*The name of the musical piece is actually “Danse Macabre,” written by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874.
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More early Joe Kubert. Just click the pics:
Friday, October 04, 2013
Number 1448: Joe Kubert and the Dance Macabre
*The name of the musical piece is actually “Danse Macabre,” written by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874.
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More early Joe Kubert. Just click the pics:
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That's a nice piece of work -- the plot is tight (everything introduced pays off in some way), the red-herrings are a little lame but it's a fast paced action/mystery story.
This thing is packed to the gills with what kids like in comics: hot women, pin-ups, monsters, beautiful vs the ugly, lots of punching, mobsters, cops, detectives. They needed a spaceship and a cursed sword and it would be complete!
As I've said in the past, I'd like to see someone far more knowledgeable than I pull together an article on the convergences and divergences of Robinson, Meskin, Kubert, and Ditko. (Perhaps other artists some be included in that discussion, but these come immediately to mind.)
Daniel, there is a line you can draw from Robinson, Meskin and Kubert to Ditko. Robinson and Meskin worked together in the forties and Meskin mentored Kubert. Unlike early Kubert I don't see Ditko's growing pains, so before being launched into a solo career he obviously learned his lessons well from those who came before him. When he showed up in the early '50s he was already formed as an artist and seems to have sprung from the god of comics' forehead.
Brian, maybe if they'd had just a couple more pages they could have thrown in those elements you describe.
I thought this story failed in the artwork with the big figures in the background, apparently part of the club's decor. They were confusing and didn't help with the storytelling.
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