More “treasures” from my personal paperback collection, scanned just for you, dear reader:
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To view all of the paperbacks with cover art by Paul Lehr that I’ve posted over the years, start here.
Category: Book/Magazine Covers (All)
Rest in Peace: Maurice Sendak (10 June 1928 – 08 May 2012)
Scanned from our very own little collection of children’s books, here’s a tiny taste of one of the greatest publications for children of all time, Maurice Sendak’s “Nutshell Library” (1962), four perfect little hardcover books, with dust jackets, in a lovely illustrated cardboard slipcase:
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Maurice Sendak died this morning from complications of a stroke. He was 83.
Heads Up: Corben art sale on 12 May 2012
Comic art pages by Richard Corben will go on sale Saturday 12 May 2012 at Noon, CST. The sale includes 13 pages from Hellboy: The Crooked Man, 7 pages from Swamp Thing: Missing Links, and — *gasp* — all 13 pages of “Encounter at War” from Anomaly #4 (1972). Here’s page 11 of “Encounter at War,” as it appeared in the published comic:
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All of the pages included in the sale are on the Corben website right now for VIEWING ONLY. Prices will be posted when the sale goes live on Saturday.
If you’re interested, click here to visit the “Sales” page on Corben’s website.
BONUS IMAGE:
The cover of Anomaly #4 is NOT included in the Saturday sale, but it’s a classic:
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Look Here: The best FCBD 2012 comic-book cover…
… featured art that was created by a man who has been dead for almost twelve years:
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Well played, Fantagraphics… well played…
Look Here: LORE vol. 2, no.1, with cover art by Richard Corben
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Look Here: JUMBO COMICS #72 to #76, #80, and #87, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
More “dude in distress” covers by Joe Doolin:
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And that’s all, folks!
Look Here: JUMBO COMICS #66 to #71, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
Credits for the following covers are taken from the Grand Comics Database, which attributes them all to Joe Doolin, except #70, which the folks at GCD think might be by another hand, possible Nick Cardy, while I, on the other hand, think that #69 looks suspiciously unlike Joe Doolin’s work:
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The lesson of Jungle Comics #66: sometimes a rifle is not just a rifle!
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #90 to #94, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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And thus ends the cavalcade of Jungle Comics covers with art by Joseph Doolin here at RCN. It ended strong, I think. Anyway, if you enjoyed the show, you’ll want to watch for a couple of upcoming posts featuring Jumbo Comics covers with art by Joseph Doolin. While the main theme of the Jungle Comics covers was “damsel in distress,” the theme of the Jumbo Comics cover is more like “dudes in distress.” It’s fun stuff, folks!
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #85 to #89, with cover art by Joseph Doolin, et al.
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The girl on the cover of Jungle Comics #85 does not look at all Doolinesqe to me. And no artist is credited at GCD. Thus, I’ve provided no artist credit in the file name.
Jungle Tales #88 is another cover that definitely looks like it is by someone other than Joe Doolin. GCD credits the cover to Ruben Moreira, and since I have no way of confirming or denying their information, I’m just going to take it as fact — although I must say, whoever the artist is, he seems to be trying very hard here to channel Frazetta.
Look Here: JUNGLE COMICS #80 to #84, with cover art by Joseph Doolin
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