Another one of the greats whose work I didn't fully appreciate when I was younger. Everyone thinks of Tomb of Dracula -- and rightly so -- but for me, he did the definitive Daredevil and Iron Man. And some gorgeous, atmospheric work on Batman and Detective with Doug Moench.
I remember him mainly from Howard the Duck and Tomb of Dracula. The last thing I saw by him was a few years ago when he illustrated a ToD parody for one of the Simpsons Treehouse of Terror comics.
Aw, no... such sad news. His Tomb of Dracula was amazing, of course -- but the book that really caught my eye was Nathaniel Dusk, shot directly from his pencils.
Now I want to dig them out... and hunt down all the issues of Silverbade, so I can read something of his that's new to me.
This was the first Colan work (and probably the first Iron Man story) I ever saw (although I surely must have seen it in the Marvel Double Feature #8 reprint).
To this day, I can tell you exactly where I was when I opened that book, and I can conjure up images of specific panels ... even though I probably haven't read that story in 30 years.
That's how much of an impact that Gene Colan art made on me.
A collection of his Batman work has been solicited for release July 20, and a Night Force collection has been solicited for October 19 if anyone's interested.
When I first began reading comics I didn't have much interest in Marvel, that changed in 1966 due in no small part to Gene Colan's art on Sub-Mariner and Iron Man. He also did a humor story or two for Not Brand Echh! that was pretty darn good as well.
Gene Colan was the artist on the books that transitioned me from funny animal comics (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pink Panther, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes) to horror-superhero books. When I was four or five years old, I started picking up Tomb of Dracula and Howard the Duck comics and loved them for their strangeness. When I was in middle school, I saved my allowance to buy a used boxed set of the two Origins of Marvel Comics volumes and his Daredevil work really stood out for me.
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Aw, no... such sad news. His Tomb of Dracula was amazing, of course -- but the book that really caught my eye was Nathaniel Dusk, shot directly from his pencils.
Now I want to dig them out... and hunt down all the issues of Silverbade, so I can read something of his that's new to me.
This was the first Colan work (and probably the first Iron Man story) I ever saw (although I surely must have seen it in the Marvel Double Feature #8 reprint).
To this day, I can tell you exactly where I was when I opened that book, and I can conjure up images of specific panels ... even though I probably haven't read that story in 30 years.
That's how much of an impact that Gene Colan art made on me.
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