Author Topic: Comic-book and comic strip original artwork (feel free to add your own stuff!) (Read 34866 times)

Mr Trent · « **Reply #25 on:** March 09, 2017, 04:08:50 AM »

Quote from: brude on March 09, 2017, 02:52:39 AM

This is a great piece, Terry.
I just love the airbrush details.

Thanks, Brude, though no scan posted on the internet can really do the artwork justice. The delicacy of line-work and vibrant use of colour is difficult to replicate on a forum posting that only allows small-scale attachments.

Will post a few more Dan Dares . . .

Mr Trent · « **Reply #26 on:** March 09, 2017, 04:23:59 AM »

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future - The Reign of the Robots

Here's another Frank Hampson front page Eagle cover original Dan Dare artwork dating from 1957:

Mr Trent · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2017, 04:28:01 AM »

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future - The Ship That Lived

Here's a nice Frank Hampson Dan Dare front cover artwork from 1958. The blank area at top left is where the Eagle logo would have been added during the printing process.

Eagle was an anthology title containing various comic-strips and written features. Dan Dare was a weekly two-page strip printed on the front cover and interior page two.

Mr Trent · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2017, 04:32:32 AM »

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future - The Phantom Fleet

A Frank Hampson Dan Dare cover for Eagle comic dating from 1958.

Mr Trent · « **Reply #29 on:** March 09, 2017, 04:42:14 AM »

Pencilled Modesty Blaise tryout daily strip by Frank Hampson

Here's something not many people will be aware of . . .

In the lead-up stage to launching the Modesty Blaise newspaper serial Frank Hampson was the very first artist to be considered for drawing the strip. Hampson illustrated several weeks worth of continuities but was ultimately blocked by the strip's writer, Peter O'Donnell, who wanted his artist friend, Jim Holdaway, to be given the strip.

Eight of Hampson's tryout dailies survived (I used to own them all at one time) and I kept this pencils-only daily as a nice example of 'what might have been' . . .

brude · « **Reply #30 on:** March 09, 2017, 11:14:07 AM »

Those Hampson pencils above are beautiful.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #31 on:** March 10, 2017, 02:18:47 PM »

Like Terry, I once had a collection of a couple hundred EC pages, Mad art & a dozen of so covers (talking keepers, not stuff that was for stock at time of ownership)

I've sold it all, for prices that were records at the time, but I still have this from Mad #24

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #32 on:** March 10, 2017, 02:59:29 PM »

here's a piece I used to own.
was on my wall for years until I sold way back
(sorry for the imprint. I don't want people stealing the image)

erik1925 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 10, 2017, 03:01:04 PM »

Quote from: MoviePosterBid.com on March 10, 2017, 02:59:29 PM

here's a piece I used to own.
was on my wall for years until I sold way back

WOW, is all I can say. Ive loved that image for years! How long ago did you sell this?

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #34 on:** March 10, 2017, 03:13:47 PM »

Quote from: erik1925 on March 10, 2017, 03:01:04 PM

WOW, is all I can say. Ive loved that image for years! How long ago did you sell this?

I sold it when I had the gallery, so 2005 or earlier. I had it for about 15 years

erik1925 · « **Reply #35 on:** March 10, 2017, 03:16:08 PM »

Quote from: MoviePosterBid.com on March 10, 2017, 03:13:47 PM

I sold it when I had the gallery, so 2005 or earlier. I had it for about 15 years

Nice!!

Mr Trent · « **Reply #36 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:03:42 PM »

The Woody and Davis pieces are outstanding, Richie!

Mr Trent · « **Reply #37 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:24:12 PM »

Here's a selection of EC cover art I owned at one time. The Aces High # 2 cover, I think, belonged to Richie at one point . . .

Mr Trent · « **Reply #38 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:25:25 PM »

Some more . . .

Mr Trent · « **Reply #39 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:29:50 PM »

And some more . . .

Mr Trent · « **Reply #40 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:32:45 PM »

And two more. Also used to own the Haunt of Fear # 6, an early cover from Vault of Horror, another Modern Love cover and Going Steady With Peggy # 1 (a Feldstein title that never saw print).

Mr Trent · « **Reply #41 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:36:32 PM »

I still have two Johnny Craig (pre-trend) Western covers, the Crime Patrol cover posted earlier in this thread, and two complete books (covers and interiors) from the time Entertaining Comics was Educational Comics.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #42 on:** March 10, 2017, 06:57:40 PM »

Quote from: Mr Trent on March 10, 2017, 06:24:12 PM

Here's a selection of EC cover art I owned at one time. The Aces High # 2 cover, I think, belonged to Richie at one point . . .

yes it did. I also had #3 or 4 also

the Vault #33 cover I owned, but not for my collection and that may be the Frontline cover I traded to Jerry Weist along with my Two-Fisted cover which was also by Kurtzman

Mr Trent · « **Reply #43 on:** March 11, 2017, 10:53:54 AM »

Steve Ditko (pencils) and Rocke Mastrosserio (inks) cover to Captain Atom # 80 (1966).

Mr Trent · « **Reply #44 on:** March 11, 2017, 10:54:45 AM »

Eartha painted Sunday strip (UK) by John M Burns.

Mr Trent · « **Reply #45 on:** March 11, 2017, 10:56:04 AM »

Steve Ditko (pencils) and Sal Trapani (inks) Nukla # 4 cover (1966)

Mr Trent · « **Reply #46 on:** March 11, 2017, 10:57:09 AM »

Done Lawrence painted 'Trigan Empire' page (UK).

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #47 on:** March 11, 2017, 12:49:26 PM »

nice stuff Terry

Mr Trent · « **Reply #48 on:** March 12, 2017, 09:20:40 AM »

Unpublished pre-code ACG cover intended for Adventures into the Unknown by Ken Bald. Issue range, for which this cover was intended, would have been #s 28 - 33 (1952).

Mr Trent · « **Reply #49 on:** March 12, 2017, 09:23:04 AM »

1940s cover art to Picture Stories From World History # 1, from a time EC was educational Comics. I own all the interior pages to make this a complete book of original art . . .

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Author Topic: Comic-book and comic strip original artwork (feel free to add your own stuff!) (Read 34866 times)