Category: Comic Books

Bryan Cranston is the voice of Jim Gordon in Batman: Year One, adapted from the comic book limited series, written by Frank Miller and drawn by David Mazzuccelli. Real life cryptocurrency crime fighter Ben McKenzie, who later played Gordon in the Gotham TV series, is the voice of Bruce Wayne.

Here’s that unpublished Harvey horror comic book cover again.

Such exceptionally splendid inking, attributed to Warren Kremer. The needle on the gauge has a shadow!

Here’s another beautifully horrible example.

Bidding will end soon on Frank Frazetta’s painting for the Lancer paperback book cover of Robert E. Howard’s Conan story, “Rogues in the House.”

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/paintings/frank-frazetta-conan-novel-cover-painting-original-art-lancer-ace-1967-/a/7446-1.s

It’s currently at $8,500,000, with Heritage Auction’s so-called Buyer’s Premium taking it up to $10,625,000.

This is Barry Smith’s cover illustration for the Marvel Comics adaptation of the story, as written by Roy Thomas.

Here is an interesting comparison. It’s Bernie Wrightson’s illustration for Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue.”

I am currently the high bidder on this Heritage Auctions item. With all three Harvey Comics leading characters — Richie Rich, Casper, and Wendy — together in the first panel of a 5-page story, how could I resist?

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/warren-kremer-attributed-richie-rich-and-casper-20-a-tale-of-two-pennies-part-3-the-runaw/a/322537-47165.s

The drawings were by a Harvey Comics mainstay, Warren Kremer. The clean, simple lines, as required for Harvey’s humor titles, contrast with the publisher’s Fifties horror comics, as seen in these examples.

This unpublished cover is also attributed to Kremer, demonstrating his masterful brushwork that’s anything but simple.

I’d say this one appears more likely to be the work of Lee Elias.