CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART TWO OF JOHN BYRNE'S FANTASTIC FOUR COVER GALLERY...

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

PART TWO OF JOHN BYRNE'S FANTASTIC FOUR COVER GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Well, I could write a great long screed here, which would doubtless have you enthralled and hanging on every word, such is my majestic mastery of the English language. However, I know you don't visit this blog to read what I have to say, regardless of how witty and entertaining I happen to be. So, I won't detain you any longer from enjoying JOHN BYRNE's dramatic and dynamic delineations of MARVEL's first and favourite family, The FANTASTIC FOUR. Be warned though - you may have to endure a few self-indulgent footnotes along the way.

I got this issue from a Glasgow newsagent's at the far end of a street that led to the Barras.
I was doing a signwriting job that day and the guy I was with was shocked to see I'd bought
a comic. Perhaps he thought it was a comic for girls because of Sue on the cover

This was another one I remember reading in the Blue Lagoon while devouring a Fish
& Chips tea. In fact, the previous issue may also have enjoyed that distinction

This is another comic I got by mail order from Dave Hern's Wonderworld Comics in
Bournemouth. Not 100% sure, but I may have got the previous ish at the same time

2 comments:

Simon B said...: Some beautiful Byrne artwork there! His take on FF ( actually his second run on the comic )was one of my favourite periods in the mag's history. Nice to see Terry Austin's inks on #250's cover, giving it that "X-Men" look.
It's funny you should mention buying some of these comics from Wonderworld. I used to deal with Dave Hearn too and had quite a few mail-order subscriptions from him over the years. Back in the day there was really nothing like receiving a parcel of shiny new comics through the post! Ah, the simple pleasures of life...; 26 March 2014 at 00:11
Kid said...: His 'first' run is included in the first Omnibus volume, Cerebus, but he was only the artist on those tales (apart from a couple of issues), and it was a short run at that.

It was a friend I used to work with who recommended Wonderworld to me, and I got quite a few comics from him which I still have. Yeah, it was always great receiving one of those parcels.; 26 March 2014 at 00:51

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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