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[Michael (OML)]

and Leo Leibelman One Minute Later

[Michael (OML)]

and a cover and prelim by Jerome Podwil

[ciorac]

how was Philly?

 

 

It was fun. Fairly crowded too for a cold day.

[WiseGuyX]

and a cover and prelim by Jerome Podwil

 

Those are Outstanding!

[Pirate]

JK Woodward 9x12 ink and watercolor.

 

 

[COMICKINGS]

Daredevil #90 page 3...Gene Colan/Tom Palmer

 

[ciorac]

Awesome!

[asteroid-comix]

[Mio]

That grimm is killer! Congrats.

[Dick Pontoon]

I picked up this Gene Colan Captain America sketch a few weeks ago; positively thrilled since I never had a chance to get one in person.

 

[Michael (OML)]

First up, Mark Morales provided gorgeous inks over David Finch's pencils to Avengers #56. Hope you all like the inks:

 

http://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/7wn6e2w

 

Second, DC artist Jose Luis (not to be confused with Mr. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez) did an amazing job on Avengers #83 and turned it into a wrap-around cover with inks out of this world by Bob Almond. Check it out here:

 

http://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/86ebekb

 

Michael

[Michael (OML)]

Better links:

 

First up, Mark Morales provided gorgeous inks over David Finch's pencils to Avengers #56. Hope you all like the inks:

 

Avengers #56 by Finch & Morales

 

Second, DC artist Jose Luis (not to be confused with Mr. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez) did an amazing job on Avengers #83 and turned it into a wrap-around cover with inks out of this world by Bob Almond. Check it out here:

 

http://outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed.com/86ebekb

 

Michael Avengers #83 by Jose Luis & Bob Almond

[Speedy-D]

Those are both killer. I'd love to see a bigger scan of Avengers 83.

[OV]

 

Sweet! Where did you buy that from? (thumbs u

[Weird Paper]

I've just added two new acquisitions to my CAF:

 

A late 1930s-early 1940s pulp illustration by golden age legend Fred Guardineer

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=852536&GSub=125763

 

 

The variant cover art to the most recent 30 Days of Night #2 by the incomparable

Bernie Wrightson.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=852540&GSub=62059

 

[Terry Doyle]

Package of home-grown (UK) artwork arrived this morning.

 

First up two consecutive splash pages of the Robot Archie strip from 1967 . . .

 

 

 

Artist is Ted Kearon.

 

Bit of a bat theme going on with these latest additions (more of which later) . . .

[ciorac]

Package of home-grown (UK) artwork arrived this morning.

 

First up two consecutive splash pages of the Robot Archie strip from 1967 . . .

 

 

 

Artist is Ted Kearon.

 

Bit of a bat theme going on with these latest additions (more of which later) . . .

 

Nice homage to the early Iron Man design in that first panel

[Terry Doyle]

Package of home-grown (UK) artwork arrived this morning.

 

First up two consecutive splash pages of the Robot Archie strip from 1967 . . .

 

 

 

Artist is Ted Kearon.

 

Bit of a bat theme going on with these latest additions (more of which later) . . .

 

Nice homage to the early Iron Man design in that first panel

 

Thanks!

 

Actually, the character debuted in 1952, so similiarities to the first Iron Man costume are purely co-incidental.

 

Here's a publishing history I lifted from the internet:

 

"Robot Archie first appeared in the first (1952) issue of Lion, a weekly British boys adventure title published by IPC Magazines, who were at the time, the biggest publisher of weekly adventure titles in the UK along with DC Thomson. Lion was a science fiction action-adventure comic in the mold of Eagle and was a direct competitor to that comic.

 

Robot Archie appeared in the first issue but was known as The Jungle Robot in this first issue. The character was created by writer E. George Cowan and artist Alan Philpott. The strip lasted 25 weeks before it took a five year gap and returned in 1957. This time the strip was called Archie The Robot Explorer but eventually the strip became better known as Robot Archie.

 

The strip was one of the most popular in Lion during the 1960s but the character's adventures ended when Lion was finally cancelled in May 1974. However Robot Archie strips did appear in colour (with redrawn art from the Dutch series) in Vulcan, a short lived weekly title which was cancelled in 1976. The series was published and popular in France and the Netherlands too. In the Netherlands the series was published in the comics magazine Sjors (for which Bert Bus made new Archie material - which was translated into French too - from 1971) and two or three series of albums which - like the Archie publication in France - stopped in the early 80's.

