Original comic art - new selections! Batman, Unemployed Man and (sort of) Popeye!

Here's a selection of original art pages I've never offered before -- mostly culled from my "keeper" files.   Includes a nice batch of BATMAN pages -- of which I have very few left. Quick pics taken with my phone's camera -- so not the sharpest in some cases -- sorry about that. Contact me for payment/shipping details. I take Paypal, and shipping is included in the price for buyers within the US. Overseas shipping is $30.00. Descriptions of art beneath the pics. 

Thanks for looking! More Phantom art to be listed SOON!

 Two-page "new wave" POPEYE spoof from 1981 (!)  -- originally drawn for MOD, but cut for space considerations. Was published in an issue of Alan Light's TBG. Zip-a-tone has yellowed. Both pages for $200.00. And for the record, I like both punk and C&W (well, the roots-based sort of the latter) -- so there!

SUPER-FRIENDS splash featuring the SUPER-PETS! Pencils by Scott Shaw! and Mike Kazelah -- my inks.  $150.00

Splash page from THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN -- Galactus spoof. My inks over blue lines of pencils by Ramona Fradon (Unemployed Man and mansion) and  Mike Netzer  ("Kollectus!") $175.00.

ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN splash with "Greed Goblin" and "Dr. Boom!" My inks over blue lines of pencils by Rick Veitch. Digital printout lettering. Fun Marvel villain spoof! $200.00

GOTHAM ADVENTURES #5 SOLD!

BATMAN AND ROBIN ADVENTURES #20 splash page. My inks on pencils by Brandon Kruse. $250.00. SOLD!

BATMAN ADVENTURES #17 page 22 -- final page! My inks. Rick Burchett pencils. $175.00. SOLD!

GOTHAM ADVENTURES #22 page 16. My inks -- Tim Levins pencils. Batgirl and Gordon fight scene. $125.00. (Fuzzy pic -- sorry.)

BATMAN ADVENTURES #2 page 16 by Burchett/Beatty. Batman and Riddler. $150.00.

THE BATMAN STRIKES #34 page 4 Chris Jones pencils, my inks. Batman and Riddler. "Inaction figure" package labels are paste-ups. $150.00.

Unpublished page of BATMAN sample art. 1980's? Redrawn from "Batman Vs. The Joker" from BATMAN #1! My pencils, inks and letters! Modified Daisy Buck Rogers gun standing in for Joker's spray gun! SOLD!

Thanks for looking -- hope you see something you like!

Phantom times four!

Once again,  I've fallen behind in posting my Phantom Sunday strips -- so here are FOUR at once! Enjoy!

Blue "pencils."

Here's a little peek at my process for drawing The Phantom. My "pencils" are done in Manga Studio, and printed out in blue for inking by hand. These first two panels show the drawing in progress. The balloon and caption outlines have not been added yet, and the background has not been drawn. 

Is it just me, or is a Steve Ditko influence showing in the main figure here...?

And here is the page as printed out for inking. The finished version, inked and colored, can be seen in my previous blogpost.

 Below is last week's Sunday page. As you can see, I did some of the background line work and effects digitally, leaving the figure inks to be done by hand on the bristol board print out. This, too, can be seen in finished form in my previous blogpost.

Cruise Control....

The cruise continues with a trap, a trick and an "Old Jungle Saying."

Phantom/Mandrake Sunday pages art sale

Here are some recent Phantom Sunday strips that are available for purchase. All art is on 11x17 bristol board, and is inked by hand over printed "blue line" preliminary pencils. Lettering and borders are printed as well. Prices include shipping within the US. 

Offered for the first time are pages from the currently-running Mandrake/Phantom crossover tale. When I requested that we team up these classic Lee Falk characters, I had no idea that Fred Fredericks, artist of the Mandrake strip since the 1960's (!), would retire (leaving the daily only Mandrake strip in reruns) while Tony DePaul and I were still producing the pages for our story -- making THIS (most likely) the last new Mandrake story to appear in US newspapers! This fact makes these already unusual strips even more significant. 

Mandrake and the Phantom have teamed up several times in the Mandrake strip -- notably in the final Sunday continuity (written and drawn by Fredericks).  But aside from a few cameo appearances (Phantom's wedding, etc.), this is the only full-length adventure featuring the two classic heroes in the Phantom strip.

