Strange Tales – Greg Goldstein's Comic Art Gallery

Jaime Hernandez — Love & Other Strange Tales Of Summer

August 16, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

“Love and the Space Phantom,” Strange Tales II #2, January 2011

Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing a light-hearted story with the women of Marvel? In their beach best? How did I miss this one?

Scott Eder broke up the originals to the complete short story back in this past Spring and I happened to see it just as it became available.

All the pages are fun, and the cover (with the goofy supervillains lurking in the background) is naturally terrific —and priced accordingly — but I think I did pretty well with this great one-of-a-kind splash.

Extra dividend: The published story features spot-on coloring by the uber-talented Laura Allred.

Jim Steranko — Full Of Fury

April 2, 2025 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Nick Fury commission, undated

I was only a little kid (7.5 years — I checked) when I first discovered Jim Steranko in Strange Tales #159. (In fairness, I might have discovered him an issue or two sooner, but it’s Captain America’s appearance on the cover that stands out in my mind’s eye.)

This is right around the time that Jim became STERANKO — no first name or other reference required. In subsequent issues of Strange Tales, and then his short-lived legendary run on the solo Nick Fury series, I most definitely didn’t always understand what he was doing, but I knew it was dynamic, wild and special. Looking back at the material today, it remains so.

Jim holds on to most of his published artwork, so a cool specialty piece like this one is a rare opportunity to have something of Jim’s in a collection. And when — and if — that published art ever comes on the market, there is so little of it, and it will be in such high demand, that affordability is going to be a challenge.

A big one.