On the subject of covers

With nothing but a spear he attempts to rescue the bound blonde human sacrifice from the voodoo, Nazi klansmen. Now, that's a comic book cover. (I'm pretty sure this one is by the great Alex Schomburg).

Wolverton's Spacehawk makes his only cover appearance.


The art in Fox's Phantom Lady stories could never live up to Matt Baker's covers.



And one more from Fox (complete with the word nude in the title).
I believe this last one is by E.C.'s Jack Kamen

What's wrong with comic book fans -- fictional biography edition

Intellectual Amos was a feature that ran in the back of the Spirit Section (greatest comic book ever, but that's a topic for another day). Its creator was a talented Haitian-born artist named Andre LeBlanc best known for his illustrated Bible.

I know this because the good people at Lambiek have a biological sketch on LeBlanc. You can also find an entry on Andre LeBlanc in Wikipedia. The only trouble is that it's not an entry on the artist; it's an entry on a fictional DC Comics villain probably named after the artist (though that fact isn't mentioned).

The only thing more boring than a fictional biography of a comic book character is a retconned biography. None of what's good about comics -- either as works of art or pieces of entertainment or business case studies or historical documents -- makes it into these dreary, badly-written Cliff Notes.

OK. I've got it out of my system. You can come back now and enjoy this story from July 9, 1944.