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Tag Archives: Gene Colan
It Came From the Back Room #46
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for a couple of weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to … Continue reading
It Came From the Back Room #45
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for a couple of weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Daredevil, David Mazzucchelli, Denny O'Neil, Frank Miller, Gene Colan, Stan Lee
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It Came From the Back Room #41
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for a couple of weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester in full gear), this amounts to … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, DC, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Batman, Detective, Don Newton, Doug Moench, Gene Colan, Harlan Ellison, Jim Aparo, Marshall Rogers, Neal Adams
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It Came From the Back Room #40
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items (these are featured at the discount racks at the west end of the store for a couple of weeks after each post, and then go to the discount racks on the east end of the store for a few weeks, and then disappear into our warehouses, so get them while you can). I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school semester starting up again), this amounts to … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, Marvel, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Dr. Strange, Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, Marshall Rogers, Marvel, Paul Smith, Roger Stern, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Steve Englehart
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Gene Colan Art Exhibit
Here are the five Colan pages being displayed at the store this week, through Saturday — and at the July 4 sale! — and, no, none of them are being sold….: This is from Tomb of Dracula #9, page 10; inks by Vince Colletta and words by Marv Wolfman. Evan Dorkin said last week that Colan’s art was like “dreams on paper,” and this is a good example: the hand-drawn panel borders radiating from the center; the use of … is it whiteout?… to indicate fog; the bottom image of Dracula on the ground in the shadows, weak but still … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News and Events
Tagged Daredevil, Gene Colan, Howard the Duck, original art, Sub-Mariner, Tomb of Dracula
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