Jim Aparo... RIP

[Fan4Fan]

Announcement here...

 

[g-man]

great talent.....rest in peace.

[greggy]

[FlyingDonut]

[nearmint]

Maybe I'm just in denial, but do we have confirmation of this from a source other than a random post on another message board?

 

If it's true, what a shame.

[Sharkey]

RIP, Jim.

 

[Foolkiller]

that sucks. I loved aparo's stuff.

[OldGuy]

[awe4one]

This really truly sucks...was he in ill health?

 

RIP...he will go down as one of the greats in my opinion...

 

Jim

[ArAich]

Wow...that sucks..big time...

 

Aparo was one of my all time favorites and it wasn't until about 4 months ago when I found out that he also lived in Connecticut (as I do)..My LCS was sponsering a local con and had mentioned that he was going to try and get some local talent to appear, of which Aparo was one of them...

To say the least I was ecstatic...a man that had done awsome work on Batman, Aquaman, Spectre and tons of other stuff that I truly enjoyed in my teen years was going to be in my neighborhood (actually he was here all the time)...

Any way...as the months rolled on my LCS dealer said that he was having a tough time getting through to Aparo and was not optomistic about his appearance...apparently , it seems, there were health issues and now I can see that they must've been very serious..

 

R.I.P. Mr. Aparo...you were truly appreciated by this Connecticut native...

[dam60]

Rest in Peace Jim - thank you for your contributions and for the hours of happiness your art and storytelling have given me personally,

[chrisco37]

RIP to one of the best Batman artists of them all.

[SignatureSelect]

I'm saddened He was great on batman I had hoped to meet him some day and maybe even get a books signature series'd

[g-man]

official...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=1278f43198e3d09c561aa3f073c9489e&threadid=38552

 

[swordsandrockets]

It was his covers on Batman and Brave and Bold in the late 70's that turned me from being a straight Marvel Zombie to be a full fledged comic book nut! He will be greatly missed...

[precodekeith]

 

Us horror heads will miss him, too. He did the art for this one from HoM 201, which I rank in my personal "Top 3" horror stories that warped my mind as a kid...

[AlexH]

I'm sad now.

[Dr_Neff]

We'll miss you Jim!

[Zonker]

He was one of the bright spots at DC during one of my very favorite periods, the late 1960s, early 1970s.

 

- that long Brave & Bold run grounding Bob Haney's often gonzo scripts in the real world

 

- part of the classic S.A.G. (Skeates/Aparo/Giordano) creative team on Aquaman

 

- The Spectre in Adventure Comics

 

- A couple of excellent Batman solo stories for Archie Goodwin's tenure on Detective Comics

 

- And (I don't think anyone's yet mentioned this), his defining run on Phantom Stranger:

[Solar]

I loved Aparo's Batman art in the late 80's when I was a huge 10 year old Bat-fan. He was my first "favorite comic artist." I'm bummed.