Colan, Gene - TALES TO ASTONISH (1959-68) #84 Half Splash
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COMMENTS: Pg. 8; Gene Colan pencils, Dick Ayers inks; 13.75" x 20"
"Like a Beast at Bay!"
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"Like a Beast at Bay!"
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Pg. 8; Gene Colan pencils, Dick Ayers inks; 13.75" x 20"
"Like a Beast at Bay!"This Gene Colan/Dick Ayers Silver Age artwork for a half-splash from Tales to Astonish #84, features Namor, aka The Sub-Mariner, in the story "Beast at Bay" from 1966. He is shown here incognito, blending in with the crowd, wearing a trench coat and shoes he stole from a clothing store. Before he lost his memory to simple-onset post-explosion amnesia, Number One of the Secret Empire persuaded him to join forces in pursuit of the Incredible Hulk, said to be at large in New York City. In the upper panel, Namor notices a movie theater has the words "The Hulk" up on the marquee and is screening newsreel footage of the same green monster he is hunting. In the lower panel, he is shown taking a seat in the theater, another strange face in the crowd, as he broods about his lost memory and a possible confrontation with a mighty opponent.
Artists Information
Eugene Jules Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series. He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics, Carol Danvers, who would become Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel, and the supernatural vampire hunter Blade.
Richard "Dick" Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of the main inkers during the late-1950's and 1960's Silver Age of Comics, including some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' including Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s. His career would span 7 decades until his death in 2014.
"Like a Beast at Bay!"This Gene Colan/Dick Ayers Silver Age artwork for a half-splash from Tales to Astonish #84, features Namor, aka The Sub-Mariner, in the story "Beast at Bay" from 1966. He is shown here incognito, blending in with the crowd, wearing a trench coat and shoes he stole from a clothing store. Before he lost his memory to simple-onset post-explosion amnesia, Number One of the Secret Empire persuaded him to join forces in pursuit of the Incredible Hulk, said to be at large in New York City. In the upper panel, Namor notices a movie theater has the words "The Hulk" up on the marquee and is screening newsreel footage of the same green monster he is hunting. In the lower panel, he is shown taking a seat in the theater, another strange face in the crowd, as he broods about his lost memory and a possible confrontation with a mighty opponent.
Artists Information
Eugene Jules Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series. He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics, Carol Danvers, who would become Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel, and the supernatural vampire hunter Blade.
Richard "Dick" Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of the main inkers during the late-1950's and 1960's Silver Age of Comics, including some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' including Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s. His career would span 7 decades until his death in 2014.