I've wandered round the London's Tate, National and Portrait, admired the paintings these institutions house. But I guess this oil painting on canvas, by Frank Frazetta would never hang in any of those fine places.
It meets all the criteria though, oh except it's on a comic book. And there it's just for kids after all. But no, not really, take all the text away and what do you know, a master piece, worthy of acclaim and admiration. But it's all those things anyway with or without it debuting on a Warren Publication, covering the comic book stories on the inside pages.
Eerie was a mid 1960's comic book magazine, ceasing publication in 1983, with black and white art and short, non-superhero, stories. Predominately horror/fantasy with some science fiction; although these ratios would change as time went by. Frazetta would grace Eerie's covers in early days and those of its sister magazine, Creepy.
The cover deserves to be hung in a gallery, side by side, with all the other masters. Don't you think?
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