Dave Stevens Art Jungle Comics #1 Sheena QOTJ Orig Printing Plate Negative 1/1 Description

THE PREMIERE PIECE FOR ANY

DAVE STEVENS COLLECTOR!!!

1/1

JUNGLE COMICS #1

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF ORIGINAL

PRODUCTION ART BY THE LATE GREAT DAVE STEVENS

ONE OF THE FINEST COMIC ARTISTS

CREATOR OF THE ROCKETEER

AND A MASTER OF THE GOOD GIRL ART (GGA) GENRE

ORIGINATING FROM THE BLACKTHORNE ARCHIVAL FILES

THE ORIGINAL PRINTING PLATE NEGATIVE

HAND INKED BY THE ARTIST

THE NOW ICONIC JUNGLE COMICS #1 COVER

USED TO PRINT THE COVER FOR EVERY ISSUE EXISTING!!!

IT IS AMAZING IT HAS SURVIVED!!!

1/1 - THE ONLY ONE IN EXISTENCE!!!

LOOKS STUNNING AND INCREDIBLE ON A

LIGHT BOX ON THE WALL!!!

FOR THOSE INTERESTED:

WE HAVE THE COMPLETE 

FOUR PAGE "PRINCESS PAM" STORY

FROM ALIEN WORLDS #4

AND THE CLASSIC COVER

BY DAVE STEVENS

AVAILABLE IN OUR OTHER LISTINGS!!!

ALSO SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE 

OF THE TOP FAMOUS COVERS BY DAVE STEVENS:

ALIEN WORLDS #4 (PRINCESS PAM COVER) (1983)

SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE #1 (1985)

BETTIE PAGE PACIFIC PRESENTS #2 (1983)

PG 8 - THE FAMOUS SPLASH PAGE/1984 POSTER

MESSAGE US IF YOU WOULD LIKE BOTH THE PRINCESS PAM COVER AND FOUR PAGE STORY AS A BUNDLE DEAL.

TITLE: Jungle Comics #1

PUBLISHER: Blackthorne Publishing

FEATURED: Cover by Dave Stevens

SIGNED: Within original image

YEAR: 1988

TYPE: Original production art printing plate negative

SIZE: 9 x 12

ORIGINAL: Yes

COA: Yes

CONDITION: Excellent - Used to print the comic book.

This is the one and only ORIGINAL PRODUCTION ART PRINTING PLATE NEGATIVE used to print the Dave Stevens Cover of the iconic Jungle Comics #1 comic book. Originating from the Blackthorne Publishing archival files, it is the only one in existence and a vintage example of comic book production techniques from the 20th century prior to the digital age. With Dave Stevens comic books now exceeding $2000+ each, this beauty is a bargain because it is the original cover art used to print the comic book and there is only one! Cover contains hand inking by the artist. See Photos #5,6,7. Different backgrounds are used to highlight the inking on the negative.

*NOTE: Photo #1 shows both the original printing plate negative and the cover of Jungle Comics #1 side by side for comparison. The Jungle Comics #1 comic book is shown for reference only and is not included in this listing.

SECURE PROTECTED SHIPPING: In a Polypropylene sleeve with backing board between multiple layers of cardboard in a bubble envelope.

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BIO: 

Dave Lee Stevens (July 29, 1955 to March 11, 2008) was an American illustrator and comics artist. He was most famous for creating The Rocketeer comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style "glamour art" illustrations, especially of model Bettie Page. He was the first to win Comic-Con International's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award in 1982, and received both an Inkpot Award and the Kirby Award for Best Graphic Album in 1986.

Stevens was born July 29, 1955, in Lynwood, California, but grew up in Portland, Oregon. His family relocated to San Diego, where he attended San Diego City College for two years, and attended the then-new annual San Diego Comic-Con (now Comic-Con International).

Early Work

Stevens's first professional comic work was inking Russ Manning's pencils for the Tarzan newspaper comic strip and two European Tarzan graphic novels in 1975; he later assisted Manning on the Star Wars newspaper strip.

He began doing occasional comic book work, including providing illustrations for fanzines (inking drawings by comic book veteran Jack Kirby among them), as well as creating the Aurora feature for Japan's Sanrio Publishing.

Starting in 1977, he drew storyboards for Hanna-Barbera's animated TV shows, including Super Friends and The Godzilla Power Hour, where he worked with comics and animation veteran Doug Wildey. For the rest of the decade, he continued to work in animation and film, joining the art studio of illustrators William Stout and Richard Hescox in Los Angeles, working on projects such as storyboards for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark and pop singer Michael Jackson's video "Thriller".

The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer series was an adventure story set in a pulp fiction-styled 1930s (with allusions to heroes like Doc Savage and The Shadow emphasizing the pulp tradition), about a down-on-his-luck pilot named Cliff Secord who finds a mysterious rocket pack. Despite its erratic publishing history, the Rocketeer proved to be one of the first successful features to emerge from the burgeoning independent comics movement. Influenced by Golden Age artists Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Reed Crandall, Maurice Whitman, Frank Frazetta and Wally Wood, Stevens was widely recognized, along with artists such as Steve Rude and Jaime Hernandez, as one of the finest comic book artists of his generation.

