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Greg McPhee
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Gerry Conway, Don Newton, Alfred Alcala and Gene Colan produced some great Batman stories in the early 80's.
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Andy Smith
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Don's art was very classic. Some of his figures and faces had a nice Alex Raymond feel. It's a shame he passed away with such a small body of work behind him. I own three of his originals and cherish each one!
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Vladimir Fiks
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Great talent and big loss to the industry.
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Derek Cavin
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Thanks for starting this thread, Francesco. Don was great. My first exposure to him was Brave and the Bold 156 (as a back issue), which I still own. His artwork had a fluidity to it. I have been seeking out his material over the past couple of years. Kudos to the folks who own a piece of his original artwork.
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Stephen Robinson
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Newton was an early favorite of mine. I loved his work on Batman.
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Warren Leonhardt
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I really like his work a lot. Terribly under-rated - just look at how organic his stuff is! The fleshy parts feel right, all in the right masses and in movement, and there's a difference where the bone comes close to the skin. The hand in the top right panel is pretty amazing. This page shows it all - the guy must have been a boxing fan or something - the look on a guy's face as he's punched is exact and a staple of his work (and the cup that dude is hit with in the center of the page is so obviously HARD!) What a draftsman.
Nice choreography too - never loses a reader, regardless of the reader's age. Crystal clear layouts. I wish we could have seen more!
Hats off to him.
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Paul Anthony Llossas
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He was such a big fan of Captain Marvel and was slated to do the art chores on a new Shazam series at the time he died. He really made the World's Mightest Mortal look like he lived up to that title.
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Dale Gonsalves
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God I miss seeing Don Newton's art
I started reading Detective Comics during Don's run and still rate him in my tp 5 Batman artist.
24 years ?? my my my how time flies.
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Warren Leonhardt
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Thanks for the link to that site, Gerry! In fact, I was just reading through the interview section and I saw this from a 1976 interview:
Siegel: Are you still angry over the roadblock once
put before you because you live in Arizona and New York was considered the only area an
artist could live in if he was to get pro work?
Newton: You bet.
Charlton was the only publisher interested in giving me a try. With them it's ability, not
geography. I probably could have been a professional comic book artist two years earlier,
had not the stigma of long distance been a quirk of certain editors.
Siegel: Go into detail about how you and Charlton got
together. It can be important to the readers in that it again proves that a smaller
publishing house can be more dynamic and willing to try out talent, whereas DC and Marvel
are fixed in their methods and formulas.
Newton: Actually,
the story wouldn’t win an Academy Award. I was reading an issue of RBCC and came to
the story and picture of Charlton's forthcoming super hero, E-Man. The concept was eye
boggling, and prompted me to send Charlton some samples of my work, including "Blood
Island," along with a letter
of introduction. Nick Cuti called me and asked that I do a sample piece, which was, in my
opinion, too hastily done and left much to be desired. But both Nick and George Wildman
liked it and I've been turning out work for them ever since.
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Paul H. Kupperberg
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Warren sez:
"It seems that without Nick Cuti, we may not have had a chance to see
Newton on Batman, or John Byrne on much else, either. Not to mention a
whole slew of artists, no doubt."
And ME! Nick bought my first professional work at Charlton in 1975.
Newton was great. He drew a batch of my stories (most notably the 2 Ch'p GL CORPS back-up stories in GREEN LANTERN, as well as a few issues DC Comics Presents and the like) and I'd been a fan of his stuff since the late-1960s fan days and, of course, his beautiful work on Charlton's Phantom. Nice guy, too. His death was a loss, on every level.
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Greg Woronchak
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As a young reader, Don's Batman and Detective Comics art simply blew me away. He remains my personal definitive Batman artist.
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Kevin Brown
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I loved everything that Don Newton did, including the Phantom. The best thing he ever did though, IMO, was Star Hunters, even though it was incredibly brief.
Paul Anthony Llossas wrote:
| He was such a big fan of Captain Marvel and was slated to do the art chores on a new Shazam series at the time he died. He really made the World's Mightest Mortal look like he lived up to that title. |
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And Newton did do quite a number of Captain Marvel/Shazam stories. They appeared in World's Finest after the "DC Implosion" cancelled the Shazam! series. They started in the 250's I believe.
Edited to add: Next time I'll research before I post.
His Shazam run was Shazam! #35 and WF #253 through #281.
Edited by Kevin Brown on 19 August 2008 at 10:32am
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