Descriptions and prices follow. Email me to reserve pages and get payment info (Paypal please). 

The final two pages of "Revenge in Rhodia" -- more pages are available. If there are any you are interested in, contact me with publication dates and I'll let you know if I still have them.

4-7-13: Large panel of Phantom on Hero. ON HOLD!
4-14-13: Phantom, Hero, Devil, Diana, Guran, Skull Cave! SOLD!

4-21-13 First page of Mandrake tale. No Phantom. $225.00
4-28-13 (signature box and date accidently left off the original!) Mandrake and Narda. No Phantom. $225.00

5-5-13: Phantom, Guran, Diana, the twins, Mandrake and Narda! $275.00
5-19-13: Phantom, Mandrake, Devil, Hero: $275.00
(sorry about the fuzzy pic on these two -- you can always look back at previous blog entries to see the color print version of any of these)

Not shown, but available: 5-26-13 Phantom, Mandrake, Devil, Hero,: $250.00
Also 6-2-13: Phantom (as Walker), Diana, Mandrake, Narda boarding cruise ship: $250.00

6-9-13: Sexy villain -- no heroes: $200.00
6-16-13: Phantom, Mandrake (now in tails, cape and top hat), Diana and Narda in costume (it's a costume cruise!) : $275.00 ON HOLD

 
6-23-13: Trio of villains in costume -- no heroes: $225.00
6-30-13: Phantom, Mandrake, Diana, Narda and villains: $300.00

7-7-13: Phantom, Diana, villains -- goofy guy in super-suit: $275.00

7-14-13: Phantom, Mandrake, Diana, Narda, villains: $300.00

7-28-13: Heroes and their wives in the pool: $250.00
8-4-13: Phantom and Mandrake, villains. Signature/date box missing. $275.00

Also available but not shown: 8-11-13 Phantom and Mandrake in one panel -- $225.00

Upcoming strips will be available as soon as they see print. I'll eventually show them here, but you can always contact me if you see something in the newspaper that you like.

HEY! This is a SECURE AREA!

This week's entry in the Phantom/Mandrake crossover. Look out for that imaginary iceberg, fellas!

The Buyer's Guide cover gallery part 2

I was recently contacted by Roy Thomas about contributing some images and info to a TBG/CBG article for an upcoming issue of ALTER EGO. That reminded me that I'd promised to post some more of my TBG covers here, and figured while I was scanning some of them for Roy, I'd better make good on my promise and show some here.

Below is a Halloween themed cover, paying tribute to both EC Comics and the Warren magazines. Cover date says Nov. 5 -- but I seem to recall the 'zine was, like most comic books, dated early -- so I hope folks saw this in late October!

My tribute to Everett Raymond Kinstler. I love Ray's Western comics -- and am particularly crazy for his version of Zorro. I do wish this were better drawn -- Silvertip has some loooong legs....

My homage to Ditko. Spider-Man villains in green!

One of several Christmas covers I drew. The original art for this one is now in my sale portfolio, after residing in my "keeper" file for decades.

A tip of the hat to Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four -- the Ayers-inked-era, it seems! My tear sheet of this was a bit more tanned than typical, and had some other issues as well, so I cleaned it up in Photoshop --  printed in black and white -- might be fun to color some time.

One of several "experimental" covers. The TBG budget wouldn't allow for full four-color printing -- but three was a possibility. So I did this Steranko tribute in three-color -- making the line art a combo of all three process colors -- no actual black involved. Color and effects done with cut zip-a-tone on mylar layers.

And since we're living in the future, with these newfangled computer thingamabobs, I can now do what  I wanted to back then -- and replace that brown linework with black. Thank you, Photoshop! There are folds and smudges that are still evident, that some more work might remove -- but no time for that now.

I've been a fan of Joe Staton's work since I first saw it -- and first saw it in the Charlton issues of E-MAN. Here's my tribute. No idea what's going on with that curved border at the bottom. Can't imagine I drew it that way -- but the original art is long gone, so I can't check.

There are still at least a half dozen covers I've not shown here -- but they'll have to wait for another scanning session. In the meantime, I hope you've enjoyed this blast from the past. If you want to get a little more background on my time at TBG, you'll find it in that upcoming issue of ALTER EGO I mentioned earlier.  I'll be sure to plug it here when it is published.