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Tony Midyett
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Thanks very much, Gal!
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I wasn't crazy about Mike DeCarlo's inks over Aparo's pencils.
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Agree with you Eric. But, I'm not a big fan of DeCarlo's inks anyway. He tended to make things a little too pristine and clean to the point that figures looked more like manikins than organic and natural.
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Agree with you Eric. But, I'm not a big fan of DeCarlo's inks anyway. He tended to make things a little too pristine and clean to the point that figures looked more like manikins than organic and natural.

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Well, each to his own I guess... I came to really like Mike Decarlo's inks over Aparo's pencils (and others as well). I think he's vastly underrated... and I'm quite positive many of the best Aparo issues of that era wouldn't have looked as impressive without Decarlo's contribution.

Yes, the Aparo/Decarlo pages in the '90s didn't look like the Aparo inked pages from '70s-80s... But to be blunt - most of Aparo's own inks in early mid-'90s didn't have the detail or polish of the earlier efforts (which is why I admire what he Aparo managed to achieve in the piece I'd shown).

I think the Byrne written "Many Deaths Of Batman" is actually a great example of the good Aparo/Decarlo mesh... And I must say that "A Lonely Place Of Dying" look AMAZING, much thanks to Decarlo's work.
Personally, I'd love to own an Aparo/Decarlo page at some point...
His inks look spectacular in person.
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I was wondering if Mike DeCarlo ever inked John Byrne ?
I wonder what the result might look like...

I'm also curious what Brett Breeding's inks would look over Byrne...
He seems like a good fit to me.
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Decarlo nearly ruined Aparo for me; he made the art look really flat. I much prefer Aparo's own inks.
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If you didn't like DeCarlo's work there. Who do you think would have made a better match to Aparo's later pencils ?

I liked Aparo's own inks until '92-'93... I really felt his inks started to look too loose and less effective at that point.

Don't get me wrond - I LOVE Aparo's own inks, but age started to show in his inks more so than it did in his pencils (which IMO remained solid until his actual retirement).
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Jim Aparo Batman, one word: Alriiiggghhtttt!!
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I know on Perez at the same time I preferred Romeo Tanghal and Giordano over DeCarlo's inks. I think Terry Austin would have been an inspired choice. Of the inkers of the time, he just wasn't one of my favorites.
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Had to wait for a video file to render now, I pulled "Ten Nights of the Beast" from my shelf and read the whole thing again.

Aparo rules!!!
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Terry Austin got to ink Aparo in a pretty big book -
BATMAN #500 that is, which was the climax of the KNIGHTFALL storyline.

I'm aware that book came late in their careers. It looked nice, especially the Batcave pages,
but I didn't think their (later) styles were much in sync with each other.

I have a couple of BATMAN page in which Mike DeCarlo had inked Dave Cockrum (!),
and I think they look incredible:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=14281


True, in their combined style, you can hardly tell it's Cockrum, but I really like them.



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True, in their combined style, you can hardly tell it's Cockrum, but I really like them.

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Yikes! You're right! I would never have known those pages were Dave's!

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