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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Warriors and Wizards Week! Black and White Wednesday: The Birth of Blackmark

You can't have a Warriors and Wizards Week without including Gil Kane and his creation, Blackmark. Kane had intended to self-publish Blackmark as a black and white comic magazine, but instead saw it published in paperback format by Bantam Books in 1971. The very first, by the way, non-reprint, straight-to-paperback comic ever. Today's offering is the preface, the birth of Blackmark, as reprinted in Marvel's Savage Sword of Conan #1 (cover dated August 1974). Art by Kane! Words by Archie Goodwin! Dig it, baby!
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Special thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics and Grand Comics Database for being such fantastic resources for covers, dates, creator info, etc. Thou art treasures true!


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