Aparo inked by Aparo is without peer in my opinion. The later stuff inked by DeCarlo is comparatively disappointing, but still solid, especially in the ability to portray emotion. Aparo characters "acted" their roles exceptionally well, I thought, throughout his career.

The earlier stuff with extraordinarily moody and ambitious scenes with the Phantom Stranger, Spectre, and even Aquaman are beautiful to look at and study. Possibly my favorite title of all time is his Brave and Bold series.

Part of the reason his stuff works so well for me is that he brought so much of what worked well in newspaper strips with him into comics. He was a fan of Alex Raymond for instance and that ability to set a scene, focus on the interaction of the characters, and tell a story is amongst the best in comics.

I have little use for modern artists who can draw 347 Green Lanterns (including the smallpox virus one) all battling it out in outer space for twenty pages and yet will not (can not?) draw a lighthouse on the beach or a quiet house in the suburbs crackling with tension because of what's taking place within. The "every page is a splash page" mentality has wiped modern books of any ability to TELL THE STORY in an engaging or entertaining manner.

I loved the Haney/Aparo B&B series, even though, as JB once pointed out, as far as Batman was concerned, it was "a perfectly good character... just not the same guy."

Remember the one with Sgt. Rock and a latter-day "Hitler"... or the one in which the Atom kick-starts a comatose Batman's noggin... or the ones with Black Canary, or Wildcat, or Phantom Stranger... or...