CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS #8 (1974)

Thursday 7 May 2015

AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS #8 (1974) - CARMINE INFANTINO...

Everyone's heard of CARMINE INFANTINO, right? Well here's a feature that AMAZING WORLD Of DC COMICS carried in its eighth issue in 1974. Safely belted into your seat? Okay, then it's time for KID's KOSMIC TIME KUBE to carry us all back 41 years into the past - and awaaayyyyyy we goooooo!

5 comments:

baab said...: I don't think I ever owned any of these issues but I am well aware of this cover.
It was one of those ads, that seemed to be in every DC comic for a long time.

I will bookmark the article for reading later.; 7 May 2015 at 06:13
Ken said...: Treated myself on EBay USA some years ago to the classic Infantino set of cardboard Batman posters that were advertised in the DC comics in 1966. Got them dead flat still in their original clear packaging, two posters per pack. I had always admired them way back from 66 and was pleased to get them at a pretty darn reasonable price. Now for that lottery win to buy the Corgi 1966 Batmobile!

Holy cherished childhood memories Batman!

Ken.; 7 May 2015 at 09:20
Kid said...: That'll give you a chance to make some jeelie pieces for while you're reading it, Baab.

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Don't have the posters, Ken, but got two Corgi 1966 Batmobiles. (And a Corgi Junior, and a Husky BM.) Holy hoarders Batman!; 7 May 2015 at 10:30
-3- said...: They sure did include a lot of Infantino in that issue. I was afraid you didn't leave me anything to post in a few months when his anniversaries roll around. But a quick peak gives me a fine focus to build my post around in the parts you didn't use.
I've got to spend some time digging through those old AWODCC issues. There's a lot of great, and often forgotten, features in them. (I'd totally forgotten they had Clark Kent's signature on the back cover.); 5 November 2017 at 04:38
Kid said...: Clark Kent's signature? Then that proves Superman is real! I knew it.; 5 November 2017 at 11:02

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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.

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Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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