Kane, Gil - SUB-MARINER (1968-74) #50 Cover
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COMMENTS: Pencils Gil Kane; Inks Vince Collettta and Jon Costa; Image Size 10" 15"
1st Appearance of Namora since the Golde Age
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1st Appearance of Namora since the Golde Age
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Pencils Gil Kane; Inks Vince Collettta and Jon Costa; Image Size 10" 15"
1st Appearance of Namora since the Golde AgeA truly dynamic cover by the late, great Gil Kane. Kane was one of the most prolific cover artists of the Silver and Bronze Age of comics and this cover shows us exactly why! The cover for Sub-Mariner's 50th issue features the Prince of Atlantis battling 3 crab-men as his cousin Namora lies encased under glass in a trance. Kane s detailed musculature and anatomy truly show Subby s struggle to overcome his adversaries. It should be noted this is Namora s first appearance since the Golden Age.
Artists Information
Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.
Vince Colletta is an American comic book artist/ art director who's best known for inking Jack Kirby's work during the Silver Age of comic books. Colletta began his career working on a host of 1950's romance and western comics before making the move to Marvel where he would ink some their earliest stories, including The Fantastic Four, Journey Into Mystery/Thor and Daredevil. He would go on to DC where he inked Kirby again on a host of Kirby's Fourth World titles in addition to work on Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and an almost 70 issue run on Wonder Woman.
1st Appearance of Namora since the Golde AgeA truly dynamic cover by the late, great Gil Kane. Kane was one of the most prolific cover artists of the Silver and Bronze Age of comics and this cover shows us exactly why! The cover for Sub-Mariner's 50th issue features the Prince of Atlantis battling 3 crab-men as his cousin Namora lies encased under glass in a trance. Kane s detailed musculature and anatomy truly show Subby s struggle to overcome his adversaries. It should be noted this is Namora s first appearance since the Golden Age.
Artists Information
Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98, which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name Is... Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.
Vince Colletta is an American comic book artist/ art director who's best known for inking Jack Kirby's work during the Silver Age of comic books. Colletta began his career working on a host of 1950's romance and western comics before making the move to Marvel where he would ink some their earliest stories, including The Fantastic Four, Journey Into Mystery/Thor and Daredevil. He would go on to DC where he inked Kirby again on a host of Kirby's Fourth World titles in addition to work on Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and an almost 70 issue run on Wonder Woman.