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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2014 11:17:54 GMT -5
The same thing is true of the vast majority of Silver Age creators. If you read interviews with them it was a job. One they did because it paid the bills. To clarify, many of the Silver Age creators liked doing comics, but were less enamored with drawing superheroes all the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 12:42:32 GMT -5
The Golden Age of Comics To me, this era is the Pioneer of Comic Books Era - it's an era that most people today don't appreciate the humble beginnings of how difficult it was to drawn comic books and the simple stroke of the pen back in those days over the mumble jumble art that we see it today. The art of those days were clean, simple, glorious, appreciated, and bear in mind that colors were bold and crisp. The writings were excellent and there were not in the doubt that both writer and artist worked together to come up with a product that all serious fans can enjoy and that's why I believe that the Golden Age of Comics should be more respected by the current generation of comic fans that don't care about the good ole days of Comics that breathe life into our existence and that alone makes me feel sad. Looking at the Superman's picture back in those days shows how people don't pay much attention to and I tried my best at the Comic Book Store is to encourage readers to check the internet and google "Golden Age of Comics" and look at the art that's came out of that time-frame. The perfect example of that ... is Green Lantern's Alan Scott.  This is most incredible rendering of art back in those days - and just fell in love with the dynamics of this character costume. The Purple/Green Cape, the perfect blending of Red, Green, and Yellow, in all the right places and the high arched cape with the mask defined Alan Scott of who he's really is. I just loved the Golden Age of Comics and to me, the 40's was the birthplace of comics and somehow the people of today do not seems to care for it. To me, it's very sad to hear this and what's I'm trying to say - Every Book out there has it's roots and it's roots bring us the joy of reading Comic Books today. The 40's to me ... it's all about "Roots" and that's why I loved Comics today. To me, that's what good about the 1940's ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 13:02:02 GMT -5
I have the Batman Chronicles vol. 1 but haven't cracked it open yet. I've read some articles about early Batman, and of course have read the Batman portion of Detective 27 in reprint before. I'm interested for sure.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 14, 2014 13:31:34 GMT -5
Having now read the entire run, I have to disagree about the art on the Golden Age Green Lantern. Martin Nodell was a terrible artist technically: stiff, ugly, anatomically absurd figures; crude, primitive backgrounds; bad panel compositions and zero visual flow. Irwin Hasen, pre-military service, wasn't much better. Aside from a handful of ghost jobs by E. E. Hibbard, GL didn't enjoy passable art until Paul Reinman came aboard in late '43 and didn't get good art until the recently discharged Hasen and a fresh-out-of-high-school Alex Toth took over three years later (they alternated episodes, more or less).
Cei-U!
I summon the different perspective!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 14, 2014 14:27:00 GMT -5
The same thing is true of the vast majority of Silver Age creators. If you read interviews with them it was a job. One they did because it paid the bills. To clarify, many of the Silver Age creators liked doing comics, but were less enamored with drawing superheroes all the time. That's probably fair. But there were plenty who could care less about comic books. It was a job. John Broome comes to mind. |
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Post by gothos on Nov 14, 2014 18:22:09 GMT -5
Cei-U touched on this - one of the great things about the 40's was the variety in comic genres. Sci-fi, jungle, crime, western, romance, funny animals, and comedy all had decent representation alongside superhero books. It really seems like it was a try anything atmosphere. I also like having multiple complete stories in most Golden Age books. None of this stretching stories over multiple months stuff. *grumble grumble* A good company for most of these genres was Quality. Since only Blackhawk and Plastic Man have seen much reprint, most fans aren't familiar with other good stuff from the company. Whatever the sins of publisher "Busy" Arnold, he usually tried to give a solid, attractive look to all of the art, regardless of genre. I'll admit that a lot of the writing in the lower-tier series-- things like THE HUMAN BOMB-- might have been a little pedestrian, albeit always professional. And certain concepts seem to be only viable in the GA: only Quality found a way to make a pee-wee superhero, the Doll Man, work for almost twenty years-- whereas the Atom, Doll Man's closest rival, didn't even make a full ten years, to the best of my recollection. I'd much rather read the lower-tier Quality stuff than the lower-tier DC stuff. Golden Age Green Arrow, Aquaman, Congo Bill-- a lot of these suffer from plodding stories and workmanlike artwork. |
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Post by gothos on Nov 14, 2014 18:25:34 GMT -5
The same thing is true of the vast majority of Silver Age creators. If you read interviews with them it was a job. One they did because it paid the bills. To clarify, many of the Silver Age creators liked doing comics, but were less enamored with drawing superheroes all the time. Might some of that indifference been monetary in nature? For a long time, a lot of writers and artists dreamed of hitting it big by syndicating newspaper strips-- where superheroes did not prosper. For the same reason, horror stories, as much as superheroes, were a financial dead end: if that was all you could do, you'd never break in with the newspaper syndicates. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 14, 2014 18:27:31 GMT -5
only Quality found a way to make a pee-wee superhero, the Doll Man, work for almost twenty years-- The incredible art by Lou Fine and Reed Crandall certainly "raised that character's stature."  |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Nov 15, 2014 0:04:00 GMT -5
I've noticed that in most critical analysis' of the 40's, Fawcett's Captain Marvel and Quality's Plastic Man always seem to rate as being the best superhero comics.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 15, 2014 5:57:49 GMT -5
Well, the war ended...
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