CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY

Sunday, 10 March 2013

FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY - PART FIVE...

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Well, we're getting there. There are now only nine issues to go before we complete our whistle-stop tour through all twenty-two FOOM mags from back in the sensational '70s. This time 'round, we're looking at #s 12 & 13, featuring the android VISION and the fearless, sightless DAREDEVIL, respectively.

I have to confess that I find it almost painful to look at the IKARIS drawing by JACK KIRBY, which is stiff and blocky, and lacking the grace and fluidity that Jack's art once conveyed so effortlessly. The 'KING' was definitely in decline, and it was a painful process to observe.

By contrast, look at the fabulous and nigh photo-realistic artwork by GENE COLAN, which is at another level entirely. I'm unsure if the cover was drawn especially for FOOM or borrowed from an earlier source, but it certainly packs a punch. Interestingly, the main DD figure looks very Kirby-esque, and I wonder whether the 'DEAN' borrowed the pose from one of Jack's CAPTAIN AMERICA figures.

Anyway, enjoy these powerful pages from Mighty Marvel's magnificent magazine for frantic fans - and don't forget there's yet more to come!

A ' never before page seen...'? That'll be a 'never before seen page', natch

4 comments:

DeadSpiderEye said...: I think this might spark a controversy but I'm gonna suggest that the Ikaris pin up is a cheat. I say that because it looks to me as though it's The Eternals index box figure. I think there's a chance that it was reworked by a bod somehow, if that's the case, the Kirby signature is an exercise in equivocation, seeing as it is actually derived from his pencils.; 10 March 2013 at 07:50
Kid said...: It's so typically Kirby 'though, that I think it's unlikely not to be genuine. I think it's simply the drawing from which the corner box was derived.; 10 March 2013 at 09:03
Dougie said...: These mags are so redolent of my early my teenage years: 12/13 tears old. I remember them so vividly. The Englehart Vision article seemed so daring and adult; all the discussion about the Vision's, er, marital duties...; 12 March 2013 at 17:48
Kid said...: Oo-er, missus...; 12 March 2013 at 22:45

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From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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