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Michael Arndt
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Definitely will be purchasing this. Thanks for the heads up, JB. Also, thanks for the Amazon link, Flavio.
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Mike Norris
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B&B was the only Batbook I bought in the 70s and early 80s, mostly because of the Aparo art.
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Richard White
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One of my all time favourite artists...who sadly didn't make my recent top ten list of pencilers. Next time Jim, I promise.
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Robert Cosgrove
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I liked him from the very first, drawing Nightshade, Thane of Bagarth, and later The Phantom for Charlton. Although I own one of his Aquaman pages and a couple of Batman pages, I have to admit his stuff for Charlton was my favorite. Liked him a lot on the Spectre and the B&B team ups. As I think others have mentioned in the past, his renditions of characters were always "on model," yet unmistakably Aparo.
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Robert Cosgrove
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And, oh yeah, how could I forget to mention his lovely work on The Phantom Stranger. His major characters at DC, with the exception of Aquaman, were also characters Neal Adams worked on to good effect--Spectre, Batman, Phantom Stranger.
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Richard White
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Oh yeah..The Phantom Stranger work was incredible.
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Mike Norris
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IIRC, he penciled, inked and lettered most of the books he worked on and they came out on time!!!!!
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Pierre Villeneuve
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That is GREAT news. I love his work. He is the definitive Batman artist in my book (sorry John). I know many prefer Neil Adams... but for me... Jim Aparo has always been my favorite Batman artist.... and one of my favorite artists period. Love his work.
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Brad Brickley
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I'll be picking this up for sure, love his work.
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Wallace Sellars
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I just added this to my Amazon wish list.
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Dale Gonsalves
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Aparo is my Batman artist, more than Neal Adams and barely over Marshall Rogers and Don Newton
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Aaron Smith
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One of my all time favourite artists...who sadly didn't make my recent top ten list of pencilers. Next time Jim, I promise. *** While Aparo didn't make my list either, he'd certainly be in a top 20 and he's still one of my favorite Batman artists. While I've come to enjoy Batman artists ranging from the decades before I was born (Sprang, Adams, etc) to those who worked on the character after I began reading comics (Breyfogle), Aparo was THE Batman artist of my early comics reading years and will always be one who comes to mind whenever I think of Batman (and the Spectre too). Several years ago I was in a local computer store with my wife. I noticed a man walking around who looked very familiar, but I couldn't figure out where I knew him from. Then it dawned on me. I didn't actually know him. He seemed familiar because his face looked just like he had been drawn by Jim Aparo! It was a strange experience. There's something about an Aparo nose that's unique.
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