Thursday, January 2, 2025

Remembering Artist Don Heck

Remembering artist Don Heck on his birthday (January 2, 1929 - February 23, 1995) with a couple of his lesser seen covers...

...his two covers for Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel #5 and #6 (September and October, 1968).



A fine example of Marvel's interstellar heroes, the Kree Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), who came to Earth to spy on humanity, but ended up trying to save them, here, from the Metazoid and the Solam.



Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Hope For The New Year With The Comico Christmas Special

 

A happy New Year to all!  Still feeling a little of the Christmas spirit as well, so a special treat, with the Comico Christmas Special #1 (December, 1988) with a cover by Dave Stevens.

All stories written by Doug Wheeler, with "Living For Christmas" art by Ken Holewczynski (where a man uses suspended animation to sleep through non-Christmas months), "Too Many Santas" with art by Bernie Mireault (with a boy trying to find out why there are Santas on every corner), "The Stiflemix Diaries" with art by Tim Sale (with the adventurers of the Noel Liberation Brigade, fighting to stop Christmas references when it isn't Christmas), "One Winter Day" with art by Bill Willingham and Chris Warner (dealing with snow shoveling during a heavy snowfall) and, referencing the cover, "Traditions Everlasting" with art by Steve Rude and Al Williamson (with aliens finding Christmas artifacts in a nuclear devastated world).



Living For Christmas and Too Many Santas

The Stiflemix Diaries and One Winter Day

Traditions Everlasting with the back cover