Saturday Comic Book Day.
Another early Joe Kubert Masterpiece. Remind me to show his Sgt. Foley stories some time. Too bad DC does not do publications by author, because they could do a great one with all the various Joe Kubert stories.
Showing posts with label Zatara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zatara. Show all posts
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Vigilante Magic
Friday Comic Book Day.
Over the next few weeks, I will be showing some of the Vigilante stories made after Mort Meskin left. Most of those were done by Dan Barry. I belive that this forgotten run of Vigilante comics prove his stilistic superiority. Along with Alex Toth he set the standard for DC comics for the next two decades. Before he took over, Joe Kubert did a couple of stories is his own inimitable style, taking over the strip he had inked over his idol when he started at DC a couple of years earlier. round the same time he also did a couple of Zatara stories, which I will be showing first, to whet your apetite.
Friday Comic Book Day.
Over the next few weeks, I will be showing some of the Vigilante stories made after Mort Meskin left. Most of those were done by Dan Barry. I belive that this forgotten run of Vigilante comics prove his stilistic superiority. Along with Alex Toth he set the standard for DC comics for the next two decades. Before he took over, Joe Kubert did a couple of stories is his own inimitable style, taking over the strip he had inked over his idol when he started at DC a couple of years earlier. round the same time he also did a couple of Zatara stories, which I will be showing first, to whet your apetite.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Gnizama!
Saturday Leftover Day.
This the second of five Zatara stories Joe Kubert did for World's Finest Comics (#40/44). DC is not doing itself by only reprinting whole titles and starting at the beginning of each. It took All Star Comics years to come to the interesting part. Likewise, there are all sorts of gems to be found in the late forties and early fifties DC titles. As soon as I can find the time I will share some of Alex Toth's western comics of that period. Most of those (including gems like this by Kubert and Infantino) deserve a reprint of their own. If not, they will keep appearing in blogs like this. For the equally interesting Infantio Ghost Patrol stories, go to Pappy's blog (links at my favorites).
These Zatara stories are expecially interesting to see how much Steve Ditko must have been influenced by Kubert. I don't know of any comparison that has ever been made between these stories and Ditko's Dr. Strange, but if someone told me the latter had drawn these it would have taken me some time to doubt that. But it is obviously by Kubert. The fun of it all, the faces, the white ink used for speed lines, even the letering seems to be his own.
If you go to Pappy now, by the way, you'll see two equally impressive Krigstein stories from the brief period in the fifties when he tried to fit in at DC and was thrown out for looking to authentical.
Saturday Leftover Day.
This the second of five Zatara stories Joe Kubert did for World's Finest Comics (#40/44). DC is not doing itself by only reprinting whole titles and starting at the beginning of each. It took All Star Comics years to come to the interesting part. Likewise, there are all sorts of gems to be found in the late forties and early fifties DC titles. As soon as I can find the time I will share some of Alex Toth's western comics of that period. Most of those (including gems like this by Kubert and Infantino) deserve a reprint of their own. If not, they will keep appearing in blogs like this. For the equally interesting Infantio Ghost Patrol stories, go to Pappy's blog (links at my favorites).
These Zatara stories are expecially interesting to see how much Steve Ditko must have been influenced by Kubert. I don't know of any comparison that has ever been made between these stories and Ditko's Dr. Strange, but if someone told me the latter had drawn these it would have taken me some time to doubt that. But it is obviously by Kubert. The fun of it all, the faces, the white ink used for speed lines, even the letering seems to be his own.
If you go to Pappy now, by the way, you'll see two equally impressive Krigstein stories from the brief period in the fifties when he tried to fit in at DC and was thrown out for looking to authentical.
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