CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART TWO OF MARVEL FLASHBACK COVER GALLERY...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

PART TWO OF MARVEL FLASHBACK COVER GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

There's no point hanging around - here's the second part of our MARVEL FLASHBACK cover gallery. Ten titanic images from 1997 to thrill and amaze you. Got a favourite? Feel free to share in the comments section. Personally speaking, I love that DAREDEVIL one by GENE COLAN - it's pure '60s.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: I also like the covers by Gil Kane and John Romita (best Spidey artist ever). Kid, you say you've never read these but most of them look quite intriguing - I don't understand why you'd buy something and never read it !; 24 April 2014 at 13:58
Kid said...: Have you never recorded various TV programmes with the intention of watching them later, then found that you didn't have the time? The amount of comics I was buying back then was humongous, CJ, and I bought a lot of them merely because I could. I read the ones that interested me at the time, and the rest were stacked neatly away.; 24 April 2014 at 14:24
Anonymous said...: Actually, I've never recorded a programme I didn't watch later (mainly because I very rarely recorded TV programmes and I haven't owned a video recorder since 2002). I didn't know you were buying huge amounts of comics but that still doesn't explain why you don't read them now. I think you were only buying them for the nice covers, Kid !; 24 April 2014 at 15:34
Kid said...: I don't see why I'd necessarily be interested in reading them now if I wasn't interested at the time (which is not to say that I never will), but I have things I've bought that I've never even opened or taken out of the bag, and mail I've never opened to see what it's about. I'm a baaaaad boy, and no mistake. And I do tend to buy some mags just for the covers, sure enough.; 24 April 2014 at 16:11
John Pitt said...: I can relate to that, Kid, as during the 80's I bought so many comics that I couldn't read all of th either!; 24 April 2014 at 21:44
Kid said...: And I've still got all my comics from then, JP. Must get around to sorting them out some day.; 25 April 2014 at 01:06

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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