Great Scott: The Rare Imaginary Comic Book Covers of Larry Blamire

by Larry Blamire

It's like browsing a spinner rack in another dimension, as artist, writer, filmmaker, bon vivant and nosy busybody Larry Blamire channels his love for 12-cent silver age comic books and sheer absurdity with a colorful volume of completely made up, but strangely convincing comic covers, ranging from slightly quirky to completely unhinged. DC, Marvel, Dell/Gold Key, Harvey, ACG--no type of Silver Age comic escapes his artistic madness as Blamire seeks to capture a wide variety of imaginary comic titles, and convincingly so, suggesting a collection of comic books from an alternate reality. Foreword by celebrated comic book artist/editor/publisher Stephen Bissette.

Genres: Art

90 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2018

Reviews

[Jeff]

If you are familiar with some of Larry Blamire's other books (I Didn't Know You Came with Raisins, or Larry Blamire's Blammary of Terms you May Not Know, for instance) or his movies (The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, Dark and Stormy Night), you know that he is a funny guy with an absurdly absurd sense of absurdity. This book does not disappoint. It is a collection of covers of comic books that never existed. Many of the Silver Age (late 1950s-early 1970s) comic books had wonderfully silly covers, and in this book Blamire takes that premise into a whole new dimension. Don't read it while drinking unless you want your drink to come out your nose.