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My collection of drawing Sam Kieth's the MAXX grows every year.
Originally in Flash Comics #92 (February, 1948), "Riddle Of The Clown" by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert was reprinted in Detective Comics #439 (February-March, 1973).
I've been dreaming of a Joe Kubert collection featuring his Golden Age Hawkman work for a minute. Very little of it has been reprinted here & there, and good luck finding/affording the original issues.
Imagine my surprise and sheer delight to discover this 70s fanzine-looking square bound index of Golden Age Joe Kubert comics. The store's sticker described the contents as "surprisingly good reprints" ...and at a glance they were. Even if the reprints weren't great, I probably would've bought this thing for the novelty anyway. Something didn't seem right when I cracked it open, though, the stuff looked a little wobbly, a little off. And yet, it still looked complete. I couldn't figure out what was wrong about it.
Then I read the introduction and couldn't believe what the catch was. I had to read it twice to make sure I understood it correctly. The author, Al Dellinges, had *redrawn* every piece in this book. Dellinges was an obsessive list-making human Xerox machine. I'm not sure what his process was (did he lightbox the original comics or just eyeball it... and what about the lettering??) but he must've owned or had access to all of the Kubert comics from the era. This might be an interesting exercise for a page or two. But 120 pages? That is an unprecedented level of mania. I can appreciate the intense devotion to the subject, trying to catalog all of that delicate data - the brush lines, the style development, the stories - before it's all completely erased from existence. Dellinges' mission is beautiful, in a way, and it's completely bonkers.
Look closer, dear reader, there's a catalogue page at the end of this book. That means there are more of these types of books. Was this a normal thing back in '78? Joe Kubert was apparently impressed enough with this project that he had Dellinges help out with some TOR material (to what degree, I'm not sure; Dellinges ultimately never really worked in comics.)
As it stands, I'm charmed and confused by this strange artifact. It's like an amateur cover band re-recording an established band's earlier rarities note for note. But hey, I got a Golden Age Joe Kubert book after all.
A fuzzy nerd, a tortured soul, a rich pretty boy, a method actor, a warrior goddess, a treacherous space hippie, and literally the son of satan
$10 • Portrait in Pencil - first time offered!
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$20 • Portrait in Color - [see pics above]
$25 • Full Body in Ink - more to reference & draw…
$30 • Full Body in Color - …and more to hand color.
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Ed Hannigan / Al Milgrom
Early Steve Ditko Art · Source
Nick Cardy
The Fatal Five was created by a teenage Jim Shooter in the 60s.
Count Compota by K. WROTEN
I made a comic about our dog Sharker around this time last year, and I ran it in the COPRA issue that was about to go to the printer. It was a bittersweet celebration but it needed to be included. Today would’ve been her 10th Adoptaversary, so I wanted to share it.
Richard Sala
Batman by Walter Simonson
As of today -- right this very second -- the latest COPRA arc (issue No. 42-45) is completely available wherever you read digital comics: Image / kindle / comiXology
Zatanna, George Pérez design
