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Basil Wolverton
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 There's a great new book on the market that I thought some of you might be interested in, The Original Art of Basil Wolverton by Glenn Bray, Doug Harvey, and Basil Wolverton. The book is all shot from the original art in Glenn Bray's collection. Great, great, great stuff. Imagine the smiles on your family and friends should they find this under the tree Christmas morn.

 I also scanned in a batch of Wolverton stuff from off of my bookshelf. I also recommend the books WOOLVERTOONS and POWERHOUSE PEPPER from Fantagraphics Books. Search "Wolverton" You won't be disappointed.
Probably the first Wolverton image many of us ever saw. For me, it was love at first sight. (MAD #11 May 1954)
The above and the following two were done for Harvey Kurtzman's MAD Magazine for a piece entitled "MAD READER." (MAD #11 May 1954)
These were scanned from one of the many reprints of Mad's fifties era material.
Here's a quick Bio to help sort out and make some sense of the following.
1974 reprint cover for BARFLYZE.
Some images from BARFLYZE.
Cover for Wolverton's six volume THE BIBLE STORY. These were given away free through the mail by The Worldwide Church of God up into the eighties. There's much here for even non-believers to love. 280 of Wolverton's Bible illustrations are collected in AGONY AND ECSTACY.
Cain slew his brother Abel.
The Flood
More info on the where and why of these can be found at Basil Wolverton’s THE APOCALYPSE
The shadow on the right edge is due to my scan and not on the original drawings.
Miss Flintney Bont
Graphic Story Magazine No. 14 Winter 71/72 (front cover)
Graphic Story Magazine No. 14 Winter 71/72 (Back Cover)
1973 collection edited by Glenn Bray
1975 collection edited by Glenn Bray
PLOP! Vol. 2 No. 3 Jan/Feb ’74
PLOP Vol. 2 No.4 Mar-Apr ‘74
PLOP! Vol.2 No.8 Nov/Dec '74
PLOP! Vol.3 No.11 April '75
Sci-Fi strips collection from LAST GASP.


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