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Showing posts with label Earl Norem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earl Norem. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2026
Conan the Movie by Neal Adams?
Here's an interesting piece of Conan art from the legendary Neal Adams that was published in Savage Sword of Conan #60. A few years before the release of the first Conan movie ( 1982) Adams was approached to provide some storyboard ideas for the proposed film. Sadly these never came to fruition due to the original producer losing the rights to Conan, other fustrations with Holywood followed which resulted in Adams losing interest in the project. As an exercise he provided a set of unofficial ( and unused) storyboard ideas on the opening sequence for what would become the Conan the Barbarian movie
Below the introduction to Neals storyboard idea by Mike W Barr.
Below the cover to SSOC #60 ( art by Earl Norem).
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Top Tens: Earl Norem
Earl Norem (1923- 2015) made his name creating hundreds of covers and interior art pieces for Men’s magazines like Stag, Complete Man and Action for Men (cover example below). As far as I am aware (never having seen a copy of any of these magazines) these weren't soft porn mags but were adventure story magazines with some pretty sexist type male fantasy storylines. Of course it was his work for Marvel where I first became aware of his awe-inspiring cover paintings for titles including Savage Sword of Conan, The Hulk, Tales of the Zombie, Planet of the Apes and Deadly Hands of Kung Fu. I purchased many a magazine /comic based solely on Norem's stunning cover art including the above Dr Who cover for Marvel Premier issue 60 (I am not a big Dr Who fan). Below are some of my favourite of his many stunning cover creations:
Cover taken from American Archives.com
Hulk cover illo taken from Marvel Wiki
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