Showing posts with label 1961. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1961. Show all posts

12 September 2020

Frank Borth's Mistakes

From the way i've featured and talked about him, one might come to think that i view Frank Borth as some sort of Perfect Artist or something. But, i assure you, that's far from the truth. In fact, he's not only made mistakes - he's made hundreds of them!

Think i'm exaggerating? 
Not at all, and i can prove it.

Here are over 335 Mistakes from Borth -






Before you ask - No. We won't be running a guide to all the mistakes. You'll have to count them yourself.

page art by Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v17 #s 1, 5, & 13 and v18 #s 4 & 12 (1961-1963)

18 January 2020

Covering Early Ditko

Oops.

We forgot a post, even though i mentioned it while we were indulging in Ditko this week. Previously i said we'd get a collection of Ditko covers from Amazing Adult Fantasy and the earlier titles which we were perusing, so here they are - 23 covers from Steve Ditko's rising days in the mid-50s and early-60s...
























Okay...   Now we'll move along from Ditko for a while.

Tomorrow i believe we'll visit with Stanley & Edwin!(?) See you then.

cover art by Steve Ditko from the books for which they're covers (1954, 1956, 1961, 1962)

10 January 2020

S&S's Forgotten Fantasies (Part The First)

Everybody (sic) remembers Amazing Adult Fantasy #15 as the first appearance of Spider-Man. But how many remember anything else about the series?


A title of all Stan Lee & Steve Ditko tales is well worth remembering, wouldn't you think? So, let's do that and spend this weekend looking at some of those old stories. We'll start with a classic Bradbury-esque time travel tale -
 

Sometimes the answer is obvious early on, even if it perhaps isn't obvious until they point it out -



I must admit, there are Many things in modern society that leave me feeling like that crowd above. 


We opened with a time travel tale - let's close for this post with another...
 

They produced seven issues of stories before Spider-Man took over. We'll be back with more this weekend.

page art by Steve Ditko for Amazing Adult Fantasy #s 7 & 10 (1961, 1962)