Newly up for sale, an original art board for Marvel’s Journey into Mystery, specifically the Gene Colan teen-friendly Lovecraft adaptation of “The Haunter of the Dark”.

Also a nice page of ‘Kirby Cosmicism’ from Thor, where in the pencilled margin notes you can see the synopsis and thus ‘the Marvel Method’ at work. For speed, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby would verbally spitball a plot outline, and Lee would jot it down into a basic synopsis. Jack would go away and pencil the pages to the synopsis, then Lee would come back in and ‘write to the art’ — often directly onto the boards.

Both boards are at nostalgicinvestments which has a website that’s just too annoying to link to, with weird rapid auto-refresh of pages that can’t be cured even by disabling Javascript and CSS.