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From the brief Black Widow series in Amazing Adventures. As you can see, he could draw some exceptionally beautiful women.
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From My Greatest Adventure #74. Note the almost photographic quality of her face.
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Note the action, and again the photographic realism of the man's face. It looks easy.
Colan created the Falcon, the first actual African-American superhero (the Black Panther doesn't count, as he was not American). Here he is in an early appearance:
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His run on Iron Man was legendary:
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As was his long tenure on Daredevil:
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3 comments:
His art really has an incredible sense of movement.
He also had a few great stories in the Golden Age. One of my favorate Two-Fisted Tales stories was by Gene "the Dean" Colan. I was lucky enough to meet him, and he was the most gracious and accomodating person in the industry I have encountered. He ran out of time for sketches, but took names and had mailed them to the shop. He did a beautiful 8x10 headshot of the Black Widow for me that I will treasure always.
I remember a sequence in Dr. Strange which starts on a rain-swept street, then slowly pans to a grate, then down into the sewers where the villains are lurking. Awesomely effective.
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