Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Fred Hembeck covers Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars 4





















Original cover by Bob Layton; 1984 Marvel. Fred Hembeck's website is here.

9 comments:

  1. Puny Covered Blog Readers,
    Hembeck drawing prove Hulk smash Thing in one-on-one brawl.
    -Hulk

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  2. Awesome! I gotta get me a haircut like Hulk here!

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  3. For whatever reason, I take great pleasure that this blog has featured 2 Secret Wars covers; one by Fred and the other by Jeffrey Brown.

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  4. The text on the cover always cracked me up, even when I first bought this issue as a Marvel zombie when it first came out. 150,000,000,000 TONS?? That is not in accordance with the OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE.

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  5. Dude, the Hulk isn't holding a mountain up. He's pushing the rest of the planet down.

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  6. This was the issue in which Secret Wars jumped the shark.
    With Secret Wars #2, it was issue #1!

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  7. Marvel Comics may have jumped the shark with Secret Wars. This started the horribly manipulative trend of tie-in, event comics. It was the beginning of the end for me, anyway. Wasn't the true purpose of this comic to sell toys? I still have some of them in a shoe box.

    Don't get me wrong, I went apeshit for Secret Wars when it came out. I didn't feel like a chump until Secret Wars II. Kitty Pryde and Wolverine didn't help either.

    I guess the real time Marvel jumped the shark was when Kirby left, but I still have a real fondness for a lot of late 70's / early 80's Marvels. It's probably nostalgia, .

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  8. I figured it out....
    Al Milgrom was the shark!

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