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Post by chadwilliam on Jan 24, 2018 0:54:54 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 25, 2018 21:37:26 GMT -5
Aquaman #42 (Nov./Dec., 1968) by Nick Cardy & Anthro #4 (Jan./Feb., 1969) by Howie Post. 
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Post by MDG on Jan 26, 2018 8:18:51 GMT -5
Gil Kane 1966 and Gil Kane 1971   |
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 26, 2018 18:36:09 GMT -5
Gil Kane 1966 and Gil Kane 1971 Not too long ago I posted these covers in the Gil Kane thread. Note the angle of the building, and the hanging hero vs a villain with plenty of purple on his costume. I wonder if comic readers picked up on the similarity in those years. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 26, 2018 23:07:22 GMT -5
Thanks to tarkintino over in the Splash Pages thread... The WW story came out in March 1962, after JLA 7 (August, '61).   |
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 28, 2018 14:15:38 GMT -5
The Flash #163 (August, 1966) by Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella and DC Special #10 (January/February, 1971) by Nick Cardy. 
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Post by rberman on Jan 29, 2018 0:21:16 GMT -5
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Post by rberman on Jan 29, 2018 13:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 31, 2018 22:25:39 GMT -5
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 31, 2018 23:04:54 GMT -5
^ Never noticed that one...nice. That Spidey ish is the oldest I own...I don't have the Web issue. Is it essentially a similar story except with the current symbiote Spidey?
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Post by chadwilliam on Feb 1, 2018 1:10:27 GMT -5
I think this comparison nicely covers a lot of what Ditko brought to Spider-Man and some of what was lost when the transition was made from him to John Romita - the weirdness of how the character looked and moved. There really is something insect like and alien about his eyes and the hands come across like, I don't know, feelers or something. As cool as his abilities were, Ditko made it seem natural that people who only read of him in the papers, would think there something menacing and frightening about the wall crawler. The fact that Saviuk's cover on the right utilizes a pose that doesn't seem right for Spider-Man at the time it was published, really underscores why Ditko's look is so unique. |
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 1, 2018 2:42:28 GMT -5
I think this comparison nicely covers a lot of what Ditko brought to Spider-Man and some of what was lost when the transition was made from him to John Romita - the weirdness of how the character looked and moved. There really is something insect like and alien about his eyes and the hands come across like, I don't know, feelers or something. As cool as his abilities were, Ditko made it seem natural that people who only read of him in the papers, would think there something menacing and frightening about the wall crawler. The fact that Saviuk's cover on the right utilizes a pose that doesn't seem right for Spider-Man at the time it was published, really underscores why Ditko's look is so unique. I'm not sure I would describe the artistic transition from Ditko to Romita s being something "lost", but more about the character--both Spider-Man and Peter Parker--growing from a spindly teenager, to a mentally/physically maturing young man, who would naturally change with experience. |
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 1, 2018 3:53:47 GMT -5
A fairly common Tarzan image, but it pretty much has its own cottage industry of homage work. Here is the cover of Sparkler Comics #42 (March, 1945) by Burne Hogarth, the box art of Aurora's Tarzan model kit (Kit #820, 1967), and its Comic Scenes reissue (Kit# 181, 1974) by Neal Adams.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 1, 2018 6:37:15 GMT -5
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Post by rberman on Feb 1, 2018 10:38:59 GMT -5
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