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Sketching silver-age Covers

One of my hobbies (well my main hobby actually) is re-drawing covers from the silver-age and trying to make them as close as I can to the originals.  I draw by eye only - no tracing allowed. One of the ways I make sure not to cheat is that I draw my

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X-men Covers Covers Cluttered by the Angel?

I was glancing at a number of classic X-men covers in the original series, all drawn by Jack Kirby.  It occurs to me that if you allow these scenes to animate, that is, in your minds eye, they were more than carefully composed.... they were cluttered

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On the Shoulders of Atlas Comics...

If the title of this thread seems overly clever or familiar, it's because  I've stolen/ borrowed this title from the four page introduction to the final Tales of Suspense Masterworks volume #186, penned by Barry Pearl, because I think it's very appro

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House of Secrets kids covers

In the 1960-70s, the covers of House of Secrets frequently featured the same few kids in dangerous situations.

They weren't always aware that they were at risk, perhaps being threatened by a supernatural threat or one sees the threat, and is about to

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