Why did Joe Kubert need to do more romance comics?

Just look at this:

Death! Cars!!

Racing!!

Crashes!!

Manly men fighting!!

VROOOOM!!

More fisticuffs!!

More racing!!

More crashes!!

Man, those are my kind of romance comics!!

From Pictorial Confessions #3 (1949)

Because some mornings...

...you need to see Joe Kubert draw the living hell out of Superman and the Demon fighting an evil druid!!

Selected highlights follow...







From DC Comics Presents #66 (1984)

Because some mornings...

...you just need to see a Walt Simonson-drawn Dr. Fate beat the crap out of a big-ass mummy!



BONUS: Joe Kubert cover!!

You're welcome.

From 1st Issue Special #9 (1975)

By Joe Kubert, of course...

Apparently, cover artist/book editor Joe Kubert would like you to believe...

...that Neal Adams was hanged by the Nazis in WWII.

(Or maybe it was cover letter Gaspar Saladino getting cheeky...)

Weird War Tales #5 is from 1972

Well, maybe not. We'll let you decide:

As the cover tells us, a couple of American WWII fighter pilots have crashed in the middle of the ocean, and pretty much have no hope of survival.

Until...



And so Seaweed Dude goes on to narrate the anthology's tales, and...






A force animating seaweed? Total plant elemental, right?

So we rejoin our guys, four weeks later (!!!)...


OK, that was so completely a plant elemental....an earlier version of Swamp Thing, right? Right?!?!

From Weird War Tales #3 (1972)

Goddamn, Joe Kubert. God damn.

G.I. Combat #287 is from 1987.

By Joe Kubert.

Gee, I wonder if this might have anything to do with this week's Friday Night Fights...?