Books with a strong Original Artwork content

[Terry Doyle]

 

The left hand side shows an original used for a 1973 Dr Who magazine, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, Jo Grant as his assistant and old enemies, the Daleks.

 

The right hand side shows a page from Hampson's serialization of, The Road of Courage (the story of Jesus of Nazareth).

[Terry Doyle]

[Terry Doyle]

 

Hampson was the very first artist to be considered for the long-running Modesty Blaise newspaper strip.

 

He didn't land the gig, as the writer, Peter O'Donnell, pushed to have Hampson replaced by Jim Holdaway (who had worked closely with O'Donnell on a previous strip called Romeo Brown).

 

At one time I owned all of Hampson's surviving tryout strips (earliest MB artwork ever created). Now I'm left with the pencilled daily you see in the photograph) . . .

[desertdogg2006]

ditto. great book. and love the nice scans in the book. thanks.

[suspense39]

 

Hampson was the very first artist to be considered for the long-running Modesty Blaise newspaper strip.

 

He didn't land the gig, as the writer, Peter O'Donnell, pushed to have Hampson replaced by Jim Holdaway (who had worked closely with O'Donnell on a previous strip called Romeo Brown).

 

At one time I owned all of Hampson's surviving tryout strips (earliest MB artwork ever created). Now I'm left with the pencilled daily you see in the photograph) . . .

 

Those are some beautiful pencils!

[Terry Doyle]

The Art of Ditko, by Craig Yoe (intro by the man, Stan), IDW Publishing 2009.

 

Nice hefty hardback comprising of 220 pages.

 

Mostly featuring reprint selections of the more obscure 1950s, 60s and 70s Ditko fantasy stories - many of which I'd not seen before.

 

There are essays on Ditko, by various professionals in the industry, interspersed with scans of original artwork - including the opening splash to Spider-man's debut appearance in AF # 15.

 

 

 

[Terry Doyle]

[Terry Doyle]

[Terry Doyle]

I supplied scans of the three 1960s Ditko covers I own, two of which made it to the book.

 

Here's one of my Captain Atom covers that was featured:

 

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Back next week with some more goodies . . .

[artdealer]

I owned that Dr. Strange splash back in 1977/78.

What a great splash!

MI

[BitterOldMan]

Terry,

 

Thanks for showing the Frank Hampson book. I met Peter Crowther, one of the founders of PS Publishing, at the 2012 London Super Comic Con. Being from the US, I had heard of Dan Dare, but had never seen an original until Peter showed several to me. I purchased the wonderful Frank Hampson book at my LCS and started a small collection of Dan Dare strip reprint books.

 

I also love the Russ Heath book and will purchase the IDW reprint.

[adamstrange]

Yoe does excellent work on this book as he does on pretty much everything I've read of his. (thumbs u

 

The Art of Ditko, by Craig Yoe (intro by the man, Stan), IDW Publishing 2009.

 

Nice hefty hardback comprising of 220 pages.

 

Mostly featuring reprint selections of the more obscure 1950s, 60s and 70s Ditko fantasy stories - many of which I'd not seen before.

 

There are essays on Ditko, by various professionals in the industry, interspersed with scans of original artwork - including the opening splash to Spider-man's debut appearance in AF # 15.

 

 

[craig yoe]

Thanks Terry for this and your generous help on the book! We're doing another Ditko book so please send me the cover we didn't use again to make sure I have it! Thanks AdamStrange--you've always been very encouraging! <3