From the November 1953 issue of Uncanny Tales #14.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Find a Pin and Pick it Up!
My hellacious Haunted Horror cohorts, Forlock the Warlock and El Diablo, were lucky enough recently to meet the great, Joe Sinnott, at a convention, and today's post is dedicated to that monolithic meeting of monster men! And seriously, per the story-- if you thought Bill Everett drew some creepy old man faces (see our last post), wait'll you get a load of these gruesome geezers!
From the November 1953 issue of Uncanny Tales #14.
From the November 1953 issue of Uncanny Tales #14.
The image of Walter leering over Miles was great, it had real menace.
ReplyDeleteNot an expert in Egyptian Deities and I could easily be mistaken, but I thought Bast had the head of a cat. Somebody read something and got it switched around in their mind!
Story is a little flaky in parts but it does track, if you re-read it you can see Walter nudging Miles along, so I'll give it a solid B. Still read a bit left-field, though.
The art is awesome. The shabby apartment, the old men, the shop. All excellent, and the coloring is certainly more workable here. Page 3, panel 4 Sinnott even puts the reflection of the candle in the magnifying glass!
Like finding a bug webbed under the Halloween skeleton, another present from our fiend. Thank you Mr. K.. Yes those are some fantastic faces. This ending seemed no surprise for me, except for the croc head. Wasn't Bast a cat god? Oh well, good fun!
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ReplyDeleteMan, this Statler and Waldorf reboot is really gritty!
ReplyDeleteAlso, like everyone else was saying, the last time I checked, Bast was a female cat goddess.
Yeah, Bast was a cat-headed goddess. There's one more.
ReplyDelete68 years with Marvel, 26 years of the Sunday edition Amazing Spider-Man comic strip, and Joe Sinnott's still trucking on!
Aw that's a great photo of Sinnott, who is probably my favorite crosshatcher of all time. Normally I would totally rue the fact that he spent so much of his career working behind other major artists, but he was also such a brilliantly great inker that I can hardly complain about it (though I do prefer it when he's finishing his own pencils).
ReplyDeleteOne thing though. Joe Sinnott had a cat head. I don't know who took that picture, but it's wrong.
I knew something was gonna happen, but I didn't see that end. Interesting stuff.
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