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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 25, 2024 2:27:49 GMT -5
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 25, 2024 11:28:22 GMT -5
Iron Wolf, Cody Starbuck, Reuben Flagg, Blackhawk, The Shadow, Bruce Wayne, Monark Starstalker, Michael Gorski (Power & Glory),............ All bear an idealized resemblance to this guy.......  I'm not sure they look that much like him ... add Maxim Glory from Time Squared ... but Chaykin has said that he did this deliberately, because he wanted to establish a stylistic 'brand.' Demon-Hunter, Devil Slayer and Bloodwing. I know the rights situation would be a nightmare, but I've always wanted to see a volume collecting all these stories. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2024 11:54:31 GMT -5
Iron Wolf, Cody Starbuck, Reuben Flagg, Blackhawk, The Shadow, Bruce Wayne, Monark Starstalker, Michael Gorski (Power & Glory),............ All bear an idealized resemblance to this guy....... I'm not sure they look that much like him ... add Maxim Glory from Time Squared ... but Chaykin has said that he did this deliberately, because he wanted to establish a stylistic 'brand.' Demon-Hunter, Devil Slayer and Bloodwing. I know the rights situation would be a nightmare, but I've always wanted to see a volume collecting all these stories. It's kind of an idealized version of himself. Iron Wolf looked rather like the young Howie Chaykin, complete with muttonchops, while Dominic Fortune et al were more idealized versions of his older self. It's not as direct a model as Paul Gulacy used to do, in Master of Kung Fu and his Black Widow story, in Bizarre Adventures (with Bogart and Michael Caine used as models for characters); but, the basic features. His then-wife Leslie Zahler was the model for CG Markova, in American Flagg (I believe...she looks more like CG than Amanda Krieger). Grell isn't exactly a close model to Green Arrow and the Warlord, but, again, the basic features were Grell's, plus he sported the van dyke, back then. He drew a caricature of himself, as the Warlord, for the debut, in First Issue Special.....  The old buckle galoshes are a nice touch. |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 25, 2024 16:11:05 GMT -5
When I first came across the Golden Age character Manowar aka the White Streak, I was reminded of the Vision. Manowar, an android crime-fighting hero, was created way back in 1940 by Carl Burgos.  Cover by Bill Everett  They both look good in white shirts   |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 25, 2024 17:25:53 GMT -5
The Spirit and Midnight   |
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Post by foxley on Sept 26, 2024 3:17:25 GMT -5
The Spirit and Midnight This one is deliberate. Will Eisner owned the rights to the Spirit. Quality Comics publisher "Busy" Arnold, who published the comic-book version of the Spirit, desired a hedge in case Eisner were killed or incapacitated during World War II, and directed Jack Cole to create a similar character, which became Midnight. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 26, 2024 9:37:29 GMT -5
This one is deliberate. Will Eisner owned the rights to the Spirit. Quality Comics publisher "Busy" Arnold, who published the comic-book version of the Spirit, desired a hedge in case Eisner were killed or incapacitated during World War II, and directed Jack Cole to create a similar character, which became Midnight. That's 100% true, although it's also the case that there were probably a hundred other masked adventurers of the time who wore essentially the same costume. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 26, 2024 12:43:43 GMT -5
This one is deliberate. Will Eisner owned the rights to the Spirit. Quality Comics publisher "Busy" Arnold, who published the comic-book version of the Spirit, desired a hedge in case Eisner were killed or incapacitated during World War II, and directed Jack Cole to create a similar character, which became Midnight. That's 100% true, although it's also the case that there were probably a hundred other masked adventurers of the time who wore essentially the same costume. Going back to the pulps. |
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