John Joshua

A fantasy More Fun Comics cover - the Golden Age Doctor Fate, in his half-helmet, is trapped in rings of magical force by Kulak, foe of the Spectre. One of the Stonehenge megaliths can be seen in the background, while sands run through an hourglass in the foreground. A title reads "The Sands Of Death".

The cover to Strange Tales #158 shows Doctor Strange trapped in rings of magical force by the Living Tribunal, with a megalith from Stonehenge in the background and sands running through an hourglass in the foreground. A title reads "The Sands Of Death!".

A new "One More Issue" Project commission, based on the idea that the Golden Age heroes had one final adventure in the 1940s - Doctor Fate battles the Spectre's foe Kulak in a fantasy cover to More Fun Comics #99, as drawn by Robert Jones (homaging Marie Severin's cover to Strange Tales #158).

Rough pencils for an alternative cover, featuring seven a split cover - one half shows Sgt Rock and Easy Company battling a German tank; the other has seven members of the All-Star Squadron (Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, Robotman, Commander Steel, Firebrand, Amazing Man and Tarantula) rushing Baron Blitzkreig. A floating head of Hitler spans the two sides of the cover.

Were you aware that Gammill did a layout for a potential alternative cover for this sourcebook? I can see why they went with the one that was used, but I think the attached prelim might have been an interesting way to go...

Archbishop of Cant - HER - bury, surely? 😉

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...whistles innocently. 😉

... and then @straczynski.bsky.social saw them online and topped them all with his own mock cover, demonstrating once and for all why he's an award-winning creator/writer and I'm ... not. 😆

These popped up in my Facebook memories from nine (!) years ago - four #Babylon5 pulp magazine covers I mocked up using Pulp-O-Mizer.

... for anyone who, like me, has always wondered what B5 would have been like if it had been written by EE "Doc" Smith or Edmond Hamilton.

Don't sell out before Thought Bubble!

One for the #JSA and #All-StarSquadron fans - All-Star Squadron #150 (from my Continuation Project), drawn by @craigcermak.bsky.social and newly coloured by Rich Seetoo.

Based on John Byrne's cover to Secret Origins Annual #1.

Aha! The secret of what @straczynski.bsky.social is doing in the UK is revealed - he's set up a scaffolding company.😂

(Just to note - this picture is taken from the company's website. A school near me is having some work done, and I saw a similar sign there, but I couldn't get a clear picture).

A new commission from @hotelfred.bsky.social - what if Quality Comics published a 103rd issue of Police Comics starring Plastic Man (it became a cops-and-detectives title with that issue) - and had also managed to do a deal with DC to use Golden Age Superman villain The Prankster as Plas' foe?

...and very nice it's going to look when it's hanging on my wall!

Maybe FF has stolen it?

Here's Vince's unpublished layout for issue #44, and his penciled but unused cover for issue #50:

Back in 2018 I was in contact with Vince Argondezzi, and he was kind enough to share some of his unpublished #InfinityInc material, including two cover designs (one penciled, one just a layout).

I've had Bambos Georgiou work both of them up into final covers for me - and I think they look great!

Was this before or after they collaborated on Thing Thing? 😉

TransPennine "Express" once again demonstrate how inaccurate their company name is.

Once I am appointed dictator they'll be legally required to change their name to the more accurate "TransPennine When We Can Be Arsed To Provide A Train Service"...

Increase a band:

Electric Heavy Orchestra

Galactus?

One for the #JSA fans: I picked this up from my framer yesterday afternoon - Mike Machlan depicts the Justice Society battling Solomon Grundy, drawn (I think) in the late 1990s, and now hanging on my wall.

Machlan was an exceptional talent, and I'm absolutely delighted to own this.

Belatedly, because I've only just realised what the date is - and in solidarity with our French cousins - happy Bastille Day, and "a bas les aristos"!

I've just walked over to, and back from, the local farmer's market, and in my capacity as Prestwich's Arbiter Of Temperature I am officially declaring it far too hot.

Dune 3: It's Cumin Home.

There was time travel involved.

That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it...

Now that's (a) incredibly obscure and (b) brilliant!

I wonder whether, given his many years on Conan, Roy Thomas (and the right artist) might have been able to turn He-Man into a passable Planet Stories-esque series along the lines of John Carter or Leigh Brackett's Stark stories.

... though I imagine he'd have wanted to change the character's name.

Am I the only person who really wants to read that "lost" Spidey/Living Eraser/Devil Dinosaur story? 😜

Arrived!

I'll be keeping an eye out for my postie!