From Hot Stuf’ #4 (Spring 1977), here’s The Vanguard with story and art by Alex Toth:
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Look Here, Read: “The Vanguard” by Alex Toth
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Look Here, Read: “The Three Frogmen,” with art by Mort Drucker
From Four-Star Battle Tales #5 (Nov.-Dec. 1973), here is “The Three Frogmen,” with art by Mort Drucker; in case you’re wondering about Drucker’s (John Severin influenced?) style in this one, please note that “The Three Frogmen” originally appeared in G.I. Combat #72 way back in May 1959:
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Hope you enjoyed “The Three Frogmen,” because I don’t plan to post any more stories with art by Mort Drucker here on RCN. The trilogy is complete… or something like that…
Look Here, Read: “One Man’s Leprechaun,” with art by Mort Drucker
Yesterday, I posted a story called “Gone Is the Gargoyle,” from the October 1954 issue of Marvel Tales, which featured early art by Mort Drucker (b. 22 March 1929), whose mature work set the standard for caricature on Mad Magazine’s covers and in their movie parodies for several generations. True, the art in “Gone Is the Gargoyle,” though it is clearly signed “Mort Drucker,” does not look especially Drucker-like; however, less than two years later, the same comic series, Marvel Tales, featured a story with uncredited, unsigned art by Drucker that I think definitely points in the direction of the artist’s celebrated Mad Magazine style. But you don’t have to take my word for it, because from Marvel Tales, volume 1, number 146, here is “One Man’s Leprechaun,” with art by Mort Drucker; the issue is dated May 1956, and in the fall of that same year, Drucker joined Mad:
Given a choice to save the original artwork from either “Gone Is the Gargoyle” or “One Man’s Leprechaun” from a fire, I would definitely tuck “Gone Is the Gargoyle” under my arm and make for the exit, though I suspect many true Drucker fans will view my admission as a sign I’m not really one of them.
Look Here, Read: “Gone Is the Gargoyle,” with art by Mort Drucker
From Marvel Tales, volume 1, number 127, here’s “Gone Is the Gargoyle,” a story with no formal credit for either the scriptwriter or the artist; however, as often happened “back in the day,” the artist got around this by signing his name, unobtrusively, on the art itself — in this case, on the bottom left of the last page:
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BONUS VIDEO:
UPDATE:
See also: Ragged Claws Network > Look Here, Read: “One Man’s Leprechaun,” with art by Mort Drucker, posted 05 October 2011 at 8:03 pm.
Look Here, Read: “Sans Family” by Nicole Claveloux
From Heavy Metal, volume IV, number 8, here’s “Sans Family” by Nicole Claveloux; as far as I’m aware, none of Claveloux’s work in comics is currently in print in English:
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Look Here, Read: Gahan Wilson plays dice with the universe!
From Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, volume 5, number 3 (August 1985), here’s the cover with art by Gahan Wilson along with an amusing fumetti-style collaboration between Gahan Wilson and photographer Arthur Paxton; in the original printing, the photographs ran, in sequence, with each on a separate page:
If you are a fan of Gahan Wilson, you will definitely want to have the magnificent three-volume, slipcased set, Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, from Fantagraphics Books — recently re-released at a new, lower price! — in your collection.
BONUS LINKS:
Comic Book Resources > 50 Years of Gahan Wilson [interview] by Chris Mautner
The Daily Cross Hatch > Interview: Gahan Wilson Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt.3, Pt. 4
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > The Infinite Kim Thompson — inspired by Marvel comics editor Mark Guenwald, “One Day, While Sitting at a Nexus…” is a grainy black-and-white photo-comic written by and starring Fantagraphics co-publisher, Kim Thompson, with photographs by John E. Thompson.
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > New Comics Day/Now Available: cheaper Ghost World & Gahan Wilson
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > Nuts by Gahan Wilson – Previews, Pre-Order
Fantagraphics FLOG! Blog > Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons BLAD
Ragged Claws Network > Heads Up: NUTS by Gahan Wilson
Look Here, Read: Arzach, Harzac, Harzakc, Harzack
From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 4, here’s the cover, a full-page illustration, and a couple of short stories by Moebius:
BONUS LINK:
Parka Blogs > Book Review: 40 Days dans le Désert B by Moebius
Look Here, Read: “Dying City!” with art by Toth and Kurtzman
From a 1993 reprint of Two-Fisted Tales #22 (EC, 1951), here’s “Dying City!” with script and layouts by Harvey Kurtzman, pencils by Alex Toth, and inks by Kurtzman:
Of course, in the summer of 2012, “Dying City!” will be back in print, this time from Fantagraphics, which recently acquired the reprint rights to the EC Comics Library and has announced plans to publish a series of volumes focused on individual creators. “Corpse on the Imjin” and Other Stories (including “Dying City!”) by Harvey Kurtzman and his various collaborators (ISBN: 978-1-60699-545-7) will be the first volume in the series.
Look Here, Read: “The Dark Passage,” with art by Ogden Whitney
From Adventures into Terror #10 (June 1952), here’s “The Dark Passage,” with art signed by Ogden Whiteny, who later teamed up with Richard E. Hughes (writing under the pen-name “Shane O’Shea”) to create Alan Moore’s favourite “superhero,” Herbie Popnecker:
Look Here: Another “Miss Peach” original by Mell
My wife and I already own two “Miss Peach” daily strips by Mell Lazarus. And now we own a third, courtesy of ebay:
Funny thing is, even though we bought the above strip from a different seller than the other two, and we had to outbid another person to get it — it wasn’t a “Buy It Now” listing — the final price, shipping included, came to US$55.00 even, almost exactly what we paid for each of the other two strips.
Not sure we’ll buy many more “Miss Peach” dailies after this, but I’d sure love to own a Sunday strip or two.
BONUS CONTENT:
Mell “The Ladies’ Man” Lazarus visits the Sun-Times public service lounge on 09 April 1962:
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