I have long had a love/hate thing going with regards to the work of Frank Robbins. This one--another from Mr. Skeates-- I love. I do, however, question how he got his surprisingly sexy depiction of the female character on the final pages past the Comics Code.
She's definitely got Richard Corben dimensions.
ReplyDeleteI don't see as how the Comics Code could complain about the last few pages but not the first: she's clearly naked under the--ahem--'cover-alls'.
I was a little kid in the seventies, and apparently unlike most people, I've always loved Frank Robbins art. My oldest brother had a HUMAN FLY issue with Daredevil & the White Tiger that I used to gawk at. I had an issue of THE INVADERS with Bucky in a Japanese internment camp that also fascinated me.
A lot of people also seem to dislike Kirby's work from the same period, but I loved that, too. I had THE ETERNALS annual, a CAPTAIN AMERICA issue with Arnmin Zola & Doughboy, and the last issue of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY before the introduction of X-51.
A whole bunch of comics--happily--seared into my childhood memory.
I also especially liked the previous PLOP & Kirby posts and the Al Hartley one as well, by the way.