#vince colletta

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Recaption by Chandlyr Ellis from a panel in the story "3 Girls -- Their Lives -- Their Loves" episode 20, included in "Heart Throbs" #121 (September 1969), published by DC Comics. Pencils by Jay Scott Pike, inks by Vince Colletta, original script by Barbara Friedlander.

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X-Men, Vol. 1 # 55 by Barry Windsor-Smith, with Inks by Vince Colletta.

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Original Art - Team America #02 Pg 01 (1982) by Mike Vosburg And Vince Colletta

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BHOC: BRING ON THE BAD GUYS

As I talked about yesterday, for Christmas 1978 I was given the four existing volumes in the Marvel Origins trade paperback collection that up to that point existed. I had read SON OF ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS at my local library, but I was happy to have my own copy to go back to and review. But once ORIGINS had been consumed, I made my way into the next book I hadn’t yet read, which was this one.…

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Teen-Age Romance #80 (1960) Cover by Matt Baker and Vince Colletta

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Barbie and Ken's Comic Journey

Dell Publishing in New York published Barbie and Ken comics beginning in 1962, during a time when comic books were a popular source of entertainment. They featured art by noted American comic-book artists Vince Colletta and John Tartaglione. This is the fifth and final issue, published in November 1963. The comics marked Barbie and Ken’s debut in a comic book format. This issue features members of the Barbie Fan Club sharing their imaginary adventures with the iconic duo; Barbie and the Arts; Barbie's Theatre Group; and a one-pager about Barbie's friend and fellow doll, Midge. The stories exhibited traditional values and cultural norms of that era, reflecting wholesome and timeless themes. After this comic, Barbie comics were next featured in the Mattel-owned Barbie magazine in 1964.

-Melissa, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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“Sure”

George Tuska - Vince Colletta

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Jack Kirby (inked by Vince Colletta) gives Jimmy Olsen the Hulk treatment in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (vol. 1) #135 (January, 1971).

To be fair, the monstrous fake Jimmy is green because his skin has been impregnated with green kryptonite.

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(1967)

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Some rare Justice artwork by the late great Keith Giffen and Vince Colletta, plus colors by George Roussos.

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Thor Annual #11 (1983)

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Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta Soul Love #1 "Fears of a Go-Go Girl" Unpublished Splash Page 1 Original Art (DC, 1973) Source

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June/July 1971. A vital aspect of Jack Kirby's original Fourth World books is that they were, for all their strangeness, often urgently topical. There's no more forceful example than THE FOREVER PEOPLE #3, which introduces the sinister Glorious Godfrey, preacher of the church of Anti-Life. Godfrey was inspired by Evangelical preacher Billy Graham, and Kirby's feelings about him were not subtle:

Oof. A crowd of blank-eyed, self-stigmatized believers, eager to surrender their individual will in pursuit of scapegoats upon whom to vent their rage. As we'll see, this is a call and response, part of a sermon by Glorious Godfrey:

In later, non-Kirby appearances of Godfrey and the Justifiers, DC has presented Godfrey as having supernatural powers of persuasion and the Justifier helmets as electronic mind control devices that can immediately overcome the wills of even determined anti-authoritarian types like Oliver Queen. Kirby walks a finer line in this story: Godfrey is using his high-tech pipe organ (pictured above left) to drive his believers into an ecstatic frenzy and "stimulate the brute instincts." However, everyone in his church is there because they believe in his horrifying message: "Life will make you doubt! Anti-Life will make you RIGHT!"

As for the Justifiers, the helmets in this story don't work by Mad Hatter-derived mind control circuitry, but by something much scarier: the promise of power in anonymity.

Godfrey's Justifier captain, for one, may be a dupe, but he's clearly not mind-controlled:

Godfrey's facial expressions in this story make the skin crawl. Look at his unctuous smile, full of utter contempt! Kirby, who watched a lot of TV while drawing, had undoubtedly seen Billy Graham's televised sermons, and the revulsion he obviously felt is palpable here.

This is a harrowing story — the Justifiers murder, bomb, burn books, and round up whole neighborhoods of "Others" to be carted off to concentration camps run by Darkseid's henchman DeSaad — but perhaps its most unexpected twist is the revelation that at the end of the day, Godfrey is really just a huckster. He sells Anti-Life, but not only is his pitch not driven by the supernatural force of the will-destroying Anti-Life Equation Darkseid is seeking, Godfrey doesn't really even believe the Equation exists.

Kirby draws an important contrast between Godfrey's church and the Source Wall on New Genesis, where Highfather receives the word of the Source directly, written in fiery letters by the disembodied hand of the Uni-Friend. In THE NEW GODS #1, Orion declares, "The moving hand appears! The Source gives us the irrevocable counsel!" Highfather corrects him, saying, "But it does not decide! The right of choice is ours! That is the Life Equation!"

The central conflict in Kirby's Fourth World saga, then, is not good versus evil, or belief versus nonbelief — it's choice versus subjugation, Life versus Anti-Life. Those who would remove or willfully abandon that choice are servants of Anti-Life. This is something later writers have dropped or obfuscated (particularly Jim Starlin, who can't resist filtering Kirby's Jewish ideas through his own lapsed-Catholic world view), but it's the conceptual spine of the Kirby stories.

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Original Art - Ghost Rider #03 Pg 18 (1967) by Dick Ayers And Vince Colletta

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BHOC: DETECTIVE COMICS #483

For almost the entirety of its run, I had been a regular reader of BATMAN FAMILY. But during the famous DC Implosion, in which DC’s publishing line was significantly pruned back, BATMAN FAMILY had been merged with DETECTIVE COMICS in an effort to keep the series that the company had been named after alive. Clearly, it worked, as DETECTIVE COMICS continues to be published to this day. But this…

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Wonder Woman #210 (1974) Original art by Ric Estrada and Vince Colletta

A retelling of "The Golden Women and the White Star!" from Wonder Woman #26 (1947)