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SOLD ON: Wednesday, 09/26/2018 11:13 AM
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PUBLISHER: DC
COMMENTS: Dick Sprang cvr/art; Batman pole dancing cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 6 (CBI)
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Dick Sprang cvr/art; Batman pole dancing cover; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 6 (CBI)Cover by Dick Sprang. Stories by Bill Finger and unknown. Art by Dick Sprang, Gene McDonald, John Daly, Lee Harris, Curt Swan and Steve Brodie. Batman and Robin sign on to an oyster collection ship to thwart the attempts of criminals to hijack the cargo in "Crime on the Half-Shell!" by Bill Finger, Dick Sprang and Gene McDonald. Plus: Slam Bradley in "The Educated Pig!" with art by John Daly; Air Wave in "The Radio Robbers!" with art by Lee Harris; and The Boy Commandos in "When Comrades Meet!" with art by Curt Swan and Steve Brodie.
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.