To start, I always loved this piece from the second Marvel Kull series:
Favorite Kull Art
Started by Primeval, May 15 2008 10:15 AM
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 10:15 AM
We have a thread for favorite Conan art, so I thought perhaps one for Kull would be appropriate. Let's see what your favorite pieces of Kull art are!
To start, I always loved this piece from the second Marvel Kull series:
To start, I always loved this piece from the second Marvel Kull series:
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 06:05 PM
I agree that one is a beauty! One of Bolton's great contributions to the series. I have to retract what I have said about Tim Kirk's being the most beautiful Kull map. It may be the most accurate, but it is not as gorgeous as this page!
There has been a lot of great Kull art, but probably my single most favorite is the title page (not the cover, the first page) to Kull The Destroyer #11 by Michael Ploog, and some other pages he did in that issue, which was the adaptation of By This Ax I Rule.
There has been a lot of great Kull art, but probably my single most favorite is the title page (not the cover, the first page) to Kull The Destroyer #11 by Michael Ploog, and some other pages he did in that issue, which was the adaptation of By This Ax I Rule.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 06:18 PM
I haven't seen much Kull art so I have to go with the Ken Kelly cover for the Baen collection.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 09:33 PM
One of Ken Kelly's better efforts! At his best he was pretty great on REH.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 09:48 PM
I agree that one is a beauty! One of Bolton's great contributions to the series. I have to retract what I have said about Tim Kirk's being the most beautiful Kull map. It may be the most accurate, but it is not as gorgeous as this page!
There has been a lot of great Kull art, but probably my single most favorite is the title page (not the cover, the first page) to Kull The Destroyer #11 by Michael Ploog, and some other pages he did in that issue, which was the adaptation of By This Ax I Rule.
Bolton and Ploog were probably my favorites on Kull, along with Eaglesham. I always liked the way Bolton drew Kull's axe - it just looks like a brutal cleaving weapon!
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 04:08 AM
I agree that one is a beauty! One of Bolton's great contributions to the series. I have to retract what I have said about Tim Kirk's being the most beautiful Kull map. It may be the most accurate, but it is not as gorgeous as this page!
There has been a lot of great Kull art, but probably my single most favorite is the title page (not the cover, the first page) to Kull The Destroyer #11 by Michael Ploog, and some other pages he did in that issue, which was the adaptation of By This Ax I Rule.
My favorite page from Kull #11:
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 05:23 AM
Another favorite Kull piece - this time a wrap-around cover by Joe Jusko. Sorry for the large file size, but this really needs to be seen in high quality 
Ok, I'll stop and let others get some pics posted!
Ok, I'll stop and let others get some pics posted!
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 06:11 AM
No...keep going! Anyway you could post the title page of Kull #11?
Por favor y gracias?
Por favor y gracias?
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 06:26 AM
No...keep going! Anyway you could post the title page of Kull #11?
Por favor y gracias?
Here it is:
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 07:14 PM
Here it is:
Oh, YEAH, man! How sweet it is!
Thanks!
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 07:58 PM
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Posted 17 May 2008 - 03:29 AM
Michael Whelan............
Pretty nice! Wonder if anyone has a scan of the original Roy Krenkel classic to the first edition of King Kull?
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Posted 17 May 2008 - 06:44 PM
That's a great cover - I wish that Kull and the Barbarians had lasted more than 3 issues!
Here is another great wrap-around cover, this time by John Bolton:
Here is another great wrap-around cover, this time by John Bolton:
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 17 May 2008 - 08:32 PM
That's a great cover - I wish that Kull and the Barbarians had lasted more than 3 issues!
Here is another great wrap-around cover, this time by John Bolton:
Valka! This topic is quickly turning into the greatest art of all time!
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Posted 18 May 2008 - 07:15 AM
Since we have Ploog and Bolton represented, here is a piece from my other favorite Kull artist - Dale Eaglesham. Kull and Brule are looking down over the walls of Valusia as a traitor who failed to get the serpentman army into the city is turned over to the serpentmen for them to deal with as his punishment.
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 18 May 2008 - 08:28 PM
Since we have Ploog and Bolton represented, here is a piece from my other favorite Kull artist - Dale Eaglesham. Kull and Brule are looking down over the walls of Valusia as a traitor who failed to get the serpentman army into the city is turned over to the serpentmen for them to deal with as his punishment.
Eaglesham "gets" Kull! And another great artist was the Val Semieks Kull backup stories in Savage Sword.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 09:49 AM
I forgot Semieks - he was great on Kull too!
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:33 PM
I really like this one! It conveys a brooding mood.Since we have Ploog and Bolton represented, here is a piece from my other favorite Kull artist - Dale Eaglesham. Kull and Brule are looking down over the walls of Valusia as a traitor who failed to get the serpentman army into the city is turned over to the serpentmen for them to deal with as his punishment.
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Posted 25 May 2008 - 04:32 AM
More Kull - this is the cover of the first issue of Kull I had and the beginning of my exposure to Kull and Conan:
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 01 September 2009 - 07:17 PM
I gotta say that right now the Justin Sweet stuff is my favorite depiction of Kull but the classics are still awesome.
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