JACK SPARLING - Bomba the Jungle Boy # 7 p 21
Artists: Jack Sparling (All) , Denny O'Neill (Writer)
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DescriptionA minor DC series that was current when I was first old enough to read comics, and when ebay started selling comic art I was happy to buy originals from that period. I think of Sparling as a 2nd-tier DC artist of the era, reliable and professional, but unexciting. I'm sure someone will defend him, and I'd be happy to hear it, he surely deserves it. He didn't follow the clean line DC house style, but maintained a brushier approach, with more chiaroscuro shading. Anyway, this page shows that he was also absorbing the Kirby-esque dynamism that other DC artists, like Gil Kane and Neal Adams, were emulating at the time as well. A Sparling "Bomba" page was inexpensive at the time (2002), and would remain so today, I think.I'm not quite sure why DC tried to revive this character which, Comic Vine informs me, was a Tarzan imitation from a series of novels in the 1920s, and B-movies in the '50s. The 1968-69 DC revival ran 7 issues, so this is a page from the final issue. DC also attempted another jungle character, "B'wana Beast" around the same time, the late '60s, when awareness of the racist undercurrents of the "jungle" genre must have been starting to emerge. Who wrote this series, anyone know? Social/Sharing |
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Heidjer Staecker 
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 10/11/2021
Bomba and Sparling don't get enough love! I actually think he did some great work at DC (have a Sparling cover). Like Westerns, I think Bomba was a bit of a holdover from an earlier time. Not sure if it would fly now, but the Tarzan like adventures were always fun.
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 10/11/2021
Credited to Denny O'Neil as writer. It is dynamic artwork with the panel shapes and the new wave of Adams influenced forced perspective work over outdated subject matter even back then.
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