SA ARTIST SURVIVOR SERIES: RD.8

[rdintx-migration]

The noob weighs in...

 

I bumped Everett & Swan -

 

Everett is GA all the way - sure, he had a few highlights on Sub Mariner & Hulk (I actually reaaaaallly like his Hulk in TTA) but he was full throttle party guy and didn't have a ton of output.

 

Swan was just a worker bee who could crank out nice, homogenized, white bread cleanliness in accordance to the style guide. Really nice, dependable, quality stuff, but nothing to write home about.

[Aman619]

I say we concentrate on the remaining GA guys first. Then dissect the SA mainstays who dont hold up against the Big Guys.

 

[Aman619]

btw, heres how Id like to see the top 5:

 

Adams

Kirby

Ditko

Kubert

Toth

 

all amazingly singular talents, with soaring styles all their own. nuff said. for me anyway

[Doctor Svord]

I see the votes for Heath are starting to pick up steam. Here are a couple of nice Heath Sea Devils pages for those that may not have seen his work in that book. (DC, if you're reading this, I want my Sea Devils Archive dag-nabbit!)

 

 

[Doctor Svord]

More Heath Sea Devils.

 

 

[seanfingh]

Everett and Swan.

 

Me too. A guy I consider a GA artist, and even though Swan's Supes is iconic, a guy of whom I was never a big fan.

[selegue]

I say we concentrate on the remaining GA guys first. Then dissect the SA mainstays who dont hold up against the Big Guys.

 

Who else besides Everett do you consider leftover GA? Wood?

 

JPS

[selegue]

I see the votes for Heath are starting to pick up steam. Here are a couple of nice Heath Sea Devils pages for those that may not have seen his work in that book. (DC, if you're reading this, I want my Sea Devils Archive dag-nabbit!)

 

 

 

I like Sea Devils too, although it was starting to fizzle even before the Go-Go Checks arrived. Purcell wasn't bad at all -- I still think that his cover of 19 resembles Ditko.

 

(Thinking about it more -- how many have I read vs looking at the covers and putting them in a pile? Not many. Sorta like Rip Hunter...Time Master.)

 

Jack

[rdintx-migration]

Good stuff, to be sure - but if I were to do a quick two-second glance/guesstimate, I woulda thought that that was a Cardy cover. (except of course, for the part where it says 'Russ Heath' real big... ) DC had a way of 'housing' their stuff in a way that lent itself to more 'generic looking' covers, whereas, IMO, Marvel just tried to make Kirby's knack for composition the norm...

[Scrooge]

(DC, if you're reading this, I want my Sea Devils Archive dag-nabbit!)

 

Make that a Showcase book and I'm right away.

 

Thanks for the scans. (thumbs u

[Scrooge]

I say we concentrate on the remaining GA guys first. Then dissect the SA mainstays who dont hold up against the Big Guys.

 

I think we've pretty much booted those GA hangers-on by now:

 

Bill Everett, John Severin, and Wally Wood could be considered in that batch.

 

We all agree that Everett needs to go. People have made a case for Severin to stay. What about Wood: aside from the Tower books and Daredevil, what are his SA accomplishements?

 

 

[CAP Freak]

btw, heres how Id like to see the top 5:

 

Adams

Kirby

Ditko

Kubert

Toth

 

all amazingly singular talents, with soaring styles all their own. nuff said. for me anyway

Steranko

 

[JohnT]

So far things are going pretty predictably, but I'm amazed that Infantino and Anderson seem poised to get the boot.

 

My top 5 would be:

 

Kubert

Anderson

Kirby

Infantino

Ditko

 

I'm also surprised that Romita is getting so few votes. Must be all the Spidey fans. To me he's the Marvel version of Curt Swan--solid, nice, iconic, but just not very exciting.

[Aman619]

I say we concentrate on the remaining GA guys first. Then dissect the SA mainstays who dont hold up against the Big Guys.

 

Who else besides Everett do you consider leftover GA? Wood?

 

JPS

 

good point. thought there were more left!

 

[Aman619]

Cant defend Heath with Sea Devils!! Its his war book sthat he excelled on. Much tighter crosshatch and line work... show some GICombat covers! If those dont sell anyone voting him off at this stage, nuthin will.

 

[Karma23]

Here's a little Heath Haunted Tank. Sorry for the B/W image, I couldn't bring myself to scan the book itself

 

and a splash from OAAW :

[JohnT]

That's some really nice Heath!

 

Now here's a beautiful Murphy Anderson sci-fi back-up story from Mystery in Space 61. The Silver Age didn't get much better than this, in my humble opinion. Great story too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Shadow]

I went with Cardy & Everett.

[Dale Roberts]

I love Russ Heath from this time period. Sea Devils is one of my absolutely favorite books just because of his art. I didn't really grow up reading any war comics, so that came later for me.

 

I also am amazed that people are voting for Murphy Anderson. He is clearly one of the top 5-6 guys, regardless of how this vote turns out.

[Aman619]

that Heath Rock Splash is AWESOME! thanx