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Chris R.
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Just some rando talking about stuff. Probably comics, Doctor Who, Star Trek or other things I'm a fan of...
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Yeah, this is one of mine too.
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.
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.
If I had to guess, licensor approval played big hand in this.
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'.
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)
Sort of the "I don't want it good, I want it Tuesday" thinking that can permeate commercial art.
Yeah, it's not their best plan even with a shaped charge!
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!
...and now I want to know why Dale Robertson scorns TV cowboys...
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😅
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.
It's probably the suit color throwing me!
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?
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.
That's a stunning cover. Somehow managed to have never seen it before.
It really made for a distinct cover!
Issue 2's cover is great too!
The color wash done on the early Sea Devil books really make them pop!
For this Top Shelf Friday, I'll showcase a recent pick up!

#TopShelfFriday #comics #comicbooks #comicsky
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.