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Larry Gil
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Will definately be getting this as well. Batman and the Outsiders was also one of my favorites . He was not on my list , but definately my 11th choice.
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John Byrne
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IIRC, he penciled, inked and lettered most of the books he worked on and they came out on time!!!!!•• And how did he accomplish that? Well, aside from the obvious "trick" of actually doing the work, he never took on more work than he could handle. Pencils, inks and lettering, Aparo was a page-a-day guy, and he clearly paced himself based on that output.
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Wilson Mui
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Any interesting stories from working with him on Batman, JB?
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Mark Waldman
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IMO Jim Aparo is one of the best and certainly most underrated artists of all-time. His Batman is amazing, same for Aquaman and the Spectre. Don Newton is another underrated Bat artist who passed too early.
Will definitely get this Aparo volume.
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Kevin Stout
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Big fan of Jim Aparo. Brave & Bold was one of the comics that hooked me when I was a little kid and Aparo's art certainly had much to do with that. I don't know if Aparo was the one who designed it, but I've always had a weakness for the 70's Batmobile and how he drew it. Along with everything else he drew.
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John Byrne
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Any interesting stories from working with him on Batman, JB?•• Unfortunately, I didn't get to work "with" him. I wrote my scripts without any awareness of who was going to be drawing them. In fact, at the time (and many times since), I have said the nearly "silent" first chapter of "The Many Deaths of the Batman" would have been completely silent if I had known Jim Aparo was going to draw it. Not knowing who the artist was going to be, I could not be sure s/he would possess sufficient artistic chops to pull off Gordon's scene in the morgue without dialog. I am sure Aparo would have had no trouble with that!
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William T. Byrd
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Are these the same issues that were reprinted by DC in the 80's on Baxter Paper? I picked those up at Heroescon this summer but haven't unpacked them to read them yet....
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Kevin Brown
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It's those earlier "Brave and Bold" issues drawn by Aparo that cemented me as a Batman fan, and Aparo's rendition from that era is still my favorite look for Batman. ************************************** It was those issues of B&B, as well Dick Dillin's JLA, that made me a DC fan for life. The world is a poorer place with them not in it. edit fer spellin'
Edited by Kevin Brown on 02 October 2011 at 8:45am
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Dan James
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Jim Aparo is in my top 10. I started reading in the 80's and at age 8 or 9 was captivated by the Batman movie. (At that time, I would not have know who Bob Kane, Neal Adams, Denny O'Neil, et al were) I was reading Batman comics from a local 7/11, and as far as I knew, Jim Aparo's Batman was the way Batman was "supposed" (and had always) looked.
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Thomas Moudry
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The first time I read an issue of The Brave and the Bold Jim Aparo didn't do
was really jarring for me, even though the artist was another one of the
greats.
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Brad Brickley
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Yeah, it was always a little disappointing not to see Aparo in an issue of Brave & Bold when he had a month off.
I know at the end of his career he wasn't inking his own stuff and that was a bit of a disappointment too, he was just so wonderful doing it all. He is an artist I really miss. RIP.
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Francesco Vanagolli
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Aparo: one of the best artists and pros DC ever had.
His job on B&B during the seventies was great, he's one of the men who defined my image of the Batman. Hard to believe most of the men who drawn my favorite Batman era (the Bronze Age) aren't with us anymore. I'm glad DC is reprinting the wonderful stories Aparo, Newton, Colan and Rogers did 25/30 years ago. That is MY Batman, despite my age.
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