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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 30, 2021 11:14:03 GMT -5
Secret Story Romances #7, June 1954. Cover pencilled, inked and signed by Vince: One thing I noticed, paging thru Colletta romance covers - unlike a lot of other romance covers which featured tearful, crying women, the women on Vince's covers were generally very happy. This one has a happy woman in the foreground and tears in the background.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Dec 30, 2021 11:23:43 GMT -5
Girls' Love Stories #152
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Post by DubipR on Dec 30, 2021 12:36:42 GMT -5
My Own Romance #75
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Post by Graphic Autist on Dec 30, 2021 13:18:23 GMT -5
Fantastic Four #43
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Post by berkley on Dec 30, 2021 21:08:17 GMT -5
Secret Story Romances #7, June 1954. Cover pencilled, inked and signed by Vince: One thing I noticed, paging thru Colletta romance covers - unlike a lot of other romance covers which featured tearful, crying women, the women on Vince's covers were generally very happy. This one has a happy woman in the foreground and tears in the background. Interesting tecnique on that one - is that zip-a-tone he was using? Not something I've ever associated with Colletta.
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Post by berkley on Dec 30, 2021 21:09:40 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 31, 2021 0:08:00 GMT -5
Secret Story Romances #7, June 1954. Cover pencilled, inked and signed by Vince: Interesting tecnique on that one - is that zip-a-tone he was using? Not something I've ever associated with Colletta. It does look unusual, that's one of the reasons I chose it. It's one of his earliest covers, so he was probably in an experimental phase. I'm not familiar enough with art techniques to be sure if that's zip-a-tone or something similar. Does anyone else recognize it?
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2021 10:03:00 GMT -5
Marvel Premiere #26 Kirby art saved by Colletta's inking You might have meant it as a joke but those figures all look a bit Wonky.
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Post by foxley on Dec 31, 2021 10:47:53 GMT -5
Marvel Premiere #26 Kirby art saved by Colletta's inking You might have meant it as a joke but those figures all look a bit Wonky. Wow! Jack Kirby's figures look wonky! Colour me astonished!
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 31, 2021 11:06:58 GMT -5
Interesting tecnique on that one - is that zip-a-tone he was using? Not something I've ever associated with Colletta. It does look unusual, that's one of the reasons I chose it. It's one of his earliest covers, so he was probably in an experimental phase. I'm not familiar enough with art techniques to be sure if that's zip-a-tone or something similar. Does anyone else recognize it? I'm not sure what the technique is, but it was used on a lot of Atlas romance from this period. Al Hartley and Jay Scott Pike both have multiple covers with this sort of texture as well, so it wasn't unique to Colletta.
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Post by MDG on Dec 31, 2021 11:25:16 GMT -5
It does look unusual, that's one of the reasons I chose it. It's one of his earliest covers, so he was probably in an experimental phase. I'm not familiar enough with art techniques to be sure if that's zip-a-tone or something similar. Does anyone else recognize it? I'm not sure what the technique is, but it was used on a lot of Atlas romance from this period. Al Hartley and Jay Scott Pike both have multiple covers with this sort of texture as well, so it wasn't unique to Colletta. It's duo-shade board. You don;t see it a lot on covers but it was around in the 50s and folks like Wood and Williamsoon used it for interiors. The only other covers that use it a lot that come to mind are Chaykin's American Flagg.
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Post by MDG on Dec 31, 2021 11:32:08 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Dec 31, 2021 12:04:44 GMT -5
Love the effect. I think I've seen it in a few Gene Colan panles as well, in Doctor Strange for example.
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 31, 2021 12:45:19 GMT -5
Marvel Premiere #26 Kirby art saved by Colletta's inking You might have meant it as a joke but those figures all look a bit Wonky. I wonder where that art is from? It does not look like Kirby's mid 70s art. Though a lot of those covers he did for issues he didn't draw when he returned to Marvel looked "phoned in".
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2021 13:55:47 GMT -5
I remember hearing that some covers were layed out for Kirby by people like Al Milgrom.
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