Michael Kaluta

Here's some stuff by Michael Kaluta. These were published as posters and/or prints in the 1970's. My favorite is Behind Neptune's Throne.



Behind Neptune's Throne




The Sentry




Solo




Icarus Had a Sister

Holy Batman!

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Tiny Maurice

A Christmas card from B.K. Taylor, 1983.

A Christmas Trimming

By Carl Barks, 1999.

The Conan Saga

Here's some nice drawings of Conan by Barry Windsor-Smith. They were done for covers of the reprint series The Conan Saga, published in 1987-1988.

Bernie Wrightson & the Conqueror Worm

Here is a scan of Bernie Wrightson's piece "The Conqueror Worm." This drawing always kind of creeped me out. I guess it's a combination of the white eyes and the slug-like tail. It was used as the back cover of the Berni Wrightson Treasury (1975)and was the front cover of a Wrightson checklist published right around the same time. More below...



Below I've posted the last panel of the last issue of Swamp Thing Bernie drew, (#10, June 1974). Apparently, Swamp Thing's next foe was going to be "The Conqueror Worms." Since the drawing here was done around the same time, I always wondered if it was something left over from the run-up to Swamp Thing #11, which of course Wrightson never drew. I don't know if a character like this big worm guy shows up in #11, I've never read it.



The phrase "The Conqueror Worm" is from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem appears to be about the inevitability and finality of death.

Axis of Evil

Two adventure mag illustrations by Victor Prezio:




Women-in-War, November 1959.




Men's Adventure, January 1965.

Bernie Wrighston: Monster Times

Monster Times was a newsprint magazine published from 1972 to 1976. It focused on monster movies, but also covered comic books and things like Star Trek. Issue #1, dated January 26, 1972 had King Kong on the cover and some nice Wrightson work on the inside. Below are Bernie's contributions to that issue: a Frankenstein centerfold and a nice atmospheric two page Nosferatu strip. The Nosferatu strip was reprinted in both The Mutants and The Reaper of Love. The Frankenstein illustration was also reprinted in The Mutants.













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Coming Out Party

Bernie Wrightson's cover art for the catalog for NY Comic Art Gallery Show, Oct. 1977.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

Some lobby cards from the 1956 American release:

Arthur Sarnoff

Arthur Sarnoff (1912-2000) did a ton of illustrations and advertisements. He seems to have been most prolific in the 1950's. More art by Sarnoff here and here. I've really been enjoying this slick 1950's and 1960's commercial art lately. Sarnoff also did an album cover for the Butthole Surfers.

Below are a couple of Sarnoff pieces that I really like.




Portrait in Green, n.d.




Embrace, n.d.

Saturday Odds & Ends

Cartoon by Frank Antonchich, 1940's.





Flash Gordon illustration by Gray Morrow, n.d.





Gothic romance cover.

Zombies?!

Why are there zombies on this comic cover? And why is that unusual?



Find out in this interesting post on the blog Heart in a Jar. [via]

Batman! by Bernie Wrightson

A couple of Batman covers by Bernie Wrightson.




Detective Comics #425, July 1972. I always really liked this one.




Batman #320, February 1980.

More Wrightson Batman fun posted previously.

Batman! by Michael Kaluta

Some Batman and Detective Comic covers by Michael Kaluta:




Batman #242, June 1972.




Batman #248, April 1973.




Batman #253, November 1973.
(with the Shadow!)




Batman Annual #12, 1988.




Detective Comics #423, May 1972.
(Batman with a gun!)




Detective Comics #427, September 1972.




Detective Comics #431, January 1973.

Marvel Cartoons Theme Songs

The Retroist has posted all the title sequences to 1960's Marvel cartoons.

Of course, everyone remembers the Spiderman theme. But I'm posting the second most memorable one (to me): Captain America!





When Captain America throws his mighty shield
All those who chose to appose his shield must yield
If he's lead to a fight and a duel is due
Then the red and the white and the blue will shine through
When Captain America throws his mighty shield!

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Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!

Here is a great blog called Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time! It features someone's personal collection of drawings by comic book artists interpreting their favorite authors or literary characters. via

One of my favorites is George Pratt's rendition of the poet Wilfred Owen:

Dustjackets by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth did not do very many commercial art jobs. Here are two of them:




Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester. Little, Brown and Company, 1946.




Toward the Morning by Hervey Allen. Rinehart and Company, 1948.

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

Nothing to do with Comic or Fantasy Art, but this is pretty much the greatest thing on the internet this week. The Muppets doing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. via

Science Fiction Sunday

Here's some cool science fiction for Sunday evening...




Death of the Moon, by Robert Fuqua. Back cover for Amazing Stories, January 1944.




Arena of Decisions, by Ed Emshwiller. Cover for Amazing, March 1964.




Spaceship, by Frank McCarthy. n.d.




Space Marines and the Slavers, by Leo Morey. Cover for Amazing Stories, December 1936.

Dagar the Invincible!

Inspired by this post (which wins my "most insane comic cover I've seen in the last couple of weeks" award), I became curious about Dagar the Invincible. I'm familiar with some Gold Key comics, mainly the war titles and good old Turok Son of Stone, but I'm ashamed to admit I had never heard of Dagar. So here's some nice Sword & Sorcery insanity:




Layout for cover to Dagar the Invincible #1, 1972. Attributed to Jesse Santos.




Cover art for Dagar the Invincible #1, attributed to George Wilson.




Dagar the Invincible #1, October 1972.




Dagar the Invincible #2, January 1973.




Dagar the Invincible #4, May 1973.




Dagar the Invincible #5, October 1973.




Dagar the Invincible #8, June 1974.




Dagar the Invincible #9, October 1974.




Dagar the Invincible #10, December 1974.




Cover art for Dagar the Invincible #12, 1975.