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I'll bite....Al Milgrom, the Giacoias, Frank McLaughlin.

I'm pretty sure I've encountered at least one post on this board that said Neal Adams was overrated. No idea who Wrightson is. Besides, just because you don't hate someone's art doesn't mean you automatically like it. There is such a thing as apathy. This too. Was thinking that when someone threw Dave Sim out there. Serviceable, but doesn't excite me. And in the blasphemy camp, I don't get what's so awesome about Darwyn Cooke's cartoons. But I am not an artist, either. I think he tells a good story, but the images themselves are more like cartoon frames. Is the fact that Dave Sim is very highly regarded as an artist just one of those things I've somehow never heard before? Well certainly don't look at ME....I was just responding to him being thrown out there....sure his work (arguably Moreso his writing) has a cult fan-base, but if we're using SquareChaos' definition of a skilled draftsman whom other artists would say one could learn from...uh not so much... I'm serious, I have literally never heard anyone ever refer to Dave Sims as one of those type of artists. I don't mean anything by it, I'm just actually curious. Even on the writing side, it seems like most can't help themselves to add how he 'went crazy' at some point. I realize you're serious, I am agreeing with you. Someone threw him out there and I was just trying to point out that though someone might produce a popular work but necessarily possess elite-level skill at their craft. It's like KISS...they sold a lot of records but no one, even themselves, calls them talented musicians. The corollary is what you were saying before about a certain baseline of talent....though to ignore it is not lack of taste but lack of understanding of the core skills...the music analogy I'd use here is Rush...one may or may or find them to one's taste, but no one complains of their lack of technical skill.

I'm pretty sure I've encountered at least one post on this board that said Neal Adams was overrated. No idea who Wrightson is. Besides, just because you don't hate someone's art doesn't mean you automatically like it. There is such a thing as apathy. This too. Was thinking that when someone threw Dave Sim out there. Serviceable, but doesn't excite me. And in the blasphemy camp, I don't get what's so awesome about Darwyn Cooke's cartoons. But I am not an artist, either. I think he tells a good story, but the images themselves are more like cartoon frames. Is the fact that Dave Sim is very highly regarded as an artist just one of those things I've somehow never heard before? Well certainly don't look at ME....I was just responding to him being thrown out there....sure his work (arguably Moreso his writing) has a cult fan-base, but if we're using SquareChaos' definition of a skilled draftsman whom other artists would say one could learn from...uh not so much...

I'm pretty sure I've encountered at least one post on this board that said Neal Adams was overrated. No idea who Wrightson is. Besides, just because you don't hate someone's art doesn't mean you automatically like it. There is such a thing as apathy. This too. Was thinking that when someone threw Dave Sim out there. Serviceable, but doesn't excite me. And in the blasphemy camp, I don't get what's so awesome about Darwyn Cooke's cartoons. But I am not an artist, either. I think he tells a good story, but the images themselves are more like cartoon frames.

"Feet" for Rob Liefeld... well, that, and you know... other parts... I feel like I'm posting this a lot, but it has to be done. They resemble insects

It's like eating a bag of junk food....you glance and it looks like a comic book (or food)...then consume a little and ask yourself why you're taking in empty, cancerous ...that's my experience with Lee and that whole 90's fanboy set....But that's just me...

Was thinking Heath too, but he's also unfamiliar to many, I bet. Romita Sr was a good call, and I'd add John Buscema and Gil Kane to that guess list. Kind of a warm, fuzzy late Silver/early Bronze Marvel look that most everyone at least finds accessible....do we all sing Kumbaya now???

I was thinking about this when Kirby came up in the other thread too, Kav. I've never heard someone say they don't like Will Eisner.

7 to 7 to a different 7

Any insight as to who Gus Lemoine was? The style is similar to Henry Scarpelli who was drawing/inking at DC during the period Gus Lemoine received art credits at Archie. Gus seemed to disappear following the Fast Willie title and a short time later Henry was at Archie. An aside, one of the Fast Willie letter pages (which had to be fake) had a letter from "Geri Lemoine". Sorry for the delay; I've been searching but I cannot find the blog I once read...at least not yet....anyway, rumor is Gus Lemoine was a pseudonym for the Archie artist (some claim Henry Scarpelli) who was moonlighting, but Lemoine is also credited with someArchie books, so I don't know for sure.

Four Favorites to five fingers

Frozen death to frozen monster

Not only is that all it takes, it's apparently all that works for some of this stuff anymore.

Absolutely awesome cover but it does make me wonder how Toro can't just burn through the ropes, or how red-hot pokers are a threat to a Torch-powered type. Still more awesome a cover than most anything from the ensuing decades though

Thx! Last one I needed to complete 40-48 I think, so I traded a starting-out collector--turned-dealer a small stack of etc for it (and a Special Marvel Edition 15). Lots of $10-$20 Batmans he could sell quickly, and a Star Wars 107 that he had a guy for. That sort of thing.

Green Lama to Green Turtle

Doc to Doc

This just in...

Acquired today in a trade One of the best reads among Bronze origin stories, IMO...my 4th copy

The Doctor to the Nurse (hey, it was $5, and I Wanted to read the editorial!)

Speed! Speed! to Speed Comics

Really, backstory please...."in the wild" as in in a LCS at a market-ish price, or "in the wild" as in antiques shop, yard sale, etc. (which is what I usually assume someone means by in the wild, but that's just me...)

The enchanted dagger to bondage, headlights, and a racially stereotyped villain with a dagger

If you're tapped out on the high-grade Subby sub-set, allow me to bail out the sub-mariner with...flat-top to flat-top:

Thx!