#Gerald Forton

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Ric Estrada and Gerald Forton - Silver Surfer Unused Poster Illustration Original Art (c. 1970s)

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Comics Kingdom of Reno, Nevada purchase: Jonah Hex 42 ( cover by Gerald Forton) and 81 (cover by Ross Andru).

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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe Newspaper Strips

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Tintin: Le Super Journal - Numéro 54, 15 Septembre 1962 (Edition Belge) Hergé, Attanasio, Edgar P. Jacobs, Albert Weinberg - Reliure Editeur - Album Bande Dessinée

FOR SALE!!! FIND THIS ITEM AND MORE AT screaming-greek.com or check out the link in my bio... Tintin: Le Super Journal Des Jeunes De 7 a 77  - Numéro 54 - Edition Belge BD's de Hergé,  Attanasio, Edgar P. Jacobs, Albert Weinberg, Raymond Reding, Gerald Forton et plus Album Bande Dessinée - Couverture Rigide - Usagé  - 480 pages Reliure Editeur - 15 Septembre 1962 (French Comic Album) Read the full article

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MotU newspaper  comic, “Evil Under the Stars”

Hello! It’s been a long time since I’ve done a review of one of these He-Man newspaper comic arcs (reprinted by Dark Horse Comics).

We left off with He-Man, Hordak and Mosquitor time traveling. The next story arc was “Evil Under the Stars”, starring Gwildor, Blade and Saurod from the 1987 film as well as He-Man, Teela, Man-At-Arms and Evil-Lyn.

We’re going to learn that Blade is from another planet, and it’s not explained how long he’s been on Eternia or what he was up to before attacking this town. He did know Teela years ago, before she was promoted to Captain.

Human scientist Miranda was created by writer Chris Weber to be Duncan’s love interest.

They’ve been working with Gwildor, but he’s not in the capital. The Thenurian has made his Eternian home in... the town Blade is attacking!

Gwildor is the only Thenurian on Eternia, so Evil-Lyn disguises herself as a female Thenurian to manipulate the lonely man. She wants a “gravitonic oscillation grenade”, which renders portals between dimensions unusable.

Evil-Lyn wants to make a magic portal to Blade’s home world Merrian, dropping the stolen MacGuffin as they go so that the Heroic Warriors can’t follow to defend the people of Merrian (who have no magic) from her.

The disguised Evil-Lyn gets stuck on Eternia while her henchmen (Blade, Saurod and Beast Man) go, because the good guys “rescued Thalia”. Oops!

Gwildor has invented a starship drive that will allow them to travel to Merrian with a crew of 5: himself, Duncan, He-Man, Teela and Thalia/Evil-Lyn.

The ship is named “Queen Ileene”... I don’t think that refers to any member of the Royal Family we’ve actually seen.

It looks like artist Gerald Forton thought the character Blade looked like a pirate and so, if he’s from another world, all the native bad guys should look like pirates, while the native good guys look Polynesian.

It’s always heartbreaking when the girl you’re in love with tells you to trample on people’s human rights.

As He-Man starts to defeat the villains, the effects of Gwildor’s MacGuffin have worn off and Skeletor yanks Evil-Lyn and Beast Man back to Eternia, leaving Blade and Saurod on Merrian.

This was the last we’d see of them in the newspaper comic, but Gwildor would stick around and make friends with Orko.

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French adaptation of Wild Wild West:

Mystères de l'Ouest: Les légions de fer in Pif-Gadget 321, April 1975, written by Jean Sanitas, art by Gérald Forton

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Ombres

Gérald Forton

Télé junior n° 20

21 mars 1979

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Unused Silver Surfer poster illustration by Ric Estrada and Gerald Forton, circa 1970s.

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I’m sorry to disillusion you, but that isn’t true. My job is executing mass murderers.

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“Or He’s Been Taken Over By The Aliens!!”

Alien Encounters #12 (April 1987)

Buzz Dixon, Karl Waller, Gerald Forton and Lovern Kindzierski

Eclipse Comics

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Skeletor and Hordak enter a dark partnership, from the newspaper comic strip "Day of the Comet."

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Review of Naive Interdimensional Commando Koalas issue #1 (And to the best of my knowledge only)

