Sean Clarke :: Gene Colan

Captain America #137, page 20

Artists: Gene Colan (Penciller) , Bill Everett (Inker)

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Artwork Details

Title:	Captain America #137, page 20
Artist:	Gene Colan (Penciller)
Artist:	Bill Everett (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	711
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	13
Added to Site:	1/30/2021
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Description

This is the final superhero page rendered by Gene Colan and Bill Everett. In addition to a few covers, Gene and Bill lent their talents to about ninety-four Sub-mariner, Black Widow and Captain America pages. Still to come were three romance stories in My Love #13, 15 and 16, adding an additional 18 pages to their output, for around 116 pages altogether (including covers). For atmosphere and portraiture, Colan/Everett romance art is tops, and to date I've only ever found one example.

Colan/Everett art has what can only be described as charisma. Bill Everett's supple line moves along the forms on this page to exquisite effect. Everett's flowing hatching harmonizes beautifully with Gene Colan's sweeping rhythms, and brings a fine luster to the great penciller's inventive and inspirited mise-en-sc�ne. Gene brought his cinematic vision to every page of his two year Captain America run (#116-137, from 1969-71), but his art strolled or soared based on the inker assigned to the book. So, we can be thankful that Joe Sinnott and Bill Everett inked the issues they did. This is art I love any time I return to it.

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Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 1/30/2021

Great storytelling throughout and I love the mugs at the bottom!

Aaron N.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/30/2021

You're not wrong...

Mark Levy
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/30/2021

We need to think of an interesting combination to capture enough pages for an Artifact edition...Cap 136 - 137 pages could be located...and you have a lot of widow pages. I feel My Love 15 and 16 might be sitting in a closet somewhere though.. Maybe an artifact edition with all Everett inks would be a solution?

Sean Clarke
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/30/2021

Mark Levy wrote:

We need to think of an interesting combination to capture�enough pages for an Artifact�edition...Cap 136 - 137 pages could be located...and you have a lot of widow pages.� I feel My Love 15 and 16 might be sitting in a closet somewhere though.. Maybe an artifact edition with all Everett inks would be a solution?

That's certainly my goal. As much as I have been a collector since childhood, I have little pride of ownership of these pages (I didn't draw them, after all), and their value, to me, corresponds to how many like-minded fans can enjoy them in high quality. A Bill Everett artifact edition would be to die for (although mixing large art and small art pages raises a format question). My guess is that there are enough Gene Colan Cap pages in collector's hands to merit an AE of that work... although who knows if the market would support such a book?

Ted Latner
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/30/2021

Colan and Everett were truly a match made in heaven! The black and white looks even better than the published version!

Jerry C.
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

I know what you're gonna buy at the march Heritage auction. I bet one of your DD page!

Mark Howland
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

Talk about going out in style! The two mugs in the bottom panel are priceless.

Al Simpleton
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

Colan and Everett!...Couldn't have said it better, Sean! And, yes, an Artist's Edition is a Collector's Dream. This is ususally where it starts, economics only come later!...

David Grisez
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

What a great page. A true gem.

Michel Maillot
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

Superb job by the two awesome talents of Gene and Bill. Everett was an incredible artist as a penciller no doubt about that. As an inker he brought an incredible energy to the artists he worked with. The Thor issues inked on Jack, the covers he embellished on Gil Kane are multiple and beautiful examples of his work. What can be said is that he not only bring his evident knowledge but he also respected the penciller he was working for. Nothing was changed or erased but has been improved by him. The Colan's faces here are just incredible. Love this page, congratulations Sean !

Bill J
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

Stunning page! Colan's faces in the bottom panel are awesome! And Everett's inks are sensational!

Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 1/31/2021

I hope its spiritually pure and platonic, not sticky. 'This is art I love any time I return to it.'

Sean Rutan
Member Since 2012

Posted on 6/26/2024

Crazy good. Fine art good.

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