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Oct 23 13 11:03 AM
seattleguy wrote: The stories that Murphy Anderson inked were always a special treat.
seattleguy wrote:As I have stated before elsewhere I have come to regard the best inker for Infantino was Infantino.
seattleguy wrote:When Gil Kane took over his own inking in Green Lantern I found them too be too sloppy and nothing like those he had did on Johnny Thunder ten years before....
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Oct 23 13 11:16 AM
alizarin1 wrote: GIL KANE: "Everyone had vested interests in doing as little as possible as quickly as possible. . . The editors were failed in every other level of editing and publishing: the writers were all either ex-pulp writers or people couldn’t make any other kind of place for themselves professionally, and colourists were just the kind of marginal craftsmen that comics were made for."dearlenbaugh wrote:OUCH!
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Oct 24 13 1:33 AM
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Yossarian wrote:
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Oct 24 13 8:42 AM
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Oct 24 13 11:31 AM
Yossarian wrote: Story as mediocre as I remembered from 50 years ago, but I like Howard Purcell's art more than I did when I was 10. As always, the Time Capsule is a great excuse to go back and re-read the treasured stories of my youth. Even when they don't hold up as well as I recall, it is worth the journey.
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Oct 24 13 2:53 PM
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Hepcat wrote:Now though I always scowl at the cover because it seems to me that Howard Purcell's Aquaman was very well rendered but he just couldn't draw Hawkman.
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Oct 24 13 4:05 PM
dearlenbaugh wrote: Hepcat wrote: Now though I always scowl at the cover because it seems to me that Howard Purcell's Aquaman was very well rendered but he just couldn't draw Hawkman.That's interesting. Hawkman on the cover looks fine to me. Can you articulate what you find lacking, or is it just that Purcell missed a vague "something" in his rendition?
Hepcat wrote: Now though I always scowl at the cover because it seems to me that Howard Purcell's Aquaman was very well rendered but he just couldn't draw Hawkman.
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Oct 25 13 9:56 AM
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Oct 25 13 5:35 PM
dlc320 wrote:It's the wings, in my view that's off, on the cover. They just seem stuck on, not a part of the suit at all.
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dlc320 wrote:Were it not for my (at the time) growing affection for Marvel and the lack of interest in DC Comics. . .
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Oct 27 13 11:24 AM
dearlenbaugh wrote:I propose that on Jan.1, 2014, we all admit that by 1964 DC sucked, Marvel rocked, and we all defect to the Marvel Masterworks Marathon thread, leaving Mr. Peabody here A-L-L alone!
I propose that on Jan.1, 2014, we all admit that by 1964 DC sucked, Marvel rocked, and we all defect to the Marvel Masterworks Marathon thread, leaving Mr. Peabody here A-L-L alone!
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