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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 20:49:39 GMT -5
Just discovered this image, it's Alex Raymond's promotional art for Captain Blood... -M Shouldn't that blade be poking out the back? Otherwise, that's a pretty short rapier. Well, since it's a movie promo piece, I assume it's a movie sfx rapier, it collapses when you stab someone so your camera angle can make it look like it is piercing them.... -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2019 21:00:59 GMT -5
Interesting to note how he handles the jackboots/buccaneer boots. I've seen others, like Buscema copy that; but most comic artist seemed to go with the folded down look. Classic illustrations depict both and both were authentic styles.
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Post by berkley on Jul 11, 2019 0:11:54 GMT -5
Interesting to note how he handles the jackboots/buccaneer boots. I've seen others, like Buscema copy that; but most comic artist seemed to go with the folded down look. Classic illustrations depict both and both were authentic styles. I always disliked it when they were used in things like Marvel's Conan and John Carter comics: they might be appropriate for a 17th century pirate but not a Hyborian Age Cimmerian or a Barsoomian warrior.
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Post by rberman on Jul 11, 2019 9:24:48 GMT -5
Interesting to note how he handles the jackboots/buccaneer boots. I've seen others, like Buscema copy that; but most comic artist seemed to go with the folded down look. Classic illustrations depict both and both were authentic styles. He should hope it doesn't rain. Those things are going to collect a shoeful of water pretty quickly.
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 1, 2019 14:14:48 GMT -5
From The Atom #38, 1968, by Frank Robbins (script), Mike Sekowsky (pencils), George Roussos (inks), and Julius Schwartz (editor). With only a single caption's worth of explanation, the Atom exercises a new power in order to turn his pet bird, Major Mynah (hey, I just now got that joke!) from his previous black color to an apparent yellow: He doesn't explain why he is doing this. I assumed there would be some purpose that would become evident as the plot progresses. Or that his yellow color would somehow prove to be a fortuitous change that would coincidentally be of help during this adventure. Nope. Apparently they just wanted him to be yellow instead of black from then on. I think he only made one more appearance in the following issues (in which the magazine merged with Hawkman to become The Atom and Hawkman). He was yellow there, too. Weird. That'd be an awfully handy power if the Atom had ever had to fight Green Lantern, though.
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Post by MDG on Aug 1, 2019 14:46:00 GMT -5
He doesn't explain why he is doing this. I assumed there would be some purpose that would become evident as the plot progresses. Or that his yellow color would somehow prove to be a fortuitous change that would coincidentally be of help during this adventure. Nope. Apparently they just wanted him to be yellow instead of black from then on. I wouldn't be surprised if Sekowsky and/or Schwartz thought a "black" bird would be hard to "read" in a lot of panels, even if they went with black with dark blue "highlights" (like Superman's hair).
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Post by Farrar on Aug 1, 2019 16:16:35 GMT -5
From The Atom #38, 1968, by Frank Robbins (script), Mike Sekowsky (pencils), George Roussos (inks), and Julius Schwartz (editor). With only a single caption's worth of explanation, the Atom exercises a new power in order to turn his pet bird, Major Mynah (hey, I just now got that joke!) from his previous black color to an apparent yellow... He doesn't explain why he is doing this. I assumed there would be some purpose that would become evident as the plot progresses.Or that his yellow color would somehow prove to be a fortuitous change that would coincidentally be of help during this adventure. Nope. Apparently they just wanted him to be yellow instead of black from then on. I think he only made one more appearance in the following issues (in which the magazine merged with Hawkman to become The Atom and Hawkman). He was yellow there, too... Why, there's a perfectly logical explanation ; the color change helps conceal Major Mynah's civilian identity. In his normal, everyday civilian identity, Mynah was black. But in his superhero-sidekick mode, he was yellow. Oh, I wish I were joking. But take a look at this panel in Atom #37's story (Mynah's debut). And in the subsequent Hawkman-Atom #40 appearance you mention, Mynah's coloring is shown as solidly intertwined with Atom-Ray. So Mynah is yellow when Ray is the Atom; but when Ray reverts to his civilian identity/six-foot height, Mynah similarly reverts to his original "civilian" black feathers. Gotta love it
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 1, 2019 16:20:07 GMT -5
From The Atom #38, 1968, by Frank Robbins (script), Mike Sekowsky (pencils), George Roussos (inks), and Julius Schwartz (editor). With only a single caption's worth of explanation, the Atom exercises a new power in order to turn his pet bird, Major Mynah (hey, I just now got that joke!) from his previous black color to an apparent yellow: He doesn't explain why he is doing this. I assumed there would be some purpose that would become evident as the plot progresses. Or that his yellow color would somehow prove to be a fortuitous change that would coincidentally be of help during this adventure. Nope. Apparently they just wanted him to be yellow instead of black from then on. I think he only made one more appearance in the following issues (in which the magazine merged with Hawkman to become The Atom and Hawkman). He was yellow there, too. Weird. That'd be an awfully handy power if the Atom had ever had to fight Green Lantern, though. Yeah, and as goofy as Major Mynah was (and as silly as it might have been to give the Atom mobility courtesy a bird, dropping the bird made less sense considering the book merged with Hawkman's!) > Wheet! Wheet!< H He did make for two cool covers, at least. And thank the powers that be (and the great Gil Kane and Joe Kubert) that he wasn't yellow in those!
