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Friday, March 7, 2025
Favourite covers: The savage pencil of Neal Adams
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Some great covers there, McS. I'll be doing a cover gallery before too long of Conan Saga, which reused many (if not all) of the covers from SSOC. Been planning on doing it for ages, but just never found the time.
ReplyDeleteI only bought the first 5 issues of Conan Saga so I will look forward to seeing that when you have time Kid
ReplyDeleteNeal Adams made those fantasy world feel real. One can almost smell the sweat and blood on his brawny heroes as they cleave their way to some rough justice or perhaps merely survival.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I get a bit weary of comics I always pick up a Neal Adams Conan type book and I once again "get" why I love the genre so much.
ReplyDeleteAdams was at his absolute peak at this time, Paul. I'd pick up anything he did. His Conan looked very much like his Tarzan, as shown on those superb Ballantine paperback covers.
ReplyDeleteDid you get/still have those Six Million Dollar Man B&W magazines Adams drew for Charlton? I'd love to get my issues again, but they seems to be priced at $80 and upwards per issue.
I haven't manage to track a copy of Six Million Dollar Man down at a reasonable price Ian . I gave my one issue away years ago - I just won't pay that money for a comic like that ( maybe a Batman lol) afraid not mean just not that daft lol. I was such a Neal Adans fan at this time as well that I puck up everything I saw with his name on it and in some cases his imitators comics -it took issue 1 of Skate Man to make me draw back ... a wee bit ;)
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