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Here's another of the fantastic five-page tales that STAN LEE and STEVE DITKO were so good at. From AMAZING ADULT FANTASY #11, I give you... (drum roll)... The TERROR Of TIM BOO BA! (See, LH? Sometimes dropping a hint works.)
Thanks for this...Great story Great artwork. A great team
ReplyDeleteFunny you should post this - I just read this one yesterday after seeing the previous post on Ditko. This and a few others from around the same time in the Marvel Monsterworks collection, which is mostly Kirby but has some Ditko as well.
ReplyDeleteThe colouring is different in the Monsterworks reprint - Tim Boo Ba is green, and the linework isn't as clean. These in your post are from a Masterworks collection?
Glad to be of service, LH. Definitely a great team, despite the rants of some deluded anti-Stan souls.
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I've got the book of which you speak, but it's difficult to open wide enough to scan from without risking damage, PC. In fact, I took this from MWOM Vol 3, #68 (I think, it's tucked away again), though they would've used the same proofs that the Masterworks (and Amazing Fantasy Omnibus) did.
I remember as a child reading Jim Shooter (either in Bullpen Bulletins or Marvel Age) saying that if a penciller has done their job properly, the reader should be able to follow and understand the story without any dialogue - this story is a perfect example of this, Ditko tells the story and creates character entirely through his art. What a talent the guy was, thanks for sharing, Kid!
ReplyDeleteNot the sort of guy whose pint of Guinness you want to knock over at the bar!
ReplyDeleteHave a good 2019. The sort of year when you come across a Beano no.1 at a car boot sale!
Try my friend to look towards the future as well as delving back into the past. Not easy sometimes as I know only too well the warm fuzzy feeling of reading an old comic or watching an old TV programme favourite from childhood.
Kindest Regards
Ken
I thought John Romita was particularly good at that as well, DS. You could see what was going on at a glance in his pages. Ditko was the same when he was firing on all cylinders. Nowadays, comics would be a wee bit harder to follow if there were no dialogue and captions, mainly because there are too many 'talking heads' shots.
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Must start going to car boot sales now, just in case, eh? Unfortunately, I know what the future ultimately holds, so that's why I tend not to look forward to it. I'd settle for being content with the present, as long as I could still look back to the past from time to time. Have a great 2019, Ken - and same goes for ALL cracking Criv-ites.