HELP!! Need Scans of the Jack Davis Frankenstein Poster PRONTO!

[Devlin]

I'm helping out with the upcoming Jack Davis career retrospective coming out later in the year from Fantagraphics, and it's in the final phase of gathering images now. If anyone here has the actual poster and is in a position to make hi-res scans of it suitable for publication, you'd be doing a mitzvah for us all. I believe that Alex plans at the moment to feature a small scan of the Captain Company ad, but obviously it would be a lot nicer to have the real thing. If you can help, please drop me a line at devlin(*at*)spook-town.com POST HASTE! It's gonna be pretty great, even without this one tiny slice of his astonishing career... but it could be even greater, with your help!

[Scary Terry]

Can't help with the scan -- but glad to hear there will finally be a book on Davis that does him justice.  The previous books were a disappointment in the design/graphics department.

[Hepcat]

Can't help with the scan -- but glad to hear there will finally be a book on Davis that does him justice.  The previous books were a disappointment in the design/graphics department.

Including both these?

[Scary Terry]

Hepcat.  Yes to the first of those -- but my fuzzy memory was recalling a different book than the 2nd one you show, as it doesn't look familar to me.  As for "The Art of..."  -- I found the art repro and the design lacking -- especially when compared to other books on great cartoonists that have seen print recently.

[MDG]

"The Art of..." was ok for the time (I think 20 years ago or close to it), but was little more than an illustrated checklist. The other was "Some of My Good Stuff" which is largely unpublished preliminary drawings. Fun to look at, but I got the feeling the material was selected because it didn't require getting any copyright clearances.

Looking forward to a big book on Jack. (I got to caddy for him once.) (and a "good friend" at college roomed next door to his son for three years--but never mentioned it to me until the day after graduation!)

[Hepcat]

I had come across and purchased "The Art of Jack Davis" book some twelve to fifteen years ago. I was also running a Showcase ad in the "Comic's Buyers Guide" newspaper at the time looking to purchase high grade "Adventures of the Fly" issues. Lo and behold just a few weeks after I'd purchased the book the author Hank Harrison phoned me at the office! He had evidently seen my ad in CBG and asked me whether I could confirm whether or not Jack Davis had illustrated some panels in a certain issue I've now forgotten of "Adventures of the Fly"!

I was also able to point out to Hank that he'd missed listing the backs of the 1960-61 Topps hockey cards in his list of the works of Jack Davis.