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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2016 17:51:50 GMT -5
While reading through the first volume of the Spirit Archives earlier this month, I noticed something peculiar, a familiar symbol where it shouldn't be... with all the attention the Doc Strange movie is getting, the familiar window symbol....  has become ubiquitous .  It even creeped into the Spirit Section strips 20+ years before Doc was created. The first is similar, but not the same, and I thought it an odd coincidence, but coincidence all the same... from the Spirit Section Sept. 1, 1940, collected in the Spirit Archives Vol. 1...  but then a week later in the Spirit Section from Sept. 8, 1940 we saw this...  so now I am left to wonder, did Eisner and Ditko develop such similar designs independently? Was Ditko influenced by Eisner material he saw earlier? Or were they both drawing on esoteric symbols that pre-exist both comic strips, or even were they drawing on an architectural design that was common for that kind of rose window in buildings from a certain era? I am not even certain where to begin looking for answers for such a question, so for now I will offer it as a odd coincidence to be noted and perhaps raise an eyebrow... -M |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2016 18:03:49 GMT -5
Ditko was a fan of Eisner & Jerry Robinson.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 30, 2016 18:12:26 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Oct 30, 2016 20:05:52 GMT -5
I've noticed the similarities between the window in the Spirit's hideout and Dr. Strange's Greenwich Village abode too. I just assumed it was a tribute or nod to Eisner from Ditko. It's definitely too similar to be mere coincidence.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 8:34:34 GMT -5
I've noticed the similarities between the window in the Spirit's hideout and Dr. Strange's Greenwich Village abode too. I just assumed it was a tribute or nod to Eisner from Ditko. It's definitely too similar to be mere coincidence. I was thinking of the same thing Confessor! |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 1, 2016 13:48:28 GMT -5
I always thought that Ditko was trying to portray the shadow of a rectangular grate with a curved outer window over it, like a large version of this:  |
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Nov 1, 2016 15:17:08 GMT -5
Remember when cartoons would show a bubble and it would have what looked like a four pane window drawn on it to indicate that the surface was shiny or transparent?
I wonder if the Eisner window was a stylized version of the window on a bubble?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 1:17:10 GMT -5
Not sure of the provenance of this piece, but it was jost posted on the 70s Sci-Fi Art tumblr/facebook feed today, and it features Doc's window...in space this time....  If anyone recognizes this piece and know's where it came form, let me know, I'd be curious to find out. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 28, 2016 2:01:20 GMT -5
Not sure of the provenance of this piece, but it was jost posted on the 70s Sci-Fi Art tumblr/facebook feed today, and it features Doc's window...in space this time.... If anyone recognizes this piece and know's where it came form, let me know, I'd be curious to find out. -M It appears to be from the European movie posters for the movie Planet of Vampires. Circa 1965 for the movie, though the art could pre-date that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Vampires |
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Post by MDG on Dec 28, 2016 11:00:58 GMT -5
Can't find it on the net to share, but someone in the Comic Book Historians group on Facebook posted a Murphy Anderson page from Strange Adventures that uses that window design, likely as a nod to Eisner.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 11:35:02 GMT -5
Can't find it on the net to share, but someone in the Comic Book Historians group on Facebook posted a Murphy Anderson page from Strange Adventures that uses that window design, likely as a nod to Eisner. Do you know what issue it was from? -M |
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Post by MDG on Dec 28, 2016 13:59:32 GMT -5
Can't find it on the net to share, but someone in the Comic Book Historians group on Facebook posted a Murphy Anderson page from Strange Adventures that uses that window design, likely as a nod to Eisner. Do you know what issue it was from? -M Strange Adventures 19, story page 5 |
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Post by Farrar on Dec 28, 2016 22:47:29 GMT -5
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 31, 2016 13:09:09 GMT -5
Not sure of the provenance of this piece, but it was jost posted on the 70s Sci-Fi Art tumblr/facebook feed today, and it features Doc's window...in space this time.... If anyone recognizes this piece and know's where it came form, let me know, I'd be curious to find out. -M It appears to be from the European movie posters for the movie Planet of Vampires. Circa 1965 for the movie, though the art could pre-date that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_VampiresWeird coincidence. Planet of the Vampires arrived in the mail from Netflix today. And then I read this. |
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Post by MDG on Dec 31, 2016 13:56:41 GMT -5
Weird coincidence. Planet of the Vampires arrived in the mail from Netflix today. And then I read this. It's Bava-riffic! And the source of the beginning of Alien. |
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