Fiction house comic book covers

Tomboy tony can outrope and outride any man, but still longs for love. Planet comics fiction house, cgc fnvf offwhite pages. We are the original and still the premier site to read and download golden and silver age comic books. Prh audio partners with comic book publisher rebellion. Planet comics comic book covers 19401953 hd youtube. Writing an urban fiction is the easy part getting it published is the real challenge. Here at lit hub, we unpacked the biggest book cover trend of the year, compared us covers to their uk counterparts, and remembered the best and worst covers of lolita as well as edward goreys own cover designs. His work is instantly recognizable, in covers for planet stories, spicy detective, spicy mystery, other fiction house pulps like action, northwest, lariat, and especially jungle and the rare sheena. In the postworld war ii years, evans began working for comic books, including an inhouse staff position at fiction house until 1949.

A collection of amazing alex schomburg comic book covers. Plus, we also hold a large and growing selection of comic strips and pulp fiction. This book has 52 pages and was uploaded by michael barnes on december 30, 2010. November 1945 with cover art by joseph doolin old comic books, vintage. Dc comics the house of secrets is the name of several mystery suspense comic book series. Originally, the title ran from december 1956 to october 1966 for an overall 80 issues. Fiction and nonfiction, though, buckley explains, are very different animals when it comes to cover design. See more ideas about comics, fiction, comic covers. But, truth be told, while seduction of the innocent and the comics code greatly affected her rivals, neither really had anything directly to do with the demise of sheena.

And in the story itself, the captain of the spaceship at the centre of this actually takes his own life. But while your story might be entirely imagined, theres nothing fictional about the quality of these covers. Fiction house was an american publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. Nonfiction covers seek to use imagery that conveys exactly what the book contains. Comic book value guide how to value your comics in 3 easy steps.

The grand comics database gcd is a nonprofit, internetbased organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Each book cover is 100% exclusive and sold only once. Echoes of time v2, final battle of the dark wizards, intrepid kevin macleod licensed under. Outlaw lovers hope to steal enough to get married on. The book of jumbo comics covers, one of the more definitive sources, attributes eisners involvement to issues 5, 6, 9, 12, and, although some of these were collaborations with other resident fiction house artists. Lets see some of the favorites from the rest of you shameless attempt to get jb to post his books. Werthams book led to the creation of the comics code authority cca in 1954, which shook up the comic book industry. Scott, head of the pulp producing company, was interested in getting into comic books when he was approached by businessman jerry iger and future comics legend will eisner to do just that.

We get a history of fiction house in its pulp and comic book publishing. If you want to get really creative you can design your own cover from scratch. With graphicsprings book cover maker you can design stunning covers in just a few minutes. Green lantern green arrow iron lantern hand of fate hawkman house of mystery house of secrets howard the duck hulk hulk hulk 2000 hulk 2008. Fiction house was a publisher of pulp magazines and comic books from the. Between 1941 and 1945, hitler was pummeled on comic book covers by everyone from captain america to wonder woman. In september 1938, jumbo comics became the first comic book title fiction house produced. See more ideas about comic covers, comic books, comic book covers. Planet comics 1940 fiction house comic books mycomicshop. Jungle comics fiction house comic book plus old comic books, comic book. In i cant cover what i am, i spotlight a collection of comic book covers of at least ten covers that follow a specific theme today, as alex schomburgs 115th birthday comes to a close, lets just look at a bunch of his classic comic book covers.

More details about this comic may be available in their page here. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your comic collection. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. If it is indeed whitman it is ten steps above the other covers he did for planet comics.

Like most of fiction houses early comics titles, planet comics was a spinoff of a pulp magazine, in this case planet stories. Planet comics was a science fiction comic book title published by fiction house from january 1940 to winter 1953. Book covers today are often simple, revolving around a central imagery thats symbolic and can capture the essence or theme of the plot with one glance. It was the first comic book dedicated wholly to science fiction. This being said, the work that needs to go into selfpublishing is what will make or break a title. If you use the add to want list tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when. The foreword by templeton is good reading and just the right amount of information for each cover is provided in the back. Originally hired to rule panel borders, erase pencils and fill in blacks for other illustrators, he sat next the teenaged artist frank frazetta. That sounds complicated enough but take the sheer amount of book genres out there, and coming up with a book cover to attract readers can be a monumental task. Fiction house comic books planet comics comicspriceguide. Schomburg, of course, was one of the greatest comic book cover artists of alltime. In their essay, sheena of the comic books, bill black and bill feret report that eisner would draw 3 to 4 pencil roughs for each cover, and these would be. Mine now rest on my shelves where we plan to pick it up again and again just to flip through those pages and soak in the fun that was the golden age. Planet comics, launched by fiction house in 1940 came just fifteen months after their first and.

Comic book plus free and legal public domain books. So we hope that you will enjoy the ten worst comic book gimmick covers of alltime. We have 73 books to download or read online the latest is rangers comics 68. Some are better than others but all are enjoyable if you have an interest in this period of comics. This is the ultimate and only book ever on the preeminent but barely remembered pulp cover artist best known for his sexy women.

High quality slideshow of horror comic book covers with music. Fiction house comics and the origin of sheena introduction in his introductory essay in the golden age sheena queen of the jungle, published by ac comics, bill black explains that when he was a kid his favourite comic heroes were superheroes and masked cowboys, like the durango kid. Like the magazine before it, planet comics featured space operatic tales of muscular. Nice bob lubbers gga cover and art, maurice whitman and john celardo art. Dune prequel house atreides comic adaptation in the. Fight comics fiction house comic book plus jungle girl, jungle queen. See more ideas about comics, comic covers and comic books. You dont need any prior design experience, simply browse our book and ebook cover templates and make adjustments as needed.

Our covers are all unique, professionally designed, and only ever sold once. Given that fiction house books were all based on the popularity of good girl art, the code put them out of business. See more ideas about planet comics, comic covers and comics. Nearly half of the titles featured were published by fiction house alone, including fight comics, ghost comics, indians, jungle comics, planet comics, and wings.

Urban fiction book cover designers urban fiction news. This book has a very nice selection of golden age comic covers. Planet comics 71 1953 in 2020 planet comics, comic book. The first nine oversized issues were printed in black and white on tinted paper and all of these covers resembled the cover for. Stories and art by george evans, walter palais, joe doolin, frank doyle, murphy anderson, and maurice whitman. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. The genre is relatively new and many streetlit authors are finding much better success selfpublishing their work. Shop for fiction house comics on, your friendly online comic book store. Detective fiction weekly nov 24, 1934 red star news.

We gave you a brief visual history of virginia woolfs book covers and treated you. As with many of the rangers comics and planet comics covers on this site. Comic book covers presented at cover browser are republished within a. Conveying a story that youve managed to dream up with nothing more than pure imagination can be a challenging task.