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Wallace Wood, Heroes Inc. # 1, Misfits

Artists: Wallace Wood (All) , Ralph Reese (Assistant)

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Title:	Wallace Wood, Heroes Inc. # 1, Misfits
Artist:	Wallace Wood (All)
Artist:	Ralph Reese (Assistant)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	828
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	8/13/2020
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I recently noticed a fellow professional declare Wallace Wood the greatest comic book illustrator of all time.

Unlike most commentary on social media these days, as far as I can tell, no one jumped up and bashed him. Sure you can disagree, or have another personal favorite (Kirby, Williamson, et al) but you end up in the weeds of arguing whether Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb was the greatest baseball player ever.

If Wood isn�t the �best,� he�s still in the top few.

Wood was also a pioneer in the independent comics world, trying new things at a time when he was frustrated with the mainstream commercial publishers.

In fact, shortly after the cancellation of T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents, Wood created an interesting series of �adult� oriented characters, primarily for the armed forces.

Heroes Inc. features the only color version of any of these characters, and introduces the Misfits, self-explanatory name and all.

This comic was �rare� for a while in the 70s, but then someone discovered a warehouse find.

And then another.

Pretty soon, there were likely more than 100,000 copies floating around. It appears that 250K were printed and most were never actually distributed.

I sure hope Woody didn�t get stuck with any of that printing bill.

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Keith Becker
Member Since 2018

Posted on 8/13/2020

Oh wow, no way... Man this is a great page! heart felt congrats... i'm pretty jelous. This is classic Wally Wood independent publication stuff right here. Stupendeous!

Comics Superworld
Member Since 2007

Posted on 8/13/2020

Sensational page by one of the all time greats! enjoyed your writeup too.

Nils E
Member Since 2014

Posted on 8/14/2020

Great page, so natural not Wooden at all ;-) Dangerous getting finger twitch when copying and pasting.

Mark Yanko
Member Since 2009

Posted on 8/15/2020

Wow! This is spectacular. I am so envious. Congrats! Wood was the best of them all. Al Williamson said so, and I agree with him. The downfall of Wood's later art was too much resorting to swipes, recycled poses, and too much reliance on assistants for expediency. But his prime stuff was some of the greatest comic art of all.

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