Cap'n's Comics

Who Is This Is? by Neal Adams

2026-08-23T22:20:24.851-07:00

Help! Nine years ago I put the first image up, ask'n if anybody had a clue, and four years ago, upon hearing of Neal's passing, I put up the second image as the lead picture in a big post of many of my favorite Neal Adams art. Not a peep either time. When I first started wondering about this guy, his hair was a crewcut and his outfit was inorganic (and my beard was black)

The next day, and--woohoo! McScotty has not only solved my nine-year mystery, but led us to a biggerbetterfasterstronger version of this great art (which is what I really craved all along). Also, he has a great blog

Another Lightray by Jack Kirby

2026-08-21T13:42:13.943-07:00

Only the first image is new on here. Luv this guy-he's right there with Big Bear for a personal fav Kirby karacter

Sweet Co-Inky-Dink by Gil Kane

2026-08-20T19:30:35.076-07:00

I got married in July of 1985 (41derful years, as I now say), and The Sword of the Atom Special #2 came out in July of 1985. Never realized that, but I've long realized it has onea my toptenteentunes fav covers. Almost 20 years ago, the trade came out, but I just finally see that awesome cover is the back cover of the TPB. Layers of co-inky-dink, like an onion. Maybe that's why my eyes are a little sweaty

Red, White'n Blue Jack Kirby

2026-08-18T21:54:44.116-07:00

Here's five variations on the theme, but I feel there's probly more. If you know of sump'n sump'n else Jack did with this, please holla

Collection Covers by Steve Ditko

2026-08-17T13:57:34.748-07:00

Hear'n about (thanx, Russ!) and look'n up Ditko Batman made me take another gander at these wunnerful covers, but once again, I'm left wanting a little sump'n sump'n more. The Shade cover leads to the Creeper cover and the Hawk'n Dove cover, but where's the Stalker cover? Truth be told, much like the other three, I've seen all the Stalkers and (as Cap'n Jack says) kept all I wanted and burned the rest, but I would really enjoy another omnibus cover

Heritage Silver Surfer Cover by Jack Kirby

2026-08-16T17:53:26.896-07:00

Help us, Obi-Wan, you're my only hope! Where did this originally appear? It twern't down any of MY rabbit holes

The next morn'n, and I'm highly appreciativc of Russ (again) for making me open my crumbling copy of FF #55, which I didn't risk before because A. I remembered a great Surfer/Thing fight, but not this page, and 2. The crumbling. At least page 3 was easy to scan cause the cover and splash/letters page fell off when I opened the bag

Warrior Fanzine Cover by Barry Smith

2026-08-15T21:52:32.887-07:00

Conan on a funky horse...but still Conan! First image is new on here, a biggerbetter fasterstronger of an old fav

Saxcrifice by Frank Frazetta

2026-08-08T21:36:27.397-07:00

Third image is what we got on the paperback cover of Conan The Avenger, but the watercolor and roughs show Conan lost an axe. This leaves Conan in the rare sitch of being bare-handed, and while his paws look like more than a match for any jar of pickles, I still wish the final painting had the axe

The Barrel-Chested Barbarian by Berni Wrightson

2026-08-05T22:04:07.869-07:00

Another look at a whoisthisis by Berni. Just saw the first, but the wrinkly one has been on here forever. If you can lead me to a better image of it, please holla

Another In The Lower Depths by George Metzger

2026-08-04T23:16:18.433-07:00

In the not-so-distant, I put up the first four, and folks said they hadnae seen em, so here's another one, from the fanzone Voice of Comicdom #14. I dig that the title is made from girders, and at the other end, a woman is hav'n her tenth forbidden child. I know a woman who's had 10, and she told me it just gets easier and easier, with the oldest ones help'n with parenting, errands, and chores

The Green Turtle by Jim Steranko

2026-08-03T22:24:12.091-07:00

Yeah, Steranko has rendered a lotta great golden age heroes, but nothing compares to this guy. His cape alone is worth the price of admission. "Ten dollars gets you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!" Ah, Monster Truck rallies

The Invisible Girl by Jack Kirby

2026-08-03T12:50:14.540-07:00

If I'm grok'n correctly, this is weirdly wunnerful. First is the 2nd printing of the Marvelmania Fantastic Four poster, with Sue Storm actually turn'n on (or off) her invisibilty. It also looks a lot like the time Jack colored it himself (second image) with Reed's boogered arm, but beautifully understated colors. Third is the first print'n, and it's always bugged me, with Reed's one sunburned cheek

