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Top Five Golden Age Artists

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darkmark (RIP):
What's the time-space we're defining for "Golden Age" here?  If it extends through the early Fifties, there's a lot of EC artists we could pile in.  Anyway, here's some guys from the time period I really dug:

Jack Kirby
C. C. Beck
Mac Raboy
Will Eisner
Jerry Robinson
Mort Meskin
The Starman artist (curse it, I cannot remember his name!)
Dan Barry
Basil Wolverton

And that's just for superheroes.

phabox (RIP):
Could be Jack Burnley who's name escapes you DM.

-Nigel

JVJ (RIP):
Or Emil Gershwin...

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Poztron:

--- Quote from: builderboy on May 19, 2010, 08:08:21 AM ---
While my introduction to comics came during Silver Age publication, I fell in love with Joe Sinnott's interpretation of Kirby. Strong, weighty, and seemingly didn't lose Kirby's finesse as did guys like Chic Stone or Colletta.
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Yes, Sinnott was my favorite Kirby inker of the Marvel era, too. Chic Stone had his moments (and he did some decent work on his own for...who was it?---ACG, I think). But I think Colletta actually subtracted from Kirby, though I've not looked at a Kirby-Colletta story for decades, so I'm just operating from memory.


--- Quote ---It was only later when I discovered Sinnott's Golden Age pencils that I discovered why he was so potent.  Maybe not a prolific or consistent penciller (I am not qualified to say), but the work I saw, I loved.
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Some nice work of his in Atlas westerns stick out in my mind. Scans are floating around out there, though they are probably not out of copyright.


--- Quote ---I wish I could catch the 'I love Alex Toth' bug; I don't get an immediate appreciation of what he's doing.  Maybe it's like those 3-D books that you have to stare at a long time   ???
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I think of Toth's most stylized lean work as like very high contrast photos. His sense of composition is excellent and you have to learn to like his very self-assured minimalist line. He is at the other end of the spectrum from the artists who lovingly add a lot of feathering and detail (like, say, Roy Krenkel). I'm talking about the Toth of the late '60s and onward, not his earlier work which was capable and enjoyable but much more derivative of his influences. Seek out some of the B&W Warren mag work to really get his full impact.

OtherEric:
Are you sure you didn't mean "Mort Meskin, the Starman artist?"  I've got one issue of Adventure where he drew the character.

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