Curt Swan Superman?

[Roygbiv666]

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1066156&GSub=86907
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1066155

For what its worth, it doesn't seem like Swan to me.

[narfstar]

Maybe early Swan with a Wayne Boring influence.

[JonTheScanner]

I can see it.  Remember you're used to seeing Swan inked by someone else. But this has all the detail and shading Swan put in his pencils.  Now the face doesn't look like the classic Swan Superman face, but maybe it's early.

[bminor]

Does anyone have any idea from what book this is from? It looks like the seventies era to me.
The face, to me, does look like Swan.
B.

[Roygbiv666]

My "not Swan" had more to do with the ... whatever it is that loops around the page and Superman's legs, didn't really look like something Swan would do.

[jrvandore]

Not Swan.  The hands are completely wrong, not to mention the abs.  Swan always put the middle fingers together and spaces on either side...sort of as a reverse Vulcan salute.

For example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/ClassicBizarro.PNG

It looks like someone like Rich Buckler trying to do a Curt Swan drawing.

JMHO

[Roygbiv666]

Woah, I thought Buckler too. Woo-hoo!

Not Swan.  The hands are completely wrong, not to mention the abs.  Swan always put the middle fingers together and spaces on either side...sort of as a reverse Vulcan salute.

For example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/ClassicBizarro.PNG

It looks like someone like Rich Buckler trying to do a Curt Swan drawing.

JMHO

[bchat]

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1066156&GSub=86907
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1066155

For what its worth, it doesn't seem like Swan to me.

Shame the one image of the entire piece isn't larger, as there appears to be a hard-to-read signature (too long to be "Curt Swan") on the bottom right corner.

[JVJ (RIP)]

I'm not able to weigh in on Swan-as-penciller here, beyond the seemingly obvious inquiry, 'Wouldn't he be capable of rendering the S-logo accurately in his sleep by this time?'

My entire response to this drawing is twisted downward several notches by the Superman emblem. It looks like the first time the artist has SEEN it, let alone been asked to DRAW it. What do you think?

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[Roygbiv666]

I contacted the poster thru CAF, but didn't get a response; then I added a comment.

[Roygbiv666]

Frank Giella wrote me back:
"Hi Roy, i asked Rich Buckler he said it is not his and it looks like swan to him.

frank"

[SuperScrounge]

whatever it is that loops around the page and Superman's legs, didn't really look like something Swan would do.

Nick Cardy did something like that on one of his covers. (Sorry don't remember which cover, I was looking through a bunch & forgot to write down the info).

I'm wondering if maybe the mystery artist was using a number of different artists drawings as references to produce this pic?

[jrvandore]

I'm glad someone revived this thread so I can say that I posted the images to the GCD crowd and they were fairly evenly split between "It's Swan" and "It's 'someone' mimicking Swan."  Just FYI.

[bchat]

To my eyes, it looks like someone cobbled together bits & pieces of different comics.  The Superman figure itself appears to be drawn from at least two different images (his legs don't match the rest of his body).

[philcom55]

I must say it looks pretty 'Swanny' (How I love ya, how I love ya!) to me - though it could be somebody trying to mimic his style.

As far as the emblem is concerned I'd guess that this scene is supposed to show the Superman of Earth 2 coming to the aid of his Earth 1 counterpart.

 - Phil Rushton