tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post3449340030973623236..comments2024-02-24T03:23:15.797-05:00Comments on Who Created the Comic Books?: Joe Orlando's Girls' Love Stories' CreatorsMartin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-59182810367183802552015-08-23T16:26:49.691-04:002015-08-23T16:26:49.691-04:00It's all in the captions and a general "H...It's all in the captions and a general "Had-I-But-Known" tone:<br /><br />In the beginning, she thought it would work...<br /><br />Even then, he felt no fear...<br /><br />In the end, she knew what love should be...<br /><br />Another man might have done something different. But he went ahead...<br /><br />How could she know the truth?<br /><br />"The last thing said in the previous panel"? She didn't believe in such things...<br /><br />Look over his credited mystery stories and you'll quickly pick up on the rhetorical questions and philosophical asides in the captions. Oleck has a unique voice.Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-83744973528478927392015-08-23T15:43:17.450-04:002015-08-23T15:43:17.450-04:00How can you tell Oleck scripts so readily ?How can you tell Oleck scripts so readily ?HankPymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09674887283305793892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-26745792691069511782015-06-09T17:26:54.157-04:002015-06-09T17:26:54.157-04:00Jacque, that's another good way to explain wha...Jacque, that's another good way to explain what I mean by his posing them. I wish it were easier to put down specifics of artist-identifying in cold print!Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-29250090841660340352015-05-28T13:53:58.348-04:002015-05-28T13:53:58.348-04:00I definitely see Saaf in "The Cheat" (in...I definitely see Saaf in "The Cheat" (including the splash page you linked to). I tend to identify Saaf by the torsos of the women. They tend to have a distinct curvature and movement about them. Jacque Nodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14957976421163666671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-49362894952939688292015-05-27T18:58:56.785-04:002015-05-27T18:58:56.785-04:00Robin Snyder has sent me a list of what the record...Robin Snyder has sent me a list of what the records say for all these issues that I hope to put together for an early post and use to update this one.<br /><br />I should have seen Estrada's pencils under DeZuniga's inks on "Anatomy". They're only really evident in a few panels--but the story title is very noticeably lettered by Estrada in the psychedelic style he used on many of his other stories.Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-32931237498384129512015-05-27T14:54:03.465-04:002015-05-27T14:54:03.465-04:00Looking at a transcription of DC's records fo...Looking at a transcription of DC's records for #157, 1 Husband was by Kashdan, Roth and Anderson. Anatomy was by Friedlander, Estrada and DeZuniga. Barbara was written by Fein, (Neighbor and Uptight were by who you say). Note the DC records are who was paid for the work, Wasn't Calanan an assitant to Anderson around this time? SangorShophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17650888644317638942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-60973543291406671902015-05-22T08:34:21.367-04:002015-05-22T08:34:21.367-04:00Those faces in the right-hand panels made me choos...Those faces in the right-hand panels made me choose those tiers, Nick, as Roth-like in general--but the glasses certainly made me think of Hank McCoy as well!Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-47986710878024573772015-05-22T00:42:58.421-04:002015-05-22T00:42:58.421-04:00Martin,
I agree with you on the Roth attribution ...Martin,<br /><br />I agree with you on the Roth attribution on "Laura" the woman with the open mouth in panel 2 and the "Hank McCoy-ish" man in the bottom three panels point to Roth's involvement. Nick Caputohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096100224095280865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-14484291223104691782015-05-21T09:30:26.959-04:002015-05-21T09:30:26.959-04:00I was trying to save space by going with a single ...I was trying to save space by going with a single tier from the Saaf story. The splash page probably shows his pencils to better advantage, since it has full-length figures in typical poses.<br /><br />https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79659183/Girls%27%20Love%20Stories%20153%20The%20Cheat.jpg<br /><br />Roth's poses are stiffer, Saaf''s are more fluid (and look as if he posed them like an action photographer might), and Sparling's are probably the most natural and casual. Sparling inks himself on the romance stories before Colletta arrives at DC. Saaf has one or two stories inking himself-- in fact he signs "Love Thy Neighbor" in GLS 157--but a better place to be sure of finding him inking himself might be on Hunter's Hellcats in Our Fighting Forces 118-122.Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-6728446565483501512015-05-21T08:22:48.508-04:002015-05-21T08:22:48.508-04:00'Art Saaf's pencils under Colletta on &quo...'Art Saaf's pencils under Colletta on "The Cheat" in #153 (below) have gone unattributed,' you write. <br />The inks are obviously Colletta to me, but - and please don't take me as an expert - I'd have said from that second panel, the extreme close-up, that that was Jack Sparling under him. <br />I am now wondering whether all that Sparling work I've seen in DC romance comics is actually Saaf. <br />Note that from memory I think that the Sparling work I've seen in DC comics is edited by Jack Miller rather than Joe Orlando. <br />Is the an 'idiot's guide' on how to tell Saaf from Sparling? O ris it something only I see that makes me confuse the two, apparently? T Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623989803149576853noreply@blogger.com