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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 4, 2021 14:11:23 GMT -5
I've always thought Jim Aparo would have been a splendid artist on Spider-man. Aparo would have been a great artist on any series! The only Marvel work I saw from him was a Capt America sketch. And that wasn't even really "Marvel work", but a private fan commission posthumously published in an official Marvel comic. Presumably, they cleared this publication and paid Aparo's estate. A couple of other notable DC artists that worked for other publishers in the Golden Age but settled in at National from the Silver Age to their retirement (unless I'm mistaken!) were Irv Novick and Bob Oksner.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 6, 2021 9:04:11 GMT -5
I wasn't award that John Buscema did another book for Dc other than this; John Buscema's final project was for DC, though it never saw print. He completed one issue of a project called Justice League Barbarians, but passed before the project was completed, and it was never published. The pages of original art, however, recently went up for sale at auction... you can see more pages in the article about the auction at BCIt seems Big John was set to do a few projects at DC at that point in time, but passed before that plan came to fruition. I wonder how the perception of him as a Marvel guy would have changed if he had lived to complete those planned projects. -M Man, that looks like it would have been an awesome book!
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Post by SJNeal on Aug 6, 2021 19:10:10 GMT -5
José Luis García-López supplied one piece of Wonder Man artwork for OHOTMU. Otherwise, he's never done any work for Marvel. I love that it was one of my favorites! But not even the great JLGL could make this atrocity of a costume look good...
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2021 12:54:16 GMT -5
I don't think Novick, Giella, or Cuidera worked anywhere after they settled at DC.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 7, 2021 14:41:15 GMT -5
I don't think Novick, Giella, or Cuidera worked anywhere after they settled at DC. Joe Giella had some credits for Marvel in the mid-70s, including finished art on Dave Cockrum's Giant Size Avengers #3 and inking Frank Robbins' first Issue of Captain America.
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 7, 2021 15:43:15 GMT -5
Aparo would have been a great artist on any series! The only Marvel work I saw from him was a Capt America sketch. And that wasn't even really "Marvel work", but a private fan commission posthumously published in an official Marvel comic. Presumably, they cleared this publication and paid Aparo's estate. A couple of other notable DC artists that worked for other publishers in the Golden Age but settled in at National from the Silver Age to their retirement (unless I'm mistaken!) were Irv Novick and Bob Oksner. Said sketch: Which reminds me of a Captain America/Batman sketch done by Shelly Moldoff back in the 90's
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 7, 2021 15:48:33 GMT -5
^^ That's a frikkin' UFO, not a shield!
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 7, 2021 16:39:26 GMT -5
Wow, I so wish Aparo had gotten a crack at Cap. Too bad Andru came over to do Spidey and not Aparo.
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 8, 2021 11:12:30 GMT -5
Jim was definitely approached by Marvel a few times, he told me. I'm sure the reasons he didn't seriously consider them were multifaceted, but one factor was definitely the so-called "Marvel Method" of scripting to the pencils. This would have clashed with his established workflow, which was developed working from full scripts: he'd read the script, visualize the composition of the page, do the panel borders, then do the lettering, then fill in the art around the lettering. I saw some of his pages at the early stage of the process and he had no thumbnails, no rough sketches, just pure white bristol board with the borders and lettering completed, all that blank space ready for his finished drawings to fill in. Had he gone to Marvel, he probably would have had to give up lettering if not the inking, as well as doing more detailed pencils (he could take more shortcuts when he was inking himself) and taking on increased responsibility for pacing and panel choice.
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