A pile of Battle Picture Weekly comics arrived in the Little Shop this week, and while that particular comic was not a part of my childhood, one of the artists I noticed supplying multiple covers certainly was. Carlos Ezquerra drew the definitive Strontium Dog and arguably the definitive Judge Dredd for 2000AD and his (mostly pre-Tharg) work for Battle really stood out as I leafed through the pile readying it for its eBay listing (which has now SOLD).
Not all the covers pictured below are by Ezquerra, but most of the best ones are. Look out for Major Eazy, drawn by Carlos to sort-of-resemble the none-more-cool Hollywood star James Coburn, who had starred in Pekinpah's Cross of Iron that year. Ezquerra obviously enjoyed drawing Coburnesque characters: he later used the same look (with shorter hair) for his adaptations of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat in 2000AD.
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