Today, I'm blogging about the fact that Facebook Friend, Tim Lasiuta, posted the above shown original artwork to to the cover used for Roy Rogers Comics #83 which was published by Dell Comics in November of 1954!

Tim came across the cover while researching for his upcoming book on an aspect of Roy Rogers, which hopefully I'll share here in several months with you.

The cover artwork was designed by Arnold C Holeywell, who designed at least four other comic book cover for Dell Comics in the period of 1953-54, as seen at this link: Arnold Holeywell at GCD.

Quite honestly, I had never seen the 'credits' for this issue or the other comics listed in the above link, so was curious as to what else Arnold had created.

It appears that Arnold retired from his Design Director position at Time-Life Books sometime in his career and went on to pursue his love of watercolor paintings.  He also worked in oil, of which I saw a couple on the web.

'Googling' his full name as "Arnold C Holeywell", I found about 16,600 listings!  The earlier pages of links listings showed a lot of entries for 'Field & Stream' magazine in the 1950's.  I could see from his paintings on the Dell Comics Covers, that he would have been perfect for painting those magazine covers also!

My thanks to Tim Lasiuta for sharing the above find on his Facebook member wall. BTW, Tim is currently the International Licensing Director for Jack Lake Productions, a Contributing Editor at Moonstone Books, as well as a Project Consultant for his own Tim Lasiuta Creative Services.  He definitely is a busy guy!

Oh, and an earlier work that I somehow missed is his book on Joe Sinnott, who is one of my favorite pencillers / inkers.  That book is titled "Brush Strokes With Greatness: The Life & Art of Joe Sinnot". Being a life long fan of the Fantastic Four, I don't know how I missed that one!

Which would be so true, except I have a blog post to fill!

Suffice to say that Stan Lee is The Man who helped turn the comics industry around in the early 1960's along with other co-creators of what became the Marvel Universe.

I have blogged several times about Stan Lee here... because it was one of his comic book stories along with the fantastic Jack Kirby and Dick Ayer's artwork that caused me to stop just reading comics and start reading AND collecting comics!  For that story, click this link to see what Journey Into Mystery #72 did to me !

As a matter of fact, when I started blogging my 'Whom I Am Thankful For' series of blog posts at Thanksgiving time, Stan was the first person that I blogged about in this comics / pop culture blog. Here's a link to the latest Thanksgiving blog post from 2009 that recaps that original blog post and others, including Jack Kirby that I've added since:  Whom I Am Thankful For 2009!

In other blog posts about this upcoming Wizard World in Anaheim, I've posted links to bios.  I'm not going to do that here today, as Stan Lee is so well known to comic book fans and mainstream movie goers.

However, I am going to post a link here to Stan's Facebook Fan Page, where his publicist posts updates as to what Stan is doing, and where You can post comments and even wall posts!  There are currently over 24,000 Fans there.  His first Facebook presence, his 'Member Page' was maxed out at the 5,000 limit of 'Friends' in less than a week! Here's the link to the Fan Page: Stan Lee Facebook Fan Page!

Anyways, if YOU plan to be in the Southern California area THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND, and are a fan of Stan Lee, or any of his creations, be sure to check out this 3-Day Comic Con in Anaheim, California! But Please Note:  Stan will be there ONLY on SATURDAY!

When: APRIL 16-17-18, 2010
FRI-SAT-SUN (Remember: Stan Lee is only there on Saturday the 17th!)

Where:  Anaheim Convention Center
800 West Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92802

Hours of the Wizard World Anaheim Comic Con:

Fri:
    3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat:
    10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sun:
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm

So how do YOU get tickets, ask information and be interactive with this Wizard World Comic Con Anaheim? 

Well... You can do so by joining their Facebook Fan Page right here,  AND / OR You can go direct to their web site here to see who else is appearing and buy tickets online: Wizard World Anaheim.  

Okay, that's it for this blog post this morning... Be Sure to check out the above links and make plans to attend at least ONE of the THREE Days in Anaheim!

I will be there at least Friday and Sunday, and Tina will be there at least on Sunday.  We hope to see You there also... Feel free to stop me and say hello if you want.  I'll be wearing one of my blue polo shirts with the 'ComicBookCollectorsBlog.com' name embroidered on the front left pocket area!

