Ring of the Nibelung #2, (The Valkyrie), February 1990
Gil Kane tackles Richard Wagner’s The Ring of The Nibelung opera series (adapted here by Roy Thomas) with dramatic results.
It’s a prestige format series, so Gil employs a large art format, and, unlike the majority of his DC work from this period, it’s primarily pen and ink, as opposed to marker. Therefore, the pages — pretty much all terrific — are collectible and displayable without worrying about the art fading to nothingness.
(Ask anyone — myself included — who has owned a page from either Sword of the Atom mini-series and they can explain further.)
What would Gil himself say about this dynamic page? I’m not exactly sure, but it would begin this way:
“Greg, my boy…”
