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David Plunkert
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I had seen the color litho but not the b+w. Thanks much for sharing. I love Sprang.
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Stephen Churay
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Nathan, do you own a copy of the first litho?
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John Byrne
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The shade of Dick Sprang has stood at my shoulder every time I've drawn the Batcave post UNTOLD LEGEND.
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Robert Bradley
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Dick Sprang is one of those artists whose contribution isn't fully appreciated because it has the look of a certain era to it (I refuse to call it "dated").
Some of the earliest Batman stories I was exposed to were reprints of his work. I still think its great.
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John Byrne
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Some of the earliest Batman stories I was exposed to were reprints of his work. I still think its great.•• My first Batman story was "The Map of Mystery", written by Edmond Hamilton and illustrated by Dick. A few years before his death, Dick recreated the first page for me, and it hangs in a prominent position in my Studio. 
The recreation is at right. The center piece, also by Dick, in color, was commissioned for my 40th birthday, lo these many years ago. The comicbook at upper left is the issue in which "Map" first appeared (cover by Curt Swan). It's not the issue in which I originally read the story, but it is from Dick's personal archives. The Bat-Mite is by Shelly Moldoff.
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Michael Penn
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"My" Batman, the one I grew up with, was by Neal Adams. And yet I dare say that those who grew up with Sprang's were -- luckier!
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David Plunkert
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Sprang's Batman and Wayne Boring Superman were the first versions I was introduced to via my Uncle's tattered comics left at my Grandmother's house.
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Ian Penman
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What a great artist Sprang was. Difficult to imagine that anyone could think that Sprang, Moldoff, Sayre Schwartz and the rest were all 'Bob Kane' as the art was signed. I was just starting to appreciate the mechanics of comics production and thought "Boy, different inkers make one hell of a difference"!
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John Byrne
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"My" Batman, the one I grew up with, was by Neal Adams. And yet I dare say that those who grew up with Sprang's were -- luckier!•• Thing is, altho their artistic styles were very different, Dick and Neal were basically drawing the same Batman. The same in the sense that one could draw a line from the Batman Neal drew to the Batman Dick drew, and be content that the same guy was in the suit. Steps had been taken at DC -- largely at Neal's "suggestion" -- to take Batman back to his "darker" roots, after the catastrophic impact of the "Batman" TV series, but there was no radical disconnect as there has been (repeatedly!) in recent years. The Batman Dick drew was no psychotic ninja, and neither was the one Neal drew. After all. . . 
(Yes, any excuse!)
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Joe Alexander
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I remember drooling over that Sprang piece ever since I saw prints of it going for sale in an ad in Comic Buyers Guide. I even cut out the ad and kept it for years just to remind me to look for it at conventions. Despite looking at it hundreds of times, including regular rotation as one of my screen savers, I never saw the Bill Finger tribute in it! Awesome.
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John Byrne
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Difficult to imagine that anyone could think that Sprang, Moldoff, Sayre Schwartz and the rest were all 'Bob Kane' as the art was signed. I was just starting to appreciate the mechanics of comics production and thought "Boy, different inkers make one hell of a difference"!•• It helps to be very young. I read "The Mad of Mystery" when I was six. Sprang was "my" Batman for several years after -- but it didn't occur to me that he was not the same artist who was drawing the other Batman stories I was reading. Since most of the Sprang stories I read were reprints, in the Annuals, I simply assumed Bob Kane had several different styles, and, tailoring them to the project, kept his best style for those more "important" books. (I also did not know the Annuals were reprints.)
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Also..Wow, JB...that is a great Sprang collection.
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