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Rick Senger
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| Posted: 19 September 2008 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | 1
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And two more, sans belt (the first might just be recolored, second looks like a reversed negative.)
 
Edited by Rick Senger on 22 September 2008 at 12:32pm
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Jason Czeskleba
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The cover to the treasury edition cover looks like Adams to me. The Treasury was published at most a year after the original publication of the Joker story. It's not comparable to hiring Giordano to recreate an Adams cover 30 years after the fact like that 100 page Super Spectacular cover. I can't imagine they would hire Giordano to do a slightly-altered version of an Adams panel just a year after it was originally published, to make into a cover. My guess is they simply asked Adams himself to take that pose and redo it as a cover, and he did.
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 22 September 2008 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 3
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was over at the megomuseum, and spotted this, the image is certainly popular !
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 22 September 2008 at 8:43am | IP Logged | 4
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and a homage in the Planetary Batman book
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John Byrne
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"Homage" in the sense of "stiff, lifeless copy"?
For a whole generation of us, that particular image had much the same
effect as Matt Jeffries' design for the Enterprise. It installed itself in
our imaginations at something close to a genetic level. When I did the
illustrations for the Scholastic Batman books for Paul Kupperberg, Paul
showed one shot I'd done, of Batman running, to another editor. "BATMAN
251!" he said immediately. That had not been my intent, but the
influence was inescapable.
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 22 September 2008 at 9:36am | IP Logged | 6
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i agree, the Cassady piece is extremely dull and pretty unexciting..
do you have a pic of the piece you mentioned JB?
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Peter Hicks
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| Posted: 22 September 2008 at 10:00am | IP Logged | 7
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BTW - That classic Neal Adams Batman running pose is now available from your LCS as a 3D statue, sculpted by Neal's son.
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John Byrne
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…do you have a pic of the piece you mentioned JB?
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Seems not. I checked my harddrive and the Gallery, but it's not there.
I found this online --
--but that's an Art Department hatchet job, not my original image.
Perhaps one of our Forum members has it in his collection?
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Al Cook
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Dull and unexciting are the usual words that spring to my mind about
Cassaday's art.
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John Byrne
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Incidentally, all those variants of Neal's image (by which I mean the cut-
and-paste jobs, not other artists copying his picture) point up an odd
phenomenon I have noticed many time in comics, and for which I have no
explanation.
Whenever an artist crops a figure, whether it is with the panel border or, as
here in the case of Batman's left foot, when someone attempts to add the
"missing part" it never seems to work. I saw this a lot in OHOTMU,
especially with my own work, where panels would be clipped and "extended"
(not by me) and the artist doing the job would miss some key element of the
pose. In the case of Neal's Batman, it seems it is impossible to add toes to
that left foot without destroying the overall impact of the figure. The foot
was not "meant" to have toes!
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Ted Pugliese
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I have that Scholastic Book. Got it at Toys R Us.
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 23 September 2008 at 7:55am | IP Logged | 12
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thanks for posting that JB.
what did your original image look like?
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