Johnny Thunder All-American Comics

Just a quick look at the earliest Johnny Thunder (the western hero) and his debut covers for All-American Comics.  They were all drawn by Alex Toth, and he did these 3 covers as Johnny took over the comic from Green Lantern (who was regulated to just a feature of these issues, before the comic became All-American Western with #103 (November, 1948), but Toth still supplied a cover....

All-American Comics #100 and #101 (August and September, 1948)

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All-American Comics #102 and All-American Western #103 (October and November, 1948)

Remembering Artist Dick Sprang

Remembering legendary Batman artist, Dick Sprang on his birthday (July 28, 1915 - May 10, 2000) with a couple of covers where the Dynamic Duo face the Penguin!  

Those covers being Detective Comics #99 (May, 1945) and Batman #38 (December-January, 1946/1947).

Celebrating Artist Trevor Von Eeden

Celebrating the birthday of artist Trevor Von Eeden (July, 24, 1959) with the covers to his 1980s Green Arrow mini-series.

Like Green Arrow, Trevor had been working in comics for a time, but this was a chance for him to shine on a cover!

A great mini-series, sadly not reprinted, that dealt with a chance for Oliver Queen to regain his lost fortune.

Green Arrow #1 and #2, (May and June, 1983)

Green Arrow #3 and #4, (July and August, 1983)

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Remembering Artist Dick Giordano

Remembering artist Dick Giordano on his birthday (July 20, 1932 - March 27, 2010) with a little look at his covers featuring Gunmaster for Charlton comics.

Simplistic for its time, still an interesting series that debuted in Six-Gun Heroes #57 (June, 1960) and ran through issues #83 (March-April, 1965), along with two runs of self titled series, one for four issues (#1 to #4), and the second running for 6 issues, picking up its numbering from Six-Gun Heroes, though Giordano didn't do covers for the whole series, the ones he did are below.

Gunmaster was Clay Boone, a gunsmith who travelled from town to town with a small arsenal, dispensing justice with lead in his masked identity.  He even added a sidekick, Bullet the Gun-Boy (who was Bob Tellub) in Six-Gun Heroes #79 (March, 1964), and faced foes like Doctor Dynamite and various other thugs and cattle rustlers.

Six-Gun Heroes #57 and #58 (June and August, 1960)

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Six-Gun Heroes #62 and #71 (April, 1961 and November, 1962)

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Six-Gun Heroes #73 and #74 (March and May, 1963)

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Six-Gun Heroes #76 and #77 (September and November, 1963)

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Six-Gun Heroes #78 and #79 (January and March, 1964)

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Six-Gun Heroes #80 and Gunmaster #1 (September, 1964)

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Six-Gun Heroes #81 and Gunmaster #2 (November, 1964)

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Six-Gun Heroes #82 and Gunmaster #3 (January, 1965)

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Six-Gun Heroes #83 and Gunmaster #84 (March-April and July, 1965)

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Gunmaster #85 (September, 1965)

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National Hot Dog Day With Jughead

Celebrating National Hot Dog Day with Jughead...but, maybe that's not such a great idea, as if Jughead enters the hot dog eating contest, he'll win by forfeit...as shown in this cover by Rex Lindsey for Archie's Pal Jughead Comics #151 (August, 2003).  

 

Remembering Artist Tom Palmer

Remembering artist Tom Palmer on his birthday (July 13, 1941 - August 18, 2022).  

Known more for his inking work than his artistry...

...he did do some incredible painted covers, here a couple for Skywald, with the title of Crime Machine (#1 from February, 1971 and #2 from May, 1971), a magazine with reprints of pre-code 1950s crime comics from titles including Parole Breakers, Murderous Gangsters, Police Line-Up, Behind Prison Bars, Famous Gangsters and Gangsters and Gunmolls.

Remembering Artist Murphy Anderson

Remembering artist Murphy Anderson on his birthday (July 9, 1926 - October 22, 2015) with a little look at his Strange Adventures...that is, two science fiction series he worked on, Captain Comet and the Atomic Knights.

Captain Comet was Adam Blake, a mutant born before his time with incredible mental powers, and the Atomic Knights included Gardner Grayle, who awoke to find himself in a post-apocalyptic world.

More on Captain Comet here, and the Atomic Knights here!

While a collection of the Atomic Knights happened over a decade ago, a planned Archive for Captain Comet never happened due to the end of the DC Archive line.