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Post by commond on Oct 21, 2022 6:43:25 GMT -5
I liked Son of Satan a lot both in Marvel Spotlight and his own series. With the right creative team, it could have lasted as long as Werewolf by Night or Tomb of Dracula.
I thought Gerber made it really interesting, as he did most books he worked on for Marvel back in the 1970s. The artwork was a bit up and down, if I remember, and he wasn't given enough time to really get going on the title, but I would have looked forward to seeing what else he might have done with it.
My ideal artist would have been Russ Heath, based solely on the one SoS fill-in issue he did (written by someone else, not Gerber), but I suppose that, realistically, he probably wouldn't have been available for a monthly or bi-monthly ongoing series. So who else?
I haven't really thought it through. Some people think Daimon Hellstrom is a boring character, but I thought the series had tremendous potential. I'm not a huge Gerber fan, but the book needed a writer like Gerber who was willing to explore thematics instead of worrying about bringing SoS into line with the rest of the Marvel Universe.
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Post by berkley on Oct 21, 2022 17:02:43 GMT -5
I thought Gerber made it really interesting, as he did most books he worked on for Marvel back in the 1970s. The artwork was a bit up and down, if I remember, and he wasn't given enough time to really get going on the title, but I would have looked forward to seeing what else he might have done with it.
My ideal artist would have been Russ Heath, based solely on the one SoS fill-in issue he did (written by someone else, not Gerber), but I suppose that, realistically, he probably wouldn't have been available for a monthly or bi-monthly ongoing series. So who else?
I haven't really thought it through. Some people think Daimon Hellstrom is a boring character, but I thought the series had tremendous potential. I'm not a huge Gerber fan, but the book needed a writer like Gerber who was willing to explore thematics instead of worrying about bringing SoS into line with the rest of the Marvel Universe.
Yes, exactly. I am a big Gerber fan, so I like nearly everything he did, but off-the-wall concepts like Son of Satan especially needed someone like him as opposed to a more conventional superhero writer like, say, Gerry Conway.
Looking up the series on Mike's site, I see that I'd forgotten about the John Warner run that followed Gerber; And even now that I'm reminded of it I don't remember how I liked it apart from that amazing Russ Heath artwork in the one issue. I must have enjoyed it at the time, though, because I kept buying the issues after Gerber left.
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