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Male Fantasy in the Lab | Apr 30, 2020 9:08 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!" in Amazing Adventures #6, Marvel Comics, November 1961. Plot by Stan Lee (?), script by Larry Lieber (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Black hole binary OJ 287 orbit confirmed | Apr 29, 2020 8:39 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The BBC just posted an article about supermassive black hole binary OJ 287: a 150 million solar mass black hole orbits an 18 billion solar mass black hole in a precessing pattern that causes a bright flare each time it punches through the larger black hole's accretion disc, which happens "twice ever 12 years"; the "outburst of energy is equivalent to a trillion suns turning on at once in the holes' host galaxy." The article says that examination of a recent observation by the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope confirmed that the most recent flare occurred within hours of scientists' prediction based on the mass of the black holes, the rotational velocity of the larger black hole, the warping effect the huge mass of these bodies creates on their local space and time, the theorized path of the smaller hole's orbit, and the way that gravitational waves radiating from the interaction of the holes should affect that orbit. According to Wikipedia, OJ 287, the nucleus of a galaxy 3.5 billion light years away, has been "seen on photographic plates since at least 1887," and its semi-irregular flaring was "first apparent on photographic plates from 1891." The sapping of energy from the binary through gravitational waves is predicted to cause the orbit to decay to the point where the two holes merge in about 10,000 years. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Sserpo pips Thing | Apr 28, 2020 8:00 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "Sserpo! The Creature Who Crushed the Earth!" in Amazing Adventures #6, Marvel Comics, November 1961. Plot by Stan Lee (?), script by Larry Lieber (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by George Klein, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. Lee and Kirby introduced the rocky, orange "Thing" one month later, in Fantastic Four #1. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Just insert this panel in every story | Apr 27, 2020 8:57 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "Beware of Bruttu!" in Tales of Suspense #22, Marvel Comics, October 1961. Script by Stan Lee (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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High-tech eyepatches are all the rage | Apr 24, 2020 8:00 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Inked sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Readers make A* possible! Thanks everyone for your support! : D ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Love in the Lab | Apr 23, 2020 8:17 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "Beware of Bruttu!" in Tales of Suspense #22, Marvel Comics, October 1961. Script by Stan Lee (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Steve Ditko, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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It's a big face | Apr 22, 2020 8:28 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. Thanks to everyone helping me out through Patreon, you make A* possible! : D ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Western Hulk before Hulk | Apr 21, 2020 8:16 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "They Called Him Outlaw!" in Rawhide Kid #23, Marvel Comics, August 1961. Script by Stan Lee, art by Paul Reinman, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Uncle Ben before the Parkers | Apr 20, 2020 8:15 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "Beware! The Rawhide Kid" in Rawhide Kid #17, Marvel Comics, August 1960. Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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The bigger the hat brim, the better | Apr 17, 2020 8:42 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Inked sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Thanks to everyone supporting the comic! You make A* possible!! ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Hulk before Hulk | Apr 16, 2020 7:43 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "The Silent Screen" in Tales to Astonish #21, Marvel Comics, July 1961. Script by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Lines, lines, roughly parallel lines | Apr 15, 2020 9:13 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Inked sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : D Thanks to the many wonderful readers whose extraordinary generosity has made it possible for me to continue bringing you A* five times a week! You can join the campaign for as little as $1 a month, and every dollar makes a big difference to me. Thanks again to everyone who's been helping out! = ) ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Inhuman before The Inhumans | Apr 14, 2020 8:36 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "It's Trull...the Inhuman!" in Tales to Astonish #21, Marvel Comics, July 1961. Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Son of a Gun | Apr 13, 2020 9:10 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: From "Googam, Son of Goom" in Tales of Suspense #17, Marvel Comics, May 1961. Script by Stan Lee (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Swirls R Cool | Apr 10, 2020 8:59 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Thanks for reading, and thanks to those amazing folks supporting the comic in other ways as well! : D ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Puny before Hulk, after 3 DC Metalo/Metallos | Apr 09, 2020 8:38 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "The Thing Called Metallo!" in Tales of Suspense #16, Marvel Comics, April 1961. Plot by Stan Lee (?), script by Larry Lieber (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers, colors by Stan Goldberg, letters by Ray Holloway (?). ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Galaxy Queen it up | Apr 08, 2020 9:09 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) Thanks everyone who's supporting and/or reading the comic! : D ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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View of the start of a supermassive jet | Apr 07, 2020 9:20 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released an image showing the beginning point of a supermassive black hole's relativistic jet—those often light-years-long, near-light-speed blasts of plasma thrown off the magnetic poles of a large, rotating black hole. The image, along with earlier, less detailed images, taken from a distant quasar, shows that this jet twists, and may have "perpendicular" features: "The unexpected geometry suggests the presence of traveling shocks or instabilities in a bent, rotating jet, which might also explain emission at high energies such as gamma-rays." ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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A* Episode 40, Page 31 | Apr 06, 2020 10:27 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Well, I got a page done. Or *over*done. Heehee! =P ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Baby you can buy my art | Apr 03, 2020 11:35 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Boxing up a piece of recent original A* comic art to carry down to the post office today. : ) Thanks to everyone who has bought A* art from me! (The most recent week's worth of art is always up for auction at a low starting price on eBay, and any that survive that are available for instant purchase; on smbhax.com, with the site's menu showing, just look for the golden link—gold and blue for eBay links—in the lower left corner of the comic pages whose art you're interested in.) ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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Before Incredible Hulk was Wax Hulk | Apr 02, 2020 8:49 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ From "Vandoom, the Man Who Made a Creature!" in Tales to Astonish #17, Marvel Comics, March 1961. Plot by Stan Lee (?), script by Larry Lieber (?), pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers, color by Stan Goldberg, letters by Artie Simek. ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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A hand that could cut butter | Apr 01, 2020 8:10 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page: ^ Sketch for a reader supporting the comic through my Patreon campaign. : ) I couldn't make A* without the incredibly generous support of readers through Patreon—thank you all! : D And thank you to everyone out there reading this little comic. ^_^ ~~~~~~~~~ The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
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