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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 21, 2019 13:28:56 GMT -5
I used to have this 1949 Marvel and thought the cover art and interior stories were really well done in different ways. I see nobody has ever been able to pin down the credit for either... www.comics.org/issue/202652/I have looked through a lot of the Marvels of the time (Patsy Walker, Joker, Gay, Millie etc.) and nowhere is there a perfect match. If I had to guess I might say Al Jaffee but finished by a talented finisher who might 'fix' things a bit. The characters all had a great semi-animated Gladys Parker perfection to the figures, just rubbery and expressive enough to feel alive where some others would slip or appear rushed. People have suggested Dave Berg, Syd Shores and early Dan DeCarlo. Not the best example but all I can find online... The cover I've always wondered if it could be Bill Elder (based on knowing Harvey Kurtzman was doing those Hey look one pagers for Marvel). I don't think it's based on the layout of the interior artist, the guy on the sofa matches up possibly, but the girl Cindy not really at all. For some reason this one comic has haunted me all this time. Only wanting to know who the good Scamp artist at Dell was ever bothered me as much (and I did get the answer to that one). I remember that in one story Cindy was dressed as a matador in bull fighting. Beats thinking about some '90s comic art any further.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 21, 2019 13:38:21 GMT -5
beccabear67, there's a Facebook group called "Timely-Atlas-Comics"; that's where the experts are for this era of Goodman's comics.
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Post by captainthor on Aug 21, 2019 13:42:16 GMT -5
Hey- I'm new to the forum and I'm wondering why I'm unable to create an Iron Man Review thread. I find him (when written well, which sadly has not been the case as often as I would like it to be) one of Marvel's most interesting and three-dimensional heroes. Any ideas?
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Post by captainthor on Aug 21, 2019 14:40:54 GMT -5
Hey- I'm new to the forum and I'm wondering why I'm unable to create an Iron Man Review thread. I find him (when written well, which sadly has not been the case as often as I would like it to be) one of Marvel's most interesting and three-dimensional heroes. Any ideas? I believe you have to have a certain number of posts before you can create a thread (5? 10?). It's an anti-spambot measure. -M Ah, fair enough. Thanks for the response.
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Post by rberman on Aug 23, 2019 21:35:31 GMT -5
Superman's front insignia is red on yellow. Why is his cape insignia yellow on yellow? Not an in-story reason. It just seems an odd design choice, yet it's persisted through many redesigns.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 23, 2019 22:06:48 GMT -5
Superman's front insignia is red on yellow. Why is his cape insignia yellow on yellow? Not an in-story reason. It just seems an odd design choice, yet it's persisted through many redesigns. My guess would be to keep it visible on the cape, in that sea of red, especially with the cheap comic book printing. Using the red elements risks it looking more like a couple of yellow lobs on a red field. Really, I think they should have left it off completely.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 23, 2019 23:23:50 GMT -5
Why is his cape insignia yellow on yellow? In case he ever had to protect people from rogue Green Lanterns, he could use that part of his cape?
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 23, 2019 23:37:28 GMT -5
The real world explanation is that Superman's colors were determined by an unknown employee of the printer of Action Comics #1. Neither the publishers nor the creators had any say regarding the coloring of most early Golden Age comic books, the major exception being Eastern Color, which was both printer and publisher. So whatever justification there was is lost to history. Sorry, I know the explanation isn't exciting but that's how it goes.
Cei-U! I summon the mundanity! (Mundaneness? Mundaniosity?)
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 23, 2019 23:52:42 GMT -5
I love the yellow on yellow. Even loved how the cape would stretch to three stories high if he needed to cover something. Gotta love the Silver age
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 24, 2019 7:17:26 GMT -5
The real world explanation is that Superman's colors were determined by an unknown employee of the printer of Action Comics #1. Neither the publishers nor the creators had any say regarding the coloring of most early Golden Age comic books, the major exception being Eastern Color, which was both printer and publisher. So whatever justification there was is lost to history. Sorry, I know the explanation isn't exciting but that's how it goes. Cei-U! I summon the mundanity! (Mundaneness? Mundaniosity?) Mundaneness. Or mundanity. I summon the Webster's.
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Post by foxley on Aug 24, 2019 13:04:29 GMT -5
Why is his cape insignia yellow on yellow? In case he ever had to protect people from rogue Green Lanterns, he could use that part of his cape? In DC Comics Presents #26, Superman does exactly that: using that part of his cape to block an attack by a possessed Hal Jordan.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Aug 24, 2019 19:49:09 GMT -5
So I am reading Marvel Premiere 27 featuring Satana and the credits say the art was done by “The Tribe” in the bottom of the first page. Is this a specific group of artists? Or was it Marvels way of saying “everyone in the pen here did something so that’s how we are crediting them all”
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 24, 2019 20:33:19 GMT -5
So I am reading Marvel Premiere 27 featuring Satana and the credits say the art was done by “The Tribe” in the bottom of the first page. Is this a specific group of artists? Or was it Marvels way of saying “everyone in the pen here did something so that’s how we are crediting them all” It was an informal group of inkers at Marvel, that included Tony Dezuniga and Sonny Trinidad; may have been Dezuniga's group of people. Sounds like they were predominantly from the Filipino art community. Dezuniga was one of the guys who helped bring the others to the attention of DC and Marvel.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2019 21:09:39 GMT -5
I love the yellow on yellow. Even loved how the cape would stretch to three stories high if he needed to cover something. Gotta love the Silver age This is best ... and I agree with you 100%
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 25, 2019 7:14:45 GMT -5
GCD suggests that Rico Rival, Yong Montano, Steve Gan, Rudy Mesina and Freddie Fernandez were also part of the Tribe at various times. Some later comics included credits to Tribe variants such as the Phillippine Tribe (Gan, Montano and Trinidad on Marvel Classics Comics #32), the New Tribe (including Alfredo Alcala, on Marvel Classics Comics #33), and the New York Tribe (Human Fly #8, Ghost Rider #29 and DeZuniga, Neal Adams and Josef Rubinstein on Tarzan #11).
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