Ken Aldred

Just looking at this comic the other day and thinking not just how much I like the design but how similar it is to one of my favourites posted above, Batman 221. Ka-Zar and Batman both looking down on their prey like hunters…

It’s not bad. There are worse.

Was Ezra Miller ever in a musical? Just finding a way to get the thread back on topic.

Camelot’s a bit boring.

A now very obscure Back to the Future reference.

Watched Fiddler on the Roof recently. Good songs, good story. As with Doctor Zhivago, an interesting film about Eastern Europe during a time of great social transition.

He just about sneaks in. Actually, he followed Steranko on X-Men, so you’re right.

Always looked more like The Old Witch from EC’s horror comics, Haunt of Fear, than a scarecrow to me.

I only have the Atlas Era Masterworks hardcover. His art during that period was really good.

I like this one. It really captures the manic, whirlwind frenzy of being totally caught up and rushing around in the invigorating atmosphere of a comic convention event. The less-than-composed mental state of many fanboys under these conditions. An inspired combination of blur and shutter speed.

I don’t have Netflix and so I’m really slow here, but I’ve only just noticed that he doesn’t have eyes with cat pupils as in the video game. One character in the game calling him ‘Puss Peepers’. One of the least derogatory insults thrown at him.

Read the digest reprint, and even at that miniaturised scale was completely blown away by Adams’ artwork throughout, and had to chase down a back issue copy. The cover’s a classic, as well.

Yup. In the days back in the 70s before I bought a price guide and caught up on artist credits, I always thought that as well. Has a similar, wispy quality to it

As I’m getting old, sounds fairly similar to my typical cinema screen experience.

What about Alaska? It must cost a packet to ship up there to the state’s shivering collectors?

Being British, I’m confused about the significance of a manic Foghorn Leghorn in this context?

USPS shipping to the U.K. was getting pricey enough 10 years ago when I quit, so I’m reluctant to ask about the charges now. Sure they’d be rather off-putting.

The first comic I ever read with Neal Adams art, and still one of my all-time favourite covers, with his brilliant design sense on show.

I’m embarrassingly bad at grading from images.

Yup. No doubt it led to overload and burnout for many.

I agree either way with you, about the perils of speculating on characters, in comics or movies.

Sure that made a lot of readers give up. Most of what was turning up each week at the LCS was utter garbage, and beyond a certain point anyone with a modicum of common sense would stop wasting money on it and give up the ghost completely, or at least become extremely selective, which still meant a significant downturn in general sales volume for sellers, either way. I recall the owner of a store getting a bit irate and sarcastic with me when I cut back drastically on my standing orders, but, it’s obviously a case of being offered something that’s actually worth buying for the cover price, not just blindly going along with another’s sense of entitlement and complacency, an issue of adaptation which would soon afterwards prove to have devastating effects for many outlets during that period.

For me, it is getting to a point where the film is so long that I know very well I can’t maintain sufficient attention for that entire run period, coupled with the expense of the ticket itself now, and it makes better common sense and cost-effectiveness to use other options to watch it.

Didn’t know that, but the more heavily-shaded art style he used in the Bronze Age suggested a strong Milton Caniff influence. I thought that ASM artwork was brilliant, incidentally.