Monday, October 15, 2012

SILVER AGE COMIC BOOK COVER OF THE DAY


In the mid-'60s, DC comics decided to return Wonder Woman to her Golden Age roots. It was a short lived attempt that failed to generate an increase in readership and sales. The cover, with art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, wins the prize as having the most text of any comic book published during the Siilver Age (maybe ever). Did the powers that be really think this was any way to sell a comic book?

VINTAGE PAPERBACK BOOK COVER OF THE DAY


This isn't a vintage paperback. It's a recent, massive trade paperback book that reprints detective, crime and mystery stories from the legendary BLACK MASK pulp magazine. I've got this one on my shelf but I haven't dipped into it yet.
PULP MAGAZINE COVER OF THE DAY

MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINE COVER OF THE DAY


Sunday, October 14, 2012

JAMES BOND IMAGE OF THE DAY


Harold Sakata as Oddjob in GOLDFINGER. Oddjob ranks as one of the greatest villain's henchmen in Bond film history.

DOC SAVAGE IMAGE OF THE DAY



James Bama artwork of Doc and his "Fabulous Five" that graced the back cover of every Bantam DOC SAVAGE reprint paperback.

JACK KIRBY ART OF THE DAY


Cover art for JACK KIRBY'S FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS VOLUME 2,  a DC trade paperback that continues the reprinting of Kirby's early '70s magnum opus. Don't ask! Just buy it!