Strange Tales #132 Cover by Steve Ditko

.............and the cover in our dimension, as mostly done by Jack Kirby.  Odd thing is, I love the cover Jack did 2 issues earlier (specially w/o the Torch and Thing as Beatles), but the Kirby part of 132s cover  may be my least fav art ever

 

Swamp Thing #3 Cover by Berni Wrightson

Have I groused enough about get'n rid of my hardbound Look Back?  Miss it like crazy

 

Coupla Forgotten Shadows by Jim Steranko

Forgotten by me, that is.  In the wayback, had up lots of the paperback covers, and lots of the unseen shadows, but (except for the fifth image) I never got around to these two

 

Stuntman #3 by Jack Kirby

Just realiz'n I shoulda saved this post for the first day next month, cause "April Fool's!  There is no Stuntman #3!"  Another quizzical heart-breaker, since the first two Stuntman comics were amazeballs.  sigh.  The bookends here are the covers of The Jack Kirby Treasury (first my copy that embiggens to mercurtroid, then a "nice" copy of the cover), which contained the only colored work I've seen of this non-book

 

 

Coupla Martians by Berni Wrightson

Just another riff on onea Berni's jazziest subjects-Tars Tarkas (well this one also has HG Wells as well).  See much more by search'n Tars on here (as well as my other favs doing their take on the big kahuna)

 

See'n Red

Yeah, I was about to do onea my "Folders Full" posts, when I noticed a disproportunate number of rojo-tinged renderings in my folders.  Nice to end with Omega

 

Conan Guards The Wall by Barry Smith

Posts from the wayback will show I love the cover to Conan Saga #1.  I remember tell'n my local comic shop at the time when it first came out, "alright! another fantasy fulfilled!"  I'd been in mourning for Barry's Conan ever since Savage Tales #3 came and went many years before.  Think I said it before, but this image reminds me of my mom's voice.  It's all well and good, until an enemy starts using flaming arrows.  Hence the return to the flaming skies of the beginning of this whole magilla