WOW EXCITING HAPPY FEAR

Wow Comics #1, Winter 1940. Cover by C.C. Beck.




Exciting Comics #1, April 1940.




Happy Comics #1, August 1943.




Fear #1, November 1970. Cover by Jack Kirby (reprint).

Monster Mania

I've been posting a lot of pinup pictures lately, and I appreciate all the folks coming by to see them. For a change of pace, here's some monsters!




Night of the Blood Monster, 1972.






Two cool drawings of monsters. No idea what they are, no date.




Monster #1, 1953.




The Giant Gila Monster, 1959.






The Legion of Monsters #1, September 1975. Cover art by Neal Adams.

Mermaids

The Mermaid, by Henry O'Hara Clive. Cover art for American Weekly, March 26, 1939.







Calendar illustration by Ren Wicks, 1964.

Frazetta Girls

Faith, 1970.




The Countess and the Green Man, 1989.




Frazetta girl, 1968.




Frazetta girl, 1960s.

Pinups by Ernest Chiriacka

Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010) studied under Harvey Dunn at the Grand Central School of Art. His first pulp illustrations were published in 1939. In the 1950's Chiriacka began working for the slick magazines and painting paperback book covers. He retired from commercial illustration in 1965. More on him here.

Below are three pieces by Chiriacka, one pinup and two slightly seamier works.




Cover for Never Love a Man, 1962.







Cover for The Future Mr. Dolan, 1959. Novel by Charles Gorham.




Brown and Bigelow Calendar illustration, circa 1953.

Knute Munson Pin-Ups

Like a couple other folks have said, there isn't a better way to start off the New Year than with some pictures of some pretty women.

Knute Munson (1900-1967) studied under artists Andrew Loomis and Harvey Dunn. Through his friendship with Earl Moran, Munson began working at the advertising firm Brown & Bigelow. When Earl McPherson entered the armed forces in 1944, Munson took over the firm's popular Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar. Below is a selection of Munson's art for these calendars.

Happy New Year!

A Real Happy New Year by J.C. Leyendecker, no date.




Mickey Mouse Magazine, vol. 3, #4. January 1938.