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For those persons that don't particularly care for Aparo's art, I hope that you're not basing it on his late 1980s work (eg. the image above with the Joker & Robin is from 1988). I think that the vast majority of readers are in agreement that we was well past his prime by then.
Mid 1970s Aparo is considered to be his prime, and what marvelous work he did!
Richard G.
That's fair enough. It's like judging Jack Kirby's work based solely on his 1976-77 Captain America run.
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The most jarring effect of an artist out of his usual area is when Kirby did Superman... was it for the Jimmy Olsen title? SOOO wrong. Great for Fantastic Four and Thor but I didn't care for a Superman who looked like he was made of concrete! I take the point though that time makes a big difference. From early Kirby to late there might be maybe three differing styles.
But I did think that Gene Colan was a good fit for Batman after doing Daredevil, as they're in the same sort of mood I suppose.
Forgive me, but I was an avid comics reader up to the early seventies, and then dropped out until the run up to the first Tim Burton Batman film, and started again for a while before drifting away again.
But among my favourite artists are Dick Sprang and Neal Adams for Batman. And I do find that the art really gets me into a story or turns me away. So, I enjoy reading The Killing Joke, even though I have some issues with Brian Boland's Batman but have NEVER taken to the much loved Dark Knight Returns. The first is so polished, while the latter leaves me a bit cold really.
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Jack's Superman was also at the mercy of editorial. They changed Superman's face to be more in line with Curt Swan's house style. Also Kirby's art varied wildly depending on the inker. There's a huge difference between the inks of Chic Stone, Mike Royer, Dick Ayers and Joe Sinnott. There's a run of the FF before Sinnott came on that looks like a 6th grader finished it.
EDIT: George Roussos was the inker I was thinking of. He did interesting pencils for Superman in the 50's, but as an inker, he was pretty awful.
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Gene Colan received a veritable hero's welcome from DC when he began his run on Detective though IIRC it was debuted in Batman. I thought that was fairly classy of them. He was given special mention in a splash page, not just his artist's credit.
Gene Colan is another of those artists that no one (except paulhickling) doesn't seem to care for these days, but I'm a fan.
Gene Colan is God!
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