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So here we are with some more lovely JIM STARLIN covers and images from WARLOCK, published in the mid-'70s. The cover from #11 is a particular favourite of mine, summoning forth memories of a summer afternoon and the murmur of my parents' and their visiting friends' happy chatter emanating from the living-room, as I absorbed myself in my comics, upstairs. I always liked Starlin's art, having first seen it on covers of the U.K. weekly comic The MIGHTY WORLD Of MARVEL in '72, usually inked by JOE SINNOTT, and capturing some of the essence of mid-'60s JACK KIRBY.
Feel entirely free to relate your own reminiscences of these mags in the comments section. Go on - it's good to share.
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I loved Starlin's art his heros always looked like they could pound you into pulp I always wished he had done a regular Hulk strip (although he used him as a co-star a lot )- - think my first exposure to Starlin's work was in UK Marvel a well, "Shang Chi - Master of Kung Fu" in Avengers weekly if I recall correctly - Issue 10 of Warlocks own mag was my favourite cover, I kinda lost interest in Starlin a an artist (writer/illustrator) during his days working on Epic magazine (the Metamorphosis Odyssey - Dreadstar)beautifully illustrated but I think I lost interest in SF around this time - saying that Starlin has managed to maintain and keep his art style the same as it was in his heyday (although I can see how some would consider it to look a bit dated but thats a lot to do with how successful he was in the 70s as well)
ReplyDeleteAh yes, he'd have been good on the Hulk - WAS good on the Hulk, in fact. I loved the Hulk/Thing team-up, where they fought Kurrgo, Master of Planet X. I also first saw Shang-Chi in the Avengers weekly, but I now have the original U.S. edition of his first appearance as well. I didn't really follow his other stuff if it wasn't the regular Marvel heroes.
ReplyDeleteI like the way it says "pulse pounding premiere issue" even though it's #9 - now that Guardians is a big hit we might see more cosmic Marvel characters such as Warlock. And then,Kid, there'd be the issue that you mentioned the other day, namely who created Warlock - if the film-makers decided not to go with a Him origin would Jack Kirby's estate still say Warlock was Him.
ReplyDeleteLook at the large amount of text and dialogue...now THIS is a book well worth reading. You got your moneys worth in those bygone days.
ReplyDeleteI think that's because it's two things, CJ. It's the first issue of that particular Jim Starlin ongoing series, but the numbering picks up from a previous 8 issue run called The Power of Warlock.
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And there are some pages with a single illustration and a half page of typed text down the side of them, Karl. (I'm not sure that worked, to be honest.)
Oh Thats interesting I didn't know Starlin did any Hulk story I will need to pop into City Centre Comic (which is not in the city centre) to check that one out- was it a comic or a "graphic novel" ta
ReplyDeleteIt was in Marvel Feature Presents #11, McScotty - The Thing & The Hulk in "Cry Monster!" There was a sort of follow up to it in an issue of Marvel Fanfare years later, also by Starlin if I recall correctly. The first one is reprinted in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s Vol 2. (It was also in the U.K.'s The Super-Heroes, in b&w, back in the '7os.)
ReplyDeletehe also did a cracking good issue of The Rampaging Hulk magazine ( no 4, I think ), inked by Alex Nino!
ReplyDeleteI should have the reprint of that in the U.K. Rampage Monthly. I'll take a look, JB.
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