Nick Cardy RIP at 93

[CharlieRock]

Artist Nick Cardy passed away recently.
Nick got his start under the famous Will Eisner in the Eisner and Iger Studio before goingto DC in 1950 where his many works adorned the covers during the 60s.
Cardy was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame in 2005.

http://comicsalliance.com/nick-cardy-dies-aquaman-teen-titans-dc-golden-age/

[profpike]

I was kind of amazed at how many comics with Nick Cardy covers I bought in the 70s.

[David Lawrence]

An unsung great whose covers help set the standard.  In this era of bland pin-up style covers many could learn from his work.  Rest In Peace Mr. Cardy, and thanks.

[CharlieRock]

So I was reading my Worlds Finest #18 (came out last Wednesday) and there was a nice memorial art piece for Cardy on the back page. It has the JSA and JLA on either side of a stone memorial with a faded Seven Soldiers in the top half/background. The stone has a plaque reading "In Loving Memory Of" with Nick Cardy's name and birth-deceased years in black block letters across the bottom 1/5.

[Poztron]

An unsung great whose covers help set the standard.  In this era of bland pin-up style covers many could learn from his work.  Rest In Peace Mr. Cardy, and thanks.

I just now saw this news. Sigh. He truly was an unsung great as you say, though appreciated by many of us for his great draftsmanship, composition, and lovely women. He seemed to be incapable of turning in a bad job, while other contemporaries like the Buscemas or Don Heck were not above hacking it out at times. Bat Lash was a great piece of work, but even his stories for DC romance comics were superlative for the genre. I missed much of his work on Teen Titans and Aquaman as I wasn't buying comics during much of that period, but every time I did run into Cardy art it was a real pleasure.

I should dig out my old Bat Lash copies and give them another read while raising a toast to a GA master.