Saber King of the Jungle

Super-fiddly art by Denis McLoughlin from Tiger and Hurricane dated 6th April 1968. One thing I liked about McLoughlin's work was his use of texture, but here's an insane amount of detail for something printed on newsprint (the paper being absorbant meaning that the ink spreads a little, thickening the line-work). Look at the detail of the broken running-board of the car (on the left) in the blown-up panel below. Also, the dog eyeing up the sausages hanging out of the bag (on the right).

The Black Jaguar

Denis McLoughlin illustrates this one-off tale for The Wizard weekly, January 25th 1975.

Fury's Family

Denis McLoughlin, Lion 15th May, 1971.

Terror in the Tall Tower

Here's a cover created by Denis McLoughlin from 1974. Love this: it's such a classic pulp image... See here for Ian Kennedy's version from the reprint collection in the eighties.

HMS Smokey Joe

Art by Denis McLoughlin from Warlord, June 7th 1980. It sometimes makes me wonder why these guys put so much work into their art when they must have known most of the detail was going to be lost in reproduction...

Saber-King of the Jungle.

Saber-King of the Jungle from Tiger and Hurricane January 4th 1969, with art by Denis McLoughlin. DL used to include such an insane amount of detail in his pages. It's a shame that the art has been printed on newsprint and has lost some of it's definition. It'd be nice to look at the original art...