Sean Clarke :: Don Heck

Amazing Adventures (third series) #8, page 8

Artists: Don Heck (Penciller) , Bill Everett (Inker)

11 Comments - 1,396 Views - 1 Like

Amazing Adventures (third series) #8, page 8 Comic Art

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as printed, in color

panel 2

panel 4: origin and first appearance of mudflap silhouette girl

panel 5

panel 8 uncensored

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Artwork Details

Title:	Amazing Adventures (third series) #8, page 8
Artist:	Don Heck (Penciller)
Artist:	Bill Everett (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,396
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	11
Added to Site:	1/18/2015
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Description

I read author John Coates' excellent biography Don Heck: A Work of Art this summer, and resolved to find a nice example of Don rendering his co-creation, the Black Widow. This ignores the fact that I already have some nice examples of Don rendering his co-creation, the Black Widow, but hey... that's collecting. Also, if there's a specific number of Bill Everett inked Black Widow pages that equals "enough" I sure haven't reached it yet.

I've always liked Heck's work, but Coates' fine book really makes me appreciate him even more. Check out Don's Natasha in panel 9: if that portrait was any more Heckish, Gary Groth would goad Harlan Ellison into publicly humiliating it in print.

Also unique to this page is the grimly realistic panel 8, in which Natasha kicks the henchman so hard she separates his torso from his pelvis... mercifully censored for print (see additional images).

The Black Widow will return in My Budget Is Not Enough...

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Lee Benaka
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/18/2015

Great write-up, and even greater page. Everett's style is evident in every panel. Now I really want to buy that Don Heck book. Big congrats on a sweet piece of art!

. BRAUNY
Member Since 2007

Posted on 1/18/2015

Congrats on another nice Ev pick up.... damn, gotta get me one of those!

Lars Teglbjaerg
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/19/2015

Don Heck was very stylish but was greatly enhanced by a good inker.

My NAME IS LEGION
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/19/2015

The middle panel makes the page- imagine though, what life would be like if Colletta had inked AA instead of Everett? You might not have to eat canned beans. Or you might be collecting Thundra appearances...

frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

Posted on 1/19/2015

Very nice!!!

Mark Tomlinson
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/19/2015

Great page Sean. Love that last panel. Congrats!

Mark Levy
Member Since 2004

Posted on 1/19/2015

Cool acquisition - is that uncensored panel for real?

Cyrus Voris
Member Since 2009

Posted on 1/19/2015

Hah! The only one who inked Heck as good as Everett was Wally Wood...

Alex B
Member Since 2008

Posted on 4/4/2015

Beautiful ! Congrats for this stunning action page !

The Comic Art Agency Alex
Member Since 2005

Posted on 4/15/2015

This a serously powerful page. Great Black Widow! Congrats!

Suat Tong Ng
Member Since 2009

Posted on 3/4/2016

If there was a prize for "Best description of 2015," this would be a contender. But only a contender mind you...just so you don't rest on your laurels and all that.

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