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Steve Horn
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Just curious here, how many people are fans of Wayne Boring's art?  I really liked the way he drew Superman.
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John Byrne

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THE Superman artist when I was a kid. A page of his hangs on my studio
wall.

Also Ralph Macchio's uncle. (Not the Karate Kid.)
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Eric Smearman
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Boring is one of those artists that I appreciate now way more than I did as a kid.
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Steve Swanson
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I never liked Superman as a kid mainly because of the Curt Swan art; blasphemy to some I know but not only did it not speak to me but it actively repelled me. A part of my brain always said that his Superman didn't look like Superman to me. Which is kind of odd in that he was almost the ONLY Superman artist I was exposed to back then.

Then I got a couple of Superman digests and it had some reprints of Wayne Boring Superman and it really looked like Superman to me. Slick, but not too slick and very powerful. Great compositions on his pages, and he seemed to be able to draw pretty much everything. Still didn't really like Superman until I read JB's Superman but I finally saw what others could like about him.

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Aaron Smith
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Boring is one of those artists that I appreciate now way more than I did as a kid.

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That's exactly what I would have said. As I've gotten older, I've learned to appreciate the way the art looked at different eras in comics history. Boring, Sprang, Ditko even, are artists I just didn't "get" when I was younger. Now I get it. 

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Gerry Turnbull
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Wayne Boring and Curt Swan are THE Superman artists for me.i grew up not only with the US Superman comic with the Swan/Anderson team, but the British christmas annuals,which were mainly reprints of the Boring era

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Trevor Smith
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Absolutely loved Boring's work on Superman!  I liked his "standing up" flying poses, how powerful and barrel-chested he made Superman look - all of it.  It took me a long time to adapt to Swan's Superman, even though his was "the" Superman at the time - I'd discovered Boring's Superman in (probably) the same digest reprints Steve mentioned, and that became *my* Superman, not the currently in publication Swan version.
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Gerry Turnbull
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i think this cover was later used as an ad for Kryptonite in the 70's

 



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Gerry Turnbull
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from one of my all time favourite Superman stories

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Gerry Turnbull
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Vladimir Fiks
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Met him at a show not long before his death. A really nice gentleman, fun to
talk to. He was also kind enough to do a sketch.

Vlad



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Steve Horn
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I liked his Superman origin story in Secret Origins #1 with Roy Thomas.  Anyone remember that issue?
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