Author: DOuG pRATt

He’s Mighty Sore!

At the request of Mark Sinnott, I scanned a picture of the original, unedited cover to Journey Into Mystery #83 that his dad, Joltin’ Joe Sinnott, inked over Jack Kirby’s pencil art, for the first appearance of The Mighty Thor. Hover over the color picture to see how the illustration looked on Joe’s drawing table. Click here to see the scan I’m sending to Mark.

A point of particular interest to Silver Age comic book fans is the fact that the figures of the alien stone men were removed (undoubtedly at Stan Lee’s direction) during post-production, after Joe had inked them and turned in the finished job. Later, another comic book inker, who I shall not name, took it upon himself to sometimes erase background figures from Jack Kirby’s penciled pages, rather than ink them.

Ethan Russell’s words about photos

Has it already been a week since I last posted something? Yikes! Gotta get back in the groove.

The first time I saw photographer Ethan Russell’s name was in 1970, on the back of the Let It Be album. The next time I noticed Russell’s name was in 1971, on the back cover of Who’s Next. A few years later Russell took the photo for the only album I was ever tempted to buy solely for its cover.

What should I do, put out an ugly picture? People look at it and they go “Uuugh.” It’s incidental, you know what I mean. It’s nice to have pretty pictures. It’s part of the frosting on the cake for the audience.
– Linda Ronstadt, Rolling Stone, October 19, 1978, issue no. 276, page 52.

Here’s an interview with Ethan Russell, who has a new e-book. This one I’ll have to look at on the Kindle viewer for Windows, because my Kindle Keyboard’s E-ink screen isn’t very good at displaying photos.