i've enjoyed a month of colan so far, taking miki's lead, i'll share my last
few gene colan pages. i love his work but as i try to continue to shrink my
collection, some of gene's art has left my collections for heritage. this is
what i have left and plan on keeping.
comic checklist cover - little joe inks and misspelling of colan. i am not a
huge fan of rubenstein inks on anyone but he certainly inked a lot of people.
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=815833
daredevil 73 with syd shores justice applied to colan's dynamic inks...this one
will be with me until the end
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=107736
daredevil 68 - shores on inking duties here too. a bit of homage to daredevil's
backstory
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=152819
daredevil 367 - i bought this one from gene on ebay when he was still with us.
fun page from much later in his career. an almost half splash with a little
dedication in the bottom margin.
https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=107738
jeff
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 12:08:34 p.m. EST, Miki Annamanthadoo
<mik1surf1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I will add my humble contribution to this thread by presenting a page from
Marvel Super-Heroes #15 starring the magnificent Medusa. I cannot be as
loquacious as Sean except to say that I remember buying this off the stands and
that the lithe sensuous image of Medusa has been imprinted in my brain. And it
remains one of my favorite Silver Age covers. I am happy to own a page from
the story. https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1504898 ;
Miki A
On 01/17/2021 5:07 AM zzutak <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gene in January, Day Sixteen Daredevil #90, page 7 by Gene Colan and Tom
Palmer https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1695183
In 2014 I purchased a Colan/Palmer Daredevil #94 page that
featured Lil' Natasha, in a flashback sequence to her youthful first mission
prior to meeting Iron-man in Tales of Suspense #52. In 2015 I discovered that
DD #94 is a book that a good friend in the hobby is attempting to reunite in
original art form, so we arranged a trade. Cut to December of 2020, and another
opportunity to add some young Natasha art (from earlier in the same storyline)
arose, this time from DD #90, a book that my buddy is not attempting to put
back together.
What I'm saying is that our life here on earth is but a brief flickering
candle, so put it not under a bushel, but upon a candlestick (by helping fellow
collectors reunite stories), that it may shine to all that are in the house.
This is the greatest good, and the glory of this noble act confers great reward
of recompense in this life, as well as in the Elysian Fields to come, where
favored collectors shall be conveyed by the gods after death.
One day in the pavilion at Karakorum Genghis Kahn asked an officer of the
Mongol guard what, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness.
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the
officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Kahn, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your
feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women.
That is best."
"Nay," responded the officer, "The greatest good in life is to assist fellow
collectors by selling or trading them pages they seek in their grail-quests to
reunite comic stories in original art form. That is best."
"You have answered well," responded the Khan, "The greatest joy and pleasure
for a man is to help fellow collectors complete stories in original art form.
That is best. The second greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive
him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him
shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters. That
is second best." Pax, Sean
