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The OFFICIAL "This week in your ORIGINAL ART collection?"
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On 2/19/2023 at 2:23 PM, Rick2you2 said:

When I saw these 2 pages by Jim Aparo come up for sale from Phantom Stranger 11, that was that. I had previously seen them posted on Facebook, and hadn't owned any with Tannarak (a vampire of human souls) and PS together. This is a nice fight scene between the 2 of them with PS delivering his classic roundhouse punch. For my money. the best pair since Jayne Mansfield (with a young Jennifer Love Hewitt close behind).

 

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Congrats. Loved Aparo's PS (and pretty much everything else he drew). I still need something from him.

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On 2/20/2023 at 8:10 PM, malvin said:

Now that my collection is bigger, every year I go to my local big con (FanExpo Vancouver) saying I probably wouldn't buy anything, and I am proven wrong.

I ended up buying 5 covers (Young Justice, World's Finest, and Batman) as well as some Transformers Merchanising art

link to CAF recent uploads

Thanks for looking

Malvin 

I bet Max Dunbar was as happy as you are!

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Aparo is an artist I’ve really come to appreciate over the years. I always liked his Aquaman stuff it wasn’t until some recent auctions that I really came to appreciate his work. Just really wonderful draftsmanship with a kind mid century flair to it.

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On 2/21/2023 at 10:31 PM, Natty Bumpo said:

Aparo is an artist I’ve really come to appreciate over the years. I always liked his Aquaman stuff it wasn’t until some recent auctions that I really came to appreciate his work. Just really wonderful draftsmanship with a kind mid century flair to it.

His pacing is always very good (within the confines of -script-based artwork). Notice how, in the above example, he used a long panel as the set-up, 3 follow-on panels of fighting which are almost, but not quite, the same size, a dramatic half panel, and then his beauty, the punch? You get a real sense of time from the layout, with appropriate “movie” close-ups. Too many artists might have overdone the “suffering” on the first page (at least these days), or not given the beginning of the sequence a splashy sort of feeling. 

 

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On 2/19/2023 at 3:23 PM, Rick2you2 said:

When I saw these 2 pages by Jim Aparo come up for sale from Phantom Stranger 11, that was that. I had previously seen them posted on Facebook, and hadn't owned any with Tannarak (a vampire of human souls) and PS together. This is a nice fight scene between the 2 of them with PS delivering his classic roundhouse punch. For my money. the best pair since Jayne Mansfield (with a young Jennifer Love Hewitt close behind).

 

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Just love JA's work !

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On 2/19/2023 at 3:23 PM, Rick2you2 said:

When I saw these 2 pages by Jim Aparo come up for sale from Phantom Stranger 11, that was that. I had previously seen them posted on Facebook, and hadn't owned any with Tannarak (a vampire of human souls) and PS together. This is a nice fight scene between the 2 of them with PS delivering his classic roundhouse punch. For my money. the best pair since Jayne Mansfield (with a young Jennifer Love Hewitt close behind).

 

AparoPhantormStranger2.thumb.jpg.fff6476b0a191943c123adefe770c0f8.jpg

Great pick ups! 

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