Review of Naive Inter-Dimensional Commando Koalas issue #1

What is it? Comic book; indicia gives a date of October 1986; there's also a joke at the end of the indicia about parodying the cover format of Ronin; glossy color cover; non-glossy black and white interior; approximately 29 story pages, 2 pages of paper dolls, and 2 pages of ads; Published by Independent Comics Group, Story: Sean Deming, Finished Art: Gerald Forton, Breakdowns/Covers: Danny Green, Cover Colors: Sam Parsons, Letters: Steve Haynie, Editing: Cat Yronwode and Dean Mullaney; the inside cover also includes writing credits for the songs quoted inside, and there's a photo of a real koala and a short text box about a chlamydia outbreak ravaging the koala population. Deep background: The comic book industry experiences a lot of boom and bust cycles. One of the boom cycles in the 80s saw an explosion of independent comic publishers trying to carve out a wedge of that pie from the Big Two, DC and Marvel. Many of the independent companies produced black and white books. One of the biggest hits of this time was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles book, a black and white self-published by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The book was partly a parody of trends at the time: ninjas in Daredevil, mutants in the X-books, and they tried to emulate the look of the covers of the Ronin series with their own cover. The success of the TMNT led to other companies doing parodies of their parody. And that is how we ended up here. Plot Summary: In Australia in an alternate dimension of anthropomorphic animals, a band called the Koalas is playing a gig at the Burrow. They play their loudest song ever, “Slap That Bass”, a song written by Gershwin in our dimension, and then they get pulled through a dimensional vortex. The Koalas are a four-piece and all named Bruce. These initial four story pages are printed with the artwork upside down because Australia. They land in a delicatessen, probably in New York City, in the dimension of the Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, a dimension that has many fewer anthropomorphic animals and more “normal” humans. The Koalas head to a fruit stand and start a fruit fight with passers-by, when one of them gets hit over the head by an old lady's umbrella. A mysterious pair of men in a car watch this incident. Koalas end up at the same car dealership as the Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters and fight them for no discernible reason. Fight is inconclusive. Obvious gag with someone saying the name Bruce out loud and all four Koalas and the hamster named Bruce all replying. Koalas are brought in by government agents. They are sent on a mission to a Middle Eastern country to overthrow an unfriendly Sheik Ratal N'Raul and reinstate the friendly Sheik Yerboobie. The Koalas do meet the resistance movement loyal to Sheik Yerboobie, which leads to the romantic subplot between brainy keyboardist Koala Bruce and Sheik Yerboobie's daughter. Sheik Ratal N'raul is overthrown by the Koalas, the brave resistance fighters, and the power of rock. What's Good About It? The crisp, fairly realistic art style works here. A lot of the mutant ninja mutant explosion books went very deliberately extremely cartoony; this one didn't. Some of the jokes land enough to make me grin or even slightly chuckle out loud. It's also a key moment in Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters continuity, as this is the origin point for the RV, Rodent Vehicle. What's Not So Good About It? They only ever published this one issue. Never revived the characters again at another company like Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters was. The Sheiks's names were old jokes when this book was new and kind of a little bit some sort of -ist like racist. What The..? Moments: Gershwin's “Slap That Bass” is the loudest song ever? Where did the dimensional portal come from? Did the Koalas actually receive any actual commando combat training? Rating: 3 stars out of 5. It was truly a competently executed humor-action book. Method of Acquisition: Bought for full back issue price somewhere between 1988 and 1993 at the Book Stop comic

book store in Wyoming, Michigan.

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REVIEW: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Comic Strips

REVIEW: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Comic Strips

It is hard to believe that a line of toys could have as much impact as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Immediately after the toy came out, there were the afternoon cartoons, then comics and video games and movies. There was a spin-off designed to appeal to girls, She-Ra: Princess of Power. The cartoon was revived twice. It never lasts long, but always reinforces the cult status of the…

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Tintin: Le Super Journal - Numéro 54, 15 Septembre 1962 (Edition Belge) Hergé, Attanasio, Edgar P. Jacobs, Albert Weinberg - Reliure Editeur - Album Bande Dessinée

FOR SALE!!! FIND THIS ITEM AND MORE AT screaming-greek.com Tintin: Le Super Journal Des Jeunes De 7 a 77  - Numéro 54 - Edition Belge BD's de Hergé,  Attanasio, Edgar P. Jacobs, Albert Weinberg, Raymond Reding, Gerald Forton et plus Album Bande Dessinée - Couverture Rigide - Usagé  - 480 pages Reliure Editeur - 15 Septembre 1962 (French Comic Album) Read the full article

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MotU newspaper comic, “Vengeance of the Viper King”

This was the second newspaper comic arc, starting in late October 1986.

After 2003, it’s impossible not to read a sarcastic tone into Prince Adam’s “Why does [only a fearless hero] sound familiar?”, due to King Grayskull and other close copies of He-Man being added to the lore.

The stone falcon idol has a spell imprisoning King Hiss, making this by far the earliest reference to competition between Eternia’s falcon and snake deities.

Also Skeletor had a maiden aunt.

In the mini-comics version of King Hiss’ story, he had to take control of Viper Tower to magically free Snake Face and Sssqueeze from the timeless dimension. Here he does it at the Swamp of Smokes. As both stories reference Filmation’s She-Ra, we can infer that they’re parallel timelines of Filmation continuity and the Swamp of Smokes is the land directly above Elders-buried Viper Tower.

King Hiss also brought the snake part of Snake Mountain to life in the 200X cartoon, though they used the name “Serpos” rather than “Sarcedon”.

“He-Man uses the Mirror of History to send Sarcedon back to the depths of Eternia!”

... the depths? OK, let’s see how long until artist Gerald Forton draws her coiled around the mountain again.

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RIP Gérald Forton (April 10, 1931- December 18 2021)

Born in Brussels, he worked for French & Belgian comics before moving to the USA in the early '80s. I especially loved his Teddy Ted western series.