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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 8, 2021 8:51:06 GMT -5
My son's been screening the comics I sent to my grandson. (...) Oh, geez. That's *a lot* worse than the stuff in those Seuss books that got them pulled from publication. In fact, it's worse than some of Geisel's political cartoons back in the 1940s - and they were pretty bad.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 10, 2021 17:47:42 GMT -5
Saw this a day or two ago and forgot to post. Happy Birthday Bone.
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Post by MDG on Mar 14, 2021 15:49:45 GMT -5
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 14, 2021 16:33:52 GMT -5
When Aparo came over to DC, he started hiding the names of other DC creators in his work: The name-sneak makes for a fun little Easter egg hunt. Neal Adams' "Hey A Jim Steranko Effect" is well-known. Curt Swan got his name on the blocks in this cover: Murphy Anderson's self-promotion is rather obvious here. (Less obvious is the "product of Elongated Man" text on the box of rubber bands.)
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 14, 2021 18:58:29 GMT -5
When Aparo came over to DC, he started hiding the names of other DC creators in his work: Sigh...I used to have the original art from which that top panel came! I asked Aparo about that 3rd example, the one with all the names in it, because I didn't know who the "Barr" was in that melange of names. I knew it couldn't be his later collaborator Mike W. Barr, who was only a burgeoning letterhack at the time, but I couldn't think of any other "Barrs" in the comics business, and I recognized every other name in there. It was Ken Barr, an accomplished artist who had been drawing some war comics for DC at around this time. I knew of him mainly for his Marvel magazine covers, particularly "Rampaging Hulk", and wasn't aware that he had ever worked at DC.
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Post by MDG on Mar 15, 2021 7:37:11 GMT -5
When Aparo came over to DC, he started hiding the names of other DC creators in his work: Sigh...I used to have the original art from which that top panel came! I'm really liking Aparo's art in the series. In a less flashy way than Adams and Steranko, he's doing some new, "modern" things. I'm also spying a Williamson influence I hadn;t seen before, but that may partly be due to some of the costumes and sets.
I have one Aparo page, a real nice Phantom Stranger example that I think was part of the last bunch of original art I bought (at a con in 2000!) My ex had given me a Metal Men cover by him in the mid-80s (paid $65!) but I thought it was kind've bland, atypical Aparo and sold it to finance another purchase,
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Post by MDG on Mar 16, 2021 12:12:08 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 16, 2021 15:14:03 GMT -5
My son's been screening the comics I sent to my grandson. What I love in such situations is to have the tables turned!
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Post by MDG on Mar 26, 2021 12:20:51 GMT -5
Years ago, I was able to pick up this unused WW splash by Gene Colan: Last night I used the Job # to track down the published version: Looking at them together, the published version seems so dull! The only reason I can imagine the original was rejected is that there was no room for the intro paragraph, title, WW logo, six speech/thought balloons, credits pane ... Still, WW's thought balloon is the only one critical to the story--the others feel like Roy trying to do one of those street scenes in an early FF.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 26, 2021 13:26:29 GMT -5
^^ Not like Roy Thomas to overwrite.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 27, 2021 17:36:22 GMT -5
Looking at them together, the published version seems so dull! The only reason I can imagine the original was rejected is that there was no room for the intro paragraph, title, WW logo, six speech/thought balloons, credits pane ... Still, WW's thought balloon is the only one critical to the story--the others feel like Roy trying to do one of those street scenes in an early FF. It's like Colan said eff it (the pencilers didn't get paid for redoing pages afaik) and reached into his bag of tricks from his Adam Austin days For those who are curious: this is from Tales of Suspense #73
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 27, 2021 18:44:40 GMT -5
You are lucky they rejected that page. A beautiful pure Colan pencil page like that is a treasure. Tanghal was okay, but not his best inker.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2021 1:26:19 GMT -5
Will Meugniot posted this earlier today, a piece he did about 5 years ago that provides a panoramic view of his favorite female silver age characters... what caught my eye was Wanda in the lower right corner in her 2 piece costume. The era of Wanda's career I am currently reading for the annotation thread (the Kooky Quartet era) has her seemingly switching between that costume and the one-piece at random form issue to issue and sometimes even panel to panel in the issues. I am not sure I could name every character in that montage though. -M
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Post by foxley on Apr 5, 2021 3:27:01 GMT -5
Will Meugniot posted this earlier today, a piece he did about 5 years ago that provides a panoramic view of his favorite female silver age characters... what caught my eye was Wanda in the lower right corner in her 2 piece costume. The era of Wanda's career I am currently reading for the annotation thread (the Kooky Quartet era) has her seemingly switching between that costume and the one-piece at random form issue to issue and sometimes even panel to panel in the issues. I am not sure I could name every character in that montage though. -M That's gorgeous! I can name about half of the characters at a glance, but some of them have me stumped.
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Post by Farrar on Apr 14, 2021 19:04:15 GMT -5
Earlier today I was checking out the TwoMorrows site and the Alter Ego Centennial book caught my eye, so I checked out the Preview...and vis-à-vis MDG's and my recent posts above, guess what I came across on page 12: Here's a larger view of the story behind the redrawn splash; in his synopsis to Colan, Roy specified that he wanted to deliberately evoke the Iron Man splash. By the way, this book's on sale on the TwoMorrow's site, plus you can download a 43-page PDF preview: twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=106&products_id=969
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