Wayne Boring – Greg Goldstein's Comic Art Gallery

Pete Poplaski — Atomic Age

July 19, 2022 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Superman — Atomic Age Sundays Volume 3, December 2017

As described in a earlier post, Pete provided all the terrific covers for our DC superhero strip reprints for The Library of American Comics.

Pictured is a typical great example where Pete emulates legendary artist Wayne Boring — with some Curt Swan thrown in for good measure.

Oversized — and beautiful.

Fun Facts: (From the marketing copy):

Written by Alvin Schwartz and Bill FInger and Illustrated by Wayne Boring

The Man of Steel stars in thirteen classic adventures as the 1950s “Atomic Age” comes to a close. Some of the stories are original to the newspaper strip, while others were alternate versions of tales that were simultaneously published in the regular comic books. One of the featured adaptations is “Superman Versus the Futuremen,” written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger, which retells Superman’s origin. This concluding volume of Superman’s Atomic Age Sundays reprints all strips July 1, 1956 to October 11, 1959.

*Pete hand colors copies of his original art, and those color guides are then handed off to the digital colorist who completes the work for publication.*

Meanwhile, over in the comics, Superman reminds us to read all his adventures.

Wayne Boring — Final Milestone

July 16, 2022 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Superman #200, October 1967

This art is from Wayne Boring’s final new story for DC comics for more than 20 years.

Boring, one of Superman’s truly legendary artists, was part of a group of creators that asked for pay rate increases, benefits and other employment improvements. So, naturally, DC fired them all.

It’s an oddball imaginary story with the end spoiler right there on the (Curt Swan) cover for kids like me to see. I had only been reading Superman comics for a short while, but I knew his Kryptonian origin by heart from TV and other media. So, I was intrigued by this alternative vision of The Superman legend.

I acquired this page whenI first started collecting art again about 15 years ago, and I haven’t seen one since.

Wayne Boring — Superman Powers Up

June 3, 2021 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Superman Daily Strip, September 29, 1965

Classic Superman artist Wayne Boring provides us with an excellent and rare daily strip at the end of Superman’s 27-year newspaper run.

The excellence is obvious; Superman uses three different super powers in each of the three panels.

Rare because, well, pretty much the same reason: Many, many strips from this period only feature Clark, Lois or other characters in “civilian” garb, with soap opera style plots and stories. In other words, there are many strips where Superman is nowhere to be found.

In fact, in the 80s, Boring would often Remarque those “plain” originals with a Superman figure to make them more desirable in the collectors market.

But of course, no need to add an “extra” Superman here. He’s doing just fine in this good-looking example.

We managed to collect most of the Superman strips at IDW and LOAC, but couldn’t find any collectors with complete runs from the earliest silver age period. (Late 50s.) That era of strips includes the introduction of a Brainiac prototype (“Romado”) drawn by the great Curt Swan.