Sunday, February 25, 2007

Ten of a Kind: An exciting novel-length adventure, complete on this front cover





















(More Ten of a Kind here.)


Posted by Bully at 3:45 PM
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7 comments:

Steven Altis said...

Mr. Bull, I blew a contact trying to read the itty, bitty print on some of those covers! Please take pity on us old half-blind readers and stick with large print novels in the future!

2/25/2007 7:34 PM
Bully said...

Yes, you're right, Steven! I didn't realize how small the lettering would get when I sized the images. Next time I do somethin' like this I'll post or link to bigger images. My bad!

2/25/2007 8:00 PM
LurkerWithout said...

I refuse to believe that there is a comic where the Wrecker beats up Thor. And yet there it is. Wow...

2/25/2007 8:24 PM
David C said...

Kind of interesting how many of these also involve transformations and/or bottles.

I also didn't realize Marvel had used "Werewolf by Night" so long before the later series with that title (not that it's an especially unique or unusual title, I suppose.)

2/26/2007 10:21 AM
Adam said...

some of those looked like slow motion photography or those flip books. Has anything like this been done in the past twenty years?

2/26/2007 3:45 PM
Bully said...

Not too often, Adam. I've seen it mostly on Silver Age monster, western, and mystery comics (as somebody pointed out, it's a great way to show transformations), and on superhero comics from Marvel in the 1960s and DC in the early 1970s, but it's seldom used today or recently. Where I do see it sometimes is on humor comics: it's occasionally used on Archie books (tho' not as frequently as it used to be) and a handful of times on Bongo's Simpsons comics and DC's Cartoon Network tie-ins.

I have a big ol' folder named "Continuity!" containing lots more of these on my hard drive; I'll be revisiting this theme on the future, I'm sure. There's some Scott McCloud lessons to be learned from 'em, yes, but most of all they're just plain fun.

2/27/2007 9:03 AM
Anonymous said...

That's a great Joe Maneely cover...anyone else like an Essential Joe Maneely or Essential (Golden Age) Black Knight?

2/27/2007 6:53 PM

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