Remembering the Brave and the Bold

[mrbrklyn]

I checked Mike's Amazing World (http://www.mikesamazingworld.com) and I remembered the rest.

I just added that to my list of comic resources

http://www.mrbrklyn.com/comics.html

[byrd156]

The Straczynski follow up volume was pretty good, too.

My favorite issue from his run.

[mrbrklyn]

My favorite issue from his run.

Oh another book to search out for a read!! Thanks

[mrbrklyn]

One more GL/ Batman!

You have to be impressed that Batman gets to OA!

[byrd156]

Oh another book to search out for a read!! Thanks

Nice, good luck and hope you enjoy it.

[Frontier]

I still hope DC brings back this book and concept some day. I love me some good team-up stories .

[mrbrklyn]

I still hope DC brings back this book and concept some day. I love me some good team-up stories .

WHAT!! You want meaningless books with no continuity and are fun to read! How dare you!

[Jim Kelly]

The Brave in the Bold I read to death and it looks it. I loved the cover and drew it about 100 times.

I started reading THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD on an ongoing basis with issue 100, which was so good I wanted to keep getting more of that. Back in those days, to keep track of my growing collection of comics (which was probably under a hundred issues all tolled), I was making half slips of paper with the relevant info and a hand-drawn copy of a favourite panel from each issue in question; but this wasn't enough so I started to make a binder with loose leaf pages and I would try to copy the art from certain pages as best I could. That was a lot of work and I abandoned the idea pretty quickly but there were pages I made where I copied Aparo's work faithfully--yet using a ball point pen to ink all of it. Getting the stippling that he did for shading was a lot of effort--but I imagine Jim didn't have to stipple the whole page the way I did--it was probably some sort of ben-day effect that he applied to the page.

[mrbrklyn]

Aparo is an underate artist.

[mrbrklyn]

I found my copy

[mrbrklyn]

Before the wedding...

[byrd156]

Before the wedding...

Love the capes forming a heart. But man that's a really boring Scarecrow design, at least put on some gloves Crane.

[mrbrklyn]

Love the capes forming a heart. But man that's a really boring Scarecrow design, at least put on some gloves Crane.

The story was better than the cover, IMO

[byrd156]

The story was better than the cover, IMO

I would hope so.

[Jim Kelly]

Love the capes forming a heart. But man that's a really boring Scarecrow design, at least put on some gloves Crane.

It's comics accurate. The classic Scarecrow didn't wear gloves. And Jim Aparo wasn't being paid to do a redesign. More likely, if Aparo or Joe Staton had got things wrong they would hear about it from fans, like me, who'd write in to point out they were being unfaithful to the original source material.

In fact, my quibble with the cover isn't Scarecrow, it's Batman and Catwoman who look more like the Earth-One versions and not so much like the Earth-Two characters they're supposed to be. Staton and George Freeman showed greater fidelity inside the comic.

However, when it came to B&B, I didn't quibble that much as long as Haney and Aparo were doing the work. They had special artistic license not to conform to continuity. But generally I think Jim Aparo was probably given reference art for the hundreds of characters he had to draw in these team-ups and he just did his best to follow the model sheets without inventing anything new.