Stevens was a longtime admirer of 1950s glamour and pin-up model Bettie Page; he modeled the look of the Rocketeer's girlfriend after her and featured her image in other illustrations too, which helped contribute to the renewed public interest in Page and her modeling career. After discovering that the retired Page was still alive and lived nearby, Stevens became friends with her, providing both personal assistance and helping to arrange financial compensation to her from various publishers for the use of her image and reprints of her many glamor and pin-up photos. Two other characters that show up in the Rocketeer stories were based on personal acquaintances of Stevens: the "Peevy" character, based on cartoonist Doug Wildey, and the sleazy "Marco of Hollywood" character, based on real life glamour and porn photographer Ken Marcus.

Comic book series

The first comic book featuring the Rocketeer was released in 1982. Those first stories appeared as a second feature in issues #2 and #3 of Mike Grell's Pacific Comics' Starslayer series. For its next two installments, Steven's feature moved to the anthology comic title Pacific Presents #1 and #2. The fourth chapter ended in a cliffhanger that was later concluded in a lone Rocketeer comic released by Eclipse Comics. The character was then continued in the Rocketeer Adventure Magazine, with two issues being published in 1988 and then 1989 by Comico Comics; a third and final issue was published six years later in 1995 by Dark Horse Comics. Stevens's extensive background research and meticulous approach to his illustrations contributed to the long delays between Rocketeer issues.

The first completed story line was then collected into a graphic novel by Eclipse Comics, in both trade paperback and hardcover formats, and simply titled The Rocketeer (ISBN 1-56060-088-8); the second story line was collected into a glossy trade paperback graphic novel by Dark Horse called The Rocketeer: Cliff's New York Adventure (ISBN 1-56971-092-9).

IDW Publishing announced a hardcover edition collecting the entire Rocketeer series for the first time, due originally in October 2009. Dave Stevens's The Rocketeer, The Complete Adventures would contain all-new coloring by Laura Martin who was chosen by Dave Stevens before his untimely death. The book finally appeared in December of that year in two separate states: a trade hardcover edition with full color dust jacket and a second, more lavish, deluxe hardcover edition (ISBN 978-1-60010-537-1) of 3000 copies. The deluxe edition sold out almost immediately upon publication, and IDW announced a second printing.

In 2011 IDW launched an all-new Rocketeer comic book series, illustrated by various artists, called Rocketeer Adventures.

Other work

Stevens began developing a Rocketeer theatrical film proposal in 1985 and then sold the rights to his character to the Walt Disney Company. After the release of Batman, movie studios rushed to produce similar properties that had not yet been fully greenlit. During this time, Stevens created costume illustrations for The Flash television series which built by Stan Winston Studios. That same year, principal photography commenced on The Rocketeer and released in 1991. The film was directed by Joe Johnston, and starred Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin and Timothy Dalton. Stevens was a hands-on co-producer of the film. It received a mixture of highly positive and lukewarm reviews and disappointing domestic ticket sales, ensuring no immediate sequels would follow. Dave Stevens always felt that a majority of the problem was that the studio's movie poster and promotional graphics were over-stylized and vague and didn't convey to people what the film was all about. After the Walt Disney Company purchased the Rocketeer character for film production, comics artist Russ Heath illustrated a promotional film tie-in graphic novel, The Rocketeer: The Official Movie Adaptation, based on their feature film.

Following The Rocketeer, Stevens worked primarily as an illustrator, doing a variety of ink and painted illustrations for book and comic book covers, posters, prints, portfolios, and private commissions, including a number of covers for Comico's Jonny Quest title and a series of eight covers for Eclipse comics, featuring characters such as Airboy and the DNAgents. The Eclipse covers were also published in the form of large posters. Many of his illustrations were in the "good girl art" genre. He also returned to art school to study painting.

Before his death in 2008 from hairy cell leukemia, Stevens was working on a career retrospective collection of his work to be titled Brush with Passion ? The Life and Art of Dave Stevens. The book was published the same year in a regular hardcover, as well a deluxe slipcased hardcover edition. In addition, very limited signed and leather-bound proof copies were also published, all from Underwood Books.

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• Condition: Like New
• Condition: This is the one and only ORIGINAL PRODUCTION ART PRINTING PLATE NEGATIVE used to print the Dave Stevens Cover of the iconic Jungle Comics #1 comic book. Originating from the Blackthorne Publishing archival files, it is the only one in existence and a vintage example of comic book production techniques from the 20th century prior to the digital age. This beauty is a bargain because it is the original cover art used to print the comic book and there is only one! Cover contains hand inking by the artist. See Photos #5,6,7. Different backgrounds are used to highlight the inking on the negative.
• Character: Superhero, Sheena, Sheena Queen of The Jungle
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Memorabilia: Comic Book Production Art
• Modified Item: No
• Series Title: Original
• Type: Printing Plate Negative
• Artist/Writer: Dave Stevens, Bruce Jones
• Features: Original, Printing Plate Negative, Archival Negative, Negative, Printing Plate, 1/1, Copper Age
• Universe: Blackthorne Publishing, Sheena Queen of The Jungle, Jungle Comics
• Vintage: Yes
• Publication Year: 1985
• Language: English
• Publisher: Blackthorne Publishing
• Tradition: US Comics
• Genre: Horror & Sci-Fi, Action, Good Girl, Jungle
• Cover Artist: Dave Stevens
• Unit of Sale: Single Unit
• Country of Manufacture: United States
• Era: Copper Age (1984-1991)
• Restoration: None
• Key Issue: Yes
• Inscribed: No
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Illustrator: Dave Stevens
• Theme: Comics
• Year of Production: 1988
• Item Height: 12
• Item Length: 9
• Format: Printing Plate Negative
• Intended Audience: General Audience
• Story Title: Sheena Queen of The Jungle
• Issue Number: 1

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