Celebrating Artist Vince Locke

Celebrating artist Vince Locke on his birthday (November 7, 1966) with his 3 covers for the Image version of Deadworld...issues #1, #2 and #3 from April 2005, September 2005 and March 2006.

Celebrating Artist Jim Steranko

Celebrating legendary artist Jim Steranko on his birthday (November 5, 1938) with a couple of his more recent covers, featuring Captain America...from Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 (July, 2016) and Civil War II #2 (August, 2016).

Nurses In Our Army At War

Sgt. Rock of Easy Company was always helpful during the war, and worked to save a nurse in Our Army At War #104 (March, 1961) and was saved by one in Our Army At War #159 (October, 1965), both covers by Joe Kubert.

World War Stories

Stories from World War I, as only Dell could tell them, in World War Stories.

The cover from #1 (April-June, 1965) was painted by Vic Prezio, and Sam Glanzman provided the covers for #2 and #3 (July-September and December, 1965).

Horrors Of War

A few all too rare covers by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, featuring the supernatural at war, with Weird War Tales #41 (September, 1975) and Weird War Tales #48 (September-October, 1976).

Happy Halloween From Riverdale

A happy Halloween, here from Riverdale, as Archie and the gang celebrate a couple of Halloweens (from 2018 and 2025), with an Archie Halloween Spectacular from each year...both drawn by Dan Parent.

Swamp Thing Gets The Point

Swamp Thing gets the point in two of his earlier covers (#15 and #16, March-April and May, 1975), both drawn by Nestor Redondo.

Strange Tales Of Doors

Doors mean nothing to undead menaces, as evidenced by these two covers by Sol Brodsky, for Strange Tales #21 (August, 1953) and Strange Tales #23 (October, 1953).

Celebrating Artist Jan Duursema

Celebrating artist Jan Duursema on her birthday (October 27, 1954) with a couple of her Warlord covers, featuring Travis Morgan and Tara facing an old Aquaman villain, the Scavenger, who was transformed into a magical menace as the Scavenger of Souls in Warlord #124 and #125 (December, 1987 and January, 1988).

Celebrating Artist Paris Cullins

Celebrating artist Paris Cullins on his birthday (October 26, 1960) with a couple of his Blue Beetle covers, featuring his Legends crossovers, and a battle with Chronos.  (Blue Beetle #9 and #10, February and March, 1987).

The Frankenstein Monster Meets Werewolf By Night

The Frankenstein Monster met the Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell) in Giant-Size Werewolf #2 (October, 1974) by Doug Moench, Don Perlin and Vince Colletta (and cover by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer, with alterations on the Frankenstein Monster by John Romita).  Here, Jack's sister was kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Baal to be a sacrifice, while the Monster was seeking Danton Vayla for help.  Vayla happened to be the leader of the brotherhood, and while Jack was trying to free his sister he turned into the Werewolf, leading to the Werewolf By Night and Frankenstein Monster fighting (eventually leading to her freedom and the death of Danton).

Clayface Is Back

Clayface is back...or so the cover said....but was he really?

Not so much, as it was scientist Preston Payne, distilling a sample from the second Clayface (Matt Hagen, more on him here), who triggered his own cellular degradation, forcing him to absorb others and live in a strength enhancing exoskeleton to stay alive.  This brought him into conflict with Batman, in these two issues of Detective Comics (#478 and #479, July-August and September-October, 1978) by Len Wein, Marshall Rogers and Dick Giordano.

Marvel Tales

Long before Marvel Tales became a home to Spider-Man reprints, it was host to horror, as shown by these two Harry Anderson covers for Marvel Tales #123 and #124 (May and June, 1954), featuring people falling victim to the undead.

Remembering Artist Nick Cardy

Remembering artist Nick Cardy on his birthday (October 20, 1920 - November 3, 2013) with a couple of scary brides...one from Witching Hour #18 (December-January, 1971/1972) , and another from Ghosts #14 (April, 1973). 

Menacing Monkeys

In the early days, anything could be a menace, including monkeys, as evidenced by Cholly the Chimp in House of Mystery #55 (October, 1956) with cover art by Leonard Starr, or an organ grinder's pet, as in House of Mystery #58 (January, 1957), with cover by Bill Ely.

Remembering Artist Luis Dominguez

Remembering artist Luis Dominguez on his birthday (October 17, 1923 - July 1, 2020) with a couple of his covers featuring people under a watery threat...from Ghosts #38 (May, 1975) and Unexpected #165 (June, 1975).

Chamber Of Chills

A couple of creepy covers by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer for Chamber Of Chills #2 and #16 (January, 1973 and May, 1975).

Celebrating Artist George Pratt

Celebrating the birthday of artist George Pratt (October 13, 1960) with a couple of his covers for the Impact! line (an experiment of DC's focusing on the Archie super heroes of earlier days...), with a couple of the annuals from June, 1992 featuring the Black Hood, the Comet, the Legend Of The Shield, the Fly, Jaguar and The Web during the EarthQuest crossover.

Femme Fatales

A couple of femme fatales coming at you, with the Lady In The Moon from House Of Secrets #17 (February, 1959) and The Girl From 50,000 Fathoms from House Of Secrets #21 (June, 1959), both covers by Bill Ely.

