Stevemmg

It’s a glorious 20” x 28”!

I feel that I need to even out the artist ratio, as it’s been all Enric and Sanjulian from me lately. Here is one of my favorite large-scale Jose Gonzalez pieces.

I picked up this Sanjulian cover 5-6 years ago from the Dark Horse revival of Creepy. A clear tribute to the EC story “Foul Play”.

The face on the zombie coming out of the ground is fantastically gruesome and realistic. I do like it when there is something happening in the painting as opposed to the more static pose. “The Return” is another one of mine that I feel this way about as well. I have the painting and pencil pieces.

Well, since the topic was handy, here is another from my collection and the current artwork in my avatar. Enric Torres-Prat.

No Moondog?

Happy to see one of our own snagged those. I thought those were good value and great looking copies. Nice work!

Spectacular pick-ups! All beauties, but maybe the most amazing is the Skywald local find. Congratulations!

What in the world is going on around here?

With a big thanks to ThisIsWhoWeAre for sending me a message that this was put up for sale, I finally got the Creepy 1968 Yearbook upgrade I’ve wanted. The scan is kind of lousy, but I think you’ll get the idea.

Still no dealer list?

It’s always slow going upgrading Gothic Tales of Love. These two happened this week.

I thought I might share another Sanjulian pencil piece from my collection.

And these.

My sickness required me to have two copies, as the square bound is tough to read without leaving the evidence.

My understanding is that all of the Sanjulian covers for Warrant have been newly commissioned, as contrasted by the reprinted Frazetta and Jones covers. The Eerie 40 cover would have been painted in late 1971 or early 1972. Many of the new Sanjulian covers have reminiscent aspects to some of his earlier work, such as in this case. A Creeps Dracula cover comes to mind as well. They’re just too similar to not be on purpose.

In hand closeups for the Oakman.

I updated the three Sanjulian pictures with new in hand improvements. While taking some pictures of those, I realized that I hadn’t shared these two from the prior purchase. Hopefully, enjoy. This make me realize I have another 35 pieces by our Spanish artist I haven’t posted in this thread.

I am very excited to add this piece, as it falls into the top tier of Warren art items in my collection. There are definitely more significant collections of such things than mine, but I surely treasure each of these that I am fortunate enough to curate. Just to clarify, he didn’t get all of the pieces in one chunk, but was searching every lead and buying from many different people. He says he was in contact with Jim Warren regularly during his obsessive search.

Yes, this is the original painting. It was held by an ex-Warren employee until the early 1990’s. An east coast collector was tracking down such avenues in search of original Warren art and happened on this and many others. He claims to have had nearly 200 covers assembled by the middle ‘90’s. He also has had a couple of auction companies, and when he decided to give up the collection, sold some of them through those, and others through private transactions. He sold this one at auction in 2005. The buyer has a relationship with this collector to date, and has apparently fallen into bad health and asked for assistance in selling the piece. I was fortunate enough to be the new owner. I expect it to arrive on Tuesday following the holiday break.