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Unintentionally Hysterical Cover

Filed Under Books, Comics Artists | 11 Comments

Allright then, be perfectly honest. What do you see when you look at this cover very carefully? This is an actual cover OK? Not a photoshopped thing. It’s real! I was browsing for old DC comics from the 70′s because I was trying to track down comics I loved reading as a kid when I came across this cover. I’ve never seen it before but it made me look at it, and ponder it, and when I realized the image it seemed to convey, my jaw dropped… and I closed it quickly again. Very quickly.

Not only that, what’s that dead guy’s fingers doing right there on the foreground? There’s more, but Manny Villar might get me.

EDIT: Browsing the Internet for info on this, I get the impression that the phallic symbolism in this cover is not exactly “unintentional”.

http://kellersaid.blogspot.com/2007/04/erotic-art-of-bob-oksner-part-i.html
http://kellersaid.blogspot.com/2007/05/erotic-art-of-bob-oksner-part-ii.html

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11 Responses to “Unintentionally Hysterical Cover”

  1. Ed on September 3rd, 2008 12:20 pm

    Dicks all over! :P

  2. Rod Samonte on September 3rd, 2008 1:18 pm

    Auggie,
    If and when they dominate US comics, I think that would already be global domination. Kasi this is where all the illustrators want to be whether they be British (Bolland, Barry Windsor-Smith for example), Spanish (Maroto, Bermejo, Aura-Leon), Italian (Simone Bianchi), Argentine (Carlos Meglia, Ariel Olivetti), Mexican (Humberto Ramos), whatever. The only country that has probably no representative here (not sure) of the Manga style is Japan. But there’s so many Americans (as well as Pinoys) who can do Manga. Actually hindi lang Pilipino ang nagkaroon ng invasion dito. The British, and Spanish comic artist had there own equivalent invasion of American comics. Remember Warren publishing, where half of the artists were Pilipinos and the other half were Spaniards with a few sprinkling of Americans here and there.
    Rod

  3. auggie on September 3rd, 2008 2:49 pm

    Gerry,

    Phallic symbol iyan at mi yagbols pa ! loko din ang gumawa nito ano ? kilala mo ?

    Rod,

    Oo , pero kulang pa iyan. Ang sinasabi ko talagang WORLD DOMINATION, eh pati publishing house at writers eh mga Pinoy din. Sayang nga yung WARREN. buhay pa ba si JIM WARREN ?

  4. Rod Samonte on September 3rd, 2008 4:00 pm

    Auggie,
    Dito ko pala naipasok itong sagot ko sa iyo. Dapat doon sa previous entry. I don’t know what happened to Jim Warren. But his publications certainly took U.S. comics by storm. Pero tungkol sa iniisip mong World Domination, pangarap lang iyan at imposibling mangyari sa Pinoy. But if World Domination is what you’re looking for in comics, there has already been something like that already in place for a long time now…and they are called Marvel(or Stan Lee) and DC. Mahirap buwagin ang dalawang ito.
    Rod

  5. Eusebio Yu on September 3rd, 2008 5:34 pm

    Gerry,

    The caption should be “…our Warped Minds worked!…”

  6. Gerry Alanguilan on September 3rd, 2008 6:50 pm

    Auggie! Bob Oksner yung artist.

    Tama ka dyan Eusebio, hehe.

  7. Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Sept. 3, 2008: Returnable on September 3rd, 2008 7:27 pm

    [...] [Snark] The erotic art of Bob Oksner: part one, part two. (Links via Gerry Alanguilan.) [...]

  8. Rod Samonte on September 4th, 2008 12:40 am

    Gerry,
    Looks like the 12-foot Superwoman vs the 12-foot phallus. Nice action though.
    Rod

  9. Robby Villabona on September 4th, 2008 9:03 am

    Rod,

    I think the reason you don’t see many Japanese artists doing American comic books are:

    1. They make more money and have better opportunities in Japan
    2. The language barrier
    3. Their “invasion” is wholesale — not just by artists

  10. kc cordero on September 4th, 2008 9:17 am

    mind warp is acceptable just like time warp. it’s a dialogue not a caption.

  11. Jose Mari Lee on September 4th, 2008 12:15 pm

    Actually, it reminds of Noel F. Lim’s THE SEX MEN komix.