Vintage comic booksvintage comicsadventure magazinewestern. Now, powerhouse books is pleased to present a collection of these uniquely american stories as told through a uniquely american mediumthe comic book. See more ideas about war comics, comic covers and classic comics. An eyecatching design can make the difference between a book that sells and one that stalls, so dont let your future bestseller get passed over due to a soso cover design. Western novel covers rocky lane western comic book cover. The grand comics database gcd is a nonprofit, internetbased organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Marvel comics cover gallery published covers featuring characters from marvel comics. On the other hand, this may as good a way as any to represent the comic. An underrated tv series underserved by its comic book counterpart. Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the american old west frontier usually anywhere west of the mississippi river and typically set during the late nineteenth century. Steranko ranked 4th because he was one of the most influential comic book artist that push away the comic books code restrictions. Bondage cover screenshots, images and pictures comic vine.
This week, our artists paired sonic the hedgehog and sonicrelated characters with other comic book characters. Click on any cover to go to the discussion about that batch of covers. A popular exploitation theme during the golden age of comics, bondage. In his early work, he usually used basic, flat colors and produced what he called poster color covers. Rocky lane western comic books covers, scans of rocky lane western comic books. This page will deal with the most valuable of all, golden age comic books. Also featuring i saw them kill michael farmer and the voodoo widows recipe for death. Also known as whitman comics, gold key operated from 1962 to 1984. Cole once said he estimated that hed drawn something like 1500 covers. Westerns have been a staple genre of comic books with some ups and downs since almost the beginning of the medium. Welcome to the best website for bronze age, silver age and golden age collectible comic books and original comic book art. Don winslow of the navy dennis the menace giant best of dc coleccion vertigo spain factorx spanish buzzy daffy duck a date with judy fawcetts funny animals crazy magazine flintstones dutch. Jan 12, 2018 a fantastic collection of a4 glossy prints taken from beautiful vintage western comic covers dating from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s.
Steranko is featured in the will eisner comic book hall of fame and became a comic book historian. Cole had worked as art director for a lithography outfit, before entering the comic book field in the early 1940s. Comic book version of the 1960s1970s tv western drama. Comics shown in these picture galleries are not for sale and are shown purely for interest. Just a few years later, western bought out pocket books interest and made golden press one of their primary divisions. These trashy, adult exploitation comics are hugely popular in mexico. It was a massive week for television trailers and promos, with all of the biggest assembled right here. The stupendous fantasy of the aztec hounds turned loose on the modern world. Golden age western comics lovingly reproduces in fullcolor, restored, complete scans of 20 of the best western storiesplus a few pinupscreated between the years 1948 and 1956. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres. Though never as popular as dc, marvel or even archie, charlton comics had a long run from 1944 to 1985 and also produced a line of successful publications like hit parader. A roundup of rustic comic book covers created by an array of artists for a variety of charlton comics western titles released in the early 1960s.
We will say that the golden age begins in 1938 and ends in 1956, when the. A cover gallery for the comic book red ryder comics alley oop little king western comics big men comic covers westerns comic books red movies more information. Dont take my word for it, just have a swatch at some of the tamer covers below. We are always interested in buying comic book collections and original comic book art. We hope you enjoy browsing our large format british comics picture galleries where we show covers for many celebrated british comics and picture libraries, including some complete runs. Western comics was a western comic book series published by dc comics. They have a long and complex prehistory in earlier japanese art. Resuming in 1947 with only one 2p issue of the title, consisting entirely of fawcetts funny animals including several hoppy the marvel bunny stories. A cover gallery for the comic book adventure comics dc comic books, comic book. Many of westerns comic products were packaged for the book market under this golden press division. See more ideas about comic covers, comic book covers and comic books. The explicitly gory and gruesome covers for mexican comic. John wayne golden age comics 19381955 for sale ebay. Almost all the actual spankings from comic books and strips we have will be found in this gallery, with most of the independently produced original spanking art featuring comic characters being assigned to comics gallery 1 given the size of this gallery over 250 spankings as of may 2012, if youre.
