Action Comics Weekly #620, Page 17

Artists: Frank Springer (Penciller) , Frank McLaughlin (Inker)

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Title:	Action Comics Weekly #620, Page 17
Artist:	Frank Springer (Penciller)
Artist:	Frank McLaughlin (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	463
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Added to Site:	3/7/2015
Comic Art Archive:	Action Comics Weekly Issue: 620 Page: 17 View

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While the preceding page in this chapter of the Secret Six story features a little more in the way of storytelling/plot, this second page is all about the action. This work precedes the "widescreen" approach to comics storytelling by a number of years, but the artists nevertheless capture a cinematic sense of energy and action here. One can easily picture the dark-haired hero in this sequence as James Bond or John McClane. (I see that Page 18 of this comic would complete the three-page action scene, so if anyone out there has it and is willing to part with it, drop me a line!)

Frank Springer and Frank McLaughlin's collaboration here put me in mind of the styles of two other Bronze age talents: Dick Giordano and Joe Staton. Springer's style seems a little overpowered by McLaughlin's recognizing style in his inking. Interesting fact: Springer was the artist on the first two issues of Secret Six series from the Silver Age that preceded the ACW serial, making the latter a return to a property he'd helped to establish.

When I started collecting original comic art on a more active basis, there were a number of "categories" I was keen to include in my collection: team-up title art, Amalgam comics and journalism-related subject matter, among others. I've also always wanted to acquire pages from Action Comics Weekly. Don't ask me why; I just have an affection for that limited run of the title from the 1980s as a serial anthology. I recently found just such a page on eBay and struck a deal with the seller -- for what turned out unexpectedly to be a lot of two consecutive pages from the same issue of ACW.

Now, these pages weren't clearly labelled as being from Action. Instead, they're marked as the first and second pages from "Secret 6 #14," with 1988 copyright stamps on the reverse sides. Obviously, there was no such Secret Six series at that time, but there was the Secret Six serial from ACW. Some online research suggested these were pages from the 14th chapter of the "Secret Six" serial, which ran in Action #620 in the late 1980s. I went through my comic collection and found the issue, and confirmed these are indeed the first two pages from the Secret Six segment (which are pages 16 and 17 of the comic, which explains the numbers in the upper-right corners of the boards). Honestly, confirming these as ACW pages and deducing the issue in which they appeared was a surprising bit of fun.

This is a nice two-page action sequence, and looking these pages up in the original comic revealed an interesting trait: they look infinitely better in black and white than in color, as the limited color palette of the time made for a garish tone that conflicted with the espionage/heist genre.

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