 

After this the character entered publishing limbo but remained well loved by fans. The character made a brief cameo appearance under the name Android Andy in Alan Moore and Alan Davis's run on Captain Britain for Marvel UK. The next appearance after this was in the pages of Grant Morrison's Zenith strip in 2000 AD. This portrayed Archie as a burned out acid casualty and part of a team of heroes called Black Flag.

 

In 2004 a new "Classic Archie" adventure by Bert Bus was published in Dutch.

 

In 2005 it was announced that Robot Archie, as well as all of IPC's adventure heroes, would feature in a new six issue mini-series to be published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. Called Albion, the series is plotted by Alan Moore, and written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, with art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman. Robot Archie features on the cover of the first issue which was drawn by Dave Gibbons."

[Dano]

A small watercolor study from Charles Paul Wilson III. C.A. as Pooh in the style of E. H. Shepard.

 

 

Dan

[Terry Doyle]

Package of home-grown (UK) artwork arrived this morning.

 

First up two consecutive splash pages of the Robot Archie strip from 1967 . . .

 

 

 

Artist is Ted Kearon.

 

Bit of a bat theme going on with these latest additions (more of which later) . . .

 

Nice homage to the early Iron Man design in that first panel

 

Thanks!

 

Actually, the character debuted in 1952, so similiarities to the first Iron Man costume are purely co-incidental.

 

Here's a publishing history I lifted from the internet:

 

"Robot Archie first appeared in the first (1952) issue of Lion, a weekly British boys adventure title published by IPC Magazines, who were at the time, the biggest publisher of weekly adventure titles in the UK along with DC Thomson. Lion was a science fiction action-adventure comic in the mold of Eagle and was a direct competitor to that comic.

 

Robot Archie appeared in the first issue but was known as The Jungle Robot in this first issue. The character was created by writer E. George Cowan and artist Alan Philpott. The strip lasted 25 weeks before it took a five year gap and returned in 1957. This time the strip was called Archie The Robot Explorer but eventually the strip became better known as Robot Archie.

 

The strip was one of the most popular in Lion during the 1960s but the character's adventures ended when Lion was finally cancelled in May 1974. However Robot Archie strips did appear in colour (with redrawn art from the Dutch series) in Vulcan, a short lived weekly title which was cancelled in 1976. The series was published and popular in France and the Netherlands too. In the Netherlands the series was published in the comics magazine Sjors (for which Bert Bus made new Archie material - which was translated into French too - from 1971) and two or three series of albums which - like the Archie publication in France - stopped in the early 80's.

 

After this the character entered publishing limbo but remained well loved by fans. The character made a brief cameo appearance under the name Android Andy in Alan Moore and Alan Davis's run on Captain Britain for Marvel UK. The next appearance after this was in the pages of Grant Morrison's Zenith strip in 2000 AD. This portrayed Archie as a burned out acid casualty and part of a team of heroes called Black Flag.

 

In 2004 a new "Classic Archie" adventure by Bert Bus was published in Dutch.

 

In 2005 it was announced that Robot Archie, as well as all of IPC's adventure heroes, would feature in a new six issue mini-series to be published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. Called Albion, the series is plotted by Alan Moore, and written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, with art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman. Robot Archie features on the cover of the first issue which was drawn by Dave Gibbons."

 

 

Albion is a six-issue comic book limited series plotted by Alan Moore, written by his daughter Leah Moore and her husband John Reppion, with covers by Dave Gibbons and art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman. As a result of a deal forged by Vice President Bob Wayne of DC Comics and Publishing Director Andrew Sumner of IPC Media, it was published through DC Comics' WildStorm imprint. The series aimed to revive classic IPC-owned British comics characters such as Captain Hurricane, Robot Archie, The Steel Claw and The Spider (as well as minor characters like Fishboy and Faceache), all of whom appeared in comics published by Odhams Press and later IPC Media during the 1960s and early 1970s, such as Valiant and Lion.

 

Debuting with a cover date of August, 2005 the first two issues were released monthly, with the third issue delayed two months (Moore & Reppion cited delays in scheduling impacting the art production[1]). Initially solicited release between October 2005 and January 2006, issues 4-6 were subsequently resolicited, and finally released throughout 2006, with cover dates between June and November. The TPB collection followed swiftly after #6 was released in both the US and UK, from WildStorm and Titan Books respectively.[2]

 

The logo is similar to the one used by Scottish car manufacturer Albion Motors, renowned for their superior engineering and slogan "Sure as the Sunrise".