Greg Goldstein's Comic Art Gallery
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Star Wars: Crimson Empire #1, December 1997
Paul Gulacy and P. Craig Russell provide creative storytelling (I love the top sequence) and excellent draftsmanship (of course) for the 1997 Dark Horse Series, Crimson Empire.
This is one of my favorite pages in the first issue, with Darth Vader landing and bowing before his master, The Emperor.
In other words, what’s not to like?
Classic. Just classic.
Marvel Feature #7, January 1973
Ah, Hank Pym.
Ant–Man (no costume.) Ant-Man (costume.) Giant-Man. Goliath. Yellowjacket. Hank Pym, scientist, no alter ego.
And here, Ant-Man again.
Hank Pym was definitely having an ongoing identity crisis in his 10 years in the Marvel Universe.
Needless to say, seeing Ant-Man and Wasp as a full-length feature on the newsstands was a surprise. It lasted seven issues of Marvel Feature, before disappearing once again.
Here, P. Craig Russell and Dan Adkins present us with a nice Bronze Age action page. This is some of Russell’s earliest professional work, and his distinctive style has yet to develop.
In fact, since Craig broke in as Adkins assistant, it definitely feels much closer to Dan’s work than Craig’s.
Ina few months, Craig would take over the art chores on Killraven in Amazing adventures, and as “they” say (and I say too much) the rest is history.
As for Hank Pym, the identify crisis would continue. He returns as Yellowjacket, joins the Defenders, then rejoins the Avengers, and then… well, it actually becomes even more complicated.
But of course, Scott Lang eventually takes the role of Ant-Man, and as they say…
