#Ernie Chua

[comic-covers]

(1976)

[dirtyriver]

"The Chan Barbarians" portfolio, Savage Sword of Conan #52, May 1980

[comicarthistory]

King Conan #10 cover. 1981. Art by Ernie Chan.

[all-action-all-picture]

DC house ad for Claw the Unconquered. Coming your way Feb. 20th! Ran for 12 issues between 1975 and 1978 and the creative team, to begin with anyway were David Michelinie and Ernie Chua / Ernie Chan.

[the-gershomite]

Conan the Barbarian #31 -October 1973-

written & edited by Roy Thomas

art by John Buscema & Ernie Chua

colored by Glynis Wein

lettered by John Costanza

[chernobog13]

All-Star Comics #60 (June, 1976). Cover by Ernie Chia (aka Ernie Chan).

The first appearance of the obscure Justice Society of America villain Vulcan, Son of Fire.

Originally an American astronaut named...wait for it...Christopher Pike (!!!!!!!!!), Vulcan was created when his spacecraft plunged into the Sun and his spacecraft melted into a shell around him. A friendly alien saved Pike from dying, but instead of being grateful Vulcan killed him.

When Vulcan returned to Earth he took on the JSA, which he blamed for inspiring him to become an astronaut in the first place (huh?). Vulcan managed to hold his own against the team, and in the second part (in the next issue) critically injured the original Doctor Fate. Don't worry, he got better.

Vulcan had a few appearances a few years down the road, but for all intents and purposes has disappeared. I always thought it would be fun for him to go up against the hero Son of Vulcan (one of the Charlton characters that DC bought in 1983 and has mostly neglected). I envisioned Son of Vulcan and Vulcan battling it out on a Maury Povich-type TV show, with the former trying to establish the latter is really his father.

One of the best things about the revived All-Star Comics, other than presenting new adventures of the Justice Society, was Wally Wood's inking. He was the regular inker from the series' relaunch with issue #58 and, no matter who the penciller was, the book looked like a Wally Wood production. Right before he left the series, he provided the full art for a two-parter in issues #64 and 65, when the JSA went back to Arthurian times to battle Vandal Savage.

[allflooby]

Emerald City Comic Con purchase: Tarzan Family 65. Cover by Ernie Chua.

[balu8]

Daredevil #97

by Gerry Conway/Steve Gerber: Gene Colan; Ernie Chua and John Costanza

Marvel

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

IN THE DEADLY EMBRACE OF A SEA-WITCH -- A BARBARIAN LOCKED IN BATTLE WITH HIS PAST.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a quasi splash page of Conan the Barbarian, "drugged" by the kiss of a Sea-witch/Sea goddess?, from the pages of "Conan" Vol. 1 #98. May, 1979. Marvel Comics.

Artwork by late, greats "Big" John Buscema & Ernie Chua "Chan."

"Yet, though his dagger is poised to strike as Conan draws near her -- it's not really in her sea-green eyes the danger lies... but in that kiss which drowns both body and soul. As they embrace, he sees himself as he has been in the past: Roistering, roaring, wenching -- locked in grim battle with dusky sorcerers and deadly serpents -- and with the armies of many a nation, west and east!"

-- "CONAN THE BARBARIAN" Vol. 1 #98 (story/script by Roy Thomas)

Source: www.paintmonkslibrary.com/tag/robert-e-howard.

[comicbookbrain]

Starfire #1, Aug-Sept 1976, DC Comics

Ernie Chua

[comic-covers]

(1976)

[dirtyriver]

Daredevil #97, March 1973, written by Gerry Conway (plot) and Steve Gerber (script), original art by Gene Colan (pencils) and Ernie Chua (inks)

[ufonaut]

The villain glimpses death in the Spectre’s eyes and crumples to the ground with an agonized gurgle...

Jim Corrigan in Wrath of the Spectre (1988) #3

(Michael Fleisher, Ernie Chua & Jim Aparo)

[all-action-all-picture]

The Mystery and Madness of...Weird War Tales No. 48, dated October 1976. Ultimate Destiny cover by Ernie Chan (Ernie Chua). DC Comics.

[the-gershomite]

Conan the Barbarian #32 -November 1973-

"Flame Winds of Lost Khitai!"

writer/editor: Roy Thomas

artists: John Buscema & Ernie Chua

letters: John Costanza

colors: Glynis Wein