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Post by driver1980 on Jul 26, 2023 4:05:11 GMT -5
We currently have a tie between Jeddak and badwolf. Can someone who has not yet voted please cast a tiebreaker vote between these two entries. Jeddak
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Post by foxley on Jul 26, 2023 4:30:27 GMT -5
Thanks for the tiebreaker driver1980. Getting their (many) hands on this week's win is Jeddak, with 4 votes. Throwing their arms in the air in celebration of being runner-up is badwolf, with 3 votes. Taking third place--not quite single-handed--are kirby101 and robot1a, with 2 votes each. And still in the arms race were codystarbuck, DupibR, Jesse, chaykinstevens, jester and chadwillima, with 1 vote apiece.
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Post by Jeddak on Jul 26, 2023 6:46:48 GMT -5
Wow. That Jerry Lewis issue is a sentimental favorite of mine, and I never expected it to win. Thank you, folks who voted for it. But I am not prepared. I'm also out the door. So new contest will be up later today. Sorry about the delay.
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 26, 2023 7:50:00 GMT -5
Congrats to Jeddak, am I wrong in thinking that is early Neal Adams?
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 26, 2023 8:08:08 GMT -5
Congrats to Jeddak, am I wrong in thinking that is early Neal Adams? I think 1964 is a bit early for Adams. I don't see his work listed in any comics appearing before 1967. The woman sure looks like she was drawn by Bob Oksner.
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Post by foxley on Jul 26, 2023 8:08:29 GMT -5
Congrats to Jeddak, am I wrong in thinking that is early Neal Adams? GCD lists it as being Bob Oksner (with a '?' so it is not confirmed).
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Post by badwolf on Jul 26, 2023 8:13:11 GMT -5
I came within an arm's length...
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 26, 2023 8:24:24 GMT -5
Thanks my knowledgeable friends.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 26, 2023 10:34:20 GMT -5
Thanks my knowledgeable friends. Only because I looked it up.
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Post by Farrar on Jul 26, 2023 14:32:57 GMT -5
Actually Adams had some comic book work published prior to DC; he's stated in interviews that he cut his comic book teeth at Archie Comics, with his earliest comic book work published in 1959. For those who don't already have it, I heartily recommend the recent Alter Ego Neal Adams tribute issue--chock full of Adams art and interviews!! For an immediate fix, check out this excellent online resource: www.cbr.com/neal-adams-archie-comics-career-start/ I'm posting a couple of pertinent excerpts below. As Brian Cronin relates: "Amusingly enough, Adams' first work at Archie Comics, published in October of 1959, was a tie between two comic books that were released the same week, with one of the pieces of work being an Adventures of the Fly story in the fourth issue of that series by Joe Simon, where Simon felt that the final panel of this one page wasn't up to snuff, so he had Adams do it and Adams really did an amazing job with that one panel, right?" From Adventures of the Fly #4 And here's an example of Neal's work in Archie's Joke Book Magazine #44. Both of these Archie comics were on sale in October 1959, so Neal was just a few months past his 18th birthday. There's more early Neal art in Brian's column...and in AE #181.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 26, 2023 15:02:21 GMT -5
Actually Adams had some comic book work published prior to DC; he's stated in interviews that he cut his comic book teeth at Archie Comics, with his earliest comic book work published in 1959. For those who don't already have it, I heartily recommend the recent Alter Ego Neal Adams tribute issue--chock full of Adams art and interviews!! For an immediate fix, check out this excellent online resource: www.cbr.com/neal-adams-archie-comics-career-start/ I'm posting a couple of pertinent excerpts below. As Brian Cronin relates: "Amusingly enough, Adams' first work at Archie Comics, published in October of 1959, was a tie between two comic books that were released the same week, with one of the pieces of work being an Adventures of the Fly story in the fourth issue of that series by Joe Simon, where Simon felt that the final panel of this one page wasn't up to snuff, so he had Adams do it and Adams really did an amazing job with that one panel, right?" From Adventures of the Fly #4 And here's an example of Neal's work in Archie's Joke Book Magazine #44. Both of these Archie comics were on sale in October 1959, so Neal was just a few months past his 18th birthday. There's more early Neal art in Brian's column...and in AE #181. If you hold that Archie page at just the right angle, you can read "I was here first, Steranko" in those lines near Pop Tate's head.
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