The ORIGINAL SWAMP THING COVER GALLERY - PART THREE...

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Here are the final eight covers of the original SWAMP THING series from the 1970s.  NESTOR REDONDO drew #s 17, 18, 19 & 21, and ERNIE CHAN (CHAU) drew #s 20, 22, 23 & 24.  If you saw the previous two instalments, you've now seen every cover in the complete run of 24.  At last - your life is almost complete and you can cross off one more thing on your list of 'things to do before you die'.  No, don't thank me - I live to serve. 

SUPER SUNDAY SPECIAL: The RETURN Of JOHNNY FUTURE...

Copyright REBELLION

  

For all you frantic followers of JOHNNY FUTURE, the caped and cowled crusader makes a welcome return to the pages of this humble blog in a new, regular, Sunday slot.  Drawn by LUIS BERMEJO and published in the pages of FANTASTIC in the 1960s, this is one of the more popular and best-remembered POWER COMICS strips of the time.

 

Incidentally, the figure in the final panel on the last page isn't the sole work of Luis Bermejo.  The artistic integrity of the picture has been compromised by clumsy retouching in an attempt to cover any suggestion of nakedness.  As you'll see in upcoming episodes, there is no consistency to the way the alterations have been executed, though you'd think that the editors would have assigned such revisions to someone with a degree of skill.  Apparently not, sadly.

 

It's a shame that portions of the art have been ruined in this way, but let's try not to dwell on these thankfully few instances and instead focus on untampered examples of comic strip art at its finest.

 

See you all next week for Part Two, fellow fans!