Black and White Wednesday: Sensational Savage Sword of Conan Frontispieces

Dig it, Groove-ophiles! Today we're gonna plant our peepers on far-out frontispieces from Savage Sword of Conan! Today Ol' Groove's chosen to showcase comicbook artists we don't normally associate with Robert E. Howard's sword-slingin' Cimmerian, but oh, if only they'd had the chance to pencil a few Conan adventures for SSoC...

Mike Zeck

Ron Wilson and Joe Rubinstein

Carl Potts and Neal Adams

Keith Pollard

Don Newton

Pat Broderick

Kerry Gammill

Making a Splash: Mike Kaluta's Dark Mansion

Hoooowwwwwwoooooo's it' hangin', Groove-ophiles! Today let's get down with some superior spookiness courtesy a compendium of Mike Kaluta's fearfully fabulous frontispieces for Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion issues 7-12 (July 1972-May 1973). Dig 'em!

Pencils by Steve Harper

Face Front(ispieces)! Hulking Out in Marvel Super-Color

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! It's not easy being green, but it's certainly easy to find superbly stunning art featuring Marvel's Green Goliath! When the black and white Rampaging Hulk mag morphed into the Marvel Super-Color The Hulk! mag, the frankly fabulouso and far-out frontispieces kept on truckin', baby! To prove Ol' Groove ain't jivin', dig these dy-no-mite drawings of old Jade Jaws by Walt Simonson, John Romita Jr., Mike Zeck, Rudy Nebres, Steve Bissette, Gene Colan, Ernie Chan, Rich Buckler, and Brent Anderson!

Black and White Wednesday: Even More Marvel-ous Frontispieces

You dug the last post on Marvel's black-and-white magazine frontispiece art so much, I couldn't wait to share another round with ya, Groove-ophiles! Here's a dy-no-mite dozen with awesome art by Jim Starlin, George Perez, Rudy Nebres, Ed Davis, Pablo Marcos, Bernie Wrightson, Vincente Alcazar, Tim Conrad, Mike Zeck, Gil Kane, Howard Chaykin, and Pat Broderick. Who loves ya, baby?

I have'ta say, that Bernie Wrightson Star-Lord piece (from Marvel Preview #4) is my all-time fave. What's yours? Have I posted it yet? Let me know!

Black and White Wednesday: Marvel-ous Frontispieces

Some of the best comicbook art you'll ever see can be found on the inside front covers (aka frontispieces or interior covers) of Marvel's black and white mags of the mid-to-late 1970s. Early into their magazine-publishing foray, Marvel dropped the ads from their interior covers and began running either editorials, contents pages, or frontispieces in their place. I think the interior covers gave the mags a rather classy look, and those pen-and-ink pics were often more awe-inspiring than the exterior covers. For budding young pros like Marshall Rogers, Mike Zeck, and Tim Conrad, these interior cover masterworks were sometimes a way of getting into Marvel's "front door". Here's a sampling of some of the aforementioned faves, along with pieces by more established Marvel madmen. Can you name who did what, Groove-ophile?

There's plenty more where that came from! If you wanna see 'em, all ya have t'do is ask!