Thursday 30 May 2013

KULL THE TREE-WRESTLER...


Copyright MARVEL COMICS and CONAN PROPERTIES Int.

While we're looking at big, brave, bold barbarians, let's take a little peek at this KULL The CONQUEROR classic from CONAN The BARBARIAN #10.  There's no point in me wittering on about it in my usual long-winded way - quality of this sort always speaks for itself.





6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic lettering by Sam Rosen

Kid said...

Never turned in a bad job in his life.

Anonymous said...

Do you know why Sam suddenly stopped lettering?

Kid said...

I would imagine he suddenly died.

Anonymous said...

Yep, that would be sudden!

However he appears to have finished up with Captain America 156 in 1972 and then nothing --- and passed away twenty years later in 1992.

He could have just retired of course

However in 1972 the 11 year old me wondered where my fav letterer had disappeared to

Kid said...

He had the edge over Artie Simek when it came to display lettering, so he's probably my favourite letterer too. (Apart from myself, that is.) Perhaps his eyesight failed, or he developed tremors in his hand, or, as you suggest, simply retired. (Although as he didn't begin his career until 1940 or thereabouts - assuming he was quite young when he started - it seems a bit early for him to have retired in '72.) When I spoke with Stan about Art and Sam in 1991, he said he hadn't seen Rosen in years. Anyone know why he stopped lettering?



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