DC didn't like Kirby's version of Superman's face, and would often have someone (Curt Swan?) come in and redraw it.
Yeah I think it was Curt Swan that would redraw Superman's face.
No, initially they had Al Plastino redraw Superman's face; Plastino had been the regular Superman artist for Action Comics during the sixties for the most part. Later, they got Murphy Anderson redraw it, which looked a little odd when the rest of the page was inked either by Vince Colletta or Mike royer.
Classic cover from the Silver Age: Superman races the Flash for the first time, drawn by Carmine Infantino & Murphy Anderson -- an unusual art team for a Superman cover at that time, where most of the covers were usually done by Curt Swan.
But this wasn't the first time Flash or the JLA made guest appearances in one of the Superman titles back then, when guest appearances were rare... check the next entry for an earlier and odder appearance by Flash and the JLA.
In this story, Superman actually becomes the Flash! For that matter, he proves to have been a likely candidate to have been any number of his fellow JLAers. Cover, I believe, is by Curt Swan and George Klein.
Finally, since we're on the topic of running, here's the Weasel Patrol from the 80's (drawn by Lela Dowling and Ken Macklin), whose motto, when facing danger, was "Run away!!"
I added this for nostalgia's sake -- this is one of the earliest comics I can recall reading. It was a pretty goofy comic, but it tickled my very young funnybone at the time. Jackys Diary was apparently a syndicated newspaper strip by Jack Mendlesohn (age 32 1/2) in the late 50's, but I only ever saw one issue of the comic book. It was published about 1959 or 1960, so I doubt it was the first comic book I ever read, but it's one of the earliest I can clearly recall.
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Brian Hurtt
Bob Layton Sr.
Classic cover from the Silver Age: Superman races the Flash for the first time, drawn by Carmine Infantino & Murphy Anderson -- an unusual art team for a Superman cover at that time, where most of the covers were usually done by Curt Swan.
But this wasn't the first time Flash or the JLA made guest appearances in one of the Superman titles back then, when guest appearances were rare... check the next entry for an earlier and odder appearance by Flash and the JLA.
In this story, Superman actually becomes the Flash! For that matter, he proves to have been a likely candidate to have been any number of his fellow JLAers. Cover, I believe, is by Curt Swan and George Klein.
Finally, since we're on the topic of running, here's the Weasel Patrol from the 80's (drawn by Lela Dowling and Ken Macklin), whose motto, when facing danger, was "Run away!!"
I added this for nostalgia's sake -- this is one of the earliest comics I can recall reading. It was a pretty goofy comic, but it tickled my very young funnybone at the time. Jackys Diary was apparently a syndicated newspaper strip by Jack Mendlesohn (age 32 1/2) in the late 50's, but I only ever saw one issue of the comic book. It was published about 1959 or 1960, so I doubt it was the first comic book I ever read, but it's one of the earliest I can clearly recall.
Glenn Fabry
Glenn Fabry
Love how this one-shot is a perfect parody of 80s/90s action tropes.
Glen Fabry
RIP Harvey,you will always be my generations Mark Twain.
Richard Corben
Not a big fan of the grotesque unless it's over the top Basil Wolverton-esque.*
*BTW: The borders on all these are by the always-amazing Sergio Aragones.
Wally Wood... *not* Wolverton!
Wally Wood... *not* Wolverton!