Amazing Gray!

Gray's Fantastic!

Gray Morrow's fantastic! Isn't he? Here, once again courtesy of fan/collector Paul M, is a nifty selection of colorful sci-fi pulp covers from FANTASTIC, originally published from the mid-sixties into the early seventies. Note that Gray's covers were illustrating early stories by future bestselling novelists, John Jakes and Dean Koontz.

Great Moments in Humor--From National Lampoon

The Mammal That Suckled Its Young

This is from the COMPLETE NATIONAL LAMPOON DVD they put out a few years ago (thus the watermark) but, as you can see, it wasn't really complete as it cut off bits around the edges which, especially here, is notable in that it cuts off actual letters between the two pages I edited together. Still...some nice art here.

Dark Domain

Legendary fan and Con promoter, Phil Seuling, called the father of the Direct Market, was one of the first to recognize the importance of Gray Morrow as an artist with this 1970 offset "prozine" (so called because they were more professionally printed than the mimeographed and photocopied newsletters fandom had distributed for ages). Thanks to Paul M for the scans as my own copy of this 'zine disappeared many a moon ago.

Buck Rogers Daily

I run this strip as an example of the kind of thing Gray was up against when trying to tell a story and still fit in any kind of art at all in the ever-shrinking newspaper dailies.

Crispus Attucks

Gray was one of a number of comic book artists (also including Wallace Wood) who did work for the heavily illustrated CHILDHOOD OF FAMOUS AMERICANS series in the early 1960's. One of the volumes that Gray did was on Eleanor Roosevelt. Another was on Crispus Attucks. Here are a couple pages from the latter, actually showing little of the Morrow trademarks.

Dejah?

Gray Does Barbie

Ronn S comes through again with scans of the original art--apparently found on the Net--from a Gray Morrow-illustrated story from Marvel's BARBIE!

Black Widow

Well...maybe it's Marvel's Black Widow. Kind of looks like her.

Doc Savage

Would love to see more detailed Doc Savage work by Gray. Does anyone know if he did any?

She-Hulk

Two Gun Elvira

Shadow/Khan Montage

I don't think we've run this one before but I've been working with the Shadow so much lately (details later) that all the different versions are running together.