Friday, April 9, 2021

Tripping Out

HEAVY METAL  Vol.26  /  6
"TRIPPING OUT"


It's been awhile since I've posted a stand-alone story on this blog, but I'm doing it now.

"TRIPPING OUT"

This is the work of writer Arnold Drake and his friend, artist Luis Dominguez.

It was an interview with Drake in ALTER EGO magazine that really surprised me.  While I'd seen his work in some late-60s Marvels, particularly, X-MEN and CAPTAIN MAR-VELL (both with art by Don Heck and some questionable inks), I'd forgotten my first exposure to his writing was in the hilarious NOT BRAND ECHH comic, and was unaware he'd also written the equally-zany JERRY LEWIS comic-book.

I got ahold of Drake's e-mail and wrote him a fan letter.  To my surprise, he wrote back.  I wrote back.  He wrote back again.  A real conversation got started.  This went on for a couple months, until he finally sent me an e-mail in which he said... "Enough of this shit. We need to have lunch."  I don't think he realized it was a 200-mile round-trip for me, but I went!

On re-reading his Marvel work, I came to the conclusion that his writing was actually better than the flashier work they replaced him with.  On CAPTAIN MAR-VELL in particular, I felt he was the first writer (out of 3) who had any idea what the hell he was doing on that misbegotten series, and was only hampered by having to deal with a "soap-opera" format.  But just as the "big story" was finally starting to get somewhere, he was booted off the book --although the first 2 completely-incoherent episodes after he left were credited to him, I believe, in an effort by his editor to bad-mouth his reputation further, after the guy had already publically accused Drake of being "a Communist" for his earlier efforts to get health benefits for DC free-lancers.

When Arnold invited me back to his apartment, I saw a stunning painting of Vampirella that had been done by his friend, artist Luis Dominguez.  I don't know if that painting ever got published or not.  Dominguez, I found out, had done MANY paintings and covers for Warren, DC and others.  Arnold had written one "final" Deadman story that he hoped would be illustrated by his friends Carmine Infantino, and Dominguez, but after visiting DC's offices, they had NO interest.  Those stupid bastards!

When I found out about this story for HEAVY METAL, I made sure I got ahold of the issue, even though I had long since stopped buying the magazine regularly. 
I happened across it a few weeks ago while looking through and organizing my magazines, and decided to put it up on the blog as soon as I was done with my Larry Ivie project.

Surprisingly, for this magazine, there's no blatent nudity in it, so I was able to set it up here on my regular blog, instead of the "Adults Only" one.

ENJOY!

HEAVY METAL  Vol.26  /  6
cover by ALEX HORLEY   (HM Communications Inc.  /  January 2003)


"TRIPPING OUT"
Story by Arnold Drake  /  Art by LUIS DOMINGUEZ
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Page 30
Cover Copyright
(C) HM Communications Inc.
"Tripping Out" Copyright (C) Arnold Drake & Luis Dominguez.

Scans from MY collection!

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

Larry Ivie 1965

(Continued from Larry Ivie 1963)

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"THE SKY BOY"


This one's a bit maddening at the moment.  COMIC BOOK ARTIST #14 had an article on Larry Ivie, and it included 2 pages from his 1965 super-hero story...

"THE SKY BOY"

As I set this blog page up, those 2 pages are so far all I have.  Despite repeated online searches, I have been unable to determine WHERE (if anywhere) they were published, and I only know they were done in 1965 because he included "65" with one of his signatures.

So if anybody seeing this happens to know where they were published, and more, could send me HIGH-RES scans of the entire story, I'd really appreciate it!

For more info and commentary about Ivie's SKY BOY, see my page on ALTRON-BOY, Pt. 7.

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cover by ??   (??  /  ?? 1965)
"THE ORIGIN OF THE SKY BOY"
Story & Art by LARRY IVIE


Chapter Two:  "OPERATION THUNDERBIRD"
Copyright
(C) Larry Ivie.

