CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DC COMICS ANNUALS COVER GALLERY

Thursday, 13 March 2014

DC COMICS ANNUALS COVER GALLERY - PART ONE...

Images copyright DC COMICS

I don't think I've enjoyed a modern DC comicbook for a number of years now. Mainly due, I suppose, to the fact that nowadays the characters no longer seem to be the same ones I grew up reading. However, one thing I do enjoy is when DC issues replica Annuals and Giants, as well as Annuals and Giants that never were, but should have been.

Here, then, is the first part of a cover gallery featuring some of those very comicbooks that DC does so well. I just wish they'd do more of them. What say the rest of you?

4 comments:

John Pitt said...: If I had seen these covers I would have bought them!; 13 March 2014 at 15:51
Kid said...: I did and I did. (See them and buy them I mean.) Nice, aren't they?; 13 March 2014 at 19:47
baab said...: When I first went on e-bay I watched issue after issue of the 100 page spectacular go for silly prices.
I bought a couple but they were well worn.

These were always my buying choice when I was a lad.
The extra content was sometimes not so good but mostly it was brilliant.; 14 March 2014 at 04:43
Kid said...: The 80 Page Giants and 100 Page Spectaculars were great ways for readers to see stuff from before they were born, too. Nowadays you have to fork out a fortune on hardcover volumes to see such stuff.; 14 March 2014 at 12:53

About the artist:

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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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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