sweatsuits and mullets!

Are we really supposed to believe that Jerry Ordway had something to do with this cover?

Myke went on to work on some Eternity books - Solo Ex-Mutants and New Humans, great stuff.

This thread is great. The lame covers really point out how important all the aspects of the production are. Those with more professional-looking coloring, lettering, and "trade dress" overcome a lot of the deficiencies of the drawing. Then there are some that look like they were drawn with a dull number 2 on whatever blank paper was around, including the price and "logo" of the "brand" which might have been made up just to fill a corner of the page.

I'd guess that 49 of them never had a #2 issue.

Very nice. Keep the faith, 143ksk. It's only a shame they don't credit Samm properly for the cover.