[sergeial]

I'll start!

http://imgur.com/k9qa8

So amazing! The moodiness of the subway tunnel... the crazy magic train... "headlights gleaming like a dragon's eyes"... the mysterious stranger who is NEVER mentioned again.... Wow.

[narfstar]

cool idea and you can link right off of CB+
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20715

[josemas]

I agree.  Beck's work from this era is not appreciated enough, IMHO.

Best

Joe

[narfstar]

I discovered it just links to the issue not the page.

[sergeial]

@Joe:  At least Beck is still remembered, for creating Captain Marvel if nothing else. To me, it's criminal how some of the greats of the golden age are practically forgotten today.

Fred Guardineer, for instance-- I would never have heard of him if not for the magic of file-sharing.

Very few artists can match him in pure inventiveness:

http://imgur.com/UDio3
http://imgur.com/PjcLn,uiLDC#0
http://imgur.com/PjcLn,uiLDC#1

[sergeial]

Shelly Moldoff-- I just love the way he drew Hawkman's wings. Ludicrously lush!

http://i.imgur.com/HxW0n.jpg

[josemas]

Fred Guardineer, for instance-- I would never have heard of him if not for the magic of file-sharing.

Very few artists can match him in pure inventiveness:

Plenty of Fred Guardineer on the site here.  Besides DC he also did work for Centuar, Quality, Lev Gleason and Magazine Enterprises.   

Have fun checking them out.

Joe

[josemas]

Shelly Moldoff-- I just love the way he drew Hawkman's wings. Ludicrously lush!

http://i.imgur.com/HxW0n.jpg

Yeah, I like Moldoff's early work when he was going through his ALex Raymond style phase too.  He did some work for Standard, Fawcett and EC in the post WWII years but by then he was getting away from that style.

Best

Joe

PS- I remember talking to Joe Kubert once about his GA Hawkman stories and he mentioned that he didn't like the way he had drawn Hawkman's wings (following the lush approach of his predecessor, Moldoff).  He felt that they didn't look enough like feathers- something he altered when he drew the character again for the Silver Age revival.

[narfstar]

I always thought the same as JK. Hawks wings just were not as good as Moldoffs

[narfstar]

Here is a favorite page of mine it is from my Cat-Man 31
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=15953&page=25
and you have to the story it is wild

[paw broon]

Here's a page by Hugo Pratt featuring Corto Maltese from the album, Les Celtiques:-
http://www.gazette-drouot.com/gif-magazine/gif-enchere/gif-bibliophilie/gif-bibliophilie2007/3110corto.jpg
Hope nobody minds my not using a page from a pd site but this is one of my favourites.  Excitement, action, tension and quite beautiful.  Toss up between this and the silent page from the Irish story.
I was going to choose a Lee Elias Black Cat page because that's a great (revealing) costume and I like his art.
This is difficult as I realise there are some Robinson & Meskin Black Terror pages that I could pick.

[Underwaterone]

Sergeial - your lead off page by Beck is simply amazing for it formal structure and fugue like echoing of visual motifs the arches moving in the various scales and directions across the page the sense of light and dark atmosphere with such limitations of the process is truly spectacular.

Awesome.
I need to learn how and where to upload pages from my books so that I might share of rarely seen Golden age interior greatness.

Thanks for stating this thread.

[WileyJ]

i love this artist's rendering style and energy, i have no idea who it is??

[josemas]

That's Charles Voight.  He's one of the artists I also really got into when I discovered this site. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Voight

http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2010/08/charles-voights-he-man.html

http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2010/10/impossible-man-charles-voight-1946.html

http://www.toonopedia.com/betty.htm

Check out his "He-Man" story in Tally-Ho Comics (in the small Press section). That's where I first discovered him.

Best

Joe

[narfstar]

Seems like Charles Voight deserves a mention in my Overlooked thread

[WileyJ]

cool thanx fer the info

[josemas]

Now up in the comic strip section a collection of Voight's Betty comic strip that Narf picked up somewhere.

Enjoy

Joe

[sergeial]

Sergeial - your lead off page by Beck is simply amazing for it formal structure and fugue like echoing of visual motifs the arches moving in the various scales and directions across the page the sense of light and dark atmosphere with such limitations of the process is truly spectacular.

Here's the whole origin (just 5 1/2 iconic pages) in case you've never read it:

http://imgur.com/N3KeR,awdCy,iewTI,ftk4h,ZAHg2,A5Faj

Although the whole thing is full of iconic visuals and powerful composition, that second page stands out for the reasons you stated. Beck was amazing!

I'm glad you mentioned the limitations of the four-color process. I'm a firm believer in the artistic concept that built-in limitations can be freeing to an artist and bring out a higher level of creativity. Here's the same page as it appears in the DC Archives, re-colored with full process color:

http://i.imgur.com/7rMyX.jpg

Am I crazy, or did something get lost in translation? I mean, it's FAR truer to the original than many full-process re-colorings I've seen. And you would think that of all features, Captain Marvel wouldn't be hurt by being made brighter and more gaudy (compared to, say, Batman). And yet, the original, four-color newsprint version looks ineffably better to my eye.

Awesome.
I need to learn how and where to upload pages from my books so that I might share of rarely seen Golden age interior greatness.

Please do! Imgur.com is very easy to use, give it a try!

Thanks for stating this thread.

You're very welcome.

[Underwaterone]

Am I crazy, or did something get lost in translation? I mean, it's FAR truer to the original than many full-process re-colorings I've seen. And you would think that of all features, Captain Marvel wouldn't be hurt by being made brighter and more gaudy (compared to, say, Batman). And yet, the original, four-color newsprint version looks ineffably better to my eye.

Well the re-coloring is hampered by the lose of visual texture from the original newsprint and the absolute-ness of graphic is a positive thing for the panels that do not attempt to show "organic information". the graphic panels look like Chris Ware's drawing ( which I love by the way) but are completely anachronistic here. The two cave panels have been the least damaged by the updated coloring owning to the more lively attention to contours and the use of dashed stipeling- in essence " hiding" the too true color work.
The re color is far inferior in my estimation.
I will enjoy reading the whole story.
I have a number of early Capt Marvels and Whiz comics - I think I will go back home tonight and comb through them again with an eye out for the stellar work similar to this!
Thanks again

[narfstar]

It would be great if you could help us replace some fiche scans with paper also. I would love to see you collection

[Underwaterone]

I will see if the issues I own overlap with those you need.

[WileyJ]

AWESOME

[WileyJ]

anyone tell me where i can find more art by c.a.winter??

[narfstar]

lots with some available here

http://www.comics.org/penciller/name/winter/sort/alpha/

[WileyJ]

thanx a lot