Showing posts with label Look. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Look. Show all posts

03 February 2020

Brief Oddities

We've got an extra post with a smattering of oddities, as mentioned above, and no real theme beyond having accumulated in the blog files. And, y'know... being Odd.

Here's a beautiful and mysterious first page from Omandu -


You may perhaps wonder where the figure absent from the white space in the middle has gone?

He escaped to the cover -


I admire an artist who is wholly committed to the work over the modern obsession for Branding. In fact, the only way to know that this is the cover for The Little Book Of Inner Space #1 is from the indicia box, hand written at the bottom of the first page -


Sadly, this seems almost completely forgotten today. The Grand Comics Database has almost no info, only the front cover.
Every time i put together a list of titles to update in their database, i lose it.
Somebody remind me after a bit and see if i've entered the particulars on this comic.

Elsewhere in Time and California...

What's this crowd waiting for...?


...the chance to party with Mary Fleener
Why me not there?


For a purely odd sidestep in time and space, yet somehow reminiscent of now, here's a one-pager from Look Magazine's second issue, just over 80 years ago...


And buried way down here is the single page comic that started this post going. A simple piece in every way, that works so nicely from the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito...


Omandu say bye-bye -


pages from The Little Book Of Inner Space #1, Life Of The Party, Look v.1#2, and Get Lost #3 (1937, 1954, 1972, 1996)

21 October 2017

Saturday Immortals

This week's Friday Fun & Games quiz comes from the pages of Look magazine in August of 1937 - their first year of publishing. Life magazine started just a handful of months before them, at the end of 1936. Those hugely influential magazines were both born in the dawn of the comic book age. What else was born in that time of creation?

Just wondering.

Anyway, there are plans afoot to go digging through some of those mags from early in the last century - and the one before that - in upcoming entries. After all - just look at how Odd that mix of images is for this cover.

But now - here's their first annual most popular celebrities list for the solution to yesterday's quiz, with the extra fun of listing how much each was earning 80 years ago. (Yeah, as we can see on #3 - some things seemingly never change):


pages from Look v.1 #12 (3 August 1937)