Cap'n's Comics

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

And In This Corner Part Deux

2026-07-09T13:50:04.758-07:00

As Russ mentioned on the last post, Marvel's corner boxes mostly started out as headshots, and Jim Steranko inherited a corner box with a Kirby headshot of Nick Fury. But this beauty full figure from Strange Tales 166 helped pump the premiere of Fury's own title. Obviously, I really dug the black'n white corner box on Shield #4

And In This Corner

2026-07-05T17:25:37.658-07:00

Onea the great innovations at Marvel was the corner box, and Gil Kane did an amazeballs job on Cap'n Marvel, I think. I can't be sure, cause the tiny print'n is so poor. If you know of a biggerbetterfasterstronger, please holla. The second image is what I wish was the corner box

Nick Fury Hoists Old Glory by Jim Steranko

2026-07-01T21:49:24.939-07:00

Only the first image is new on here, a colorization of the second image that had everything but. Course, the guys at Iwo Jima will always be number one in hoist'n the red, white, 'n blue, but Fury was not too shabby

The Colors Of The Fanzine Anomaly 3

2026-06-29T19:55:50.318-07:00

The first two issues of this fanzine were, while wunnerfully printed , black'n white, and usually when young fanzine publishers stepped up to color, it was the cover. Jan Strand, however, went genius on us, and had a Bob Kline colored picture a few pages in, and then a Rich Corben colored picture a few pages before the end, and they were the same piece a paper

Some Outasight Black'n Whites

2026-06-27T08:12:55.561-07:00

Heads Will Roll by Berni Wrightson

2026-06-26T19:42:46.934-07:00

Toll bridge, Troll bridge, sump'n sump'n in Seattle, rolltrolltoll. Just another example why I ain't a poet. First image is new on here, but it's not much clearer than the wayback version (heavy sigh)

Ed The Daredevil by Barry Smith

2026-06-26T09:20:18.122-07:00

First image is from a fanzine interview with Barry, and the full verbage in that arrow was Interview Continued before I cropped, then my fav DD pose from issues 50-52

The Space Guardian by John Fantucchio

2026-06-24T22:21:04.544-07:00

wow. Just saw this ad for The Champion #7 fanzine in ANOTHER fanzine, and I'm lov'n that it had a Fantucchio I'd never seen, but acourse I want moremoremore. Here's the other SG on here from the wayback, when I thought Steranko came up with him. If I'm read'n right, though, Big John created this guy, and I'm hoping he's as abundant as Mysterious Hero. If you can lead me to more, please holla

Black Bolt Business by Jack Kirby

2026-06-24T13:41:24.111-07:00

First is another splash from The Silver Age Of Comic Book Art, then the image from the get-go

The Enemies of the Colony Splash by Wally Wood

2026-06-22T22:14:43.132-07:00

aaaaand the best view of the centanks that came from that story (there was another centank earlier in the tale, but he was just a bobble head smok'n a pipe, and this guy looks like what a half man/ half tank SHOULD look like

Ming The Merciless VS Flash Gordon by John Fantucchio

2026-06-22T13:25:09.434-07:00

Oh, my heck! When this post title has been up here before, it was always about the che great Collector fanzine cover, not this pic that;s been around since 1968 as part of a fanzine's photo spread from a convention

Father's Day by Jack Kirby

2026-06-21T14:08:19.010-07:00

As a dad, I see elements of both these dads in myself. Speak'n of dad-do you know why you can't run through a campground? You can only ran through a campground, cause it's past tense (past tents). Steranko once told a dad joke during a fanzine interview in the early seventies: "I went to the doctor the other day, and he said I had Parkinson's Disease...and Parkinson had mine!" Dark, but still a classic dad joke

Seven Million Views! Thanks, Folks!

2026-06-20T21:49:48.286-07:00

These milestones are coming fast and furious now. Kinda reminds me of get'n old

Unused Black Krackle by Jack Kirby

2026-06-19T19:22:24.770-07:00

This Black Panther splash didn't make it into the comic, which is a shame to me, as I've always dug me some Kirby Krackle. Late last century, I was at the comic shop re-purchasing some BPs when Steve made an astute observation while ring'n me up. "This may well be the most under-rated comic series of all time," he said. Way before the movies, and pretty spot-on, I thought, but Steve was always more than a "comic shop guy." He was my Obi-Wan of comics. He saw me picking up some Stalkers, and led me to the Jungle Jims where Wally Wood and Ditko had first teamed up. He led me to Web O Horror and Kirby Unleashed (befoe eBay!). Bazillion other treasures, too, but mainly I miss his words of wisdom.

Anyhoo, I got another Cap'n's Non-Prize bubbl'n over here. Of the twelve issues of Kirby's Black Panther, which splash replaced this jewel? Diversions of the Groovy Kind has had all the splashes up for 16 years, if that can assist

The Silver Age Trad'n Card by Barry Smith

2026-06-18T20:01:48.892-07:00

See some waybacks for Avengers 100, but it's great to see this handshake without all the word ballloons. This moment was years before Howie came up with the fist-bump