Tuesday Extra.
My regular post is below, but here's a rarity I just had to share. It's what seems to me like an early Gene Colan story from Quality's Hearth Throbs #13...
For contrast, here's a story he did twelve years later for the DC version of that title #91...
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4 comments:
I'd no idea that Bill Gaines had married a tennis star. ;-P
And since this was from 1952 they knew what they were doing...
I've seen another Quality romance story inked by the same guy. The Quality house inking style--the Cuidera-Cassone approach featuring bold, slick black strokes and hard edges everywhere--simply did not work with Colan's pencils.
It's funny that after seeing enough of Colan's pencils and own inks, I can tell what Colan meant to put in several panels, but the inker got it all wrong.
The DC story is Colan at the top of his game--but did someone else draw the final sequence?
I think the lines in the faces of the first panel are pure Colan, so maybe it was just something he tried - a slow fade to black. Very movie-like.
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