JuniorJones
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Even cancellation can't stop indiana Jones from appearing in Marvel Comics!
harvey7297 said:Nice! What issue is that? (I like the shot of James Bond on the side as well).
Jono11 said:Who was the creative team on the last few issues? Was there any indication that there was going to be a change between #34 and #35? If not, it would be worth trying to contact the creators that worked on #34.
Jono11 said:It appears Ditko did the interiors for issue 34. He is a recluse and I'm not sure he would even answer an inquiry. However Danny Bulandi was the inker, so he may know and Jim Shooter or Keith Pollard may know as well.
JuniorJones said:I'm not sure but wasn't it advertised in Marvel Age along with the cancellation?
Mephisto said:I don't know that Grant would actually know if he art was produced after she wrote u tje script. A lot of writters don't do the lettering on the art.
Mephisto said:I am going to write Ditko. He is hilarious when he writes back. Someone once wrote him him for an autograph and he replied he doesn't sign them...yet he signed the letter he sent back. He seems to be good about responding it's just he may not give you what is being asked for. I emailed Bulanadi's art rep but I'm not sure I will hear back as, it is often hit and miss with artists although rep's seem more likely to write any type of response. I also shot Pollard a message to see if he remembered creating any other covers.
JuniorJones said:Good luck with the Dikto!!
Pollard's response would be interesting.
JuniorJones said:For those who are not aware of the reason why the artist team changed on issue 3. This was due to the death of Gene Day by a coronary in his sleep.
Here's part of an interview that took place with Jim Shooter in September 1982.
Jim Shooter: Well, Gene never left. Gene, unfortunately, died last week.
Interviewer: We're talking about Gene Day?
Jim Shooter: Yes, of a heart attack but uh…at the point when he died he was still doing a regular series for us, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES and quite a lot of other work besides. I know that Gene, like many other guys, was doing some work on the outside for independent, smaller publishers and like that.
InBanana Jones said:Gene Day's death was the first time I learned of the demise of a comic book creator, and I felt his loss keenly then--I was 11 years old in 1982--as his work on Master of Kung Fu and an issue of Star Wars (#68) had such beautiful detail. No one drew cathedrals and graveyards like Gene Day. He also used a storytelling technique that employed all the panels on a page to follow a single page of action. There's a fight sequence in Master of Kung Fu #115 where this is realized to perfection.
phantom train said:I was also a fan/collector of Master of Kung Fu and Star Wars comics in the early '80's, and I agree that GD's artwork was groundbreaking, breathtaking, incredibly detailed, and powerful. Day's work on MOKF was especially incredible, and many of his panels deserve to be framed as works of art. (His artwork in Star Wars was amazing as well, i.e. the issues when Leia was looking for Han Solo and ran into a group of Mandalorian warriors (i.e., Boba Fett's) ).
I remember reading MOKF towards the end of the series (it ended with issue #125), and being surprised that Day wasn't doing the art in these final issues. However, I didn't realize until years later that Gene Day had passed away during that time.
Not to get too much off topic, but here's hoping that MOKF will be reprinted at some point in the future, since my original comics are long gone (this won't happen anytime soon because of rights/licensing issues, but one can always hope).
JuniorJones said:A link for those interested in discovering more about Gene Day. I recommend you do.
http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2010/11/original-art-stories-gene-day-in-his.html
phantom train said:The irony regarding the difficulties he was having @ Marvel is that, irrespective of these, he was such a superb artist (and, IMHO, he was the best artist to work on MOKF). In fact, I would even go so far as to say GD was one of the top ten (or maybe even top five) best comic book artists of all time, period. Yes, that's high praise for someone who, overall, doesn't have a lot of output because he passed on so young, but the work that he did do really resonated.