Favorite Underated Silver Age Artists?

[The Toyroom]

One of mine is Dick Dillin...I believe he did something like 12 years on "Justice League of America":

[BlackKnight]

I love looking at Origional comicbook art. It's real neat stuff. Thanks for sharing

[thunderbolt]

Ross Andru and Don Heck are a couple of my favorite non big name silver age artists

[huedell]

Those "Dillin" drawings above look perfect to the "70s kid" in me

I wonder if that has something to do with that its not colored
or anything---I was thinking that maybe once things like that
got colored maybe they lost some of that percision---they surely
look like great generic bronze age drawings---and I use "generic" in a positive way

(You also gotta love Elongated Man ranking on the Big "S")

[kingdom warrior]

Ross Andru and Don Heck are a couple of my favorite non big name silver age artists

I thought the Same especially Don heck who drew many of the early Avengers and Iron man and other marvel stories...he was a solid story teller.

That's an awesome page Clean classic line work! I love looking at original art Thanks for sharing....

[Captain]

Jim Aparo is one....He's recognized, but far underrated still in my opinion. Another favorite is Eduarto Barretto....(so underrated I may have even spelled his last name wrong?). Guy is incredible.

[thunderbolt]

Need to add Bruno Premiani to the list, his Doom Patrol Art was nice. Its very different from the Marvel art trends of the time.

[argent007]

I echo Don Heck. While they receive some recognition I would also add Marshall Rogers, Curt Swan and Dick Ayers to my list of under-appreciated Silve Age artists.

I have a small original art collection with pieces by Matt Wagner (2 Batman/Grendel pages and a Batman piece with I believe is unpublished), Steve Rude (a Nexus page) and Dick Ayers (a color drawing or two). I also have a color recreation of the All-American #16 (1st Golden Age Green Lantern) cover by Mart Nodell, who created the Green Lantern. Finally, a nice Batman and Robin ink and marker piece by the late, great Sheldon Moldoff.

I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Nodell and Mr. Moldoff. It was a pleasure. Both were very pleasant and very happy that a young person preferred their talents to the Image crew. In my opinion, the bigger sin is the lack of recognition that a lot of Golden Age artists receive. Sadly, Mr. Nodell passed away in 2006.

I'll be posting some pictures of my art and WGSH mego collection once I get my office/guest room in order. Should be in a couple of months as I'm not getting back to the US for another month.

[The Toyroom]

Jim Aparo is one....He's recognized, but far underrated still in my opinion.

Agreed...Aparo always did solid work! His Batman, Brave and the Bold, Aquaman runs are some of my favorites.

[thunderbolt]

^^ Aparo's Spectre and Aquaman really stick in my noggin.

[madmarva]

Curt Swan

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm a huge fan of Silver and Bronze Age artists. Guys like Gil Kane, Curt Swan and Carmine Infantino actually get quite a bit of praise, really. I'm a big fan of Kane and Swan, and admire Infantino's design eye, but I like him best when "reined in" by a good inker like Murphy Anderson. Anderson would qualify as an unsung SA great. On his own penciling Hawkman, or inking Infantino or Kane, The man is a solid illustrator. He can draw anything or anyone.

Aparo and Dillin are tops in my book as well. Dillin was such a workhorse, cranking out JLA every month, and usually a World's Finest or DC Comics Presents. And my avatar to the left is Aparo baby. Yeah.

Chris