Hey, ape fans! In case you didn’t know it, last Wednesday comics publisher BOOM! Studios released Planet of the Apes: Ursus #1, the start of a new miniseries that tells the origin of the warrior general from the original movie franchise—the one who famously proclaimed, “The only good human…is a dead human!” (in the 1970 sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes). And best of all, it features two variant covers—a faux magazine design and a “virgin” version without type—of a previously unpublished PotA cover intended for Marvel Comics (in the 1970s) by our friend, legendary painter Bob Larkin! Track down a copy today!
And speaking of the talented Mr. Larkin, if you’re a fan of great art, SWC has a book you might just be interested in…
The Bob Larkin Sketchbook is a collection of some of the incredible pencil drawings by the legendary cover painter for Doc Savage, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Star Trek, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and many other pop-culture icons. What you’ll discover when you see this collection is how wide-ranging his subjects are. Sci-fi, horror, Westerns, pulp adventure, crime fiction, movie merchandise, even wrestling stars—as we say on the book’s back cover, there really is little that he hasn’t painted. And the sketchbook features three pieces created especially for it: the Pandora Zwieback cover art; a portrait of Patricia Savage, the fightin’ cousin of pulp fiction’s top-tier adventurer, Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze; and a two-page spread in which Doc faces off against another Golden Age crimefighter—The Shadow!
The Bob Larkin Sketchbook is available in print and digital formats. Visit its product page for ordering information.
