Week 36: Hanging Around
I’m back with some more Splash Pages, this week I leaned on some I found while working on eBay listings and I had a visit from my pal Ivan yesterday so he inspired one. Al Plastino, who I’m afraid I…
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Web Arted #350
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Buscema, Kirby, Ayers, Infantino, Giella, Harris, Snyder, Wrightson.
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Web Arted #349
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Dillin, Greene, Heck, Ayers, Buscema, Windsor-Smith, Gan, Kane, Chan.
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Web Arted #345
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Manning, Mandrake, Heck, Adkins, Windsor-Smith, Ayers, Cardy.
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Web Arted #339
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Ayers, Kirby, Anderson, Frazetta, McLaughlin, Gulacy.
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Web Arted #303
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Byrne, Garcia-Lopez, Ditko, Cooke, Colan, Ayers.
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Review | Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Dailies
Jack Kirby’s comic strip masterpiece is presented in an archival version featuring the complete dailies from Sky Masters of the Space Force. Veteran scripters Dick and Dave Wood provided these late-1950s space/action adventure stories starring Sky Masters of the Space Force and…
Fantastic Four #12-21
We’ll start 2018 off with another segment of Jack Kirby/Stan Lee’s terrific run of Fantastic Four #1-67. Although I have always personally thought “peak time” for this run was #44-60, you can make a pretty good case for the ten-issue…
The First Six: Sgt. Fury #1-6
Remembrance Day has just past so in this week’s arcs & runs we will take a look at the first six issues of Marvel’s World War II comic title Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. War comics were very popular…
Web Arted #281
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Adams, Toth, Austin, Ayers, Kirby, Colletta, Capp.
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Arcs & Runs #47 | Twins Part 1: The Avengers & The X-Men
We are finally back in the saddle here on Arcs & Runs and we will start the year with a look at some comic books that were connected from their first publishing date or “birth”. Twins if you will. In…
Fantastic Four 35-40
This week we take another look back at the Fantastic Four and another small run within opening #1-67 run of this fabulous book. This is part four if you are counting. Stories by Stan Lee, awesome art by jolly Jack…
Web Arted Sep 9th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Heck, Ayers, Kaluta, Orlando, Kane, Janson, Keown, McLeod.
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Arcs & Runs | Incredible Hulk 1-6
We continue our series on the “First Six” this month featuring the first six issues of the Incredible Hulk. This series is unique in that it was cancelled after issue #6. Commercially it might have failed, or it could have…
Strange Tales #101-106: The Human Torch
In the early days of Marvels return to super-hero comics, old horror titles all gradually turned the page to the new genre. New characters were introduced in Tales of Suspense (Iron Man), Tales to Astonish (Ant-Man), and Journey in to…
Web Arted Jun 10th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Gulacy, Herriman, Cardy, Ditko, Kirby, Ayers.
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The First Six, Part Two: Journey Into Mystery #83-88
In today’s installment of “The First Six” we will take a look at the start of The Mighty Thor in the Journey Into Mystery title. About a month ago I was researching Marvels early beginnings and use of Norse Mythology…
Web Arted Apr 22nd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Frazetta, Kirby, Stone, Sienkiewicz, Windsor-Smith, Buscema, Ayers, Sinnott.
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Web Arted Jan 22nd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Kirby, McWilliams, Windsor-Smith, Bialy, Ayers, Roth, Manning.
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Bronze Age Hulk: Part 1, The Incredible Hulk #143-162
It looks like we are heading for green Christmas this year, so in this months Arcs & Runs we will get into the spirit and feature Old Green skin himself the Incredible Hulk. The Hulk is a mainstay of the…