Dick Ayers, a legendary Silver Age artist and inker, especially on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, died at age 90. HERE'S a short bio from ICv2.com.
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Dick Ayers, a legendary Silver Age artist and inker, especially on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, died at age 90. HERE'S a short bio from ICv2.com.
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...:-( .
I am inclined , especially , to think of his inking Kirby's " Marvel Monster Era " material .
He made himself available a lot in his later years for , sort of , " pseudo-Silver Age " stuff from indies , drawing them .
Another old-timer I ~ sigghh ~ never met , and now , never will (thoughts of The Other Side Of A Veil aside) :-( !!!!!!!!!
He was rather The Ghost Rider Artist , too , meaning Marvel's " original " GR , the Marty Goodman rip-off of the Magazine Enterprises version (which he also had done ~ And he did a renamed version of the ME GR , Haunted Horseman , for Bill Black's Americomics outfit .) - I remember , in Starlog's COMICSSCENE(Sp??) , a reference being made in an interview with him to a never-completed GR original graphic novel that he did some of , during the Eighties I suppose it must have been . Marvel appeared fond enough of him as " Original GR artist " that , during the Nineties when Marvel was serialized-reprinting Johnny Blaze's GR in those ORIGINAL GHOST RIDER RIDES AGAIN! series , the title featured ultra-brief vignettes/serials by Dick of the Western GR , sometimes not even mentioned in Marvel's distributors' catalog listing for the book , but there nonetheless...I wonder if Marvel might ever collect them ? And maybe whatever there is of that " unfinished " OGN...It seems like the production of comics tends to leave SO MANY never-published pages produced , perhaps getting a killfee and , possibly , taking up space in the company filing cabinet ? Until someone throws it away , anyhow...
To me, Dick Ayers represents early Marvel as much as Lee or Kirby. Seems as if every Marvel comic I saw during those years was written and/or plotted by Stan, penciled by Jack and inked by Dick Ayers.
The old pros are dropping like flies!
90 is a good, long life. He was certainly one of the unsung heroes of the Silver Age.
Rest in peace.
He's an artist I've learned to appreciate in recent years. I think I've seen stories of his from the 50s that had a very Silver Age-ish flow. I've never read his Marvel westerns, and only a handful of his issues of Sgt. Fury. My favourite Silver Age stories of his are the two Giant Man stories of his I have, which I really like. As a teen I blamed his "Human Torch" stories for not being as good as the same period's Fantastic Four tales, but they're probably as good as Kirby's ones. I think he could have handled the school side of the Torch's life well if the writers had done more with it. He worked extensively for DC in the later 70s and 80s, and also drew for Archie's Archie Adventure Series comics in the 80s (and gory horror stories for Eerie Publications in the 70s). Rest in peace.