Posted: 10 July 2019 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | 2
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I reminded myself of some short-lived, obscure features I definitely could have read more of--
STAR HUNTERS at DC by David Michelinie and (inked by) Bob Layton a good while before they worked on IRON MAN. (Layton inked good artists like Don Newton for the first few issues and Rich Buckler for the last ones.)
THRILLER at DC by Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor VonEeden. This was THE book of the moment--a different kind of storytelling, a cool look and premise, in the (then-rare) higher quality Baxter paper. It was quite promising, and then (I never knew why) the writer and artist were replaced by issue 9 by wildly different talent. Still frustrating to this day.
CALEB HAMMER at Marvel. This was just a one-shot Western in MARVEL PREMIERE, but it really grabbed me with the compelling story by Peter Gillis and amazing art by Gene Day inked by Tony DeZuniga. I guess the character appeared again somewhere, but not by the same team.
SHAZAM drawn by Alan Weiss and inked by Joe Rubinstein! Again, this was only one issue (#34 of the 70's DC series), and you'd think that art team couldn't possibly work on that character--but it totally did! The writer continued on the feature with the also wonderful Don Newton drawing, but that one Weiss/Rubinstein issue always made me wonder what might have been.
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