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Post by MDG on Aug 29, 2023 9:46:25 GMT -5
Prince Hal
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Post by MDG on Aug 29, 2023 9:43:43 GMT -5
Stan Lee's plot: Have the Torch fight Namor, take it from there Dick. I mean, that's the thing, isn't it? In early Marvel, unless Ditko or Kirby were on the book (and not always then, as with early Thor) no one was really invested in the characters and doing more than coming up with a stock plot that would fill the pages.
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Post by MDG on Aug 28, 2023 20:38:19 GMT -5
Wonder Woman #179 “Wonder Woman’s Last Battle!” (December 1968)Creator credits appear on-page for the first time in this series. Marvel was doing this before DC, perhaps because writer-editor Stan Lee was building his own brand name. Writer: Dennis O’Neil Continuity and Pencils: Mike Sekowsky … what does “Continuity” mean? Ink: Dick Giordano In this case, I believe "continuity" means that Sekowsky laid out the story and O'Neil added the words to that. It doesn't make clear whether they collaborated on the plot.
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Post by MDG on Aug 28, 2023 9:11:59 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 28, 2023 9:09:16 GMT -5
DC was the master of those one-page teases. So many 1960s issues featured those great teaser ads. I didn't read those 60s comics until 15-20 years later, but I thought those kinds of ads were great. Do we know who drew that ad? The GCD doesn't have a listing, but I love the inking on the jacket she's dragging. It's almost abstract, yet reads perfectly for what it's supposed to be. And this might be out of left field, but I always thought DC's colorists were the best at making the most out of the limited 4 color printing process. Yeah, and around this time, the coloring on several books seemed to be less realistic and a little more experimental and expressionist. I think it was around this time DC also experimented with coloring the gutters between the panels on some of the Superman titles. Never a fan of Sekowsky, especially on Justice League of America, as he was never the kind of artist with the dynamic talent necessary for making the superhero come alive on the page. That said, he was the kind of artist who could translate the "regular" kind of adventure world that a power-free Diana would inhabit (in an honestly Apartment 3-G kind of style). Now that you mention it, I can kind of see a bit of Alex Kotzky in the art, especially with Giordano (or ghosts) inking. I always wondered how Kotzky would handle a regular comic book. In fact, in the 80's and early 90's I used to read the Apartment 3-G strip solely for the art. Sekowsky was a good romance artist and sometime seemed more concerned with faces and expressions than action.
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Post by MDG on Aug 27, 2023 20:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 27, 2023 12:56:42 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 27, 2023 12:52:37 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 27, 2023 12:48:35 GMT -5
Jeez, I just sat down with my pile of books. Just as well, though, since I should be doing some stuff around the house. Hope everything's OK.
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Post by MDG on Aug 26, 2023 10:58:14 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 25, 2023 20:07:52 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 25, 2023 6:48:30 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 24, 2023 11:33:26 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 23, 2023 21:14:11 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 23, 2023 21:10:25 GMT -5
On the other hand, DC, under Kahn and Giordano, gained a lot of fan and creator goodwill--if not sales--by almost explicitly being the "anti-Shooter." I was so tempted to delve into this, but ultimately decided that it probably belonged in an episode about DC, maybe specifically Crisis on Infinite Earths and its aftermath. An episode on that and an episode on the implosion would be good topics. Another might be the transition period from Silver to Bronze where both DC and Marvel seemed to think superheroes were on the way out and were leaning into mystery/horror, pulp characters, humor...
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