Nurses!

Yeah, nurses. I had run across the image below of the cover art for Nurse Kate's Mercy Flight and liked it. It's done in this 1960's, slick commercial style I like, plus it is hard not to get a chuckle out of the cheesy stud pilot guy in the background. So I was looking for other nurse art to post with it, and damn, there's a lot stuff with nurses on it out there.

I'm saving Nellie the Nurse for her own post sometime in the near future.




Cover art for Nurse Kate's Mercy Flight, Ace Books, 1968. Book by Virginia Smiley, unknown artist.




The Nurses #3, October 1963. Gold Key Comics.




Cover art for Dr. Barry's Nurse, Ace Books, 1968. Art by Rudy Nappi. The same guy who did the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew covers in the mid-1960's.




Myra North, Special Nurse. Four Color (series 1) #3, Dell Comics, 1940.

Murphy Anderson: DC Science Fiction

Murphy Anderson (b. 1926) began his career as a comic book artist in 1944 working for Fiction House. Beginning in the 1950's, Anderson began his long association with DC Comics. He contributed heavily to the company's science fiction titles, and Anderson's work inking Curt Swan's pencils on various Superman titles is the stuff of comic book legend. Here is a selection of his science fiction covers for DC from the 1950's:




Strange Adventures #21, June 1952.




Strange Adventures #32, May 1953.




Mystery in Space #9, August 1952.




Mystery in Space #13, April 1953.





Mystery in Space #15, August 1953.





Mystery in Space #16, October 1953.





Mystery in Space #23, December 1954.

Friday Freak Out!

Alice in Acidland movie poster, 1968.








Feds 'N' Heads, 1968. Cover and two page strip by Gilbert Shelton.




Yardbirds and The Doors, Fillmore Auditorium Concert Poster, 1967.

ThorsDay

Thor #337, November 1983. Cover art by Walt Simonson.




"Thor's Flight," preliminary, circa 1968. Art by Frank Frazetta.




Silver Surfer #4, February 1969. Cover art by John Buscema.




The Lifeaters, 2003. Story by David Brin, art by Scott Hampton.




Journey Into Mystery #89, February 1963. Cover art by Jack Kirby.




Thor's Battle Against the Ettins, 1872. Art by Marten Eskil Winge.

Werewolf Wednesday

I Was a Teenage Werewolf movie poster, 1957.




Famous Monsters of Filmland #12, June 1961. Cover art by Basil Gogos.




Cry of the Werewolf lobby card, 1944.




Werewolves on Wheels movie poster, 1971.




Original art by Bernie Wrightson for House of Mystery #231, 1975.




Scream #4, February 1974. Yeah, the art kind of sucks for this one, but how often do you get to read the words "Blood-Hunt For the Cannibal Werewolf!"

Tuesday Toys

Tom Mix jigsaw puzzle, 1930's.




Tom Corbett Space Pistol, Marx Toys.




Aurora Monster Scenes store display, 1971.




Fred Flintstone and Dino, Marx Toys.




Dick Tracy Squad Car, Marx Toys, 1948.




Lost in Space robot, Remco Toys.

Monster Monday

Original art for DC Special #11, March 1971. Art by Neal Adams and Bernie Wrightson.




The Dunwich Horror movie poster, 1970.




Famous Monsters Fearbook, 1970. Cover art by Basil Gogos.




Mr. Hyde illustration by Jack Davis, circa 1975.




The Giant Leeches movie poster, 1959.




Plague of the Zombies movie poster, 1966.

Sunday Science Fiction

Virgil Finlay illustration, n.d.




Dave Stevens, 2004




Frank R. Paul illustration, n.d.




Don Newton, cover for Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction Special #1, 1976.




Al Williamson, cover for Overstreet Comic Book Quarterly #4, 1994.

Nyoka the Jungle Girl

Nyoka the Jungle Girl began as a serial in 1941. Ostensibly based on Edgar Rice Burrough's story "The Jungle Girl," it had little to do with the Burroughs story although he was credited as a writer in the first movie. The comic book was published by Fawcett up until 1953. Here's a selection of covers:




Nyoka the Jungle Girl #15, January 1948.




Nyoka the Jungle Girl #26, December 1948.




Nyoka the Jungle Girl #27, January 1949.





Nyoka the Jungle Girl #28, February 1949.





Nyoka the Jungle Girl #32, June 1949.





Nyoka the Jungle Girl #42, April 1950.





Nyoka the Jungle Girl #46, August 1950.





Nyoka the Jungle Girl #66, April 1952.