L: Tales to Astonish #11 (September 1960), art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers
R: Chamber of Chills #18 (September 1975), reprinting "I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!" from Tales to Astonish #11, art by Ron Wilson and Mike Esposito
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(And the cover's also mildly reworked on Fear #1 (November 1970):
Panels from Ms. Marvel v.2 #9 (January 2007), script by Brian Reed, pencils by Mike Wieringo, inks by Wade Von Grawbadger, colors by Chris Sotomayor, letters by Dave Sharpe
Hey, why don't we take some picture pages from the 1969 Big Little Book Batman: The Cheetah Caper (by George S. Elrick) and string them together randomly for humorous effect? And by "we" I mean "me," but you're welcome to read along and join in the giggles!
Next time on Big Little Book Theater: Little Orphan Annie shanks a hobo who turns out to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt!:
Panel from X-Men #24 (September 1993), script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Andy Kubert, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, colors by Paul Becton, letters by Bill Oakley
Let's do a modest, quick, simple mural tonight so tired post-Comic-Con partying-me can go to bed early!
One of my favorite types of comic book images is the good guys and the bad guys rushing towards each other. What are they gonna do when they meet in the middle? Fight? Swing dance? kiss? I dunno, but hoo hah, I love that! As perhaps best exemplified by the final few seconds of this:
By the way, "banded together from remote galaxies"? Let's see...Luthor's from Smallville/Metropolis, the Riddler's from Gotham, Apache Chief's from San Carlos, Arizona...heck, Solomon Grundy is from Louisiana. (I guar-ran-tay it!) Remote galaxies, my fuzzy butt. Okay, sure, Superman's from Krypton, Sinestro's from Space Sector 1417, Hawkman might be from Thanagar...and really, that's about it. Oh wait, Black Vulcan is from the planet Black Vulcan. That's where Spock goes for soul food, but he tries not to make a big thing about it so to be politically correct.
Anyway, my love of onrushing superguys is why, despite the fact that the once great, originally Morrison-flavored JLA book was getting a bit long in the tooth and was not long for this earth-1 in 2005, I still like the covers of these two comics, with the JLA and the CSA rushing towards each other for...I dunno, a picnic or something.
JLA #107-108 (December 2004-January 2005), art by Ron Garney and David Baron
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You may quibble that it might technically not be a mural because the earthy bits don't line up...it sort of forms a football shape rather than a globe. What, like you've never heard of Earth-Egg?
Panel from X-Men: First Class #11 (June 2008), script by Jeff Parker, pencils and inks by Colleen Coover, colors by Val Staples, letters by Nate Piekos
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