Posts Tagged as ‘Captain America’
July 22, 2009
Marvel’s Secret Artist! Captain America!
Back in the 1980s Marvel UK reprinted some of the stories that originated Stateside, and one of them was the weekly Secret Wars. At the beginning of some of the issues they produced some original material of their own, called Marvel’s Secret Artist. The premise is that some kind of monster who liked to pencil [...]
July 3, 2009
It’s Funny Panel Friday!
Another classic that everyone has seen, but I had to use it sometime.
June 25, 2009
Bonus Pin-up Thursday!
I’m delighted to bring this image to you, because it’s one I remember fondly from my childhood. It’s the back cover of Marvel UK’s Captain Britain Annual #1 from early in the 1980s, and even before I knew who Jack Kirby was, I thought this was an incredible piece of art. I never had many [...]
June 6, 2009
D-Day
Exactly 65 years ago at 6.30am tens of thousands of young men stormed the beaches of Normandy. Of course, unlike this Michael Larkin artwork, Captain America wasn’t there. Thankfully, actual heroes were.
May 17, 2009
It’s Splash Page Sunday!
Holy shit. This is all kinds of awesome. It’s from Jim Steranko’s seminal three-issue run on Captain America, which kicked off in #110 (but skipped #112).
This page would be from the conclusion in #113 but I scanned it from Marvel Uk’s 1981 Captain America annual.
April 5, 2009
Marvel celebrates 70th anniversary with some amazing covers!
When I was over at Comic Book Resources earlier I spotted a story about Marvel releasing a set of variant covers to celebrate its 70th anniversary and I was blown away by how cool they look. Marcos Martin, who I only know from Batgirl: Year One a few years back, has been tapped for the [...]
March 10, 2009
It’s Superhero T-shirt Tuesday!
This is from back in 2000, on holiday at the shittest resort in Spain, the one I’ve been banging on about in recent weeks. My mate Ross and me went to this Scottish boozer every night, and this is me doing the karaoke. I sang “Moon River” every night. Folks went crazy for it.
Anyway, you [...]
