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John Byrne
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Also..Wow, JB...that is a great Sprang collection.•• The best part was actually meeting Dick! He told me he was honored that I had dedicated the BATMAN 3D book to him. A nice "circle" completed, there!
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Michael Penn
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...one could draw a line from the Batman Neal drew to the Batman Dick drew...
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Oh for those days! I recall with pleasure when I re-read last year the first two decades of "Amazing Spider-Man" and noted how much of an effort John Romita exerted to stay particularly on Ditko's model. It was probably about a year's worth of issues before Romita started to render the character with a more pronounced distinctiveness, and even then, of course, it remained Spider-Man!
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Joe Hollon
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My question to the forum, what did you love and admire about Dick Sprang's work in the Batman universe?
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Pretty much everything I love about Batman is in that pinup by Sprang that started this thread. Sprang might be the definitive Batman artist (in my opinion of course).
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Carmen Bernardo
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I'm very much in agreement with Joe here. If there was an artist whose visuals for Batman pretty much pegged the character for the ages, it was him. Even Neal Adams had to go with that model when he came on board. Today's creative staff with their need to "reinvent the wheel" in terms of the characters' appearances, on the other hand...
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David Plunkert
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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.
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Same with the Infantino Batman. He acts like the same Batman but he's not time traveling anymore or meeting aliens and the like. A mighty big step.
I liked those guys quite a bit too.
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Valmor J. Pedretti
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I was a child of the Aparo Batman.
On a semi off-topic note, I find very amusing that my daughter gets a major kick out of the special sparse moments where Batman smiles or makes a small joke on the 90's animated series.
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Tim O Neill
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Sam, you must have been in Comics Ink in Culver City if you saw that Sprang piece - a really great comic shop!
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Brian Lewis
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Oh I want that lithograph. That is outstanding!
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Charles Valderrama
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I can certainly appreciate the work of Dick Sprang on BATMAN, but i too grew up on Neal Adams and Jim Aparo's version of the Dark Knight. Still, as JB noted, there was no radical disconnect to the character. I Enjoyed the Golden Age Batman as much as the Silver Age one i was exposed to first.
-C!
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John Byrne
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Same with the Infantino Batman. He acts like the same Batman but he's not time traveling anymore or meeting aliens and the like. A mighty big step.•• Yes, the "gimmick" Batman was the most visible "victim" of the move back to his "roots". And it is also true that move had its beginnings in the "New Look" Batman of the early Sixties, typified by Infantino's version. Unfortunately, that move was pushed somewhat off-track by the Adam West TV series, and it took Neal Adams coming along to steer the ship back on course.
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Allan Summerall
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As a kid,the only comics I had access to at the time were the "From the 30's(or 40's)to the 70's" books.I had Superman,Batman and Shazam volumes and I read and reread them over and over until the pages started falling out. I don't honestly recall how many stories in the Batman volume were done by Sprang,but his depiction of Batman stuck with me as my favorite version for many,many years.
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Sam Karns
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Sam, you must have been in Comics Ink in Culver City if you saw that Sprang piece - a really great comic shop!
**** Yep! That's the one, Tim, and it's cool to have a comic store so close to where I work. ++++ I don't honestly recall how many stories in the Batman volume were done by Sprang,but his depiction of Batman stuck with me as my favorite version for many,many years. *** It's what stuck with me when I saw the lithogragh, Alan. It springs adventure and wealth of stories or untold stories to tell. A world where Bruce Wayne loves his job, and is not bummed about his life--instead he's living it and has shown a fascination of the cases he's solved. Along with Robin it appears he's comfortable with what he's accomplished and everything is bright. This character, Sprang developed, can not be defeated by emotional issues or be out smarted by psychotic villains like the character Scott Snyder is developing currently.
Edited by Sam Karns on 26 November 2012 at 2:57pm
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