The Scarlet Citadel? by Roy Krenkel

2026-07-31T23:08:31.541-07:00

Dunno if this counts, but it is from the book Fantastic Worlds of Robert E. Howard, which Russ told me about in the wayback when I was grous'n about not find'n more than a title page rough for Roy's last hurrah, illustrating Howard's Scarlet Citadel. Apparently, I must obtain this tome and see what's what, cuz this looks like it's actually Hadon of Opar

Who Is This Is by Wally Wood

2026-07-30T22:48:54.169-07:00

Course, I wanna see this biggerbetterfasterstronger, but I'm just as thirsty to know who wore a clock on his chest. My best guess right now is "Back at One Man"

Mr. A. by Steve Ditko

2026-07-28T12:52:50.190-07:00

If you search Mr. A. on here, you won't find this one (okay, now you will). The use of black'n white was truly incredible, but Ditko gave me the heebie-jeebies when talk'n about right and wrong. I never tell a lie, except for what I just said, and I'm honest to a fault. Then when I get to the fault, I fall in, and try to drag everything and everyone with me

Mantor and Raplor by Gil Kane

2026-07-25T07:27:44.779-07:00

Another Sectaurs delectable I'd never seen! Speak'n of Raplor, I'm giving out onea my coveted non-prizes if you know the source of this ancient rap lyric:

If every rapper was a lover, I'd be Don Juan

If every rapper was a spy, I'd be James Bond

Make all the other rappers look dirty and polluted

Because of the way my rap is executed

Gil Kane and Jim Steranko Together Again!

2026-07-24T13:12:59.086-07:00

Oh, my heck! I had no idea Kane did anything for Sectaurs, but the Steranko piece has been on my radar since 1995. If you know of more Kane and/or Steranko on Sectaurs, please holla

Abe Lincoln by Jack Kirby

2026-07-22T14:06:17.783-07:00

The one time I go to DC, I get off the Metro, ask a metro worker where's a good breakfast, he directs me to a greasy spoon across from Ford's Theater and, well, the rest is history

Colorful Ben Grimm by Jack Kirby

2026-07-19T21:42:34.555-07:00

The Thing is, as you may know, the Cap'n luvs him some double entende, so when onea comicdom's most colorful characters is also onea the most colorful splash pages, I start to chortle and rub my hands together like a villian using a hot-air dryer VS a paper towel

Buster (Flash Gordon) Crabbe by John Fantucchio

2026-07-18T22:38:00.639-07:00

Sometimes I amaze myself at what I've forgotten to post. Love Flash, in fact, I believe right behind Conan, Flash Gordon is the most prolific character on here. Love Fantucchio, so kinda weird this wasn't already on here. Love Larry Crabbe, even though the extent of our "friendship" is a few minutes we sat and talked at a table of nutritional supplements set up in a hallway in a shopping mall in Phoenix around 1980

The Bob Kline Self-Portrait

2026-07-16T19:39:45.936-07:00

From the pages of onea the all-time great fanzines, MCR (Modern Comics Review) #4

The Unknown Ones Splash Page by Al Williamson

2026-07-15T20:50:43.398-07:00

...and I gotta assume a touch of Roy Krenkel. I was one years old when this came out, and even then I was smil'n with delight. Reminds me of the comedian who saw a couple at a rodeo with their newborn, and realized "It WAS his first rodeo, and he WAS born yesterday"

Prince Valiant by Hal Foster

2026-07-13T16:12:11.501-07:00

In the wayback, I got into the colorful Prince Val sundays, so take a gander again, but this daily got neglected, and I dig it so much

Russ Manning and Larry Todd

2026-07-13T16:04:35.339-07:00

Finally! Only been doing this blog for 16 years, so of course this is the first Manning up here (endless great Tarzans to choose from, Cap'n, you might say with a snort, but the heart wants what the...)! Russ did that image as a sci-fi fanzine cover in 1948, and if you squint and look sideways, you can catch a glimpse of Todd's organic space voyager twenty sump'n years later

And In This Corner Part Tres

2026-07-09T22:10:06.539-07:00

As I said before, onea my fav corner boxes was Conan by Barry Smith. The young charg'n barbarian of the first 11 issues was ah-ite, but the guy on the last 13 issues was che cool. Designed for the box, and then think'n outside the box, this mature Conan with an axe to grind really resonated