Scans from COMIC BOOK ARTIST #14 (19??).

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

For more:
See more Larry Ivie art at the ERBzine site.
See the Gods Of Mars gallery at the ERBzine site.
Read the obituary/tribute to Larry Ivie at Buzz Dixon's site.
Read Sandy Plunkett's article about Larry Ivie in ALTER EGO 152.

See the Larry Ivie Gallery of Illustrations!
Read CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN!
Read THE LAST WAR!
Read SKY BOY!   (Coming soon!)
Read the entire ALTRON-BOY series!

Larry Ivie 1963

(Continued in Larry Ivie 1960)

SATA COMICS 14
"THE LAST WAR"


SATA
was a fanzine started by Dan Adkins, later taken over by Bill Pearson.  It ran for 15 issues from March 1956 to February 1964, starting out focusing on science-fiction in 1956, and later began featuring comics storie by the likes of George Barr, Bob Warner, Roy Krenkel, and Larry Ivie.

I recently ran across FANAC.org, an amazing website that has THOUSANDS of rare fanzines going back several decades posted online for free.  The scans are not necessarily "high-res", and too many of them are posted as Adobe Acrobat PDF files (and too many of those don't display properly on my computer).  But I was able to grab some very rare and interesting material, without it costing me a LOT of money that I can't afford to be spending right now to actually BUY the fanzines themselves.

Among them is the following...

     "THE LAST WAR"

This is an early comics story from Larry Ivie, who I mostly know from CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN and his own short-lived MONSTERS & HEROES.

It blew my mind to be able to get my hands on this and read it FOR FREE.  The scans aren't nearly as big as I'd like, but, you do what you can.

If there's anyone out there who'd like to send me HIGH-RES scans of this, please get in touch!

ENJOY!

SATA  14
cover by BILL PEARSON   (Bill Pearson  /  April 1963)

"THE LAST WAR"
Story by Bill Pearson  /  Art by LARRY IVIE
Page 7
Page 8
Page 9
Page 10
Copyright
(C) William E. Pearson.

Scans from the FANAC.org site.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

For more:
See more Larry Ivie art at the ERBzine site.
See the Gods Of Mars gallery at the ERBzine site.
Read the obituary/tribute to Larry Ivie at Buzz Dixon's site.
Read Sandy Plunkett's article about Larry Ivie in ALTER EGO 152.

See the Larry Ivie Gallery of Illustrations!
Read CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN!
Read THE LAST WAR!
Read SKY BOY!   (Coming soon!)
Read the entire ALTRON-BOY series!

(Continued in Larry Ivie 1965)

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Larry Ivie 1960

(Continued from Larry Ivie)

SATA COMICS 11
"CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN"


SATA
was a fanzine started by Dan Adkins, later taken over by Bill Pearson.  It ran for 15 issues from March 1956 to February 1964, starting out focusing on science-fiction in 1956, and later began featuring comics storie by the likes of George Barr, Bob Warner, Roy Krenkel, and Larry Ivie.

I recently ran across FANAC.org, an amazing website that has THOUSANDS of rare fanzines going back several decades posted online for free.  The scans are not necessarily "high-res", and too many of them are posted as Adobe Acrobat PDF files (and too many of those don't display properly on my computer).  But I was able to grab some very rare and interesting material, without it costing me a LOT of money that i can't afford to be spending right now to actually BUY the fanzines themselves.

Among them is the following...

     "CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN"

This is an early comics story from Larry Ivie, who I mostly know from CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN and his own short-lived MONSTERS & HEROES.

It blew my mind to be able to get my hands on this and read it FOR FREE.  The scans aren't nearly as big as I'd like, but, you do what you can.

If there's anyone out there who'd like to send me HIGH-RES scans of this, please get in touch!

ENJOY!

