EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 30 © 2020 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

62 company brought them out as black-and-white horror magazines, aimed at a slightly older readership, and achieved great success. Not wanting to be left behind, Marvel, the main purveyors of superhero comics, decided to hit the black-and-white comic magazine market, too. Since their main competition brought out comic magazines with full-colour painted covers, Marvel didn’t want to be left behind, and brought an illustrator from the pulps that Martin Goodman, founder of what would later be known as Marvel, had used back in the day when he published mainly pulp magazines. The magazines Marvel started to put out, featuring many of the characters from their full-colour comics, would also feature full-colour painted covers showcasing these super‐ FACING PAGE: Starlord , acrylic with airbrush on board, date it 1979. Marvel Super Special No. 10 cover (Marvel, 1979), featuring a Science Fiction superhero. ABOVE: ‘ I Found WWII’s Secret $6,000,000 Looted Treasure’ , gouache on board. Action For Men cover, July 1968. Nazis in South America!