Joe Kubert, Comic Book Legend
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The Unknown Soldier #265, July 1982, cover by Joe Kubert
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I bought this Joe Kubert art book with $10 of store credit from a local used book store.
When I got a chance to start reading it last night, it turns out to be this crazy signed limited edition. Crazy.
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Classic Joe Kubert cover to Rima, the Jungle Girl #1, published by DC Comics, April 1974.
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Awesomeness from Joe Kubert!
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Joe Kubert will be missed. A lot.
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weird-ass stuff…
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comiXology and Fantagraphics bring another classic cartoonist to the digital screen in Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures: The Joe Kurbert Archives Vol. 1. Joe Kubert sealed his reputation as one of the greatest American comicbook cartoonists of all time with the four-color adventures of Sgt. Rock of Easy Company, Enemy Ace, and Tarzan, all done for DC Comics during the 1960s and 1970s (themselves already the subject of archival editions)… but he had been working in comics since the 1940s. In fact, young Kubert produced an exciting, significant body of work as a freelance artist for a variety of comic book publishers in the postwar era, in a glorious variety of non-super hero genres: horror, crime, science fiction, western, romance, humor, and more. For the first time since the printe edition, 33 of the best of these stories have been collected in one full-color volume, with a special emphasis on horror and crime.
Drawn in the pre-Comics Code era, they are more thrilling, violent and sexy (by contemporary standards) than much of his later work. And just the titles of the comic books from which these stories are taken are wonderfully evocative of a bygone era of four-color fun: Cowpuncher, Abbott and Costello Comics, Three Stooges, Eerie, Planet Comics, Meet Miss Pepper, Strange Terrors, Green Hornet Comics, Whack, Jesse James, Out of This World, Crime Does Not Pay, Weird Thrillers, Police Lineup, and Hollywood Confessions. With an extensive set of historical notes and an essay by the book’s editor Bill Schelly, author of the Art of Joe Kubert art book and Man of Rock Kubert biography. For $24.99, this thick volume of comics takes up no space on your shelf but will no doubt fill your brain with images, keeping you up until the wee hours.
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Tarzan #237, May 1975, cover by Joe Kubert
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Rima the Jungle Girl
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gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie:
Rima the Jungle Girl, no. 6, March 1975; cover art by Joe Kubert.
