CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: THERE'S NOTHING DIRTY ABOUT THIS DOZEN

Friday, 1 September 2017

THERE'S NOTHING DIRTY ABOUT THIS DOZEN - THEY'RE MARVEL-LOUS...

Covers copyright MARVEL COMICS

Hi, peeps! I've shown some of these covers individually in previous posts, but here's the lot of 'em lying on my carpet so that I can feast my eyes on all 12 of them at the same time. I'll show the five last ones in individual piccies in an upcoming post, and may well do an 'omnibus' post just because I'm in love with them. Did you buy all 12? No? Are you nuts?! Get along to your nearest comics shop now and snap up any you missed! Celebrating JACK KIRBY's centenary, they're absolute 'must haves'.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Of those pictured, I had Black Panther #1 and The Eternals #1 - both acquired in the early '80s via mail-order. The cover of The Eternals #1 is one of my all-time favourite comic covers.; 1 September 2017 at 16:49
Kid said...: These issues are superb, CJ. I know you don't collect, but you should make an exception for these mags.; 1 September 2017 at 19:31
Graham said...: I bought those two off the rack when they were published....Black Panther and The Eternals. I've still got them in storage somewhere.; 1 September 2017 at 23:01
Kid said...: So did I, G - still got 'em, too. Nice to have inexpensive spares though.; 2 September 2017 at 00:10

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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