Tuesday, June 30, 2009

THE PRICE by JIM STARLIN


$10.00
THE HYPE-UP: Totally weird magazine size 48 page feat of comic book pretentiousness that somehow "works". Lots of photo-referencing and super stylized staging but so what? LOOK at those Steranko-like compositions and crazy transitions. More of a Steranko-head than even Marshall Rogers, Starlin was the king of "adult" comics back in the 70s. And then...? What happened? This happened. He over-reached and produced this mess of a book. But what a mess! A trainwreck masterpiece. This is it. Where the magic went to die in 1981. Worth it for the front and back covers alone.





SOLD OUT!

4 comments:

  1. Was this the stuff that was published in Epic Illustrated.

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  2. I don't think so, it was a new Eclipse book.

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  3. it was republished by epic in color as dreadstar annual #1.

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