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27 January 2012

Vic Prezio's Comic Book Covers

Original art for MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER #18, May 1967

I can't find a bit of biographical info on Vic Prezio. He seems to have been active from the late 50s thru the eearly 70s, doing covers for both comics and "men's adventure magazines" (See Next Post)

He did a number of covers for Magnus, Robot Fighter, (even some I think are wrongly credited to George Wilson).

Most of his comic covers were for Dell... here is a random gallery:

Kona #5

December 1962

January 1963

January 1964

July 1963

July 1964

July 1962

March 1964

may 1962

May 1966

May 1962

September 1963

Bonus, Jan 1965

Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 AD (Gold Key) No. 21
February 1968

Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 AD (Gold Key) No. 17
February 1967

26 January 2012

The ORIGINAL original Land Of The Lost

Almost anyone reading this will think of stop-motion dinosaurs on Saturday morning TV when asked about THE LAND OF THE LOST, unless you only know of that horrible crapfest with Will Ferrell.
In the 40s, there was a radio program by that title about the adventures of two children who traveled underwater with the fatherly fish Red Lantern. Written and narrated by Isabel Manning Hewson, the radio series aired from 1943 to 1948 on the Mutual Broadcasting System and ABC. Art Carney was the voice of Red Lantern.

EC comics published a comic book series, which lasted for nine issues, beginning in 1946. It was illustrated by Dayton Ohio native Olive Bailey.
Here is a story from the first issue:
(click twice to enlarge)

25 January 2012

Comic Book Short Story~~ Chess

Years before the ground breaking comics magazine HEAVY METAL debuted in the US, Warren was pushing the envelope with their horror magazines. Here is a tale by Esteban Maroto from Eerie #41, 1972. This version was colorized and reprinted in Comix International in 1975

24 January 2012

1939 World's Fair souvenir

My best friend popped by with this dandy trinket he found in a box of his mother''s things. It's a small (about 1x2 inch) steel replica of one of the exhibits at the 1939 New York fair.."The World's Largest Typewriter" by Underwood. Despite this geegaw's small size, it apparently was designed to be a bank. You might be able to stick 5 dimes in it.