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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 14:35:27 GMT -5
I assumed he only had the one, but he was using it to direct his mount, so it was in motion. Like the multiple Flashes we'd see when he ran.
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Post by wickedmountain on Apr 10, 2015 14:54:08 GMT -5
Well, since I could find a zanti misfits cover ... HEH Beetle/Owl Head aliens
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 10, 2015 15:56:47 GMT -5
I assumed he only had the one, but he was using it to direct his mount, so it was in motion. Like the multiple Flashes we'd see when he ran. I think that's also how He-Man steers Battle Cat.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 10, 2015 16:27:08 GMT -5
Well, since I could find a zanti misfits cover ... This is by Vic Prezio, accd'g to the GCD, but, man, at first I thought it was by Norm Saunders. Shades of "Mars Attacks!"
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Post by Paradox on Apr 11, 2015 1:28:25 GMT -5
It almost looks like it was supposed to be a fin on the cat's back, but got miscolored. Except that a fin on that cat's back is ALMOST as weird as Mr. Multi-prong.
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Post by Farrar on Apr 11, 2015 11:30:31 GMT -5
It almost looks like it was supposed to be a fin on the cat's back, but got miscolored. Except that a fin on that cat's back is ALMOST as weird as Mr. Multi-prong. I thought about that too--that perhaps the big cat-creature was similar to a stegosaurus with bony back plates, or one plate at least--your "fin" description is far more apt. So yeah, maybe the colorist was confused by the linework...or had a sense of humor!
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 11, 2015 13:22:17 GMT -5
It almost looks like it was supposed to be a fin on the cat's back, but got miscolored. Except that a fin on that cat's back is ALMOST as weird as Mr. Multi-prong. I thought about that too--that perhaps the big cat-creature was similar to a stegosaurus with bony back plates, or one plate at least--your "fin" description is far more apt. So yeah, maybe the colorist was confused by the linework...or had a sense of humor! The cat also has a bit of a hump, so maybe there was supposed to be a weird saddle? Huh huh, I said "hump."
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 12, 2015 10:07:22 GMT -5
It almost looks like it was supposed to be a fin on the cat's back, but got miscolored. Except that a fin on that cat's back is ALMOST as weird as Mr. Multi-prong. That is the most beautifully ugle cover I have ever seen. It looks like a hodge-podge or artists worked on it. The girl and the skulls look like the start of something decent, the cat is awkward and the alien with the fan crotch is just brutal. Who did this?!?
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Post by Farrar on Apr 12, 2015 12:33:30 GMT -5
It almost looks like it was supposed to be a fin on the cat's back, but got miscolored. Except that a fin on that cat's back is ALMOST as weird as Mr. Multi-prong. That is the most beautifully ugle cover I have ever seen. It looks like a hodge-podge or artists worked on it. The girl and the skulls look like the start of something decent, the cat is awkward and the alien with the fan crotch is just brutal. Who did this?!? It's certainly an eye-catching cover, with a lot of energy, isn't it? The GCD credits it to the talented, and underrated, A.C. Hollingsworth. In the MyComicsShop image above his signature is cut off, it would be beneath the skulls on the left. He drew a variety of genres (horror, romance, war, etc.) and later on concentrated on fine arts. He was one of the few African-American comic book artists of that era and IIRC there was a feature on him on History Detectives a few years ago.
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Post by benday-dot on Apr 12, 2015 13:58:01 GMT -5
The legendary pulp artist Frank Paul did one of his rare comic covers here. Superworld is a run (just 3 issues) which needs to be reprinted. The contents are as odd as the oddity upon this cover. Dig those early four colour presentations!
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Post by cattysquaw on Apr 12, 2015 16:41:00 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 12, 2015 16:48:34 GMT -5
That weird green alien creature on the Eerie cover is a swipe, I forgot from where, maybe a pulp cover or a dust jacket illustration for a much older fantasy novel. I can't remember where I saw it (I think it was in a magazine article about swipes) and I'm trying to figure out how to search for it. Maybe the name of the Eerie cover artist will help.
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Post by foxley on Apr 13, 2015 2:00:21 GMT -5
I did some looking around online, and one forum said that it was a swipe from a Hannes Bok pulp cover but did not specify which one (and Bok was a pretty prolific artist).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 2:03:39 GMT -5
That weird green alien creature on the Eerie cover is a swipe, I forgot from where, maybe a pulp cover or a dust jacket illustration for a much older fantasy novel. I can't remember where I saw it (I think it was in a magazine article about swipes) and I'm trying to figure out how to search for it. Maybe the name of the Eerie cover artist will help. I did some looking around online, and one forum said that it was a swipe from a Hannes Bok pulp cover but did not specify which one (and Bok was a pretty prolific artist). The cover was recently reprinted in Haunted Horror #13 from IDW....Oct 2014 maybe some more recent discussion of that issue might hold some clues to the swipe source?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 2:14:23 GMT -5
I found this Bok cover that looks like it inspired the general picture, but not the green alien as it has the girl riding a leaping cat creature... and several Bok colors with green aliens that seem to be pieces of the one on that cover, but not one that has all the elements-color, tentacle hands, clawed feet, antenae, but none have the anatomical feature drawing most of the interest in this image. -M
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