The second issue of the Nightmaster Showcase trial featured the art of Bernie Wrightson, who had just started his comic book career a month or so earlier. Wrightson's style was obviously heavily influenced by Frank [...]
Showcase #82: DC Beats Marvel to Sword and Sorcery
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Tư, 22 tháng 2, 2012
As the 1960s drew to a close, DC found that the superhero genre was waning and began casting about for something to replace it. In fact, the last superhero comic launched by DC's Showcase title was the Hawk and the Dove [...]
Silver Age Cover Proofs for Sale Online!
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 2, 2012
Some of Julius Schwartz's Silver Age cover proofs are available for sale at this site.These one-of-a-kind Printer’s Proof’s were originally sent to Schwartz for his final approval, before their commercial print run. The covers feature artwork from [...]
Falling In Love #13
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 2, 2012
From September, 1957. Bonus points for that cover for showing both a boy and a girl about to cry. The opener is about Celia, a young woman stuck in a dreary job (apparently as a typist). She fantasizes that she's a Cinderella, [...]
Alliterative and Amusing Attributions
Người đăng: lecuongle on Thứ Hai, 6 tháng 2, 2012
For most of the Silver Age, DC did not include credits for their stories (although it was not uncommon for artists to sign their work). Indeed, probably the most common credit given was fictitious; the one that identified [...]