SATA  11
cover by LARRY IVIE   (Bill Pearson  /  January 1960)

"CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN"
Story by Bill Pearson  /  Art by LARRY IVIE
Page 3

Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Chapter 2:  "THE DRAGON'S EYE!"
Story & Art by BILL PEARSON  /  Page 7
Page 8
Page 9
Page 10
Page 11  /  Editorial
     This explains how the story came together (and who did what).
Page 12-13  /  pin-up BY LARRY IVIE

Chapter Three:  "SIGN OF THE CLAW!"
Story & Art by BILL PEARSON  /  Page 15
Page 16
Page 17
Page 18
"FINAL CHAPTER"
Story by Bill Pearson  /  Art by LARRY IVIE  /  Page 19
Page 20
Page 21
Page 22
Copyright
(C) Bill Pearson.

Scans from the FANAC.org site.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

For more:
See more Larry Ivie art at the ERBzine site.
See the Gods Of Mars gallery at the ERBzine site.
Read the obituary/tribute to Larry Ivie at Buzz Dixon's site.
Read Sandy Plunkett's article about Larry Ivie in ALTER EGO 152.

See the Larry Ivie Gallery of Illustrations!
Read CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN!
Read THE LAST WAR!
Read SKY BOY!   (Coming soon!)
Read the entire ALTRON-BOY series!

(Continued in Larry Ivie 1963)

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Larry Ivie

(Continued from Altron-Boy, Pt. 7)

LARRY IVIE
     (Gallery of Illustrations)


I thought I'd set up a page just for any miscellaneous LARRY IVIE art I liked that I wanted to put on display.  Like the various Poe "Galleries Of Illustrations", this will be a page I can keep adding more pieces to as time goes by.

SATA  10
cover by LARRY IVIE   (Bill Pearson  /  Jan 1959)

Page 6
Pages 10-11
SATA  11

cover by LARRY IVIE   (Bill Pearson  /  January 1960)
XERO  5

cover by LARRY IVIE   (Pat & Dick Lupoff  /  July 1961)
SATA  13

cover by LARRY IVIE   (Bill Pearson  /  November 1961)
Page 1
GODS OF MARS

cover by LARRY IVIE   (Canaveral Press  /  1962)
Page ??
MASTER MIND OF MARS
Art by LARRY IVIE   (Canaveral Press  /  1962)
CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN  1

cover by LARRY IVIE   (Calvin Beck  /  1962)

SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR
Art by LARRY IVIE   (Canaveral Press  /  1963)
TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE TWINS

Art by LARRY IVIE   (Publisher & Year Unknown)
CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN  5

cover by LARRY IVIE  (Calvin Beck  /  1964)
ERB-dom  16

cover by LARRY IVIE   (April 1966)
CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN  32

cover by LARRY IVIE  (??  /  2002)


Artwork Copyright (C) the various publishers.

     Scans of:
SATA #10 (1959) & SATA #11 (1960) from the Fanac.Org site.
SATA #13 (1961) from the PickClick site.
GODS OF MARS (1962) cover from the John W. Knott Bookseller site.
GODS OF MARS (1962) interior page from the Heritage Auctions site.
MASTER MIND OF MARS (1962) from the ERBzine site.
COF #1 (1962) from the AbeBooks site.
SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR (1963) from the Comic Art Fans site
     with special thanks to Doug Ellis.
TARZAN AND THE JUNGLE TWINS (year unknown)
     from the Sandy Plunkett Images On Paper site.
COF #5 (1964) from the Amazon site.
ERB-dom #16 (1966) from the Pic-Click site.
COF #32 (2002) from MY collection!

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.

For more:
See more Larry Ivie art at the ERBzine site.
See the Gods Of Mars gallery at the ERBzine site.
Read the obituary/tribute to Larry Ivie at Buzz Dixon's site.
Read Sandy Plunkett's article about Larry Ivie in ALTER EGO 152.

See the Larry Ivie Gallery of Illustrations!
Read CAPTIVE BRIDE OF THE APE MEN!
Read THE LAST WAR!
Read SKY BOY!   (Coming soon!)
Read the entire ALTRON-BOY series!

(Continued in Larry Ivie 1960)