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Big Ben Bolt Sunday dated 14 August 1960 - Murphy

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Title:	Big Ben Bolt Sunday dated 14 August 1960 - Murphy
Artist:	John Cullen Murphy (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	57
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	8/5/2025
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Description

A solid piece of JCM goodness, executed at an interesting time in his career. Murphy's style was changing , an evolution which built on his excellent sense of anatomy and movement, becoming increasingly sophisticated and modern. His famously semi-impressionistic inking became more disciplined and intentional, his use of shifting pov's more varied, his posing of groups and body attitudes more dynamic. Simple things like hand gestures, facial renderings, and the draping of clothes, became highly suggestive of motion and drama. His development was in some ways an adoption of current advertising illustrative techniques, which could be seen as a prelude to the arrival of Neal Adams on Ben Casey a year later, who became the ultimate histrionic expression of that Johnstone and Cushing school on his way to DC and the Batman revolution he would unleash.

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	Scotty Moore ( 1 )
Joined:	February 2004
Last Login:	August 2025
Country:	UNITED STATES
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Jeff Singh
Member Since 2004

Posted on 8/6/2025

Great looking piece and a fantastic and insightful write up putting the art into context.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/6/2025

Love that topper! The wordless panel was not necessary, but is just pure drawing. The faces throughout made the drama more realistic than ever.

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