Celebrating Artist Jim Starlin

Celebrating writer/artist Jim Starlin on his birthday (October 9, 1949) with the original ending to his Warlock/Thanos saga, featuring Captain Marvel, the Avengers, Adam Warlock, Spider-Man and the Thing, with the covers to Avengers Annual #7 (November, 1977) and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2 (December, 1977).

Vault Of Evil

A couple of scary covers from the Vault of Evil series (#17 of February, 1975 and #22 of October, 1975) featuring main art by Ed Hannigan, and inked by Mike Esposito and Klaus Janson, respectively, with unwary victims to be taken by the undead.

Celebrating Artist Howard Chaykin

Celebrating artist Howard Chaykin on his birthday (October 7, 1950) with a couple of his early Marvel covers that leap out at you...with Tigra from Marvel Chillers #3 and the Scarecrow from Marvel Spotlight #26, both from February, 1976.

Celebrating Artist Pop Mahn

Celebrating the birthday of artist Pop Mahn (October 5, 1973) with a couple of femme fatales (Barbara Ketch and Lilith), as featuring in Ghost Rider #83 and #84, March and April, 1997.

Celebrating Artist Chris Warner

Celebrating artist Chris Warner on his birthday (October 4, 1955) with a couple of his Doctor Strange covers (#76 and #77, April and June, 1986), with Doc facing off against Iuriale and Khat, respectively.

Skeletal Scares

A couple of covers by Nick Cardy featuring skeletons, a group at a hotel for Ghosts #27 (June, 1974), and on a train for Ghosts #30 (September, 1974).

Remembering Artist Ramona Fradon

Remembering artist Ramona Fradon on her birthday (October 2, 1926 - February 24, 2024) with a couple of her Super Friends covers (#36 and #37, of September and October, 1980) featuring guest stars Plastic Man and Supergirl.

Scary Staircases

A couple of scary staircases, made scarier by what they lead to, in a couple of Luis Dominguez covers for House Of Secrets (#125 and #126, November and December, 1974).

Conan Vs Swamp Creatures

Conan fights creatures in the swamp in two issues of Conan The Barbarian (#148 and #149, July and August, 1983), under covers by John Buscema. 

Remembering Artist Russ Heath

Remembering artist Russ Heath on his birthday (September 29, 1926 - August 23, 2018) with a couple of his early covers featuring Easy Company fighting with and facing tanks!  

Our Army At War #86 and #87, September and October, 1959.

Celebrating Artist Bob Layton

Celebrating writer/artist Bob Layton on his birthday (September 25, 1953) with Hercules...that is, the mini-series, Hercules: Prince of Power.  

Set in the 2300s, this series follows Hercules as he runs through the galaxy, meets Recorder 417 and Galactus (and had a few follow ups, all of which deserve to be collected again).

Hercules #1 and #2 (September and October, 1982)

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Hercules #3 and #4 (November and December, 1982)

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Sorcery Vs Red Sonja

Red Sonja usually fought monsters and men, but occasionally fought sorcerers, like the evil Kulan-Gath (as shown in these two versions of Red Sonja #12 (July, 2006, by George Perez and John Romita Jr).

But, Kulan Gath began his career in Conan The Barbarian #14 (March, 1972), and faced Red Sonja (via possession) along with Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up #79 (March, 1979).

Kulan Gath would also return to fight the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #190 and #191, February and March 1985, as well as the Avengers in Avengers #28 through #30, May to July, 2000.

Remembering Joe Kubert

Remembering artist, editor, art teacher and founder of the Kubert School, Joe Kubert, on his birthday (September 18, 1926 - August 12, 2012).  

As this birthday is something special, here it is recalled with his 3 DC Specials.

DC Special #5 (October-December, 1969)

This special has a nice sample of Joe Kubert's work at DC, as well as a history of the artist.

Included here are:

Our Army At War #113 (December, 1961) with Sgt. Rock, a story of young Eagle Feather from Showcase #2 (May-June, 1956), Hawkman vs. the Matter Master from Brave and the Bold #35 (April-May, 1961) and a Viking Prince story from Brave and the Bold #18 (June-July, 1958).

DC Special #12 (May-June, 1971)

This issue featured the Viking Prince, with stories from Brave and the Bold #1, #5 and #16 (August-September, 1955, April-May, 1956 and February-March, 1958, though the cover for #16 is by Irv Novick) as well as non-Kubert stories featuring the Silent Knight and The Golden Gladiator from Brave and the Bold #1 (August-September, 1955).

More on the Viking Prince here!

DC Special #26 (February-March, 1977)

This special focused on the Enemy Ace, with stories from Star Spangled War Stories #143 (February-March, 1969, but sadly, edited), a feature from Star Spangled War Stories #139 (June-July, 1968) and Hans von Hammer's debut from Our Army At War #151 (February, 1965) (with more about Enemy Ace here). 

For these, and so many more, like Ragman and Tarzan, we will remember Joe Kubert.

Celebrating Artist Mike Mignola

Celebrating the birthday of artist Mike Mignola (September 16, 1960) with something cosmic...Cosmic Odyssey, that is.  

A 4 issue mini-series of the late 1980s, setting the heroes of Earth, including the Justice League, and Doctor Fate, the Demon, Starfire and more against the forces of Apokolips under Darkseid.

Cosmic Odyssey #1 and #2 (December and Winter, 1988)

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Cosmic Odyssey #3 and #4 (Holiday, 1988 and January, 1989)

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