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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 13, 2019 18:01:04 GMT -5
It always struck me that artists like Cockrum built their costume designs around current fashion trends while Kirby seemed to wholly subvert trends to his artistic vision. For me he helped define a Seventies aesthetic rather than simply echo one.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 13, 2019 18:10:04 GMT -5
I mixed both of these guys up.  |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 13, 2019 18:24:12 GMT -5
The bellbottom legs/feet John Byrne would give robots was very Seventies.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 13, 2019 18:28:29 GMT -5
Well, no discussion of groovy 70s outfits would be complete without noting Mike Vosburg's design for sword & planet heroine Starfire:  Meanwhile, Steve Ditko, the guy who, in the 1960s, designed some of the most iconic superhero costumes, i.e., Spider-man and Iron Man's red and gold armor, as well as Captain Atom and the wonderful new look for the Blue Beetle, or Hawk & Dove, showed that he still had the stuff in the 1970s. Exhibit A: Shade the Changing Man  Exhibit B: Starman (Adventure 467 is cover dated January 1980, but it hit the stands in autumn 1979)  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 13, 2019 19:33:14 GMT -5
I'm not as big a fan of Neal Adams's superhero work as a lot of people, but I think he excelled in supernatural stories and in realistic street scenes. Love the 70s-style matching pants-suit the mother is wearing on this House of Mystery cover:  and this street scene looks like it have come from a gritty early-70s urban drama rather than Superman vs Muhammad Ali:  |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 13, 2019 19:38:25 GMT -5
and this street scene looks like it have come from a gritty early-70s urban drama rather than Superman vs Muhammad Ali: It's as if these three Daily Planet squares were suddenly plunked down in an episode of Baretta. |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Mar 13, 2019 19:42:08 GMT -5
Just came across this cover. When did Supergirl get this costume and how long did it last? I don't recall ever seeing it before.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 13, 2019 21:50:59 GMT -5
She started getting new costumes, with this issue....  Most only lasted an issue or two. It lasted one more issue, before we got another one.  The next issue featured this..  The shorts stayed, the slippers eventually changed to boots. There were other variations.. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 13, 2019 22:10:31 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Mar 14, 2019 0:24:25 GMT -5
She started getting new costumes, with this issue.... Most only lasted an issue or two. It lasted one more issue, before we got another one. ... Hadn't known about most of those before. I would like to have seen a few of those given a try-out for an issue or two - were they? For example, the one on the far right and the one in the middle with the long slacks; maybe the beltless mini-skirt too. I don't see them in the cover gallery anywhere amongst the following issues. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 14, 2019 0:39:03 GMT -5
She started getting new costumes, with this issue.... Most only lasted an issue or two. It lasted one more issue, before we got another one. ... Hadn't known about most of those before. I would like to have seen a few of those given a try-out for an issue or two - were they? For example, the one on the far right and the one in the middle with the long slacks; maybe the beltless mini-skirt too. I don't see them in the cover gallery anywhere amongst the following issues. If memory serves, most of those were just featured there, and inside. Some of them were fan designs, I think, as DC did a bit of that; but, used artist created ones for stories. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 14, 2019 7:15:31 GMT -5
It was cool that fans sent in those designs and they were printed inside the book. I guess these days you would have to duck a lawsuit if you didn't pay someone for those designs...
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 14, 2019 12:01:07 GMT -5
It was cool that fans sent in those designs and they were printed inside the book. I guess these days you would have to duck a lawsuit if you didn't pay someone for those designs... You'd probably have to sign a contest waiver that would be filled with lawyer-speak, which stated all designs become property of the company. |
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Post by rberman on Mar 14, 2019 12:45:58 GMT -5
Grant Morrison made a little joke about this era of Supergirl in Final Crisis by showing her apartment littered with alternative costume ideas, and a sewing machine in the background.  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 14, 2019 13:03:47 GMT -5
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