TagsTagsPublished in March 1966, the cover of Strange Tales #143 is a great example of Jack Kirby's techno-baroque style. Click to embiggen
Comics, Marvel Comics, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
Tonight's near-mint condition cover from the Lizard Collection: issue #102 of the new Captain America series, which began with issue #100. It's especially relevant in light of the many sleepers we have seen awaken at LGF since the "Ground Zero Mosque" nontroversy began. Click to embiggen
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Captain America, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Rare
Today’s classic cover from the Lizard Collection is issue #11 of Fantasy Masterpieces, an anthology series in which Marvel reprinted some of their earlier comics. After this issue the title was changed from “Fantasy Masterpieces” to “Marvel Super-Heroes.” Click to embiggen The inside back cover is another type of classic, an advertisement ...
Comics, Comic Books, Fantasy Masterpieces, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art, Rare
Tonight’s classic cover from the Lizard Collection: issue #5 of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, published in October 1968. The gorgeous psychedelic cover is by the great Jim Steranko, who also wrote the story and pencilled the interior artwork. Our copy of this book is in very fine to near mint ...
Comics, Comic Books, Nick Fury, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art, Rare, Jim Steranko
Tonight’s cover photo from the Lizard Collection is Creepy #16, published in August 1967, featuring an exceptional painting by the late Frank Frazetta. Click the image to see an enlarged version of Frazetta’s painting, isolated from the rest of the cover. Click to embiggen
Comics, Comic Books, Creepy, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art, Frank Frazetta
Back at the end of March I posted a photo of the cover of Spider-Man #40 from the Lizard Collection, with a short synopsis of the story line and a note that the comic book was on the way to the CGC to be graded for quality. Well, here’s that ...
Comics, Comic Books, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art, Rare, CGC
Tonight’s cover image from the Lizard Collection is one of my favorites — a classic John Romita action scene, bursting with kinetic teenage angst. That’s Peter Parker’s unrequited love Mary Jane Watson onstage in the go-go boots, shakin’ her thang while Spider-Man secretly protects her from thugs behind the curtain ...
Comics, Comic Books, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art, Rare
Tonight’s cover from the Lizard Collection is The Amazing Spider-Man #45, published in February 1967, featuring Spider-Man fighting the evil Lizard (yes!) with one arm in a sling. A classic John Romita Sr. illustration. Condition: some spine stresses but otherwise excellent, with the LC’s characteristic bright inks and white paper. Click to ...
Comics, Comic Books, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art, Rare
Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection: issue #20 of The X-Men, published in May 1966. The story in this one involved a super-powerful alien who called himself (or itself) Lucifer, and who turned out to be the villain responsible for crippling the leader of the X-Men, Professor Xavier. Like most of ...
Comics, Comic Books, X-Men, Collectibles, Lizard Collection, Art
Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection has one of the most dramatic covers ever drawn by John Romita Sr., in a story about Spider-Man getting a bad case of burn-out. Click to embiggen…
Comics, Comic Books, Spider-Man, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
I bought this rare 1945 edition of Frankenstein (Classics Illustrated #26) at a used bookstore in Hawaii when I was a mere sprout, and it stayed in remarkably good condition considering that nobody took any special efforts to preserve it. The interior pages are also in great shape. UPDATE at 3/27/10 ...
Comics, Comic Books, Classics Illustrated, Frankenstein, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
Cheap political snark via #Eerie Magazine #16 (July 1968), from the Lizard Collection of Creepy and Eerie mags. This is another book in really good condition, after being stored in a sealed wooden crate for more than 40 years; because they were kept away from light, the fading of ink ...
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Collectibles, Lizard Collection
Here’s a highly prized comic book in the Lizard Collection: a very well-preserved copy of Fantastic Four #50. It’s one of the books we’re planning to submit to the CGC for grading. This is the third in a series that started with issue #48 — “The Coming of Galactus,” which marked ...
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Fantastic Four, Collectibles
One of the reasons I’m visiting family this week is to determine the value of a trove of 1960s era comic books that my mom kept in a sealed wooden crate for more than 40 years. My brother and I have been amazed at the almost new condition of a ...
Comics, Comic Books, Marvel Comics, Frank Zappa, Collectibles
Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, has been fired from his job as a photographer because he photoshopped some pictures. Spiderman, the story goes, knows newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson, now mayor, is innocent of something heinous (it’s always something heinous, isn’t it?), but the only way he can persuade people of that ...
If you don’t read xkcd regularly, why not? It’s one of the smartest comics on the web — and today’s strip is especially timely. (Hat tip: mikhailtheplumber.)
It’s nice to know that Frank Miller, the creator of [Amazon Link] and the unique comic book/film [Amazon Link], is not a moonbat. From NPR (click the play button below to listen): [Audio]