Publisher:
DC Comics
Cover Date:
October, 1971
Art Type:
Cover
Story:
“The Man from Transilvane!”
Character(s):
Count Dragorin, Jimmy Olsen, Superman (Clark Kent)
History:
Published
Size:
11.6 x 17.4 in. (29.6 x 44.2 cm)
Credits:
Penciler:
Jack Kirby
Second Penciler:
Neal Adams
Inker:
Mike Royer
Second Inker:
Neal Adams
Scans of this art courtesy of Albert Moy Comic Art
Notes:
This cover consist of 3 separate pages of art. The first page is fully inked by Mike Royer. The first Miscellaneous tab includes new art of Superman's figure, inked by Mike Royer and the tombstone background (maybe inked by Mike Royer). The second Miscellaneous tab is the published version with the Superman figure drawn and inked by Neal Adams.
Average Rating:
My Rating:
Wow!
I've never seen that full Superman figure by Kirby and Royer before. That is sweeeet! I love Neal Adams' work, but Jack and Mike's figure of the Man of Steel blows Neal's out of the water this time. What a revelation!
But...
...where's the second miscellaneous tab? Am I "miscing" something?
YES...
It's missing the final image of the published cover, the one inked by Adams with some backround removed and the image of the vampire enlarged.
This is the comic...
http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=18081&lotNo=11575
Miscellaneous 2nd Tab Visible
Sorry guys, this is the first page that needed 2 miscellaneous tabs so I had to program it. I neglected to giving viewing permissions to everyone so you didn't see it. It's all set now.
Re: Wow!
Johnny S., said, "I've never seen that full Superman figure by Kirby and Royer before. That is sweeeet! I love Neal Adams' work, but Jack and Mike's figure of the Man of Steel blows Neal's out of the water this time. What a revelation!"
Agreed!
I also prefer the more Kirbyfied one inked by Royer.
Pencils?
Did Adams pencil the revised Superman figure? I'm under the impression he inked the same Kirby figure Royer did.
Adam's pencils
He might have penciled it as in lightboxing it. Both the Royer and Adams versions are separate pieces of Bristol. Royer most likely inked over Jack's pencils for that piece but Adams had to have lightboxed Royer's version as pencils so he could ink it.
Re: Pencils?
I would imagine that Adams traced over the inked Royer figure and did his thing with it--then production cut out and applied. Unless there's a pencil stat of the Kirby figure that both inkers inked.
Heavy Hands
Adams would have to be the most heavy handed inker of all time.
Re: Heavy Hands
No, that's Adam's imposing, "I'll show Jack how to really draw," attitude. Or the whole DC thing with Jack, "the only right way to do Superman." Those guys redoing Jack's Superman and Jimmy Olsen was like getting a thumb stuck in your eye. Seems defacing to the work to me.
And yet
What is strange is there is a clip where Adams is speaking about Kirby's style, and Adams completely understands what Kirby is doing. He explains Kirby's approach about as well as I've ever seen it explained, and he goes so far as to say he can't do what Kirby does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUH15Ke_Hzc&feature=results_video&playnex...
Adams himself was sometimes paired with inappropriate inkers at DC, off the top of my head; Orlando, Colletta, Roussos.
Yes, but...
In that interview you get both sides of Adams. The guy back in the past that says he can't do that because it would corrupt him, and the guy nowadays who looks back in hindsight and has grown to appreciate Jack. Adams took that Kirby figure and turned it into an Adams figure--which I'm sure the powers that were at DC at the time wanted.
Also Adams was the new guard coming in and the hot commodity, while Jack was starting to be under appreciated and needed to be kept in check with his wild crazy style, especially when it came to their flagship characters.
Back in the day we wanted to see Jack's take on characters, "Man, I would like Jack to draw this or that character, to see his take on them."...and we were deprived of that when he went to DC.
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