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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, this is one of mine too.

Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not sure I'd count Gold Key as bottom of the barrel, though. They were one of the last GA publishers to close 'so far' (1933-84), they said 'thanks, but no thanks' to the CCA, & tried to open new markets in the 70s. Parent company Western was successful into the 1990s.

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 9h

Jesse Santos is great. And unlike some of Gold Key's other cover artists who strictly painted covers, like George Wilson, Santos did interiors as well. Together the covers are often as attractive and unusual now as they were then. And Santos interiors as solid as his covers.

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10h

If I had to guess, licensor approval played big hand in this.

Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 15h

Dunno, seems like it's always a cute kid or an animal, regardless of whether the video was funny. Figure the audience is voting fir 'awww' rather than 'hahaha'.

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 15h

Is she seen as a fad now? INTERVIEW certainly has more to it than cultural zeitgeist. But I don't have a broad view of her work as I've only read Interview, Lestat and Ramses the Damned/Mummy (which was an effective brisk novel with another less effective novel tacked on the back of it, imo)

Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 16h

Sort of the "I don't want it good, I want it Tuesday" thinking that can permeate commercial art.

Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 3d

Ill-tempered Sea bass!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like piranha!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, it's not their best plan even with a shaped charge!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 3d

Had another Sea Devils cover from for #TopShelfFriday

#comics #comicsky

Cover to Sea Devils #4

The Sea Devils (4 scuba divers in purple wetsuits) are are surrounded by piranha. One of the divers holds out a bomb thinking "This Explosive had better work against this army of savage fish!"

A text box proclaims: "The Sea Devils dive into 'The Sea of Sorcery!' and are trapped by the 'Secret of Volcano Lake!' Both in this issue!"

Cover by Russ Heath, color and wash by Jack Adler, Letters by Ira Schnapp

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so intrigued by old magazine headlines.

Dale Robertson was a TV Cowboy IMO (Jim Hardie in Tales of Wells Fargo should count even if he was technically an investigator, is very much in the Western Cowboy Hero mode), so just wonder what the 'scorn' is!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 3d

...and now I want to know why Dale Robertson scorns TV cowboys...

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 5d

Will never forget being a kid and my mom made me a bowl of ice cream and getting a stack of comics to read while I ate...and this was the second cover I. The stack! Haha😅

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 5d

12 was when I realized that I could actually follow a comic on the spinner rack rather thsn just pulling whatever had a cool cover that week.

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 7d

It's probably the suit color throwing me!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 7d

5 covers of clearly 'Bronson-esque' Holden on the cover...but is it just me, or in cover #6 does Holden seems to be straying away from 'I look like Charles Bronson' into 'I look like Peter Wyngard as Jason King but with shorter hair' territory with the longer mustache and pink tie & suitcoat?

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 7d

Cross-overs that should have happened, but they didn't:

Tatsuo Yoshida's SPEED RACER (1967) and Gerry Anderson & Reg Hill's SUPERCAR (1961).

While I'm sure a story could be concocted for why the characters meet, the real joy would be seeing Chim-Chim and Mitch run roughshod over the proceedings.

Pictures of Mitch from Supercar and Chim-Chim from Speed Racer

Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 8d

DC reminder from 1988...
#comics #comicsky

Picture of the text from the cover of 1988 direct market DC Comics where the ISBN was for newstand distributed comics.

The text says "DC COMICS AREN'T JUST FOR KIDS!"

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10d

That's a stunning cover. Somehow managed to have never seen it before.

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10d

It really made for a distinct cover!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10d

Issue 2's cover is great too!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10d

The color wash done on the early Sea Devil books really make them pop!

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10d

For this Top Shelf Friday, I'll showcase a recent pick up!

#TopShelfFriday #comics #comicbooks #comicsky

Cover to Sea Devils #1
Pencils & Inks by Russ Heath,
Colors & Wash by Jack Adler
Letters by Ira Schnapp

Text at the top: 'By popular demand! In their own magazine at last!'

Text at the bottom: 'Gasp at the Underwater Thriller as the Sea Devils battle the "Octopus Man!" '

Three figures in matching purple scuba gear flee a giant octopus while a fourth has been grabbed by a tentacle. The Octopus is being lead on a leash like a pet dog by a giant alien looking man.

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Chris R. @kideternity1942.bsky.social · 10d

I liked Rainbow Rowell's She-Hulk but I lost track of it with that new #1 as I forgot to update my subscription.

My brother liked Charles Soule's She-Hulk run. Don't think he checked out Rainbow's.