I was fortunate enough to briefly say hello to Joe Kubert a couple of times at conventions late in his career. I was very happy to get the opportunity to thank him fo r all the pleasure his art and creations had given me over the years. What really stood out for me was when I shook his hand - the man had a grip of iron! Clearly forged from deftly utilizing a pencil and pen for over seven decades!
Wow! The things we remember!
ReplyDeleteI have to go re-read the Batman/Enemy Ace story that was collected in the Tor paperback. It was along with the classic Two-Face story...
How about Phantom Eagle vs. Blackhawk, next?*
ReplyDelete*With the former being impersonated by a pre-HDYRA Baron Von Strucker, of course.
@ My namesake:
ReplyDeleteI believe that should've read "pre-HYDRA."
I've always been interested in comic characters from yesteryear, but sadly, Eclipse's revival of AIRBOY always fell under my radar for the same reason Chuck Dixon eventually abandoned the series. Our hero, young Davey Nelson, is basically this bland, square-jawed young '40s action hero without much personality, and it was always the side characters -- Sky Wolf, Valkyrie, the Heap -- who were more interesting. As I remember it, this was why the Eclipse series finally ended on a kinda cliffhanger with the arch-enemy Misery (or whatever that Shadow King-prototype character called himself). Recently, Dixon started up again, working with Ben Dunn at Antarctic Press, so maybe the storyline will get a proper ending and Nelson will get a personality injection.
ReplyDeleteHe must have had _enough_ personality to ultimately attract the Valkyrie's more amorous-than-adversarial interest, towards the end of Airboy's original Golden Age run.
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