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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.
Fantastic lettering by Sam Rosen
ReplyDeleteNever turned in a bad job in his life.
ReplyDeleteDo you know why Sam suddenly stopped lettering?
ReplyDeleteI would imagine he suddenly died.
ReplyDeleteYep, that would be sudden!
ReplyDeleteHowever 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
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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