Title : A GIANT AMONG (SUPER) BOYS - SWAN, ADAMS, & ORDWAY...
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A GIANT AMONG (SUPER) BOYS - SWAN, ADAMS, & ORDWAY...
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It sometimes amazes me to realise that I'm still 'completing' collections over half-a-century after 'starting' them (even if I didn't know it at the time) back when I was a kid. For example, in the '60s I bought Superboy #146 and World's Finest #178, which were the first instalments of two-part continued stories that I never saw completed. What's more, the two issues of each individual title were interrupted by 80-Page Giant reprint numbers totally unconnected to the continued stories. That must've been a 'bummer' at the time for readers eagerly awaiting to find out how each tale concluded.
I don't remember which issue I bought first, nor did I obtain them on the same day; they were probably purchased months apart and not necessarily in sequential order - though the Superboy mag was published a few months before World's Finest. In the UK there often seemed no rhyme or reason as to when comic mags appeared in newsagents, so it was often 'pot luck' as to what was available to you at any given time. However, I never kept my original issues, but obtained replacements for them quite a number of years ago now, which I've owned far longer than their predecessors.
A few years back, I managed to acquire the wrap-ups to each tale, and Superboy #148 seemed slightly familiar to me. Previously, I'd always believed I'd never read the conclusion, but I found myself wondering if I'd perhaps read it out-of-sequence to the first part in #146. As part two wasn't an obvious 'follow-on' from part one (read them and you'll see just what I mean), if I'd read part two first, I may not have recognised it was a follow-up to part one when I eventually bought and devoured it (figuratively-speaking of course). Not that any of that will be of interest to you, but you know how such mysteries fascinate me.
Anyway, a while back I obtained World's Finest #179 (the Giant reprint ish) and today I received Superboy #147 (again, the Giant reprint ish), which means I now own three sequential issues in a row of each mag, bringing to an end something started way back in the '60s when I was a mere primary school kid. Ah, the sense of achievement that fills my soul! But hold! That's not just what this post is about.
No, check out the cover at the top of this post. Pencilled by Curt Swan, it's actually inked by Neal Adams (McS is sure to pop-up at the echo of that name), but when this issue was reprinted as a 'Replica Edition' some years ago, the cover was redrawn/re-created by Jerry Ordway. That's the cover below, and as you can see there are a few minor differences; mainly, the colours are 'flatter' and don't have the same depth and subtlety of the original. I bought the replica when it was first published (2003), so I've read the stories, but I wanted the 1968 original for the ads and the smell of the paper. (Perv!)
Anyway, all that preamble was mainly an excuse to show you a Neal Adams cover that you may not have realised he was involved with. Sure, Curt Swan pencilled it, but it's still (at least) 50% Adams. Any comments will be most welcome, so don't be shy now!
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