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Dick Pontoon

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    I pick them up as decent cheap copies come across my path, though mostly just the issues with completely new covers as opposed to those that were reworked.
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    I beg to differ. Ok, one. Make that 2 My run is 1-50, with a few miscellaneous issues after. Like the Defenders, the stories didn't grab me and neither did the art.
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    You may also find this thread useful:
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    The David Anthony Kraft era. The early stories following on from Gerber were good, with Giffen and Golden on art, but, likewise, I started to lose interest around the same point myself. The last issues I bought as a kid were the ones I recall referencing Blue Oyster Cult. Yup, that’s where I gave up the ship. I think the gaps in my run come from when was losing interest and only half-heartedly picking them up. I'm not even sure if I ever read the last few I bought.
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    That explains why none of the rest of the inks look like Anderson then. I was wondering if Murphy had a sudden epiphany of restraint in inking style when I saw it. Overall this is one of his more unobtrusive “fixes.” There are other pages, especially with Superman, where the faces look like a cut and paste from an entirely different book. Jimmy’s face here blends in much better. I’ve always thought this was one of DCs worst editorial decisions; at least it was short-lived. However, I don’t think it will have a negative impact on price either.
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    Those are Colletta inks. Murphy Anderson only did Jimmy’s face to keep it “on model” with DC’s preferences.
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    ...and I'll bet that even though you may have every issue, you don't have all of the variants . That run lasted for about 30 years. This is truly one title I'm surprised isn't collected on a wide basis. Beautifully painted covers; beautiful interiors by (for a large part) the VERY under-rated Alberto Giolitti; great stories. People are missing out on a lot by not reading this title. I enjoy Turok a lot. I need the first issue but otherwise have the first 30, and then sporadic issues after that. Turok is a back burner title for me though, I’ll pick them up when they come across my path and when I’m in the mood.
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    The run I’m working on is 1-300. I have dozens of issues past 300, but don’t have an interest in reading or keeping them.
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    My Defenders run goes to about #69, although I think I‘m missing a few issues in the 50s and don’t have much desire to fill those in. I enjoyed all the early issues and the Steve Gerber run but started to lose interest in the upper 40s.
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    More like Atomic Age, but why quibble?
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    This was a fairly recent pickup from the boards, hats off to BP!
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    One of my faves:
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    A couple of bag scans:
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    Great stuff already. Hate to ask, but consider changing the thread title to Bill Everett Appreciation Thread? Each time I see "support" it kind of sounds like he's still alive but has fallen on hard times. I'll third that suggestion, too.
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    I made a few scans to join the fun. Top edge looks much better in person.
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    I use one of these, with graph paper and bound at the top for easy flipping:
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    Now all you need is this, which reconstructs the original story as closely as possible with previously lost Kirby pencil pages:
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    In the '60s (and beyond) Kirby’s style was Marvel style. Although he worked very hard, cranking out hundreds upon hundreds of pages a year, he couldn’t do everything. In some instances, say after his brief run on the Hulk in Tales to Astonish, he did layouts rather than full pencils for a few issues so a title would maintain the Marvel “house style.” He basically plotted and drew everything, though not with his usual level of detail. Mike Esposito in the case of TTA would then finish the pencils and ink them. In the case of Kamandi and with the majority of his art, he did full pencils and the D. Bruce Berry (previously Mike Royer) inked them. That’s the way comics were made until the digital age, although some artists inked their own work. Clink’s standard notation of “primary” and “secondary” generally denotes the penciller and the inker.