Sean Clarke :: Gene Colan

Captain America #137, page 12

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

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Title:	Captain America #137, page 12
Artist:	Gene Colan (Penciller)
Artist:	Bill Everett (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	312
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	1/26/2021
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Description

There was a period of a year or two when Marvel published 19 page stories instead of 20-pagers, by slicing one full story page in half and running ads on the bottom of each half page of art (check out additional images, below). This is one such page, and laughably enough, it's not the only one in my collection!

Some collectors only buy covers and splash pages. Lacking both the self respect and the stock portfolio of guys like that, I am quite delighted to collect panel pages. If one of these half pagers comes along, I'll collect the heck outta that, too! Laugh, clown, laugh, but there's n̶o̶ not much paralyzing, emotionally crippling shame in my game.

This delightful Colan/Everett half pager is one I was outbid on at an ebay auction many years ago. I later discovered that the winner was one of our hobby's good guys, who was attempting to reunite Cap #137 in original art form. Had I known that, I wouldn't have bid at all, because there is no greater calling in life than to help a fellow collector reunite a Colan/Everett story, as there is no greater satisfaction than the feeling of accomplishment and overall well-being that you experience after selling/trading me your Colan/Everett Black Widow art.

Over a few years I was lucky enough to assist Cap #137-Guy in sourcing several more pages from this issue for his collection. Collectors who attempt to reunite stories are a curious breed, and we can usually recognize one another across crowded rooms by an Ahab-like quality in the eyes. When Cap #137-Guy decided to put the tiller to starboard and let the white whale slip away, he was gracious enough to drop me a line.

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents� beds, unerringly I rush! Naught�s an obstacle, naught�s an angle to the iron way!

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	Sean Clarke Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	January 2005
Last Login:	September 2025
Country:	UNITED STATES
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Ted Latner
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/26/2021

Beautiful inking by Everett!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 1/27/2021

Nice Colan (half) page! Other than a handful of splashes and covers, I personally prefer panel pages to single images --- great visual storytelling sticks with me longer than iconic imagery. Your allusions to Melville extend a grand tradition on CAF; there are some stellar white whale commissions

Dewey Cassell
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 1/27/2021

I love half pages. (And I love Everett's inking on this page!)

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