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More of my Marvel character art appears in my comics gallery:lexlothor.deviantart.com/galleβ¦
I previously posted this image as a monochromatic blue sketch card. I was never satisfied with this image.
The Silver Surfer should be portrayed as a human mirror. His body should reflect theΒ universe around him.
Silver Surfer (c) Marvel Comics
art (c) me
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Not enough art here of the ex-Norrin Radd as the lonely wanderer; it's mostly the invincible superhero portrayal here, or, God help you, his character on the Super Hero Squad Show. This looks nice; the lithe body reminds me of how he appeared in the collaborative story between Stan Lee and Moebius.
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I like Jean Gerard's art but his scratchy style did not lend itself well to the smooth surface of the Silver Surfer. I go all the way back to the original Jack Kirby creation (of which Stan Lee had no part).
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I knew that Kirby created the Surfer all himself. I'm pretty sure Lee just thought he looked cool and decided to put him in the Galactus Trilogy, and the rest is history.
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Actually, Stan didn't know about the Surfer until the original art of FF #48 was laid in front of him.
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The version I heard was that Kirby got the idea to give Galactus a herald, or at least that's what he said when questioned about the silvery fellow who wasn't in the original story for the issue. The Surfer always has that air to me of being one of the side-effects of the "Marvel Method": some plot point not in the original outline turning up in the layouts and added to the script if it really works, which would probably be quite easy for an artist like Jack Kirby.
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The "Marvel Method" was essentially a by-product of Stan Lee's intellectual laziness. From the point at which the new Silver Age titles began to take off, Stan would instruct his artists on the general topic or outline of the next issue. There were NO scripts per se. What Stan did when he received the pencils would be to jot in dialog more or less ad hoc. In the advertising business, Stan Lee would have been called a "copywriter" not a "writer".
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Call it what you like, it certainly beats whatever process gave us such gems as "Batman Becomes Bat-Baby". Or at least half the pre-Kirby Jimmy Olsen comics.
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What it did was to liberate the creativity of Marvel's staff artists from the sort of calicified top-down incompetency that reigned at DC at the time. That is what helped to kill Kirby's 4th World titles.
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Hey, you were complimenting it all along. It's hard to read emotion in text. I'm pretty much equal in the Marvel/DC war; I feel Marvel was at their peak in the 60's and 70's, and that DC has the superior product right now.
You know what my favorite 70's DC mag is? SHAZAM!, the Original Captain Marvel. I like how it totally didn't take itself seriously. Today, every other issue would have Billy lamenting how he's been temporally shifted to the modern day, sort of like Captain America did in the 60's. SHAZAM! got that crap out of the way as fast as possible. Also, since apparently the DC editor at the time was actually competent, the covers, no matter how bizarre, would honestly tell the truth about what was within the story. I especially like how the writer was the same Denny O' Neill who wrote the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series where Speedy turned out to be a junkie, and then he'd turn around and write a story where Captain Marvel and Mr. Tawny would bust a diamond smuggler.
P.P.S. I figured that Lee was a might lazy in the head when I saw his 15th character with alliterative initials.
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