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over the 3,100 total posts in number! 

Of course he is also known for other roles. A brief bio follows here:

"Richard Hatch has enjoyed international recognition for more than three decades. He has starred in such series as The Streets of San Francisco for which he won Germany’s Bravo Award (the equivalent of an Emmy Award), Battlestar Galactica, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award and the role of Philip Brent, which he originated on ABC’s All My Children. Richard is currently playing the role of Tom Zarek in the new re-imagined version of Battlestar playing on the Sci-fi channel and has just written a BG manga for Tokyopop focusing on his character."

I have seen Richard at a few other comic cons, most of which I was in packed rooms with others listening to him.  Recently I was able to meet him personally up close and get a few photos for my blog. Above are just two of them.

I found Richard to be a very busy guy, but he took the time to talk with me about some of his projects, including the book he was holding in the photo above.

His own 'Official Web Site' is at http://www.RichardHatch.com .

BTW, I would also give you the link to Richard's Facebook Fan Page, but it doesn't appear he has started one as of this posting... I'm Facebook Friends with him, but don't want to flood his own personal FB member account with Friends Requests at this time.

When: APRIL 16-17-18, 2010
FRI-SAT-SUN

Where:  Anaheim Convention Center
800 West Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92802

Hours of the Con:

Fri:
    3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat:
    10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sun:
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm

So how do YOU get tickets, ask information and be interactive with this Wizard World Comic Con Anaheim?  Well... You can do so by joining their Facebook Fan Page right here for one,  AND / OR You can go direct to their web site here to see who else is appearing and buy tickets online: Wizard World Anaheim.  

Okay, that's it for this blog post this morning... Be Sure to check out the above links and make plans to attend at least ONE of the THREE Days in Anaheim!

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over the 3,100 total posts in number! 

Of course he is also known for other roles. A brief bio follows here:

"Veteran actor, Herb Jefferson Jr is known to many as Lieutenant Boomer from 'Battlestar Galactica', the third of the holy trinity, which included Capt. Apollo and Lt. Starbuck. But, you've seen him in many more roles than as Galactica's erstwhile Cylon hunter.

Jefferson was a series co-star in "Rich Man, Poor Man" with Nick Nolte, as well as, it's sequel "Rich Man, Poor Man Book II", the Revolutionary War mini-series "The Bastard", "Yellow Rose" with Sam Elliott and Cybill Shephard, and "The Devlin Connection" with Rock Hudson and Jack Scalia. Jefferson has also starred in over 100 episodes of series TV, including "ER", "Sister Sister", "Hill Street Blues", "Police Story", "Airwolf", "T.J. Hooker", "Quincy", "The Streets of San Francisco", "White Shadow", "Night Rider", "McCloud" and "Mission Impossible". His most recent TV appearance was in the recurring role of Police Chief Priceon the NBC soap opera "Sunset Beach".

His many feature film credits include "Apollo 13", "Outbreak", "Detroit 9000", "Black Gun", "The Slams", "One Dozen" and Roger Corman's "Private Duty Nurses", which marked his feature film debut."

I was fortunate enough to meet him once at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con International, when the photo at the top right of this blog post was taken. It was in between my going from one program to the next, and I was walking by his booth 'under the sails'.  I noticed who he was as he was closing for the day, and stopped to talk with him and snapped a couple of photos for future blogging purposes.

BTW, Herb had a fan site when I last blogged about him, but it wasn't updated and now I don't see it at all. So I am not aware of any 'Official' web site for him.  There a couple of 'Fan' sites, but I am not listing those at this time.

When: APRIL 16-17-18, 2010
FRI-SAT-SUN

Where:  Anaheim Convention Center
800 West Katella Avenue
Anaheim, CA 92802

Hours of the Con:

Fri:
    3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat:
    10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sun:
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm

So how do YOU get tickets, ask information and be interactive with this Wizard World Comic Con Anaheim?  Well... You can do so by joining their Facebook Fan Page right here for one,  AND / OR You can go direct to their web site here to see who else is appearing and buy tickets online: Wizard World Anaheim.  

Okay, that's it for this blog post this morning... Be Sure to check out the above links and make plans to attend at least ONE of the THREE Days in Anaheim!

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now over the 3,100 total posts in number!