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Post by Farrar on Nov 28, 2022 15:41:17 GMT -5
All right, here's one I don't own, but I've been searching for, for some years now...but sadly I've never seen it available on my preferred sources eBay or Etsy 1957's Caught #4.
I do own Caught #2 and #3, also with John Severin covers, but to me this one stands out. He both penciled and inked this; and his details are precise and phenomenal, including the nubby texture of the detective's suit; the wood; the barely concealed fugitive's gun; the patterns in those 1950s ties; the fugitive's forehead furrow. I think I can even see the main guy's eyelashes(!!) on the main guy (I'd need to see the actual comic to confirm this). Colors by Stan Goldberg, who in many interviews has stated he colored practically all those Atlas era covers starting from ~1951.
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Post by earl on Nov 28, 2022 19:02:19 GMT -5
It would take a while to find his best Cracked cover, but this one caught my eye and there would definitely have to be one in a John Severin review. I think this cover achieves peak '70s. That was what caught my eye. I'd love to go through a big stack of 70s Cracked. I had boodles of them as a kid in the 70s.
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 28, 2022 21:40:26 GMT -5
I think this cover achieves peak '70s. That was what caught my eye. I'd love to go through a big stack of 70s Cracked. I had boodles of them as a kid in the 70s. I can't believe more Cracked covers haven't been posted... Severin did bookoodles of them.
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Post by foxley on Nov 29, 2022 3:26:36 GMT -5
chaykinstevens
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 29, 2022 3:45:06 GMT -5
Farrar
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 4:23:03 GMT -5
foxley
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2022 4:55:21 GMT -5
badwolf
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Post by DubipR on Nov 29, 2022 8:46:03 GMT -5
Badwolf
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Post by MDG on Nov 29, 2022 9:45:01 GMT -5
chaykinstevens
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Post by Jesse on Nov 29, 2022 10:28:35 GMT -5
MDG
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Post by berkley on Nov 29, 2022 10:53:51 GMT -5
kirby101
though really it was a 3-way tie for me between the two Kulls and the Dracula
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 29, 2022 11:18:30 GMT -5
farrar for a thing of beauty.
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Post by tarkintino on Nov 29, 2022 12:32:56 GMT -5
Farrar. Outstanding is too mild a word for that cover.
Honorable mention: chaykinstevens and Icctrombone.
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Post by MWGallaher on Nov 29, 2022 14:24:26 GMT -5
Farrar for me, too.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Nov 29, 2022 14:29:55 GMT -5
MDG
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