Post by codystarbuck on Oct 10, 2024 13:41:02 GMT -5
ps This was the first issue of Malibu's Planet of the Apes....
There were also orange, pink and yellow sleeves. Some paperback publishers had done covers like that, such as JC Pollock's Mission MIA
That left side flap opened to reveal more of the cover art, but allowed for more text to be used on the cover, itself. It also made it easier to accidentally pull off the outer cover.
This was The Protectors #1....
There were also yellow and orange variants. The main cover art is by Clarke Hawbaker, while the image on the sleeve is Jerry Bingham's design for Gravestone (formerly the Fantom of the Fair, which they were initially going to call Fantom, but the possible legal threat from King Features, over the Phantom comic strip, made them change it to Gravestone.
I bought that series on the strength of a preview article in Comics Scene magazine, which was filled with art from Jerry Bingham and Clarke Hawbaker. Then, the first issue comes out and the interior art is vastly inferior and more amateurish. I later met Clarke Hawbaker and he said he only did a few illustrations for the series and was amazed at how much mileage they got out of them. Same for Bingham. AC Comics used to do similar, with people like Paul Gulacy doing covers, while non-Paul Gulacy did interiors that hardly matched. It wasn't like a John Romita cover and a Sal Buscema interior; it was a Neal Adams cover and Joe Amateur doing his first published work and Joe Amateur has never had any art instruction and isn't the second coming of Will Eisner. Joe Amateur was usually never published by any other company.
Now Comics also did some of this, with Ken Steacy covers and a mess inside.
There were also orange, pink and yellow sleeves. Some paperback publishers had done covers like that, such as JC Pollock's Mission MIA
That left side flap opened to reveal more of the cover art, but allowed for more text to be used on the cover, itself. It also made it easier to accidentally pull off the outer cover.
This was The Protectors #1....
There were also yellow and orange variants. The main cover art is by Clarke Hawbaker, while the image on the sleeve is Jerry Bingham's design for Gravestone (formerly the Fantom of the Fair, which they were initially going to call Fantom, but the possible legal threat from King Features, over the Phantom comic strip, made them change it to Gravestone.
I bought that series on the strength of a preview article in Comics Scene magazine, which was filled with art from Jerry Bingham and Clarke Hawbaker. Then, the first issue comes out and the interior art is vastly inferior and more amateurish. I later met Clarke Hawbaker and he said he only did a few illustrations for the series and was amazed at how much mileage they got out of them. Same for Bingham. AC Comics used to do similar, with people like Paul Gulacy doing covers, while non-Paul Gulacy did interiors that hardly matched. It wasn't like a John Romita cover and a Sal Buscema interior; it was a Neal Adams cover and Joe Amateur doing his first published work and Joe Amateur has never had any art instruction and isn't the second coming of Will Eisner. Joe Amateur was usually never published by any other company.
Now Comics also did some of this, with Ken Steacy covers and a mess inside.
