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JonTheScanner:

--- Quote from: moondood on May 25, 2010, 10:33:00 PM ---I've discovered Lee Alias recently [mostly with Green Arrow, but his Black Cat is pretty sweet].
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I'm pretty sure Lee Alias only drew the panels with Oliver Queen.  Some other guy did Green Arrow.   ;D

Salty:
I'm pretty sure Lee Elias did all of the art on Green Arrow when he was doing it.  (George Papp did it before him, in the 40s & 50s)
Lee Elias' horror comics @ Harvey might be a surprise to people only familiar with his clean superhero stuff--did a lot of covers, some pretty grim.   

moondood:
I'm pretty sure Lee Alias only drew the panels with Oliver Queen.  Some other guy did Green Arrow. //

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I'd be extremely surprised if that's true--not only didn't I see an art change in the stories [I work in comics and can tell when the art switches]--though I didn't actually look it up just now--but that's more a policy of later years...like Kirby's Superman faces replaced by Curt Swan, fer instance.

I'm not sure where that idea of different artists on the same story comes from, but if I'm wrong and you're right----I'd LOVE to know more about it.

But Lee Elias was a capable artist, even better----and Green Arrow was a secondary character at best [at the time]---so it seems very unlikely that DC was allowing GA special treatment by having more than one artist on a story [the logistics of doing so means extra $$ on DC's part].  GA just doesn't seem to warrant that kind of treatment/respect that Bats, Supes and WW did as the iconic moneymakers of the company.

moondood

NobbyNobbs:
I think Jon is refering to the misspelling of Lee Elias  :D

moondood:
I think Jon is [referring] to the misspelling of Lee Elias.
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Well, don't I feel like a fool.  As a comics letterer, I pride myself on my spelling [even outside my profession, it's a source of pride]--and I totally missed that I screwed it up.  And I didn't even take the smiley sign as a giveaway to look closer.

That does clear up the debate, though.

I have a graphic novel due at the printer tomorrow--and now I'll be up all night worrying about the spelling.


Moondood

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