Welcome back to a new Fabulous Find. This week I’ve dug into the fanzine section of the comic book vault, buried deep under the earth, at an undisclosed location, and brought to light; Fantafolio # 3. This fanzine was published in 1980, jointly by Interfan Productions and Creative Graphics.
The editor for this issue is Peppy White and there are a large number of fan artists represented in the fanzine. It runs fifty-two (52) pages in black & white and color covers.
Here is the front cover featuring DC Comics‘ Batman, as drawn by John Beatty and inked by Jerry Ordway, both future professional comic book creators.
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This fanzine is primarily an art zine, though it does have one prose story (actually chapter seven, and last chapter, of a continued story, which I’m assuming ran in earlier issues, though, as I do not own the first two issue, I can not be sure).
Lots of single illustrations and a couple of portfolios by single artists. But it also contains a couple of comic stories/strips that run multiple pages.
One of the artist featured was Ed Savage, who provided this illustration of Seigel and Shuster creating Superman, based on Michaelangelo! A pretty impressive idea, as well as, execution!
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Another artist getting a larger section to showcase his art is; Doug Herring. His section runs eight (8) pages. Here is the page showcasing Jack Kirby‘s New Gods, as well as, the villain; Darkseid.
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Peppy White wraps things up with two pages of general background and information about this issue and one of the final illustrations in the fanzine is also by a future professional comic book creator, David Mazzucchelli. He opts to use Marvel Comics‘ Doctor Strange and his disciple, Clea. Take a look:
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And things are brought to a conclusion with a really nice back cover of the original Captain Marvel (The Big Red Cheese, himself) pencilled by Mike Machlan and inked by Sam de la Rosa. Enjoy!
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Well that wraps up this edition of Fabulous Finds, but I hope you return next week for a new RETRO REVIEW.
Good night Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. be seeing you …