I used to search the Look and Learn website all the time as it contained thousands of images from the Look and Learn comic I sometimes got as a kid. When I first started the blog the website provided invaluable information about the origins of certain Project SWORD box art images, the Cape Kenedy Set and the Nuclear ferry, both illustrated by Robert McCall.
For old time's sake I had another look today and lo and behold I'm pleased top say both those images are still there. At least some things don't change. This time I did a search for NASA Rocket and you can see what came up here including some fine drawings of the Saturn V and the Vehicle Assembly Building by Wilf Hardy.
https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/search.php?t=0&q=nasa+rocket&n=9
Do you like this site? Did you get Look and Learn as a kid?
Not as a kid, no, though I was aware of it. I bought it for several months in the mid or late '70s and still have those issues. Nowadays I own an original issue of #1, plus a couple of facsimiles that were produced by the very site you mention. They also did a 48 issue series of Look & Learn, which contained The Trigan Empire as originally presented in Ranger. The reproduction in some instances is even better than that of the recent Rebellion volume, except where the pages (in Rebellion's book) have been scanned from the original art. Where the images have been sourced from printed issues of Ranger though, I think the new Look & Learn mags have the edge. I believe you can buy this new series from The Book Palace, and I'd wholeheartedly recommend it.
ReplyDeleteCheers Kid. Look and Learn artwork was fabulous. I bought specific copies of L&L where they carried art associated with Project SWORD box art and the vehicles in the Project SWORD Annual. I think I even bought a small licence from their site ten years ago to show some artwork on Moonbase. Wotan covered a similar mag/comic called World of Wonder and another one called something like Speed and Power about ten years ago too. I've a big pile of a comic called Treasure too.
DeleteGreat source Woodsy, also of revenue - you can buy any of the images for use at prices ranging from £9.99 to £300.
ReplyDeleteWhich brings us back to the issue of artist's copyright, which is in effect 70 years after artist's passing. So basically the revenue is claimable by the artist or his estate, if the rights have not been transferred contractually. This applies also for any box art, provided that the artist can be identified and verified.
I think I licensed some art from L&L in the early days of Moonbase Arto. Maybe Roll-out or the Nuke Ferry. Not sure now.It was an exciting time finding all that McCall art on Look and Learn's site. As for toy box art, is it not the toy company that owns the box art. Would Century 21 have owned the Cape Kennedy box art or Look and Learn where they probably first saw it or indeed Rob McCall the original artist. Who owns the SWORD box art?
DeleteI originally read World of Wonder, and only got Look and Learn after the titles were merged. Kept on getting it until it ceased publication, although I was not really reading it much by then. I did not realise there was a L&L website, must have a look.
ReplyDeleteAmazing how things come round again on Moonbase. There was a post about World of Wonder in 2010 Paul http://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-of-wonder.html
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