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Marvel Super-Heroes (comics)
''Marvel Super-Heroes'' is the name of several comic book series and specials published by Marvel Comics. Publication history One-shot The first was the one-shot ''Marvel Super Heroes Special'' #1 (Oct. 1966) produced as a tie-in to ''The Marvel Super Heroes'' animated television program, reprinting ''Daredevil'' #1 (April 1964) and ''The Avengers'' #2 (Nov. 1963), plus two stories from the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call Golden Age of comic books: "The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner Meet" (''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #8, June 1940), and the first Marvel story by future editor-in-chief Stan Lee, the two-page text piece "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" (''Captain America Comics'' #3, May 1941). This summer special was a 25¢ "giant", relative to the typical 12¢ comics of the times. First series The first ongoing series of this name began as ''Fantasy Masterpieces'', initially a standard-sized, 12¢ anthology reprinting "pre-superhero Marvel" monster an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Colan
Eugene Jules Colan (; September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011)Eugene Colan at the Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on February 22, 2013. was an American best known for his work for , where his signature titles include the superhero series '' |
Ross Andru
Ross Andru (; born Rostislav Androuchkevitch, June 15, 1927 – November 9, 1993) Part 1: Animation: We Leave the Army", p. 21. In 1948, Andru's first professional work as a comic strip illustrator was drawing layouts for the ''Tarzan (comics), Tarzan'' newspaper strip. As his longtime partner Mike Esposito recalled, he and Andru were attending Burne Hogarth's Cartoonists and Illustrators School in 1947 when "Burne took Ross out of the class because he saw the talent he had and asked him, 'Would you like to assist me on ''Tarzan''? (the newspaper strip for the Sunday page of the ''New York Daily Mirror''). He paid Ross by the month... the G.I. Bill gave him a few bucks to live on. Ross would lay it out then Burne would ink it with his approach... actually change everything and it would look really like Burne Hogarth when he got through with it. Ross (Andru) had a great concept for visuals for the layout, for the storytelling. That's what Burne Hogarth saw in Ross and he developed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |