79 Robin source art found

[Earth 2 Chris]

Ric,

I use to think Carmine Infantino did the pencils, Anderson the inks, until I got a copy of Michael Eury's great book, "Captain Action: The Original Super-Hero Action Figure". It has a nice section on the Super Queens with scans of the original art. Definitely worth a pickup!

Chris

[jemboy2004]

Chris Thanks for the info. on the WW art. I was curious about the SQ art too and you answered that one for me too.

[kingdom warrior]

Great Detective work Chris Batman would be proud! lol!

[Meule]

http://www.megomuseum.com/dump/apepromo.jpg

Hiding it, eh?
I'd PM you, but I believe sponsors get a set anyway, no?

[Earth 2 Chris]

PMed ya!

Chris

[palitoy]

[Meule]

Nice going Chris, not the first discovery you've made either. I love seeing these origins

[mikeoz]

That was a great observation. Good catch.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Ric,

I think most of the Mego WW art is stock/style guide art. The 8" art, featuring WW swinging her lasso is by Murphy Anderson. Anderson created a lot of DC of stock art in the very early 70s for use on comic covers and merchandise. Anderson also did most of the art for Ideal's Captain Action line, and all the Super Queens art.

The 12" WW doll art is the work of Dick Giordano. The bullets-n-bracelets figures from the box front were also used on other items and may have been created for generic stock art, or just for Mego. Hard to tell. Giordano did the artwork for the fashion packages as well. Theres an old issue of BackIssue! spotlighting the WW tv series that credits Giordano with this work.

Chris

[mitchedwards]

Great detective work.

[jemboy2004]

That's cool to see. Great Job! Now What I really want to know is, Where did the Wonder Woman mego art come from? Do we know yet? Both 8"and 12" versions of WW had different art on them.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Thanks guys! I suppose we have all the 79 DC card front art sourced out now. Superman comes from that classic "running/punching" piece of Neal Adams style guide art (they redrew his neck and shoulders), Batman (neck and shoulders also redrawn) and Supergirl come from the 1976 Neal Adams DC calendar, Shazam! comes from the classic style guide art used on almost everything in the 70s, and now we know where Robin comes from.

I'll keep digging through my old Batman and Detectives and see if the art originated in an earlier comic. By the way, the date on Batman #259 was Dec-Nov, 1974.

Chris

[Hulk]

I love your discoveries. This is definitely a legacy you are leaving to the museum. Another fantastic find, detective!

[LOU]

LOL! That's great! It is so cool when source art is found! I always remember the great Tarzan art mystery on the old boards. Definitely a surprising find for you I'm sure Chris! Great stuff...

[jwyblejr]

Looks like you hit the nail on the head. It looks like someone at Mego gave Robin's mouth a little more detail but other than that and the green in the mask as you said,they do look pretty much alike. Good job.