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Post by Farrar on Aug 1, 2019 16:28:44 GMT -5
^^^ Yep, those are great covers, can't go wrong with Kane or Kubert. And just in case anyone was wondering for #37 (the first cover shown) Ray hadn't yet provided Mynah with the color change so that's why Mynah is still his original black on that particular cover. See, once again...a perfectly logical explanation. Y'know until today, if anyone had told me that decades after the fact I'd be providing explanations behind the color-switching ability of a bird who appeared in a few 1960s comics I'd have said they were crazy . Now it seems I'm the one destined for the straitjacket...
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 1, 2019 17:37:39 GMT -5
^^^ Yep, those are great covers, can't go wrong with Kane or Kubert. And just in case anyone was wondering for #37 (the first cover shown) Ray hadn't yet provided Mynah with the color change so that's why Mynah is still his original black on that particular cover. See, once again...a perfectly logical explanation. Y'know until today, if anyone had told me that decades after the fact I'd be providing explanations behind the color-switching ability of a bird who appeared in a few 1960s comics I'd have said they were crazy . Now it seems I'm the one destined for the straitjacket... Got an extra one for me?
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2019 18:55:21 GMT -5
The British invasion (comic book style) then and now...or were we ever that young? -M Well, Gaiman can afford better stylists, now. I do love the fact that his supposed sensitivity to light went away when he became a bestselling novelist and stopped wearing the sunglasses all of the time (That was the excuse given, when he was mostly doing comics). You can kind of tell Morrison's obsession with Jerry Cornelius, in that early photo, after a fashion. Or rather, you can believe it. I like the "Angry Jesus" look the most, for Moore. Here's a cool photo of Alan and Neil...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 8:13:15 GMT -5
Coloring GoofSometimes I occasionally look for better pictures for my 100 character avatar and I was looking at Lady Blackhawk's today and noticed an error on the part of the colorist that forgot to colored in the belt and skirt of Lady Blackhawk here.
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 2, 2019 9:49:45 GMT -5
^^^ Yep, those are great covers, can't go wrong with Kane or Kubert. And just in case anyone was wondering for #37 (the first cover shown) Ray hadn't yet provided Mynah with the color change so that's why Mynah is still his original black on that particular cover. See, once again...a perfectly logical explanation. Y'know until today, if anyone had told me that decades after the fact I'd be providing explanations behind the color-switching ability of a bird who appeared in a few 1960s comics I'd have said they were crazy . Now it seems I'm the one destined for the straitjacket... I appreciate the explanation, Farrar. It would've been helpful if Robbins had recapped that rationale in issue #38 ( for all the new readers who surely flocked to the title when Sekowsky replaced Kane on art).
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 2, 2019 12:31:09 GMT -5
. . .or an attempt to show the effect of looking through that pane of Plexiglas (or whatever the window of the vehicle is that she is standing within)? It looks deliberate and not an oversight as it's not just her, but everything behind that glass that has that color effect. Yeah, it's just the window of the Hawks' Safari-Mobile, as you can see in the previous panel.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 13:31:14 GMT -5
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