Celebrating Artist Mike Ploog

 

Celebrating the birthday of artist Mike Ploog (July 13, 1940) with a spotlight on early covers he did for Marvel Spotlight...

...featuring the Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell) and Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)!

Marvel Spotlight #3 and #4 (May and June, 1972)

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Marvel Spotlight #5 and #6 (August and October, 1972)

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Marvel Spotlight #7 and #8 (December, 1972 and February, 1973)

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Marvel Spotlight #9 (April, 1973)

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Celebrating Artist Frank Miller

Wishing a happy birthday to comic icon, Frank Miller (January 27, 1957).  

Usually known for grim city comics filled with ninjas, a few science fiction covers from Marvel Spotlight, featuring Captain Marvel.  (Marvel Spotlight #2 from September, 1979 and #8 from September, 1980, both inked by Terry Austin).

Frank also supplied a couple of other covers for Marvel Spotlight, #5 from March 1980, featuring a Godzilla story reworked into Dragon Lord, and #7 from July, 1980, featuring Star-Lord, with both of these inked by Bob Wiacek. 

On the shoulders of these would come greatness...

Marvel At The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad

Marvel Spotlight #25 (December, 1975) with its Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott cover, captured the main Ray Harryhausen special effects of the 1958 technicolor movie of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (the cyclops and the animated skeletons)...

...letting readers know of all the excitement within the issue!

Inside the issue, John Warner provided the words adapting what was in the screenplay by Kenneth Kolb, and Sonny Trinidad provided the art to this movie adaption.

Sinbad has to take his crew back to the island of Collossa (where he faced the cyclops) to get a piece of the egg of the roc, to save his princess Parisa from the spell of the evil Sokurah, where he faces other menaces as well as the sorcerer's treachery.

A good enough comic, with plenty of excitement, mysticism, swordplay and a little romance, still not quite on par with the special effects used in the movie.  Nothing can beat Ray Harryhausen's stop motion animation.  All this, to remember the career of Ray Harryhausen, who would have turned 100 on June 29th, 2020!