Apr 19
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Bob Wakelin
Two-Gun Kid: The Sunset Riders No. 1, dated November 1995. The interior story and art really didn't live up to this cover by Bob Wakelin (1952-2018).
Bob is best remembered for his computer game box art and to UK comic readers for his painted covers for Marvel UK, the London Editions DC reprint line and Starlord weekly from IPC. The Starlord covers aren't always remembered for the right reasons though and if you search for Starlord No. 14 on this blog then you'll see what I mean.
In case you don't know, the Kid had travelled into the future at one point in the pages of The Avengers and presumably this is how he came to be in possession of an Intratec TEC-9 sub-machine gun on this cover. Marvel.
An early Superman prose story by Alan Moore for a British comics magazine, before he made it big with Swamp Thing.
Bob Wakelin's excellent artwork for the home computer version of MagMax.
Magazine advert for the 1989 Amiga & Atari St title from Ocean Software & Special FX:
Batman: The Caped Crusader
Art by the late Bob Wakelin
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Bob Wakelin (UK, ✝ 2018) Voyager (Ocean software Ltd, 1989)
Renegade box art - Bob Wakelin
I am not really fond of martial arts, I’d rather pick firearms or blades, but for those raised during the troubled and crime and drug plagued 1980s there was certainly a lot of appeal in beating the crap out of street scum.
Even as a kid I found the prostitute wielding a heavy medieval mace completely ludicrous, when ii posted this pic I dawned on me that probably it’s not actually a woman but a transvestite (of course when I was a kid I didn’t know that, neither did get the joke in Cocodrile Dundee), now I don’t feel bad anymore about beating girls, even if they were hookers, playing this game.
On a related theme, I always felt uncomfortable fighting against warrior women in the Golden Axe arcade, but the desire to win got over.