From The Bronze Age Of Comics And DC Here's Strange Adventures Issues 1-65 Of 200. (note: there are already several issues from this series already on the site thanks to Zen Tiger and Gary. i have straight run of the 1st 200 issues starting this post with 1-65)
Strange Adventures Issues 1-7 rar pack
Strange Adventures Issues 8-12 rar pack
Strange Adventures Issues 13-18 rar pack
Strange Adventures Issues 19-29 rar pack
Strange Adventures Issues 30-39 rar pack
Strange Adventures Issues 40-53 rar pack
Strange Adventures Issues 54-65 rar pack
ENJOY!
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Mystery artist Cresto made his only two appearances in #5 and #6. A cover and short story in #6 tell the tale of an asteroid trailing Earth which sends huge tentacles into the Earth to suck out natural resources.
Classic B movie type plot is great, complete with a black and white montage panel that evokes the stock footage shown in most B SF movies of military men getting ready to repel the invasion.
The GCD says these were the only two appearances of Cresto. There's no signature. The style reminds me of Reed Crandall and I thought it might be him. Who was this guy?
Virgil Finley contributes a few two page pieces early in the series. Toth has short stories in 8,9,12,13,17,18 19. Bernie Krigstein has a short story in 32 and 33. The first 40 issues used regular rotating artists such as Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino, Bob Oskner, Mort Drucker.
Thank ya Dave. I'll have to find time to read more.
Hello Mark, there are some artist that i would like to know about. the guys who did the cover work for Gold Key Comics like Boris Karloff, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Korak Son Of Tarzan etc... and the old Dell and Charlton comics too. i have often wondered who the artitst were. always thought Gold Key and some of the otheres i mentioned had some of the best cover art. oh and old DC like House of Mystery.
Hey Dave, here's some Gold Key cover artist info from
http://www.erblist.com/erbmania/kw/kwdell-etc2.html
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George Wilson
I found only fragmented information on this artist who painted Gold Key’s covers. I have no birth date or place. He was in Normandy in the European theater in WWII. This suggests that he was born in the 1920s. He passed away on December 7, 1999. He was a prolific artist who did painted acrylic covers for paperback companies like Harlequin and Avon. His painted comic cover work was done for Classic Illustrated, Dell and then Gold Key. He did the covers for Turok, The Twilight Zone, The Phantom, Boris Karloff, The Outer Limits, The Jungle Twins, Brothers of the Spear, Star Trek, etc. His work on the 15 Avon Phantom paperbacks is a favorite series in my collection. Then George painted the Gold Key covers for Tarzan and Korak. At some point he began doing Dell Tarzan covers either after Moe Gollub or trading issues with him. His volume of Gold Key work was immense as he was doing more than a dozen paintings a month. Generally George would get his drawings assignments and sketch a couple of ideas and submit them. His editor would select one and make suggestions, which would quickly be painted. He did hundreds of painted covers for Gold Key.
Richard Powers was another fellow Gold Key artist sharing the cover chores. I recognize his work on Dr. Solar. He would be remembered for the Ballentine Tarzan paperback covers but I don’t think he did any Tarzan work for Gold Key.
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http://www.comicbookdb.com/creator_chron.php?ID=7358
George Wilson - Chronological Listing
This has some samples you can click to see.
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Norman Saunders painted a lot of the comics you and zen have posted here. He also painted some of the Batman Tv cards and some Mad Magazine covers. Here's some Golden Age covers he did
http://www.normansaunders.com/comicstbs01.html
I mentioned the website before in relation to his work on Men's Adventure magazines and neglected to mention his comic work.
Dave, here's another nice page of Norman Saunders art
http://www.americanartarchives.com/saunders.htm
I don't think he did any Mad magazine covers after all. He did do the Mars Attacks cards and the Batman cards for Topps. I got confused. I blame the allergies.
Hey Mark, thanks for the info! those guys or i should say mainly the one who did so many great covers. at least i alway's thought the Gold Key and like comics of the time were some of the best. but you never here anyone mention him it's always Ditko or Kirby and other greats of this kind of work. just wondered why his work seems almost forgotten. i have'nt had a chance to check out the site link but im going to very soon. been kind of hecktic here lately.
That George Wilson guy sounds amazing. More than a dozen cover paintings a month? He must have knocked them out in a day and a half.
I think not signing the covers helped to keep him somewhat obscure. I wonder if that was company policy for some reason.
Can you think of any that he did sign? Did any of the Gold Key cover artists sign their stuff? I can remember seeing the story artists signing stuff, not that often though.
Now I'm going to have to browse through the Boris Karloff again.
Some of those were straight horror-adventure but some were bizarre, like the polka dot aliens on #36 and the Ditko-Dr. Strange like creatures on #43.
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