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Stephen Churay
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I've never seen the litho in person but have always admired that piece.
Dick Sprang's work is amazing. His style's a little kooky, but it works
so well with Batman and especially his villains. One of my favorite
Batman artists, ever.
William, I never seen that drawing before. It's not as colorful as the
one Sam posted, but equally as cool.
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Nathan Greno
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William: Also...
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WOW! Don't remember seeing that one! Wonder if there's closer detail online...
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Sam Karns
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Yeah, that is really cool. I was wondering if there was one as well. Thanks for sharing, William. Also: I didn't know Sprang was a ghost artist for Kane. Sprang appeared to know how to draw than Bob Kane.
Edited by Sam Karns on 24 November 2012 at 3:34pm
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Taavi Suhonen
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I found a bigger copy of the second image.
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Aaron Smith
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I absolutely love Dick Sprang's work. While there are many Batman artists I like, with Neal Adams, JB, Jim Aparo, and various others very high on the list, Sprang might be my favorite when it comes to that character.
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Sam Karns
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It seems as if the writer chatted with Sprang about the character and then Sprang just went OUT THERE with it. Fully realizing and understanding the opportunity of the potential for the Batman character and it's universe.
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Nathan Greno
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Taavi: I found a bigger copy of the second image.
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FUN! LOVE IT!
Thanks :)
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Carmen Bernardo
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Dick looks like one of those cartoonists we've seen during the heyday of comics in the 1940s and 1950s. His style reminds me a little of the classic Dick Tracy strips which ran in the newspapers back in those days. (I also notice the "smiling superhero" theme here, something long missing from the genre.)
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Robert Cosgrove
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We all imprint, in some ways, on the artists we grew up with. When I was a kid, the Batman artists were Moldoff (ghosting "Bob Kane,"), the occasional Win Mortimer and Jim Mooney, Curt Swan (doing World's Finest covers), one or two others, and Dick Sprang. I was always a little skeptical that there were people out there who called the then-anonymous Carl Barks "the good duck artist" (especially since some of the other Duck artists weren't hamfat), but if I had thought in those terms, Sprang, for me, would have been "the good Batman artist." He could really draw, design, and tell a story. It's hard to know how he would have developed if he hadn't been doing Bob Kane, but as noted, he did a much better Kane than Kane. For a good dose of Sprang, I strongly recommend the DC World's Finest archives 1 & 2.
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Neil Brauer
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I love it! Look at the time he must have put into those images. When I first started reading comics, the Golden Age stories were regularly reprinted in the back of the 100 page Batman issues.
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Brad Brickley
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I've seen this before and it's great! A fantastic piece of art.
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Greg Kirkman
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Love Sprang's stuff. I once saw a print of that first Batcave piece in person at a convention, and it was gorgeous.
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