People set up their stand on january 27 2010 in angouleme western france. Design book cover for free with online templates adobe spark. Golden age westerns comics not signed old comics, vintage comics. This page contains all cover art images in the database for this particular comic series. Here are some of the more popular titles most accessed in the past week. The lone ranger comic book cowboys, by boyd magers. Here are your picks for the 75 greatest batman covers of alltime. Legendary comics creator nicola cuti, creator of eman and moonchild the starbabe, has passed away at the age of 75. Even though weve all been told since childhood to never judge a book by its cover, the fact is that book cover design does attract readers.
Western gunfighters 1956, western outlaws, and western outlaws and sheriffs. A cover gallery for the comic book wild western western comics, western art. Old comics, vintage comics, marvel comics, vintage books, comic book artists, comic books. Its a good thing, too, because oftentimes the interior content especially the fox titles, which are my favorites is terrible. Volume 1 1881 001200 201400 401600 601800 801881 annuals 112 volume 2 annuals vol 1 934present 934 annuals 2018present see also batmancovers, variant covers. Theyre generally pocketsized, up to one hundred pages an issue, with four panels to a page. The term is generally associated with an american comic books genre published from the late 1940s through the 1950s though the genre had continuing popularity in europe, and persists in limited form in american. See more ideas about western comics, comic books and tv westerns.
Penny arcades book covers 1, 2, 3 all feature the two main characters, but thats about it. Dc comic books, comic book artists, comic book covers, dc comics, batman comics. Issue features the siege in which shiloh ranch is trapped by invading bandits and indian braves range war in which a trespassing herd brings trouble and conflict to the shiloh ranch. Comic book cover art that depicts a character physically restrained, most commonly with ropes or chains, and sometimes gagged. This new gallery has been opened to prevent comics gallery 1 from getting overcrowded. Robin hood hrn 129 new cover art gilberton comic book classic. We do offer for sale the unique original comic strip art for these. A cover gallery for the comic book classics illustrated vintage comic books, vintage comics. Crime comics from the 1940s and 1950s have some of the best covers ever created, in my humble opinion. This week we feature the marvelatlas western titles. We can help you find the fair value of your comics. Check out all of the spectacular designs or make your own.
As usual, i will try not to use covers of the same title, but i did have to make an exception for one title and ill admit it, i also cheated once. I grew up reading comics in the 1970s so my familiarity with the books of this decade is the greatest. See more ideas about pulp fiction, fiction and pulp fiction art. The second issue covers a variety of topics, including a fun article by paul bishop on the singular western novel and movie charro.
A comic book is only as good as its cover and these groundbreaking. Two regular titles started in february, 1937 over a year before superman ushered in the superhero age cheslercentaur publications star ranger and comics magazines companys western picture stories, which featured the artwork of the legendary will eisner. Top 100 most valuable comic books of the golden age 19381956 the 100 most valuable comic books from each age. Superworld comics is home to many rare and valuable comics for fun and investment. Newman was so good at handling the lone ranger that he took over writing the. Detective comics volume 1 detective comics volume 2. Its a visual mission statement an image meant to grab the readers attention.
Gold key comics was an imprint of american company western publishing, created for comic books distributed to newsstands. They sell at most newsstands and comic book stores. They didnt spawn the superhero icons other publishers did but released a variety of titles that have become beloved by millions. Superworld comics buying and selling comic books, free. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Babes, crime, helpless women, magazine, true detective leave a comment. In 1958 western entered into a joint publishing effort with pocket books under the name golden press, inc. Browse 164 comic book cover stock photos and images available, or search for. See more ideas about western comics, comic books and comics. Here you can find over 23,000 scans of vintage comic book covers, all unwatermarked and yours for the taking. See more ideas about western comics, comic covers and vintage comics. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your comic collection.