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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-18 14:21:00

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creator: dave cockrum, creator: mike grell, era: bronze age, title: legion of super-heroes

Superboy returns to the Legion/plus Dave Cockrum and Mike Grell on the costume desings

On of the least plausible Legion stories. Hmmm Chains that would crush the earth...

Cool cover. Note this was my first experience with the "bait and switch" cover as a child. I only realized when I got home that only the cover was done by George Perez, the interior was done by some hose'.

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jlroberson
2009-08-19 04:09 am UTC (link)

>>Note this was my first experience with the "bait and switch" cover as a child. I only realized when I got home that only the cover was done by George Perez, the interior was done by some hose.

I can't name the penciller because there's no distinguishing them under the scratchy, careless hand of Frank Chiramonte, in my mind the worst inker, ever. He makes Vince Colletta look passionate. (and Colletta could sometimes look like he gave a shit--a few Kirby THOR stories here and there)

And yeah, Perez introduced me to the phenomenon as well. DIAL H FOR HERO, for instance. DC had him doing half their covers during that time for exactly that reason. And I also was bothered when, even when he did the inside art, the inking was never the equal of Perez' own either. I find it interesting that, when Perez inks himself, the shading is very sharp and contrasty, and the blacks are heavily, and very well, spotted. Whereas those inking him have lots of open space and largely eliminate the deep blacks. Which weakens him and makes his work start looking...I don't know how to describe it except the way I thought of it in the 80s. "This looks very Michael Jackson," I'd say. I think all the perms he liked drawing had something to do with that.

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	dr_hermes 2009-08-19 04:36 am UTC (link)
	All very true, and clarifying some thoughts I had in the back of my mind. That "bait and switch" with cover artists has been going on as long as there have been comic books. I don't like it and learned even as a kid to take a minute to look over the interior; but you can why publishers do it and they're not going to stop. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-08-19 04:59 am UTC (link)
	Neal Adams, Nick Cardy, Brian Bolland, and Dave McKean. There's four B&S artists DC has used successfully that I can think of offhand. Frank Quitely these days. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geoffsebesta 2009-08-19 07:29 am UTC (link)
	Huh...you have a really good point about Perez's inks. I'm wondering how much that phenomenon's contributed to the general "Lost in Space" feel that 70s-80s house style was so prone to. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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