Thursday, August 4, 2011

Batman and Captain America (Retro)



This is the first of what will be many retro covers.  I had fun with the handful that I did on the last go 'round with B&B so I decided to make some more.  I hope you all like them.

Captain America was the best of the superhero films for me this summer.  I thought that Chris Evans made a great Steve Rogers, it had a nice love story and the action scenes were right out of a comic book.  The easter eggs for other Marvel films were worked in far less clumsily than they have been in past films.  I loved seeing The Human Torch android make a cameo at the Stark Expo.  It was acted well across the board - Tommy Lee Jones and Stanley Tucci especially seemed to be enjoying their roles.  I really look forward to a sequel and, of course, The Avengers!

10 comments:

  1. For more Retro, how about Batman and Captain Marvel? Would love to see Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson and CC Beck art mashed together!

    And for a silver age take, an all Aparo Batman Captain Marvel team up (using Aparo's CM from the covers of the Dollar Comics editions of "World's Finest").

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  2. I vote for the Golden Age Sub-Mariner. By the way, are you ever going to do an all Aparo w/ Nightshade? Please!

    Neil Anderson

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  3. Sub-Mariner is a good bet as well.

    I tried to do that Nightshade cover, but there are so few images to work from. Every search I do comes up with the same one cover appearance.

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  4. I love it....you should play around with more 40's covers

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  5. Dave sez,
    AWESOME cover! That's Dr. Death, right?

    Who knew he was a Nazi?!

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  6. I would love a modern, updated (rebooted?) version of these early Bob Kane stories. The first time I read some of these stories (it was from a book that showcased the evolution of comic books, with an anthology of early industry works) when I was still in grade school, they CREEPED ME OUT! seriously, Kane's Batman was something out of Bram Stoker.

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  7. For updated versions of the first Batman stories, you might be interested in Matt Wagner's Batman and the Monster Men and Batman and the Mad Monk.

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