Posted by: WebHobbit | June 21, 2015

Sunday Scan – John Romita Sr.

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Sunday Scan time again! This week’s selection is one of Marvel’s horror books. This is the cover for Chamber of Darkness #1 (1969) by the master John Romita Sr. Romita could draw anything and do it all well. He was the Art Director for Marvel from 1973 all the way through the 80’s. He was by and large responsible for the look of the whole Marvel line. He also did a lot of cover work and character designs much of which with no formal credit. Today John Romita Sr. is on the Fund Disbursement Board for the Hero Initiative and he still does a few covers here and there.

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Posted by: WebHobbit | June 14, 2015

Sunday Scan – Bob Layton

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Welcome to another Sunday Scan! This week I scanned one of the rarer books in my collection. At least it seems kind of rare to me as I never see this comic anywhere! I’m talking about #37 in the Marvel Graphic Novel series. This is also known as Hercules Prince of Power: Full Circle (1988). This is a beautiful magazine sized original graphic novel (not a collected arc or mini-series) where the great Bob Layton continues his bombastic Hercules story-lines that he began years earlier in two equally fantastic limited series. Bob Layton is a fantastic artist and writer probably best known (among Marvel fans) as the definitive Iron Man inker. For me when I think of Bob Layton I think of Iron Man AND Hercules! All of Bob Layton’s Hercules tales are terrific reads and this is well worth seeking out. I loved this cover so much I also made a windows wallpaper image from it’s elements. Click the thumbnail below to load a full-size (1920×1080) version:

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Posted by: WebHobbit | June 7, 2015

Sunday Scan – Mike Zeck

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This is Sunday Scan -a weekly feature where I post a super-high resolution (3,000 pixels in height) scan of great American comic-book cover art. This week’s selection is from the ORIGINAL Secret Wars limited series from Marvel comics. This is the cover for Secret Wars #10 (1985) -pencils by Mike Zeck and inks by the legendary Terry Austin. Zeck and Austin went all out here with a battered but still defiant Dr. Doom bristling with the Power Cosmic he stole from the Beyonder. Great stuff. Doesn’t get much better than this!

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