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Wednesday 6 June 2012

THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE...

As has been said many times over the years, a picture is worth a thousand words - so there's no point in me bleating on about the following four pages from a 1975 one-off SHERLOCK HOLMES mag by DC. If you can't see for yourself just how good they are, then nothing I can say will ever convince you of their worth. This ish was intended to be the first of an ongoing series, but was the only one ever published. Never mind though - just sit back and enjoy the exquisite art of E.R. CRUZ, Filipino artist extraordinaire.

8 comments:

baab said...: are E R Cruz and Alfredo Alcala related?
A very similar style,or maybe Alfredo inked it.; 6 June 2012 at 09:18
Kid said...: No relation that I'm aware of, apart from both being Filipino comic artists.; 6 June 2012 at 10:30
Anonymous said...: Didn't Marvel do 2 issues around the same time as this?; 6 June 2012 at 13:18
Kid said...: They might've done, but I never saw them so I'd have to check. It was the only issue that DC published 'though.; 6 June 2012 at 13:39
Anonymous said...: Marvel did at least one issue of a Sherlock Holmes comic/magazine in the black and white mag "Marvel Preview" - McScotty; 6 June 2012 at 18:08
Kid said...: Thanks, McScotty. I've got a Sherlock Holmes mag, but it's not by Marvel (or DC) - I'll have to dig it out and see who the publisher was.; 6 June 2012 at 19:31
Anonymous said...: Eternity comics and AC comics both did Sherlock Holmes comics that reprinted the Frank Giacoia newspaper strips (the 3 I have are pretty nice. Rengade and Adventure comics (amongst others) have done Holmes comics as well and DC caching in on the property being available classed it up by doing a "Victorian Undead - Sherlock Holmes v Dracula" 5 issue mini series comic -not that I'm that much of a Sherlock fan I just seem to have acquired some of these books = McScotty; 6 June 2012 at 23:40
Kid said...: No doubt loads of stuff has been published down through the years. Just in case anyone has misunderstood me, when I said that DC only published one issue, I meant one particular issue from 1975 of what was originally intended to be an ongoing series. Ol' Sherlock has appeared in quite a few DC tales - Batman in particular.

Thanks for commenting, McScotty.; 7 June 2012 at 00:08

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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Images remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are used here only for the purpose of review, promotion, and nostalgia.

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