Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

[Wor-Gar]

What year is that cover? Buck is wearing a skirt -- that is some foresight by the artist.

 

[Khev]

What year is that cover?

1954

 

[Wor-Gar]

It's a great cover. Full of sci-fi goodness yet also scary with what is walking in.

 

[Mondragon]

Yeah George was a big fan of Frank. In one of Frazetta's artbooks he wrote that George told him that this cover to Famous Funnies #213 was the inspiration for Chewbacca.

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Yeah original concepts (Ralph McQuarrie ) were straight in the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon spirit ...

And of course well known^...Sprinkle in some Nibelungen saga, Fritz Lang, Kurosawa, Jack Kirby 4th World Saga, Matinee Movie Serials and more , etc...and you have a modern epic.

While the A. poster was a nod to Frazetta.
The D. poster was a nod to the movie serials..

Etc. which then also inspired Indiana Jones

 

[The Buffinator]

What year is that cover? Buck is wearing a skirt -- that is some foresight by the artist.

I'm guessing it was inspired by Roman smocks/tunics - there were A LOT of sword & sandals movies in the 1950s...

 

[Wor-Gar]

I'm guessing it was inspired by Roman smocks/tunics - there were A LOT of sword & sandals movies in the 1950s...

That's probably true. But when you consider Harry Styles, you are immediately impressed with the artist's daring foresight.

 

[The Buffinator]

That's probably true. But when you consider Harry Styles, you are immediately impressed with the artist's daring foresight.

I've never considered Harry Styles with respect to anything lol...

 

[Khev]

That's not Buck on the cover, they're his two teenage "Pocket Ranger" sidekicks. Buck himself wears pants.

 

[Wor-Gar]

That's not Buck on the cover, they're his two teenage "Pocket Ranger" sidekicks. Buck himself wears pants.

Ohhhh... so it's like that in the future, is it?

 

[Khev]

Stan Lee hated that everyone had underage sidekicks in those days which is why when he took over writing duties at Marvel the first thing he did was retcon Captain America's backstory and kill off Bucky, lol.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Strange... to think at one time, underage sidekicks was a thing.

 

[Khev]

Was it strange or...interesting?

 

[Mondragon]

Stan Lee hated that everyone had underage sidekicks in those days which is why when he took over writing duties at Marvel the first thing he did was retcon Captain America's backstory and kill off Bucky, lol.

At Marvel they killed the sidekick...
Meanwhile at DC they kept multiplying them.
What are they up to the 10th crap derivative Robin. How many are there?
I can't even remember if the last one is his own clone or his offspring?
Not sure how Bruce Wayne ever explained all these little mini-me "found" orphans he had popping up out of nowhere, running around in his Mansion.
I think his found orphans story was a cover, and he was secretly really just creepily cloning himself, creating his own personal army in his cave.

 

[Zurdo95D]

Oh cool, didn’t know Tarkin was a collector himself!

 

[Mondragon]

Oh cool, didn’t know Tarkin was a collector himself!

That's awesome, I wonder if he ever collected and painted himself...

Also next time I'm customizing and painting some random figure of Snaggletooth, Mugato or Bat-Hombre, I'm totally wearing a cravat.
I see now, it's not so much about the art itself, but how good you look doing it.

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[Wor-Gar]

There was that whole period in the 70's and beginning of the 80's where Batman was kind of uncool because of the whole gag about his "ward".

 

[Otomofan]

I have the A poster representing ANH in my SW poster collection. I have the Gone With the Wind style for ESB, and the lightsaber/hands for ROTJ. I also have a repro of Revenge, which I love.

The heir to the Buck Rogers dynasty is Flint Dille, best known for his work n GI Joe and Transformers cartoons in the 80s, but also for partying with Frank Miller in NYC while Frank was working on Dark Knight.

 

[Prime Clone]

Strange... to think at one time, underage sidekicks was a thing.

Especially if they were named Dick.

 

[jye4ever]

Guy literally was called the LONE Ranger yet had a sidekick named Tonto lol

 

[Mondragon]

Guy literally was called the LONE Ranger yet had a sidekick named Tonto lol

Well if you bother to learn the story, he is the only surviving Ranger of an ambush where they are all slaughtered except him, so yeah he is the LONE surviving Ranger, Tonto is not a Ranger, he's more of an ally to his cause.