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Even that logo is amazing.

§ December 3rd, 2011 § Filed under found art § 5 Comments

I don’t mind having piles of comics we don’t need dumped on us, so long as I find original fan art like this mixed in with them:


There is nothing about this I don’t love.

(This doesn’t mean that I will happily take your long boxes of Youngblood Strikefile on the off-chance there might be one of your drawings of Crypt in there, by the way.)

At least I spelled it correctly.

§ November 19th, 2011 § Filed under found art § 12 Comments

So it’s only fair, if I’m going to present some anonymous person’s drawing on my site for everyone’s entertainment, I should put up one of my own. Thus, behold this stunning 1974 illustration of the world’s largest rodent by a 5-year-old Mike:


If I were drawn like that, I’d be angry too.

“Got all Spider Women.”

§ November 24th, 2010 § Filed under found art § 9 Comments

So it’s been a while since I’ve brought you some “found art” drawn within one of the old comics or magazines we’ve had floating around the shop. I’ve actually had this particular example for a while, but it ended up getting dumped in a box in the backroom and forgotten until I dug it out again the other day.

Sure, it may look liked your typical beat and mold-spotted copy of Marvel Comics Index: The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (1976), featuring a photo checklist (with credits) of Spider-Man comics:


But within…oh yes, within….

Apparently, the checklist, which only goes up to #151, wasn’t enough, as the previous owner of this index wrote, in red pen, on the “NOTES” page issue numbers #152 through #204, with checkmarks by each number through 194. Apparently the first appearance of the Black Cat was the last straw for this Spidey collector.

Also on the notes page were other details of this person’s collection:


Make no mistake…this dude got all the Spider-Women. Oh yeah.

And while the index does contain a character appearance/issue number listing which is primarily supervillains, there apparently was a need for a separate list of just the bad guys, without such distracting indexing information:


The masterpiece of this particular copy of the Index is this hand drawn and colored image, found on the inside back cover:


At the bottom corner of the inside back cover, written in tiny, tight handwriting, is the signature of the artist, and presumably the former owner of this item:


We salute you, Chris, and your youthful intense obsession with the webslinging wallcrawler. It’s my guess that you’re probably in your forties by now, at least…I wonder if you remember doing all this, and if you do, if you ever wonder what happened to that old Spider-Man mag in which you spent so much time writing and drawing.

But why was he haunted by the ghost that wasn’t there?

§ April 12th, 2008 § Filed under found art § No Comments


Ghost Stories #7 (July-Sept. 1964)


The terrible secret of the man’s curse, of why he is haunted by this apparition, is revealed in a child’s scrawl on the cover of this particular copy from our shop:


“Rememmmmmber to bruuuuuush every daaaaaay…or Dental Health Cat will get you! WoooOOOOoooo!”

You pansies can keep your “light bulbs.”

§ November 29th, 2006 § Filed under found art § No Comments

Wendy gets an idea punched directly into her head, from issue #50 of Spooky Spooktown (Aug. 1973):


As a former librarian, I was a little amused by this: someone having taped their own library book pocket into the inside front cover of Flintstones #36 (March ’75):


Here’s what it looks like on the other side of the cover:


And that’s why tape and comics don’t mix.

FARK runs charming headline re: the passing of Dave Cockrum, FARKites wage war over appropriateness of said headline.