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Favorite GA Artists67

Collector PovRow private msg quote post Address this user
Gene Colan and Dick Ayers are a couple of artists that I enjoy. (ok - I also wanted to see how the *spoon* filter handled Mr. Ayers.)
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Collector Forbush-man private msg quote post Address this user
Jack Kirby for me.
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Jack Kirby
Will Eisner
Lou Fine
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Collector Dick_Pontoon private msg quote post Address this user
I love Kirby; he’s the reason I got back into comics 12-odd years ago but I prefer his Silver and Bronze age work. I know the early stuff is just as dynamic and explosive but the Simon/Kirby combo art-wise isn’t my favorite. What can I say? The hearts wants what the hearts wants.

Other guys that leap to mind as favorites are Bill Everett, Harvey Kurtzman, Russ Heath and Tony Dipreta. DiPreta really bothered me as a kid reading horror reprints but he’s really grown on me in my old age.
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Collector thunsicker private msg quote post Address this user
Lou Fine/Reed Crandall
Will Eisner/Wally Wood
Alex Schomburg
Frank Frazetta
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Collector 1koko private msg quote post Address this user
All good artists.

Hal Foster is my favourite:


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Collector 1952MB private msg quote post Address this user
Matt Baker
Frank Frazetta
Alex Raymond
will Eisner
Wally Wood
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Collector Treco private msg quote post Address this user
Schomburg
Kirby
Wood
Elias
Craig
Cole
Ayers
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Originally Posted by 1koko
All good artists.

Hal Foster is my favourite:




That's gorgeous
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Collector CopperAgeKids private msg quote post Address this user
William Ekgren....


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Collector Sqeggs private msg quote post Address this user
When I first started collecting in the 1960s, Kirby was clearly the King. Kind of fallen out of favor these days. Just posted this in the GA thread.


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Collector Sqeggs private msg quote post Address this user
My current favorite is GGA romance artist Matt Baker.



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Collector GreatComicsByCG private msg quote post Address this user
I personally Love Bill Everett. Also Al Feldstien and Graham "Ghastly" Ingels. I got to meet Feldstien a couple of years before he passed and talked with him for about a half a hour as nobody was asking for his auto so he was just sitting there with nothing to do. Can you imagine! Just a great guy. In that half hour he let loose with so much EC history and Bill Gains stories. I will just say he was not a fan. Good stuff!
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Collector Sqeggs private msg quote post Address this user
A favorite Alex Raymond.


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Collector Sqeggs private msg quote post Address this user
Another Kirby Charlie Chan.


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Leftover Sundae Gnus CatmanAmerica private msg quote post Address this user
My prized Alex Schomburg painting...



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Collector Muaythaiguy private msg quote post Address this user
Hal Foster and Will Eisner.
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Leftover Sundae Gnus CatmanAmerica private msg quote post Address this user
Lots of really FINE taste in this thread!


Here's a little more...


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Collector Kinzebac private msg quote post Address this user
I like Syd Shores quite a bit. I think a lot of people forget about him. The man did some awesome timely Cap covers.
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Collector stophmaster private msg quote post Address this user
Schomburg, Kirby, Cole, Baker
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Collector stophmaster private msg quote post Address this user
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Lots of really FINE taste in this thread!


Here's a little more...




Fricken' awesome!
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Collector Stelbert_Stylton private msg quote post Address this user
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Originally Posted by GreatComicsByCG
I personally Love Bill Everett. Also Al Feldstien and Graham "Ghastly" Ingels. I got to meet Feldstien a couple of years before he passed and talked with him for about a half a hour as nobody was asking for his auto so he was just sitting there with nothing to do. Can you imagine! Just a great guy. In that half hour he let loose with so much EC history and Bill Gaines stories. I will just say he was not a fan. Good stuff!


EC Comics are not Golden Age!
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Collector MusterMark private msg quote post Address this user
There are WAY too many amazing GA artists to even begin to narrow it down ...
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Originally Posted by Kinzebac
I like Syd Shores quite a bit. I think a lot of people forget about him. The man did some awesome timely Cap covers.


Syd Shores did one of my favorite ghoulish WWII Angel covers...


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Collector Stelbert_Stylton private msg quote post Address this user
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Originally Posted by MusterMark
There are WAY too many amazing GA artists to even begin to narrow it down ...


EC artists don't count, since EC Comics aren't golden age. That'll help you narrow it down.
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Originally Posted by MusterMark
There are WAY too many amazing GA artists to even begin to narrow it down ...


EC artists don't count, since EC Comics aren't golden age. That'll help you narrow it down.


If, like most collectors, you define the GA as 1938-1955, then they fall precisely in there. If you use the Atomic Age, they still fall into the period before the start of the SA
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Collector Stelbert_Stylton private msg quote post Address this user
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If, like most collectors, you define the GA as 1938-1955, then they fall precisely in there.


That's not true. Only Noobs think the Golden Age lasted until 1955.
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Collector The_Curmudgeon private msg quote post Address this user
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Only Noobs think the Golden Age lasted until 1955.

I think the Golden Age of comics died after the war.
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Only Noobs think the Golden Age lasted until 1955.

I think the Golden Age of comics died after the war.


Actually I don't agree with the cut-off of 1945 that Overstreet uses either. Even though it's 1945 for most collectors, I consider the end 1950, with the rise of EC.
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Collector Despain private msg quote post Address this user
Bill Benulis and Jack Abel

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