Marvel Preview Cover Paintings

Marvel Preview #4, Jan. 1976. Cover art by Gray Morrow.






Marvel Preview #14, Spring 1978. Cover art by Jim Starlin.

Thursday Odds and Ends

Betty Page illustration by Gray Morrow, n.d.





Mystery in Space #75, May 1962. Cover art by Murphy Anderson and Carmine Infantino.




Our Army at War #116, March 1962. Cover art by Joe Kubert.




"Saloon Shootout" by Anton Otto Fischer, 1919.






Star Born by Andre Norton, 1970. Art by Dean Ellis.

Tuesday Terror!!!

Tomb of Terror #2, June 1952. Cover by Lee Elias.




The Terror, 1963.




Weird Terror #11, May 1954. Cover by Don Heck.




Terror in the Haunted House, 1959.




Terror Illustrated #2, April 1956. Cover by Reed Crandall.




Masters of Terror #1, July 1975. Cover by Gray Morrow.




Adventures Into Terror #4, June 1951.




Terror Tales, September 1934.

Gray Morrow

Gray Morrow (1934-2001) drew just about everything and worked for just about every comic book publisher who was around during his career. He drew Spiderman in the late 1960's and was well-known for his renditions of Zantanna for DC Comics. He also drew lots of newspaper strips such as Tarzan and Flash Gordon. Morrow also produced lots of covers and illustrations for science fiction digests. Below is a selection of his art:



Cover art for Worlds of Tomorrow magazine, March 1966.




Cover art for Red Circle Sorcery #7, 1974.




Cover art for Red Circle Sorcery #9, 1974.




Page 5 of the story "Zatanna...Kill or be Killed" from Adventure Comics #415, 1972.




Page from How to Draw Comic Book Heroes and Villains, 1995.




Frankenstein painting, n.d.

Saturday Odds & Ends

Cartoon by Frank Antonchich, 1940's.





Flash Gordon illustration by Gray Morrow, n.d.





Gothic romance cover.

ACBA Sketchbook, 1975

The ACBA (Academy of Comic Book Artists) is a professional organization founded in 1970. The ACBA functioned as an honorary society, presenting Shazam awards for outstanding comic book work from 1970-1975. The Academy has also worked for increased rights for comic book creators, particularly around the return of original art to the artist. The ACBA published several sketchbooks as fundraising tools. Below are some what I feel are some of the better pieces from the 1975 sketchbook. Read a review of the 1973 edition at Ink Destroyed My Brush.





Cover by Bernie Wrightson.




Frank Brunner




Neal Adams




Michael Whelan




Russ Heath




Bernie Wrightson




Harvey Kurtzman




Michael Kaluta




Gray Morrow




Back Cover by Jeff Jones.

The Wrightson Completionist: Part 4

The fourth in a series of posts highlighting oddball Bernie Wrightson items in my collection.



Back in my early Bernie Wrightson collecting days, something called "Heritage Mailing Label" was always showing up in Wrightson checklists. I figured I'd never get that, and wasn't even sure what it was. By this point I was getting lists from various dealers and buying obscure fanzines and Wrightson portfolios and prints. But who would save a mailing label? And why do these people torture me by putting stuff like this on checklists? I later found out it was used as a label by the publishers of a fanzine called Heritage.

Sometime in the late 1980's, a friend of a friend was liquidating his collection. I came over with lots of cash in hand and picked up a bunch of Wrightson and Kaluta fanzines at decent prices. In this box of the guy's stuff was this padded envelope, with a Heritage Mailing label on it, complete with Bernie Wrightson artwork. I don't even remember if the guy charged me for it. I bought both of his Heritage fanzines and I think he just threw it in there with them. Above is an image of what was once a middling holy grail for me. Unfortunately, a little piece of the image is torn. If I ever see another one for sale in better condition, I'd probably have to buy it.

Doug Murray and Richard Garrison published two fine issues of the fanzine Heritage in 1972. Both issue were dedicated to Flash Gordon.

Pictured below is Bernie's contribution to Vol. I, issue 1B.



Al Williamson and Gray Morrow's cover for Heritage Vol. I, issue 1B.