"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
From Out of This World Adventures, vol. 1, no. 2, here’s “Kenton of the Star Patrol: The Corsairs from the Coalsack,” with script by John Michel and art by the late great Joe Kubert:
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Here are two covers freshly scanned mere minutes ago, by me, from my personal collection of old paperbacks:
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I have many more paperbacks with Tom Adams cover art, but, alas, none of them are from the Ballantine Books series of Chandler reprints. What I do have is a largish selection of Agatha Christie novels with cover art by Tom Adams, which I intend to scan and post in the near future. So if you’re a Tom Adams fan, you have that to look forward to here on RCN.
From Amazing World of DC Comics #1 (July/August 1974), here’s an interview with Joe Kubert that was conducted by Guy H. Lillian III:
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From his precocious beginning in comics right up until his unexpected end, Joe Kubert drew with eyes of fire and a hand of rare mettle:
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“Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.”
Robert Hughes (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012)
See also:
Ragged Claws Network > Look Here, Read: “The Celebrated Joe Kubert” – an interview with Kubert from 1974.
Ragged Claws Network > Heads Up: WEIRD HORRORS & DARING ADVENTURES: THE JOE KUBERT ARCHIVES VOL. 1 – includes “The Mirror of Isis,” a 7-page story from Eerie #3 (Oct.-Nov. 1951) with art by Kubert.
Ragged Claws Network > Look Here, Read: “Pony Express,” with art by Joe Kubert – a 5-page story from Apache Kid #13 (April 1955).
I only have two of the paperbacks in this series of Perry Mason novels that was published by Pocket Books in the early 1960s, but I would definitely buy them all if I could find them at a good price. They’re lovely.
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From the musty pulp paperback collection of yours truly, here are today’s minty fresh scans:
I’m sure there are others on the Web who have scanned and posted all of the covers in the “Operator 5” series, but I only own three, and unless I run across them for sale cheap at a thrift store, I don’t intend to complete my collection. So if you’re hoping for more “Operator 5” here at RCN, you’re likely going to be disappointed.
My favourite cover of the “Operator 5” books that I own is the one for Blood Reign of the Dictator. The image is so extreme that when I first saw it, I burst out laughing. It probably sold a lot of books, though.
Notice that artist Robert Bonfils has taken the liberty of removing the movable part of the guillotine’s lunette, i.e., the device that holds the head in place, so the executioner can be depicted forcing the woman’s head under the blade with his one hand while he releases the blade with his other. Action, not accuracy, is the goal here.
In the real world, however, I suspect it is a lot safer to keep your guillotine properly maintained, with all essential components attached and in good working order, than it is to improvise in front of a madding crowd. Although if one were hell bent on destruction, who knows what ridiculous health and safety risks one might outface?
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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
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To view all of the covers with art by L. B. Cole that I’ve posted so far, click here.
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