Wally Wood Goes PLOP! Funny Fantasy in The King of the Ring

Wallace Wood was in his waning days in the 1970's, but that didn't keep him from pumping out a comic book classic from time to time!

The King of the Ring was Woody's wonderful (and loving) Tolkien spoof, and it appeared in DC Comics' PLOP #23 Sept-Oct 1976. Here are a few previews:

I hope that was enough to convince you to download these pages below. Wood was so much fun when his heart was in it...and this is one of my favorite Wally Wood comics! Click on any of the thumbnail pages below to open up a ridiculously HUGE hi-res comic book scan!

Also: nice bio on Wally Wood at:
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wood.htm
and there's always Wally Wood's

22 Panels That Always Work

Beautiful Wally Wood "Captain Science" Comics from 1951

Indiana Jones meets John Carter of Mars meets Flash Gordon in this pure pulp, gloriously FUN full-color 7-page comic book scan.

THIS is what comics are all about.

Plus two more
Wally Wood stories at the same place:

 

 

Go see all the Wood-work at the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog at:
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/01/wally-wood-1927-1981-3-terrific-stories.html

Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work -- High-Res Scans of a Classic Cheat-Sheet

Legendary EC Comics artist Wallace Wood created a shorthand encyclopedia of many different ways to keep your comic book panels and staging interesting. It came to be known as "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work."

It was originally drawn in various pieces by Wally Wood to remind himself to stay on his toes. Later it was compiled and used by Wally Wood's assistants to help them emulate the master.

The full-sized, high-resolution version of the image below can be found at Joel Johnson's blog. Joel came into possession of the original paste-up and has generously scanned it and shared it with the world There's a lot of cool backround information about this legendary cheat-sheet at Joel Johnson's blog.

Hey Joel...Thanks!

Wally Wood Sure Knew How to Draw Sci-Fi Comics

Nobody knew how to draw bug-eyed monsters
better than Wally Wood.

These wonderful pages are from the 1950 Ziff-Davis
comic book, Amazing Adventures #1

"Winged Death on Venus" was drawn by Wallace Wood during his peak years as a science-fiction comic book artist. But unlike his more famous stories for EC Comics, this tale is much more of an old-fashioned-style space opera, complete with the full assortment of monsters, aliens, beautiful women, rocket ships and ray-guns. The winged men in particular are a love poem to Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon of the late 1930's.

Alas, the resolution on the large-sized versions of these pages isn't as good as I would like, but they were the best scans I came across. As usual, CLICK on the images below to see the larger sized pages. Enjoy the Woodwork!

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