Swan, Curt - ACTION COMICS (1938-2011) #605 Double Page Spread
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Curt Swan pencils/John Beatty inks; pages 1-2; 1988; image size 21.5" x 15"
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Curt Swan pencils/John Beatty inks; pages 1-2; 1988; image size 21.5" x 15"
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A 15% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THIS ITEM AT CONCLUSION OF THE AUCTION
Curt Swan pencils/John Beatty inks; pages 1-2; 1988; image size 21.5" x 15"From the short lived Action Comics Weekly, which serialized a Superman story by Swan over the course of it's run two page at a time. This sequence, title 'Aftermath' features classic Superman images from Swan. Pen and ink. Art is in excellent condition.
Artists 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.
John Beatty is an American illustrator who has worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, primarily as an inker. Beatty spent twenty years inking titles such as Captain America, The Punisher, Secret Wars, The Nam, The Adventures of Superman, Batman, JLA, and many more.
Curt Swan pencils/John Beatty inks; pages 1-2; 1988; image size 21.5" x 15"From the short lived Action Comics Weekly, which serialized a Superman story by Swan over the course of it's run two page at a time. This sequence, title 'Aftermath' features classic Superman images from Swan. Pen and ink. Art is in excellent condition.
Artists 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.
John Beatty is an American illustrator who has worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, primarily as an inker. Beatty spent twenty years inking titles such as Captain America, The Punisher, Secret Wars, The Nam, The Adventures of Superman, Batman, JLA, and many more.