Wally Wood Montage

[TheToocold]

thank, thanks, thanks!

[pretorious700]

I'm surprised you didn't include any of DC's Challengers of the Unknown, the only time that I'm aware of that Wood inked Jack Kirby's pencils...sublime comic art

[1stmedia]

I used from the various Wood images I had. Also I was going with totaly Wood or Wood pencils. Though we both know Wood inked Kirby a few articles didn't list his inks over Kirby.

[theshadow1932]

@pretorious700 Actually, he and Kirby did the 'Sky Masters' strip together.

Norm

[pretorious700]

@theshadow1932 wow, thanks, I would love to see those old comics.

[theshadow1932]

@pretorious700

@pretorious700

There's an article about ithe strip on wikipedia and you can find a couple of collections on Amazon. Kirby and Wood were a great team. Wood really brought Kirbys' pencils to life; giving them an organic, naturalistic quality that no inker since Simon even approached.

Norm

[pretorious700]

@theshadow1932 I would agree, the Kirby/Wood combination is my all time favorite in comic art. Dick Ayers was really good too.

[bourbonbigshot]

Actually, I think the Superman theme is appropriate. He always wanted to draw the character, and in fact inked Superboy, drew the golden age Superman in All-Star JSA, and did the MAD parody. Woody and Al WIlliamson are my favorite comic artists.

[EdGauthier1]

Yes, Wally copyrighted and trademarked Sally Forth. So how, then, did a newspaper comic strip come out a little while back called Sally Forth?

I doubt that the same trick could have been pulled in the newspapers after Joe and Jerry passed, with some newbie printing a strip called Superman!

BTW, loved the vid, but there were a couple glitches, like one of those Daredevil covers was by Gene Colan. And to bring up Superman again, why use the Superman movie theme? Wally never drew Superman!

[jonanjello]

W. Wood was awesome. To look at his work in black and white - it's simply amazing. Cool montage!

[jhrunion]

wally wood is one of the top three best ever comic artists; along with kirby and ditko. john

[jmen4ever]

Back in march of 1975,at a comics con, i heard he would work for six months, then drink for six months, then back to work for another six months. It caught up to him in the end.He died at age 54,by his own hand.

[rangel20]

One of the best in comics. His EC art is what inspires me to draw every day. We miss you, Mr. Wood.

[AlbertaAllan]

I know about Wally Wood because of the Thuder Agents and Sally Forth. I find it interesting that he did a lot of work on Daredevil.

[CartoonFan56]

Wally Wood is one of my influences and idols. To me, he did his best work at EC Comics. My particular favorites were his stories for the early issues of MAD.

[ArmoredPanther]

What a giant he was and I still have some of my old EC comics with him. Did you know that Wayne Howard worked in his studio for a while? I have most of Howard's work in Charlton's Midnight Tales, which was an above average comic!

[IG2HI]

Wally Wood was one of the comic industry's gods. It's too bad his life was so rough.