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Brad Brickley
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I've shown them before, but two pieces of Jim Aparo I have, I love them. I will never part with them. I consider myself lucky to have them and think of myself as a custodian for the future of these pieces.
The Brave and the Bold #177 page 17.
Phantom Stranger Pin-Up, I have it framed also.
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Tony Midyett
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Veeeeeery nice, Brad!
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John Mariani
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I just remember loving Mr. Aparo's work in B&TB and thinking ... "why isn't this guy doing the main Batman book"?
(I can't remember who *was* doing the main book at the time, I certainly don't mean any disrespect to them; but c'mon! Aparo's Batman is excellent!)
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John Byrne
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I just remember loving Mr. Aparo's work in B&TB and thinking ... "why isn't this guy doing the main Batman book"?•• Aparo's ability to draw just about ANY character and make them look good was put to better use in BRAVE&BOLD than it would have been in BATMAN or DETECTIVE, tho. He was very well "cast" on that book.
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Tony Midyett
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Aparo's ability to draw just about ANY character and make them look good was put to better use in BRAVE&BOLD than it would have been in BATMAN or DETECTIVE, tho. He was very well "cast" on that book. | ------------------------------------------------------------ --------
That's one of YOUR primary mutant powers, JB---you can draw some of the lamest characters, and make them look cool. All those gonzo villains that you drew in She-Hulk's book made me think, "How does he make these weirdos look like serious threats?". |
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Stephen Robinson
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Aparo's ability to draw just about ANY character and make them look good was put to better use in BRAVE&BOLD than it would have been in BATMAN or DETECTIVE, tho. He was very well "cast" on that book.
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Agreed. His work on that title is exemplary.
Your comment regarding casting interests me because I recall back in 1991 when the creative teams for BATMAN(Aparo had been the primary artist for about 3 years at that point) and DETECTIVE were swapped. Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle were generating buzz on DETECTIVE, but as they both have later pointed out, they preferred their time on DETECTIVE because it was in a way better casting -- DETECTIVE with them was the cult book. Once they went to the main BATMAN title, they were doing more mainstream stories and intercompany crossovers. Oh well.
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Greg Kirkman
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Aparo is easily on my list of top five Batman artists!
Edited by Greg Kirkman on 05 October 2011 at 11:54am
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Jason Czeskleba
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Brave and Bold was the best-selling Batman title in the mid-70s, so perhaps that's another reason Aparo was kept on that assignment rather than being switched over to Batman or Detective. On the other hand, it's possible Brave and Bold was the best-selling Batman title because of Aparo, too.
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John Byrne
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Aparo is easily on my list of top five Batman artists! •• For me, Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez kind of orbits that group, as his Superman slightly edges out his Batman in my eyes.
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Stephen Robinson
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Aparo is easily on my list of top five Batman artists!
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For me, Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez kind of orbits that group, as his Superman slightly edges out his Batman in my eyes.
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SER: I really began to appreciate Dick Sprang lately. The release of the 80 Page Batman Annuals in collected edition recently certainly helped.
I love that period of Batman and think that JB does a great job (especially in Generations) of combining that Batman with the darknight detective version. Others have tried - Grant Morrison, for instance -- with less success.
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John Byrne
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I love that period of Batman and think that JB does a great job (especially in Generations) of combining that Batman with the darknight detective version. Others have tried - Grant Morrison, for instance -- with less success.•• It often seems that most who have tried to capture the feel of that particular epoch of the Silver Age cannot get past the fact that to modern eyes those stories so often seem very silly. So they write silly. But the authors of the originals, even if they thought the stories were silly, wrote them dead straight. No wink at the audience. And certainly nothing included deliberately to be goofy.
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Aaron Smith
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Aparo is easily on my list of top five Batman artists! •• For me, Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez kind of orbits that group, as his Superman slightly edges out his Batman in my eyes. *** Sprang, Adams, Aparo, Colan, JB. Despite JB's lack of a long Batman run, two stories, BATMAN/ CAPTAIN AMERICA and MAN OF STEEL 3 fall into my list of favorite Batman stories.
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