Showing posts with label Gold Key Back Covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gold Key Back Covers. Show all posts

06 March 2014

Dear Nancy Parker "Going Steady"

from   Dear Nancy Parker #2 (September 1963)
Script:Paul S. Newman
Pencils:Mike Sekowsky



I've always liked Sekowsky's females...












02 March 2014

Dear Nancy Parker "Love Song for One"

from  Dear Nancy Parker #1 (June 1963). Some of the great Jerry Robinson's less animated work. Script is probably by Paul S. Newman.











25 February 2014

Astro Boy in "Attack of the Mud People"


Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Tetsuwan Atom (鉄腕アトム Tetsuwan Atomu, "Mighty Atom," lit. "Iron Arm Atom"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka  from 1952 to 1968. The story follows the adventures of a robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way
In 1965, Gold Key published a one-shot comic book, licensed by NBC Enterprises, based on the US version of the Astro Boy TV show. This was done without any input from Osamu Tezuka, who considered the book an unauthorized or "pirate" edition and denounced the publication as "horribly drawn"

from Astro Boy #1 (August 1965). Only issue. Artist unknown


















07 March 2013

Comic Book Short Story~Captain Sabre and the Apache Monster

Laredo was  an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September   1965, to April  1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers.
Despite lasting two seasons, it only had one issue of its comicbook produced. It has the look of a planned Gold Key "one shot" with no ads. It was dated June 1966 with art by Alberto Giolitti. Here is one of the two stories presented:


















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