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Gil Kane Cover Thread
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Hepcat

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On 4/30/2024 at 12:00 AM, Ghost Town said:

A re-imagining of Green Lantern #8.

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I much prefer his re-imagining to the original:

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Gil Kane's artwork, particularly his drawing of human figures, evolved dramatically between the years 1963-64 and 1969-70. Here are some of his Green Lantern covers from 1963-64:

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Northland copy

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And here are some of his Green Lantern covers from 1969-70:

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In my opinion his representation of both human faces and figures declined dramatically over those five or six years. Granted the earlier covers were all inked by the old master Murphy Anderson while the latter ones were inked by Kane himself, but I believe that Kane's style had evolved in a more surrealistic direction over those years. And I much prefer his earlier artwork.

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On 5/23/2024 at 9:38 PM, Hepcat said:

In my opinion his representation of both human faces and figures declined dramatically over those five or six years. Granted the earlier covers were all inked by the old master Murphy Anderson while the latter ones were inked by Kane himself, but I believe that Kane's style had evolved in a more surrealistic direction over those years. And I much prefer his earlier artwork.

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Thanks for posting all these. I've never seen a lot of those GL covers. I know you're not the biggest fan of some of those later covers. But I think the #71, 72, #74, and #75 are pretty great.

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On 5/24/2024 at 12:47 AM, Ghost Town said:

Thanks for posting all these. I've never seen a lot of those GL covers.

Check out the "Green Lantern" thread in the Silver Age forum. I posted my favourite Green Lantern covers on this page:

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On 5/28/2024 at 6:26 PM, Ghost Town said:

Wowsa! Holy Cow! Holy Guacamole! Beautiful! Hot Daaaammnnn!

Thanks Barton, the 3 Kid Colts were from the JS ebay auction a few years back when they had a lot of HG bronze westerns for sale, they were very nice but even nicer after I pressed them.

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On 5/28/2024 at 10:43 AM, batmiesta said:
On 5/28/2024 at 10:26 AM, Ghost Town said:

Wowsa! Holy Cow! Holy Guacamole! Beautiful! Hot Daaaammnnn!

Thanks Barton, the 3 Kid Colts were from the JS ebay auction a few years back when they had a lot of HG bronze westerns for sale, they were very nice but even nicer after I pressed them.

That was a great bunch of books from JS. I've only had one of those graded so far - it was a PF book, but not a Gil Kane cover.

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