Joe Maneely appreciation thread 5 5

[adamstrange]

32 minutes ago, MasterChief said:

Yes. What I'm saying is... Maneely's work in the 50s may have creatively inspired small elements of Lenone's work in the 60s. 

[buttock]

3 hours ago, adamstrange said:

Spellbound 24 looks like some inking done by Burgos on top of whatever Maneely delivered. 

That’s because it is 

 

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[Scrooge]

[AJLewandoski]

Nine pages and I didn't see what I would argue is some of his best work, oh the humanity! 

[RICK STARR]

[MasterChief]

From the Toronto Collection.

[Scrooge]

Notice the Collector's Item mention. This is July 1957. I don't have time to research it now but isn't that early for this type of hype on a T/A/Marvel cover?

Maneely drew also the Ringo Kid story inside -

[Prince Namor]

On 7/7/2020 at 11:54 AM, thunsicker said:

My blazing hot take...  Joe Maneely was Atlas's best artist in the 50's.  Better than Everett, Burgos, Severin, Ditko, and even better than Kirby.  Had he survived until Marvel's silver age he would have been the one everyone called the king.

It's possible. Personally... I think Maneely was a great artist who doesn't get his due, but... Jack was a better storyteller, concept/idea guy. 

Maneely would've made some of Stan/Jack's lamer ideas (Daredevil, Iron Man, X-men) look a hell of a lot better, because he inked his own work  and it always looked full... none of this Vince Coletta thin ink style or rushed Don Heck/George Tuska* stories softly inked by whoever... the art on some of those early stories would've rocked with Maneely drawing it...

But I just don't see anything in Maneely's work that makes me think he would've one day did anything like the Galactus trilogy. He was a great genre artist... GREAT... and I like to think he would've been a really cool superhero artist... the possibilities are fun to think about... but I just don't see a Captain America he helped create prior to his death, or a Challengers of the Unknown... Jack wasn't just a great artist with an exciting, action storytelling style, he was also a story writer and an idea guy who worked with some good writers over the years to create some of the biggest comics ever released in the first 40 years of the hobby.

 

*Not knocking Heck or Tuska - I just think their GA work was lightyears better.

[Prince Namor]

On 7/7/2020 at 1:59 PM, Frisco Larson said:

It's really great to see all of the participation on this thread!!!! Thanks gang!!!!   

This thread was WAY over due to be created! Thank you!

[Frisco Larson]

3 minutes ago, Prince Namor said:

This thread was WAY over due to be created! Thank you!

Thanks @Prince Namor! I wish I still owned the 3 Atlas Sub-Mariner issues that Joe did covers for!!! Hopefully in time, they'll all be posted in here!!!  

[MasterChief]

[Jonathan78]

We need a romance

[Scrooge]

Here's an earlier issue -

[adamstrange]

1 hour ago, Scrooge said:

Here's an earlier issue -

That's a great little image of Black Rider on a bucking bronco in the upper left.

[Dr. Love]

6 hours ago, adamstrange said:

That's a great little image of Black Rider on a bucking bronco in the upper left.

Strangely enough my inner critic says "Shores" when I see that image. Possible?

[adamstrange]

14 minutes ago, Dr. Love said:

Strangely enough my inner critic says "Shores" when I see that image. Possible?

That wouldn't surprise me, but it may also be a swipe of a sculpture or painting.

[RICK STARR]

[MasterChief]

New Hampshire Pedigree Copy from the Overstreet Collection.

[fett]

[Scrooge]

Moving backward in the Wild Western series -