BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 The quality of Kida's work is all over the map. Last night after chatting with you I looked at a bunch of Kida's stories and they were all very cartoony. Minimal attention was paid to backgrounds and there was no shading. This afternoon I started looking at some other comics and everything by Kida looked great. Here are a few pages from a story he did for Astonishing. This has lots of brushwork similar to the earlier pages I posted. His stories for Ringo Kid were also very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 If you say it's easy, it must be Al Williamson. Nope. The next page will make it very easy to ID. No need for another page. You made me dig out my issue of WAR 46, after thinking Crandall. I'm playing for pride now. It's Reed Crandall...though you gotta admit it's weak Crandall with thin, monotonous lines with hardly spotting of blacks or the fine feathering he was known for. This one must be a rush job...or he was inked by another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 Very nice. Is that frontispiece handcolored by Frazetta? I wish! But it does have a somewhat interesting backstory. This was the second of the Wandering Star REH limited editons to be released. All of them were intended to be signed by the respective artists. But when this was released in the late 90's it was after one of Frazetta's strokes and he was unable to sign. So the books was published anyway as a numbered, but unsigned edition of 1050 copies. A few years later, however, after he trained himself to write with his left hand, he signed and hand numbered 125 copies that they had in stock at the museum. They were only available through at the museum or through the museum website. When I started to put together the Wandering Star set a couple of years ago I knew I had to get one of these signed copies of Ultimate Triumph. I finally got the money to get one, but unfortunately it was right after Ellie died and the website was shut down. When it opened up late that year, the book was listed as sold out. Desperate I called the number listed on the webpage to see if they had any copies stashed away, but I got some golf shop instead of the museum and hung up thinking I had the wrong number. Now I realize it was his son's golf shop. That was two days before the bulldozer incident. After the bulldozer, I gave up and resigned myself to settling for one of the regular unsigned copies. I set an ebay alert so I could just grab the next one that came up for sell. A few weeks later I got an alert and when I clicked I saw that a bookdealer had listed one of the signed copies with a BIN priced well-below what Frazetta's had been originally charging. I've never hit a BIN so fast in my life! It looked a bookdealer that dealt with regular fiction and while he realized it was signed didn't know that it was different from the regular unsigned limited edition. He probably just looked on ABE to see what others were selling it for. He had it priced at the extreme high end of FMV for a regular copy so he probably thought I was a sucker. It takes dedication and hard work to build a nice collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 I can't get a handle on Kida from this period at all. All the chiaroscuro in these examples looks more like Toth than anything. I can't nail down any 'typical' style for him. But I do find that Kida had some really nice detailed pieces with Atlas. For example: Beautiful covers. I was just now trying to find some of the stories I was looking at last night that were so disappointing, but I'm having no luck. It's so frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 This is the last of the current batch of scans I have. Who is the artist? (This one should be really easy...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Kinstler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 Kinstler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 That brings us up-to-date on the current quizzes. Here is the scorecard thus far for 2012. 01 - Scrooge 02 - Baz 03 - BB-Gun 04 - selegue 05 - adamstrange 06 - rockman2008 07 - Theagenes 08 - pcalhoun 09 - pcalhoun 10 - pcalhoun 11 - selegue 12 - jpepx78 13 - Scrooge 14 - pcalhoun 15 - selegue 16 - rockman2008 17 - pcalhoun 18 - rockman2008 19 - rockman2008 20 - Scrooge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 George Roussos is good. Here he is p&i on the last Wonderman story. It’s a fun yarn too as Wonderman’s robot pal Roboroy finds his humanity while saving them from ‘The Robots of the Demon Star’. This is my fave comic of all time. Supreme Xela Tara cov, Tara inside by Fawcette, 3 pg crimer by the incredible Rafael Astarita, the Aforementioned W-Man, super Silver Knight- 13 pg with Ken Battefield art & possible assists by Fritz or Astarita, and a solid Jill Trent Science Sleuth by Al Camy. THAT’S a comic book. Of course it was the last issue… Wonder 20 Oct 1948 (I posted Silver Knight splash page under ‘K’ in alphabet thread today) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 A pair of Aces & Emshs (his b-day yesterday) to help celebrate Andre (Alice Mary) Norton’s anniversary. (1912-2005). Happy Birthday to a wonderful writer – your star shall keep rising !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 A librarian from Cleveland and a lover of cats she even edited a couple of anthologies early on which World issued with nice Finlay jackets… Catseye dj by Richard Powers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 1966 cover by Robin Jacques Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 It's a little late for Frazetta's birthday, but I got this at MegaCon this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) well that is super special, and the Sparkler not shabby either... looks like you had a good weekend- Congratulations ! Edited February 20, 2012 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sardo Numspar Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 It's a little late for Frazetta's birthday, but I got this at MegaCon this weekend. I saw this pickup - super jealous. Enjoy it Jeff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Hey guys I'm a complete rookie on vintage books. Would love to get some input on this one: Dracula by Bram Stoker, Vintage Edition (Modern Library, 1932). Hard cover edition, released a year after the classic Tod Browning film starring Bela Lugosi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) It's the first ML edition. Very collectible, scarce in jacket , and super cool. Does anyone have one of the G&D stageplay or photoplay editions with the eyes? Edited February 20, 2012 by Theagenes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Surfer Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 It's a little late for Frazetta's birthday, but I got this at MegaCon this weekend. Congratulations, Jeff. That's a great addition to your collection. I used to own two Frazetta originals but I sold them many years ago for what seemed like a lot of money at the time (less than $100 each). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookwhoitis Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 It's a little late for Frazetta's birthday, but I got this at MegaCon this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
