APPROACHING XERO - related artwork

1. SF Fandom and the First Comics Fans

A costumed hero appears on the cover of Joe Fortier's TWILIGHT ECHOES the earliest I've found to make the cover of a zine:

John Giunta's's design for 'The Magician of Space', cover of FANTASY TIMES #68:

2. When the 1957 Worldcon was held on Mars

Full story is (currently) online. Click on first-page image below:

3. The Justice Society of Los Angeles

Ted Johnstone (aka David McDaniel)

Fred Patten

Photos supplied by Lenny Bailes.

There was a plan to reuse the costumes in a movie. Obviously it never got anywhere, but the extensive notes detailing what they planned make interesting reading sixty years later:

4. Comics, the Silver Age, and Me

EAGLE with a very atypical Marvel cover:

5. First Stirrings

The Shudder was obviously based on the Shadow, but give him a mouth and a cape and the connection vanishes:

6. Stranger at a Strange Con

The only comicszine I ever drew a cover for also happens to be one of the few I've misplaced. So my thanks to Paul Grain at 'Comics and Fantasy' in Hornchurch for gifting me a copy:

Appendix: Starfan

One of the strips:

some unfinished pages from unfinished STARFAN #2:

and some panels from STARFAN #1:

R.I.P. Yanwil Yams.