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Noah Smith
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Batman was not my favorite character when I was little -- like five or six. I probably had that typical little-kid bias against non-super-powered superheroes. But I got a LOT of Brave and Bold issues with Aparo artwork. I wasn't conscious of it at the time, but I'm sure it was the art that made me pick them at the newsstand.
I didn't read Outsiders much at the time, but I picked up the Showcase volume entirely for the Aparo artwork. I was a little bummed at how many issues within had other artists. Oh well, the ones with the good stuff were more than worth it.
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Michael Casselman
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I never noticed this myself, but I learned from reading one of his interviews last night that Aparo would often leave clues in certain issues as to who would be Batman's team-up in the NEXT issue. One issue he apparently left green arrows strategically placed to see if anyone would notice.
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Aparo started doing this in the last 2 1/2 years of B&B. There were clues such as (IIRC) a randomly placed Legion space cruiser, a psychodelic landscape with Hawk & Dove, roses with thorns, scales of justice (for Nemesis) and rags for Ragman.
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Steve Ogden
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Like many of you, Jim Aparo is one of my all time favorite artists. He has always been there growing up, always drawing a bunch of my favorite comics; Batman, Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, Aquaman. Along with Don Newton Jim Aparo is my favorite artist on The Phantom. When I saw that little stylized "JA", I wanted that comic book. One of my many favorite covers of The Phantom.
Edited by Steve Ogden on 25 September 2012 at 7:12pm
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Robert White
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I think if Aparo ever worked at Marvel, he would have been a great fit for Iron Man. He was great at drawing the sophisticated, socialite scenes that add flavor to the tales of rich heroes like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark.
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Flavio Sapha
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A true cartoonist. Anyone who digs Aparo should look at Milton Canniff,
though. Aparo drank deep from that well to do his thing.
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Stephen Churay
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You guys should try to find Aparo's drawing of Sean Connery as
James Bond. It's a pretty good likeness with out being a slave to the
source image.
Oh never mind here's the address. It's too cool for you to have to hunt
for.
http://jimaparofanclub.blogspot.com/2009/01/bondjames-bond.h tml
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Mike Norris
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To my eyes, Aparo got even more Canniff-like over the years.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Saw a TALES OF THE DARK NIGHT hardback dedicated to Aparo at the store recently. That went straight to the top of my list over books I need to buy.
I'm a big fan of his work. A great artist.
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Jason Czeskleba
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Regarding the question of why Aparo was kept on Brave and Bold in the 70's, rather than being switched over to Batman or Detective... I read somewhere that The Brave and the Bold was actually the best-selling Batman title in the mid-70's. If that is true, then it makes sense they would keep their best Bat-artist on the best-selling title he was in.
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Stephen Churay
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I read somewhere that The Brave and the Bold was actually the best-
selling Batman title in the mid-70's.
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I can believe that. I know it has it's fans and there is some great art,
but I found the two main Batman books, from that time period, kind of
a weird.
The Brave and the Bold issues were cool because of the team ups.
Anytime I read it, I always found myself looking at it from the other
heroes point of view and feeling like they really didn't want to be there.
Gotham was a spooky place at night and Batman really wasn't the guy
you wanted to spend time with. A lot of that seemed to come from
Aparo's art.
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William Costello
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Brian Hague, post #14: . . " . as I recall Aparo could capably do one entire issue, pencils, inks, and letters a month. When he first began at DC, he alternated between Aquaman and Charlton's Phantom."I have one original art page from Jim Aparo, a page from Aquaman #48. I can't remember when I bought it (I would say many years ago), but I'm amazed how clean the art page is, and it looks as though only one hand (Jim's) worked on that page.
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James Todd Jr
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I subscribed to Aparo's Brave and the Bold in the 1970s and 80s. The Nemesis subplots were interesting as well.
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