Monday, March 28, 2011

NY Times Covers Marvel Comics...

Axel Alonso, Tom Brevoort, Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley. Photo by Robert Wright for NY Times
Fascinating front page feature about Marvel's future in print and media in the Sunday NY Times' Arts & Leisure section.
Catch the web version HERE!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Comparison Pix--Man from U.N.C.L.E.

In a Reading Room post several weeks ago, I commented that the Silver Age Green Hornet had the unique situation that only one illustrator handled all his stories, as opposed to the artistic round-robin that tended to be the norm for Gold Key tv/movie titles.
Looking back over one Gold Key tv title, Man from U.N.C.L.E., we see a number of artists during it's almost two-dozen issue run, each with their own unique way of rendering Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum)...
Don Heck
George Tuska
George Tuska and???
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Werner Roth and ???
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Mike Sekowsky and Frank Giacoia
Sekowsky also did "Solo" and "Kuryakin" in the first issue of The Inferior Five...
Sekowsky and Mike Esposito

Saturday, March 26, 2011

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Reading Room: THE GREEN HORNET in "Threat of the Red Dragons" Conclusion

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The Green Hornet had confronted the Red Dragons, suggesting they blackmail Kato, thereby enabling the duo to track the tong to their base of operations, and their leader...
 Next week in the Reading Room: More interplanetary warfare with the Space Busters!

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