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Mentioning Bill Everett in our recent Gullivar Jone of Mars posts reminded me of this...

...the centerfold for the one-shot 1968 PussyCat b/w magazine for which Bill also did the cover...

Everett, besides being a talented writer and illustrator, also did coloring and production work from time to time, including graytone work (usually listed as "special effects") and spot illustrations for both Marvel and Skywald's b/w magazine lines!

Truly a Renaissance man...

Plus, PussyCat will return shortly...(hey, we've been busy)!

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Flash Gordon #7 Cover Preview

There's no Flash Gordon like a "classic" Flash Gordon.

 Have you noticed that all the attempts to "update" the character modify him so much as to be unrecognizable?
(Remember the Smallville-ized Sci-Fi, er, SyFy version? YUK!)
Thankfully, Dynamite's current series goes back to the basics, combining the best of Alex Raymond's (and successor Mac Raboy's) original strips with the movie serials, 1980 feature film, Filmation tv series, and Al Williamson's contributions in the '60s and '80s, to make a kool pastiche almost on the level of the Dini-Timm-McDuffie DC Animated universe.
Top it off with superb covers like this one for #7 by Francesco Francavilla, and it's a must-have package for high-adventure fans of all ages.

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Design of the Week--Warrior of Barsoom

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...with a new big-budget movie based on the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs book A Princess of Mars opening in less than two weeks, now's the time to pick up a collectible t-shirt, tote bag, mini-button, or other wearable featuring kool vintage art by Burroughs mainstay Jesse Marsh to have on hand when you go to a screening, or the opening day, of John Carter (If you're reading this blog, you know you'll be in line, like me!)
Go "secret chic" with a throw blanket to lay on the cold movie theatre floor while you wait in line at the midnight show or a tote bag to carry your "forbidden" food and drink into the theatre featuring Dejah Thoris, John Carter, their Thoat, and a deadly Thark, and see how many true fans recognize it!

Reading Room: GULLIVAR JONES "River of the Dead"

The John Carter movie is only a week away (March 9th)...

Art by Gil Kane and unknown inker

Meanwhile, we're continuing the adventures of his swashbuckling predecessor on Mars, Gullivar Jones, as we present the second, never-reprinted chapter of the short-lived comic adaptation from Creatures on the Loose #17 (1972)...

To be continued...HERE!

You'll note that Sam Grainger has replaced Bill Everett as the inker.

Unfortunately, Everett's health was declining and he had to cut back on the volume of work he was doing, preferring to devote what time he had to working on his greatest creation, Prince Namor: the Sub-Mariner.

He passed away a little over a year later.

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Reading Room: INTERPLANETARY POLICE "Space Magnet"

All three of Reed Crandall's InterPlanetary Police tales begin with people sitting around...

...but things never stay quiet or boring for long in one of his magnificently-illustrated stories!

This high-adventure story from Buster Brown Comic Book #31 (1953) was written by Hobart Donovan, penciled by Reed Crandall, and inked by Ray Wilner.

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