CYCLOPS vs QUICKSILVER

When I was just an itty bitty boy...I saw "Marvel Triple Action" on the rack and immediately noticed that the figure work was awfully familiar. JOHN BUSCEMA my favorite artist draws X-Men too? I snatched that bitch right off the rack plopped down my quarter and dime and got home as fast as I could. I found that the comic was actually a reprint of an original X-Men book from several years before. But that did not stop me from staring at the art and the cover and the poses and the fists and the machinery and the wicked ass color scheme. I could not get enough of it and wished that it was gigantic....SO...I got hold of some poster board a teacher at school let me bring home to draw on and did my best to try to copy the drawing and recreate the simply amazing art. GUESS WHAT?...yeah it didn't work. ( I flipped over the poster board and drew one of my big giant typical CONAN with a axe drawing in marker and put bodies and vultures and blood on his axe and amazed myself...I thought it was pretty good. I put it on the outside of my bedroom door.) I never did get a big picture of that X-Men cover...but I put a tack right through the top of the comic and stuck on my wall near my bed. ( Ruining the comic ) lol.

I didn't care. I was happy. I looked at it every day. Definately one of my favorite covers.

( Whatever became of my CONAN poster? )...My brother ruined it. He went over my drawing

with a thicker marker to fatten up the line work and colored in area's that should not be colored in. I was 12 or so. He was 19. So I could not kick his ass.

I ripped it down and threw it away. He ruined it. Lot's of stuff gets ruined when you're young. :)

Art by John Buscema

SUPERMAN?

I was thinking about covers while doing my data entry clerical work at my place of employment today. Covers that stand out in my mind.....hmmmm....covers that hold up after many years. Covers that create an extension to you imagination. A cover so stupendous it's unbelievable. GOT IT!!! FF 249 !! GLADIATOR comes to earth he can't speak our language and he kicks the living spit out of the FF. He lifts the BAXTER BUILDING off the foundation and shakes it like a cracker box!!!! It all leads into another plot with a twist and an interesting story arc involving SKRULLS and the X-men.....This here is FANTASTIC FOUR # 249...and it is one of MY FAVORITE COVERS - Art by John Byrne.

Recreation ~ CONAN # 115

Everyone knows I made friends with Michael Maikowsky the artist who does the quality repro's of John Buscema art. He also does original pieces in the style of John as well. You can check out my earlier post on how you can obtain an original recreation from Michael by checking out my older posts. You'll see an entire post dedicated to him.

I got my reinterpretation/cover repro from Michael and I'd like to share it with you here on my favorite covers blog. Once again THANK YOU Michael.

art by Michael Maikowsky ( after John Buscema and Ernie Chan )

CONAN # 115

The iconic image of Marvel comics' " CONAN the BARBARIAN " as only John Buscema and Ernie Chan can provide.

The cover blurbs and toys r us logo's and stuff ruin the classic feel. But nothing can take away the art. Nothing.

Below see my paste up version of my Interpretation of every ones favorite Barbarian. I call my guy BLOD ( Norweigian for BLOOD ) the Red VIKING. Coming soon. Don't worry the art will be original...no swiping. That's bad.

Cover art by John Buscema and Ernie Chan.

CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS

" Blasting through the snow through the mistletoe coming to save the day "

Ahh nothing like a bunch of Super guys to brighten up the HOLIDAYS.

Cover by John Buscema

a Bizarre CHRISTMAS

A spooky skeletal Santa clanking down the chimney with a bag full of broken toys and rotten eggs and meat. Yeah that's what I want in my stocking.
Cover by Joe Jusko

CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS

I think Marvels Santa would kick DC's Santa's butt...DC made him out to be a regular ol' jolly fat guy
But Marvel made him look huge and robust.
This cover was lifted from Ebay. I can't find this particular comic for my collection and have been trying to find it.
Cover by Curt Swan

CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS

Celebrating Christmas with the mighty AVENGERS would have to rank among ones all time favorite Holiday memories.

Now I don't know about you but I think BEN makes an awesome Santa.

art by Gil Kane and John Romita

CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS

Art by Nick Cardy

CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS

There is nothing like a good old SUPER HERO CHRISTMAS anthology. I used to get a kick out of the covers with SUPER HEROES decorating the tree and having fun sitting around like normal folk.

Art by JOHN ROMITA

the BRAVE and the BOLD # 118

WILDCAT was always.... to me an awesome character. I love Jimmy Aparo's work on these comics. He's got dozens and dozens of awesome BAT covers lending to his legend.

Everyone has a favorite BAT artist. JIM APARO is mine. This issue has my favorite cover and one of my favorite plots.....

"In Sparta Prison, Batman and Commissioner Gordon try to talk a prisoner named Dubek into talking about his former employer the Joker or risk staying in solitary confinement, to which Dubek refuses. The Joker, knowing that eventually his former stooge may crack, decides to put a plan in motion to silence him.When Ted Grant puts on a boxing match for the prison, Dubek is picked to be the best prisoner fight the fight (in spite of Gordon's express instructions not to let them out) This allows the Joker to slip in rare tropical disease into Dubek's water bucket. This also succeeds in infecting all the other prisoners, and a doctor gives them 72 hours to live. Thankfully, there is a dog named Spot which they have used to make enough vaccine to cure everyone.However, when they try to transport the special dog to the prison to extract the vaccine and cure the inmates, the Joker is there to attack. Although the Joker fails in capturing the priceless pooch, the dog manages to get away and run off into Gotham City. Batman and Ted Grant (reprising his identity of Wildcat) scour the city to try and find the dog. Spot is ultimately captured by the dog pound. With time running out, they put an APB out for the dog and learn that it was taken to the Gotham pound.However they arrive too late and find that the Joker beat them to collecting the dog. The Joker then contacts Batman and tells him that he'll turn over the dog to the police if he and Wildcat agree to a fight to the death. Both men agreeing they go to Gotham's Jefferson Square Garden for the fight. The Joker makes them wear the Cestus boxing gloves of ancient Rome. When the two men begin to weaken in battle, the Joker admits to them that he coated the Cestus' with the virus and that he intends to watch them both die. When the dog bites the Joker, he orders his goon to go throw the dog in the nearby river.Batman bluffs the Joker, telling him that the dog may have infected him with the virus with it's bite, forcing the Joker to save the dog in order to save himself, which leaves for an easy capture. When Wildcat asks Batman if it was true that the Joker got infected, Batman admits he doesn't know, but he was hoping the Joker wouldn't want to risk it one way or the other. "

Cover by Jim Aparo

JOE JUSKO SAVAGE SWORD COVERS. .part 1

Ok so one of them aint a SAVAGE SWORD cover..it was used for the cover of a TWO MORROWS publication. It's an homage to an old SAVAGE SWORD house ad MARVEL ran in the 1970's by JOHN BUSCEMA....it's beautiful right?

art by JOE JUSKO