Marvel Comics celebra diez años de portadas alternativas de dibujante Skottie Young con un póster y muchas nuevas portadas.
Ha dibujado portadas para muchos libros, incluidos Cable & Deadpool , Spider-Man , Deadpool y Iron Man, junto con una popular serie de portadas Baby Variant para docenas de títulos de Marvel.
La conocida pintura American Gothic de Grant Wood de 1930, un inquietante retrato de la américa profunda con un aire de extraña normalidad que te hace estremecer. Homenajeado en multitud de ocasiones tanto dentro como fuera del ambiente tebeístico.
El cuadro ilustra a un granjero sujetando una horca y a una mujer rubia, que unos interpretan como su esposa y otros como su hija, enfrente de una casa de estilo gótico rural.
Wood tomó como modelos para el cuadro American Gothic a su hermana Nan Wood (1899-1990) y a su dentista, el doctor Byron McKeeby (1867-1950), de la localidad de Cedar Rapids (Iowa). La casa la vio desde su coche en Eldon, Iowa, llamando su atención y trazando unos bocetos.
Es una de las imágenes más conocidas del arte estadounidense del siglo XX y se ha convertido en un icono en la cultura popular, siendo una de las imágenes del arte moderno estadounidense más reconocidas y parodiadas.
En este caso la imagen es recreada para la portada del número 7 de la limited serie de Elektra Assassin dibujada por el ilustrador Bill Sienkiewicz.
Anuncio aparecido en una revista para suscribirse a la colección de comics de DC Vigilante (1983) creado por Marv Wolfman y Keith Pollard.
God Mazinger is a Japanese comic book from the 1980s by Go Nagai that is a part of a long-running series, though it may easily be the most bizarre, creative, and entirely off-model, showing the influence of the American author, Edgar Rice Burroughs. A young boy from modern day Japan is transported back in time to the ancient prehistoric lost continent of Mu, where he has to defend an extremely bosomy princess from an invading empire, who uses forces made of still living giant dinosaurs.
The origin of the giant robot in this series is fascinating. Mu was the first civilization created when men were expulsed from the Garden of Eden into the primeval, prehistoric world. I can’t help but think that God was excessively harsh in sending the first people into a landscape with terrifiying giant dinosaurs. Either way, to atone for this, God left a statue of himself, a hundred feet tall, that would protect the first human civilization from monsters and dinosaurs. But according to the Prophecy, it would activate only when a Marty McFly/Luke Skywalker type boy protagonist from 20th Century Japan arrived to use his soul to awaken the giant statue, which becomes a robot with a giant sword.
Frank R. Paul, the definitive pulp scifi artist, did the cover of the first-ever Marvel Comic in 1939. This is because Marvel’s comic books were an extension of their already existing pulp magazine publishing empire.
Marvel Magazines (Timely Publishing), founded by Martin R. Goodman, knew Frank R. Paul as he illustrated the cover of many of their pulp magazines, like Marvel Mystery Stories and Marvel Science Stories as far back as 1938. Marvel Comics started off as an extension of the pulps into a new medium, hence why they called the most famous 20s-30s scifi artist of all time, with whom Marvel Magazines had a strong working relationship.
Frank R. Paul’s cover for Marvel Science Stories, a year before:
Martin Goodman, pulp publisher and the founder of Marvel Magazines in the late 30s, was Stan Lee’s uncle by marriage, and gave Lee his first job in comics writing text stories in Captain America #3 (1942). Goodman had tickets on the Hindenburg’s final explosive flight (two years before creating Marvel’s comic publishing division), but had to cancel at the last minute. Incidentally, I am always amused by pedants who insist that Marvel “was actually called Timely Publishing in the 1930s-40s.” Technically true, I guess…but they were known as Marvel Magazines as far back as the 1930s.
Here’s more support for the idea that Marvel Comics grew out of the Marvel pulp publishing empire: notice that in the first-ever Marvel Comic, they mention “Ka-Zar” on the cover as if the audience should know who he is. And they did! Marvel created that character in 1937, 2 years before Marvel even started publishing comics at all, in a character pulp in imitation less of Tarzan than of the Ki-Gor series.
Many know of Ka-Zar and the Savage Land because he was, like Captain America and the Human Torch, a pre-existing hero who was revived in the 1960s. The really unusual thing is that Ka-Zar was revived in the pages of X-Men, and so was absorbed into the cast of that title and never really broke out as a solo star, though every 2 decades, he gets a solo series.
Encuentra los personajes Marvel Comics ocultos en esta publicación de 1977.
Pizzazz Magazine, November 1977
Detrás de las viñetas.
Walter Simonson, Joe Rubinstein, Pat Broderick, y Ralph Reese posando para Larry Hama y su Iron Fist para Marvel Comics.
Cartel alternativo de «Deadpool 2» (20018)
Cubierta de «The New Mutants» #87 by Rob Liefeld
Carátulas de comics: Wolverine. Poster rechazado de la primera X-MEN (2000) Bryan Singer que servía de homenaje a la portada de WOLVERINE #1 de Chris Claremont, Joe Rubinstein y Frank Miller.
Solitario y su cachorro: Portadas de diferentes comics en los cuales el protagonista representa a un antihéroe acompañado de un bebé al que debe proteger.
