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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Bob Powell's Terror--You Decide!
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The ever-inventive Craig Yoe has devised a clever way to get potential reader input on his next book, BOB POWELL'S TERROR, before the volume is even at the printers! In fact, it can't go to the printers at all without YOUR help! Craig had a cover mockup--that still can be seen on Amazon--but while it was a cover illustrating a Powell story in the book, it was not itself by Powell. It was decided that it has to have a cover by Powell himself!
This is where you come in. If you're on Facebook, go to the Official Yoe Books page at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoe-Books/157174217659112?ref=ts . If you haven't yet "liked" the page (and if you're on Facebook, you'll know what I mean by that), then do so and you immediately become eligible to cast your vote for one of the four covers seen above for BOB POWELL'S TERROR. Autographed copies of the book, due out at Halloween, will be awarded to three lucky voters. Voting runs through Friday at Midnight EDT with the winning cover to be announced on Facebook and Twitter next Monday!
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Happy Jack Kirby Day
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The King would have been 94 years old today! I had planned on spending the day with him anyway as I'm proofing an upcoming book on him but I was heartened to see that many of my Internet friends and acquaintances chose to do so, also! The King may be gone but definitely not forgotten! Seen here is perhaps my favorite art of my all-time favorite superhero, Captain America. By Kirby, natch, from 1966, presumably inked by Don Heck as it resembles the famous "Gods" portraits that the two of them did around that time or soon afterwards.
Silver Age Sub-Mariner Splash Page Sundays # 28
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Sal Buscema and Mike Incognito get credit for this alternately dull but kind of fun page. Roy Thomas then follows with a script to match. Dull...but very different in this series and kind of fun.
Points for "bizarre" go to the anonymous colorist who alternately colors our hero's hair brown or purple as opposed to its traditional blue-black. Yikes!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Meet Booksteve at the Cincinnati Comic Expo
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Tickets are inexpensive and we pre-purchased them back when we had more money than we do now so we are definitely attending this year. If you are, too, look for me walking around with my spanking new BOOKSTEVE T-shirt and say "Hi."
This year's actual guest list is impressive, too, with highlights (for me at least) including the legendary Jim Steranko, the equally legendary Stan Goldberg, Golden Age artist Allen Bellman, Archie writer Craig Boldman, veteran penciler Jose Delbo (he did the YELLOW SUBMARINE comic!), recent CAPTAIN AMERICA artist Butch Guice, the ever-popular David Mack, one of my favorite of the newer artists Chris Sprouse, Vanguard publisher J. David Spurlock, Batman film producer and Archie writer Michael Uslan, and I may even get to meet Rick McCollum, a one-time local artist back in the seventies who went on to bigger and better things! Sadly, I'll have little to no money for the dealers' room but still should be much fun. I hear from all corners that last year's first one was a blast! If you're in the Greater Cincinnati area in mid-September, there are a lot worse ways you could be spending your day. Come hang out with us comics geeks.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Real Booksteve's Library
So there you have it! Warts, junk, medicine bottles and all. The real Booksteve's Library! Comments? Questions?
Oh, by the way, an online friend is sending me a life-size cardboard Bettie Page. Gotta figure out where to add her. Hmmm....
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Mary Tyler Moore
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Silver Age Sub-Mariner Splash Page Sundays # 27
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One presumes, since it had long been established that Dorma can't breathe out of water at all, that this is IN water. You certainly can't tell it, though. No concession to it at all--no plants swaying, no bubbles, no guppies swimming by... zip. Isn't that some sort of smoke rising from whatever that is on the right? Perhaps they just forgot he was supposed to be under the sea.
The book was still well-written by "Roy the Boy" but seemed to be coasting a bit at this time.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Groucho's Final Photo?
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Not sure if this was really the final photo take of the one, the only Groucho but this newspaper clipping originally published just before his death on this date in 1977 thought so. Groucho is reading his "own" book, THE GROUCHOPHILE, a marvelous book that I suspect was tinkered over quite a bit by other hands as it reads as though written by a much more "aware" individual than Mr. Marx was known to have been in his final years.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Stray Pussycats
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sydne Rome
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Silver Age Sub-Mariner Splash page Sundays # 26
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The Raven only appears here on the splash in the title box, however, itself perhaps a little too big. What I like about Namor though is that he looks a bit wet! A zillion times he comes out of the water in comics looking pretty darn dry. Even here he looks pretty dry other than his tousled hair.
Nicely laid out, drawn and colored with Sal Buscema and Mr. "Gaudioso" continuing on the art.
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