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cockrum1970s:

dave cockrum at the height of his powers in 1976. it’s a shame this piece was only published real tiny in a MARVEL COMICS letter page

cockrum1970s:

dave cockrum at the height of his powers in 1976. it’s a shame this piece was only published real tiny in a MARVEL COMICS letter page

themarvelageofcomics:

A page from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #1 by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. This story was an expanded retelling of an encounter that was first published in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1, so some of these panel compositions have Kirby mimicking Ditko’s layouts.

themarvelageofcomics:

A page from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #1 by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. This story was an expanded retelling of an encounter that was first published in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1, so some of these panel compositions have Kirby mimicking Ditko’s layouts.

seanhowe:

“I remember the straw that broke the camel’s back. I had drawn a double-page spread in one of the Strange Tales sequences featuring Nick Fury on trial by Baron Strucker and the agents of HYDRA. I had something like a hundred figures in the background, all individual figures. I wrote a note to the colorist, Stan Goldberg, saying, “Stan, color all these men individually.” Stan would probably put a sheet of blue over the whole thing, and that seemed criminal, because—although it might look good—after all I had done all that work putting in all those figures, I didn’t want them all obliterated. I took the story up to Marvel, and Stan looked at it and said, “I’ve had it, Steranko. Do it yourself. Take it away. I never want to see you again; just take the stuff away and color it yourself.” So I started coloring all my material at that time, at $2.00 per page; later it went to $3 per page. I could only color about ten pages a day, so you can see I was losing a lot of money. I could have just been penciling for two or three times as much; but the strip emerged a more perfect marriage of concepts as a result. So I was willing to take less money, by using that time to color and thereby make the story come out better.”—Jim Steranko to George Olshevsky, 1977

seanhowe:

“I remember the straw that broke the camel’s back. I had drawn a double-page spread in one of the Strange Tales sequences featuring Nick Fury on trial by Baron Strucker and the agents of HYDRA. I had something like a hundred figures in the background, all individual figures. I wrote a note to the colorist, Stan Goldberg, saying, “Stan, color all these men individually.” Stan would probably put a sheet of blue over the whole thing, and that seemed criminal, because—although it might look good—after all I had done all that work putting in all those figures, I didn’t want them all obliterated.

I took the story up to Marvel, and Stan looked at it and said, “I’ve had it, Steranko. Do it yourself. Take it away. I never want to see you again; just take the stuff away and color it yourself.” So I started coloring all my material at that time, at $2.00 per page; later it went to $3 per page. I could only color about ten pages a day, so you can see I was losing a lot of money. I could have just been penciling for two or three times as much; but the strip emerged a more perfect marriage of concepts as a result. So I was willing to take less money, by using that time to color and thereby make the story come out better.”

—Jim Steranko to George Olshevsky, 1977