CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART FOUR OF THE SUPER HEROES COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Tuesday 10 June 2014

PART FOUR OF THE SUPER HEROES COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Images copyright DC COMICS

Let's now look at the next part of The SUPER HEROES cover gallery, including some interior pages from this early '80s mag for those who may never have seen it before. (Yes, I know - my consideration has no limits.) The good thing about this title was that it reprinted a variety of stories from different decades, and also included various features to fill in readers with the history of the DC COMICS Universe. A superb little monthly, and tremendous value at only 40p.

The mag had a mixture of great, good, nice, and slightly dodgy (going by #12) cover art by a variety of U.K. talent around at the time (and some of them still are), but it was the classic content which was the main attraction in most cases, although I'm sure that in some instances the covers must've led to a few extra sales (#7 from part three being a prime example of the sort of attention-grabber I mean).

Anyway, that's enough pointless padding from me; I now unleash these iconic images upon you to delight your world-weary eyes.

10 comments:

John Pitt said...: This mag could and should have ran for years when you think of the abundance of original material they could have used. Had it started in the early 70's I reckon it would have had a much longer run.; 10 June 2014 at 13:07
Kid said...: I wonder if it might have had a greater impact if it'd been a 40 page weekly like MWOM, JP. Especially, like you suggest, it had come out in the early '70s.; 10 June 2014 at 13:50
Barry Pearl said...: This a a beautiful blog!; 10 June 2014 at 17:44
Kid said...: Thank you, Barry - as are all your posts. Who's that smart-@rse Scots editor you sometimes use 'though? If you ask me, he's just a freeloader trying to steal credit for all your hard work.; 10 June 2014 at 18:22
Unknown said...: Nice selection of great artists here, good to see Joe Staton and Neal Adams in any comic. I never got these issues when they came out and this is the first time I have seen them - the cover of issue 12 looks like a major rush job -; 10 June 2014 at 23:15
Kid said...: I think there being no individual's name attached to it tends to confirm that the artist probably didn't consider it his or her best job, McScotty. Nice colours 'though.; 10 June 2014 at 23:45
Marionette said...: There's something very off about Huntress's proportions in that first cover. She's all kind of bunched up in the middle.; 13 June 2014 at 23:38
Kid said...: Yeah - bit I still would (he said, in his common, sexist way.) Never mind that 'though - look at the space under Batman's cowl and between his top lip. It's a chasm!; 13 June 2014 at 23:46
Dougie said...: I loved that Huntress issue although the "streetwalker" imagery seems rather dubious now.

After the Crisis, the character failed to click with me, just becoming Mafia Batgirl.; 16 June 2014 at 16:52
Kid said...: After the Crisis, Dougie, I think I just read the Superman, Batman and Flash titles (and maybe Wonder Woman), so I'm not too familiar with what DC did with The Huntress. I doubt I missed much.; 16 June 2014 at 19:39

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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