The Voord

Should come in handy to scare away unwanted visits by my wife's family of nephews and nieces . . .

A couple of months ago a local artist friend, Bill Naylor, surprised me with a gift painting he'd produced for a 2018 local exhibition of his work. The painting, measuring a large 31" x 41", was Bill's take on the Thetan alien from the classic 1963 OUTER LIMITS episode, 'The Architects of Fear' (we're both big addicts of the original series). Knowledgeable fans of Alan Moore's WATCHMEN series will know that the writer took inspiration in part from the OUTER LIMITS episode for his comic-book series (in fact, you can see a clip of the OL episode being played towards the end of the WATCHMEN movie adaptation). At the same time Bill gifted me with his painting, I'd been waiting a full year to take delivery of a full-size latex bust of the Thetan alien from Canadian sculptor James Ferreira who had created a replica based on the original screen-used prop, molding only a handful of casts which came unpainted and hollow. Following on from Bill's painting, shown here, I'm also including in this post a progression of photos showing my own work on bringing the Thetan alien to life. I filled the hollow bust with polyurethane rigid foam, levelled-off the neck cavity with more filler and eliminated all flaws and seam-joins, latex rubber being a very tricky material to work with. The bust was attached to a wooden display stand and I proceeded to paint the head, mostly with an airbrush device, with some touch-ups and work on the eyes with a traditional paintbrush. I think he came out quite well.

Steve Ditko CAPTAIN ATOM ad. The OA is available for sale on Albert Moy's web-site.

Looks good to me.

Was this one actually featured as a comic-book ad? Can't remember if it was, sorry.

Charles Atlas was certainly an inspiration to puny Peter Parker types, though I lean more towards the x-ray specs which allowed you to check-out the goods prior to unwrapping . . .

Absolutely.

Sad news, sorry to hear it. Good luck with the fundraising projects.

From what I seem to recall, Krenkel, Frazetta and Williamson were all aware of Matania and admired him. As Matania was based in the UK (London), I doubt that Krenkel would have had any direct contact with the artist.

I have three of the BLAZING COMBAT magazines, including # 1. All un-slabbed that I've owned for many years as reading copies. They're all in reasonably good condition though I've no interest (or expertise) in wanting to attempt any specific grades. These are not essential to what I collect, so am open to selling. Not entirely sure what the best sub-forum is for selling as I mostly frequent the Original Artwork page. Any help or advice in pointing me in the right direction, together with ball-park figures regarding possible price-ranges, would be appreciated, thanks. I live in the UK. Apologies if I'm breaking any rules by posting on this thread. I can always delete this post if advised to do so Some scans of the cover, back cover and centre pages of the BC #1:

My article got published in last year's Irish Guards Journal. I never actually received a complimentary copy and it's only last week that I manged to get ahold of the magazine. Here's how it looks in print:

Did you get the Phantom Stranger NUN?

For those interested, here's an original 1960s Ron Turner Daleks strip from the UK's TV21 magazine that I own. The original artwork is fully-painted, as British printers were geared-up to reproduce directly from painted originals:

During the 1990s I had British artist Ron Turner create for me a DALEKS painting (the chief baddies from the DR WHO TV series). Turner had illustrated the Daleks comic-strip that ran in the UK publication TV21 during the latter-half of the 1960s. It was a fully-painted strip and Turner had a good eye for colour. For my commission, I provided the artist with my own pencilled preliminary drawing of what I wanted and Turner stayed faithful to my idea:

I'm not actually much into commissions though I have had some work done for me. In recent years I had Bruce McCorkindale re-create for me a selection of 27 x 1960s Marvel covers. Bruce is really good at capturing the look and feel of the original artists. Link to my CAF gallery (for those that want to see what's up): https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=169364 To keep things fresh and interesting, for three of the re-dos of Ditko ASM covers I had Bruce transpose the splash pages, adapted as 'What If?'-type cover images:

I'm old school (complete job, pencils & inks all on the one page . . . even if most of the pencil work has been erased by the inker). Don't know how long they've been pencilling and inking as separate artworks (don't collect modern stuff), though I'd lean towards pencils (as that's where the creativity took place).

Colletta inking Kirby on Thor was variable in quality though I do like quite a few issues' worth of collaborations. George Roussos or Paul Reinman would probably get my vote for least successful Kirby inkers. On a separate note, there was Byrne inking Ditko for a Captain Atom story aborted in pencil stage when the title got cancelled in the late 1960s that Byrne later inked for a 1970s edition of the Charlton Bullseye fanzine. The result was very uneven in parts.

It's a good selection, even though some of my favourite Frazetta paintings are not included. On the basis of what's shown: Egyptian Queen Sea Witch Snow Giants

Only three? Tough call. I'll go with three painted artworks that represent high-points from my permanent collection ('Permanent' in the sense I've down-sized my collection a heck of a lot over the years). First, George Wilson's cover painting to LOST IN SPACE # 25 (Gold Key, 1967): Second, Frank Hampson cover (page 1) painted art for a 1957 DAN DARE episode (from the UK's EAGLE magazine): Lastly, Brian Bysouth's 1973 painting for the Movie Poster campaign of THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (I'm mostly into collecting Movie OA nowadays):

Picture Stories from American History # 2 (EC, 1947): I also own all interior pages (complete books of artwork) for this one and the previously posted Picture Stories from World History # 1 (both inexpensive purchases at the time).

I have a couple of 1947 covers. Picture Stories from World History # 1 (EC, 1947): Picture Stories from World History #1 (Spring 1947)

Not forgetting the Saus-Age, which is timeless :

Someone remind me what the qualifying date range is for the Golden Age, please?

You couldn't make this sh*t up . . . I heard that Freddy Kruger has nightmares about Richard Rae.