THE GREAT JACK DAVIS

[jimm]

Here's one posted on facebook's classic poster group 

[Hepcat]

Here are a few more great Jack Davis sketches I've found:

[horrorhunter]

Jack Davis illustrated these trading cards included with the Dracula's Greatest Hits album.

[Hepcat]

It was Jack Davis who designed the characters who appeared in the Mad Monster Party movie. Here are a few of his sketches:

[Monster Bob]

The MONSTER PARTY! art above is CRACKED's John Severin, not Jack Davis...

[jimm]

Correct! Sweet piece but not Jack

[horrorhunter]

Yeah, the Severin sig was a bit of a giveaway. 

John worked for several companies throughout his career, but he was THE MAN at Cracked where they did For Monsters Only, Monster Party, and various monster issues of Cracked. I really enjoyed his Kull from Marvel back in the early '70s. John and Marie Severin did some excellent comic book work over the years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Severin

[Hepcat]

The MONSTER PARTY! art above is CRACKED's John Severin, not Jack Davis....

Arrrggghhhh!! Just goes to show how easily errors can be perpetuated on the internet. Mad Monster Party sketches by Jack Davis are surprisingly tough to find.



Here anyway is a promotional poster Jack Davis drew for NBC in 1965:

[Count_Zirock]

Mad Monster Party sketches by Jack Davis are surprisingly tough to find.

:-/

If you mean originals, that's probably because they belonged to Rankin/Bass. I'm guessing they're in Rick Goldschmidt's archives, today.

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[monsterjoe]

JACK DAVIS WAS ONE OF THE GREATS FOR 60'S MONSTERS...BUBBLE GUM CARDS PURE CHILDHOOD MAGIC....

[Haunted hearse]

If you mean originals, that's probably because they belonged to Rankin/Bass. I'm guessing they're in Rick Goldschmidt's archives, today.

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Since Severin was working with Davis designs, I can see where that would be an easy mistake to make.  Does anybody have available any of the Davis drawings for that movie?
The made for TV followup (Mad Mad Monsters) characters look quite different from Davis.  I was wondering if those were designed by Paul Cocker Jr.

[Scary Terry]

 There's some confusion here. The Severin art is the "Monster Party" piece from Cracked magazine -- he didn't work on the "Mad Monster Party" movie -- that stuff IS Davis.

[Hepcat]

JACK DAVIS WAS ONE OF THE GREATS FOR 60'S MONSTERS...BUBBLE GUM CARDS PURE CHILDHOOD MAGIC....

Wow! Do you have any more of those unseparated panels from the 1969 Topps Pack O' Fun set?

[monsterjoe]

sure.. I've collected monster cards for many many years.

[Hepcat]

sure.. I've collected monster cards for many many years.

Cool! Have you seen this thread?

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=13334.msg214889#msg214889

Do you have many of the Topps Frankenstein Valentine Stickers or the Topps Terror Tales? I've found those to be two of the toughest sets.