Greg Goldstein – Greg Goldstein's Comic Art Gallery

Joe Kubert — Sure Shot

November 11, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Our Army At War #145, August 1964

Joe Kubert likely drew more pages of war combat than any other artist in the history of comics.

And you would be hard-pressed to find any of his covers or stories that glorified combat.

Gritty? Yes. Realistic? Absolutely. Action-oriented? Of course. Suspenseful? Nearly every time.

But Kubert’s stories — typically collaborating with writer Bob Kanigher — focused on the horrors and tragedies of war. And his distinctive, roughhewn art, was a perfect fit for the genre.

If anyone created a “War Artists Hall of Fame” the inaugural class would likely feature Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wallace Wood, and Russ Heath.

And Kubert should absolutely be at the top of that list.

Happy Veteran’s Day, 2025.

Today sees the arrival of a new reprint series: DC Finest — War, The Big Five Arrive, joining others that include the DC War Artist’s Edition a much earlier reprint, America at War. All four volumes of a DC archive collection reprinting Sgt. Rock are long out of print, and naturally, much sought after.

Drew Friedman — Mars Attacks, Live, On Film

October 29, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Cover, Mars Attacks #3, 1994 & Trading Card, Mars Attacks Archives, 1994

Wallace Wood. Norm Saunders. Robert Crumb. Basil Wolverton. Jack Davis. Art Spiegelman. Bill Griffith. Gil Kane. Jay Lynch. John Pound. Bob Powell. Tom Sutton. Bhob Stewart.

Topps (staff and freelance alike) artistic line-up of the late 20^th century reads like an unbeatable all-star team of talent. (And that’s not even close to a complete list.)

The list of course also includes the incomprable Drew Friedman, who among other assignments, drew the hilarious Toxic High trading card series for Topps, using his trademark stipple effect.

I’ve been looking for a good Friedman original and found this great cover completely by accident browsing in a flat file at Scott Eder’s gallery in New Jersey. It became a must -have. Scott loves it as well, so it took some heavy duty haggling to pry it away. But…I published the damn thing, so it must have been fate. Like I said, a “must-have.”

I believe this Mars Attacks cover is the only comic book cover Drew created for us.

Hey Scott, find out if the Hollywood mogul is based on an actual person.

I’ll keep it between us.

(Happy Halloween, everyone!)

***In addition to the comic book cover, we included Drew’s art on a trading card — part of a series of new images that were included in the 1994 Mars Attacks Archives set.***

New York State Of Mind, 2025 (Part 2 Of 2)

October 17, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

New York Comic-Con, October 9-12, 2025

Some more fun pics from this year’s NYCC…

Photo of Roy Thomas And Greg L Goldstein at New York Comic-Con, 2025

I didn’t see half the people I wanted to see, But I was very happy to run into (rascally)Roy Thomas who I’ve known as a fan, professional and colleague the last 50 years or so, give or take. Random fun fact: About 30 years ago, Roy, Len Brown, Jim Salicrup and I went in a Topps chauffeured-driven car to grab hot dogs at Nathans in Coney Island.

Another fun fact: Nearly all of the buildings outside the convention center in the pic on the right existed 10 years ago. In some places, that’s an entire city. In New York, it’s a neighborhood.

New York State Of Mind, 2025 (Part 1 Of 2)

October 16, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

New York Comic-Con, October 9-12, 2025

Another NYCC — come and gone. Seemed more crowded than ever, and thanks to a few personal scheduling snafus (and some ADD) I missed most of artists’ alley. But… the cosplay, was, as always, fun.

Cosplay, La-La Land Style, Part 2 (Of 2)

September 29, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

L.A. Comic Con, Saturday, September 27, 2025

Even more great cosplay from Tinseltown, including crazy group shots of Marvel (mostly) characters and the Doctor Who Family. (See yesterday’s post, too.)

Cosplay, La-La Land Style, Part 1 (Of 2)

September 28, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

L.A. Comic Con, Saturday, September 27, 2025

Hadn’t been to L.A. Comic Con in a few years; always a blast seeing some very creative cosplay on display. But we should expect nothing less from Tinseltown, right?

Pete Poplaski — Bat-Blast From The Past

September 20, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Batman: The Dailies, 1944-1945 (TPB, 1990, Kitchen Sink)

Here’s yet another great piece of art by the extraordinarily talented Pete Poplaski.

Poplaski has been called an “artist’s artist” by many of his peers. He might not have a household name among art buffs, but his talent is formidable and undeniable.

Pete, who broke into comics in the 70s underground movement, ultimately became Kitchen Sink’s art director, and, among many accomplishments helped give some of Robert Crumb’s projects just the right design touch.

Kitchen had the rights to reprint the DC Batman and Superman Golden Age comic strips in the early 1990s, and Pete created brand new covers that evoked the classic style of those strips.

When we acquired those rights at IDW in 2012, we went back to Pete to see if he would be interested in picking up where he left off, and fortunately he was.

Dick Sprang. Al Plastino. Carmine Infantino. You name it. Pete’s remarkable ability to create brand new material in any and all of these classic styles is astonishing.

Interestingly enough, many if not most of Pete’s covers (front and back) feature hand drawn lettering, but this one does not. Also, the final crop for the book cover is tighter, so the end result of both of these elements is that there much more art visible on the original than in the final published version.

I’m fortunate enough to own a few of these covers — and many of them are prominently displayed.

Happy Batman Day, 2025