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Aquaman #39 page 20 by Nick Cardy

Artists: Nick Cardy (All) , Bob Haney (Writer)

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Aquaman #39 page 20 by Nick Cardy Comic Art

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Title:	Aquaman #39 page 20 by Nick Cardy
Artist:	Nick Cardy (All)
Artist:	Bob Haney (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NA
Views:	1,392
Likes on CAF:	5 6
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	11
Added to Site:	7/23/2011
Comic Art Archive:	Aquaman Issue: 39 Page: 20 View

Description

Before he passed away, I sent Nick Cardy a gushing fan letter. I had lucked into getting a commission from him for my Shakespeare Project. (He drew Green Arrow and Black Canary cast in The Taming of the Shrew and it is one of my favorite commissions.) I wanted to thank him, but not just for agreeing to take my crazy little idea and putting pencil to paper. No, I wanted to thank him for a lifetime of entertainment.

I'd read interviews he gave and it always seemed to me that he never really knew just how much a kid like me enjoyed the comics he produced back then. The Saturday morning cartoons of the day probably had something to do with it (as it said on the cover of this comic back then, Aquaman was "King of the Sea and TV"), but his Aquaman & Teen Titans were some of the very first comics I bought when my father started handing me dimes and pennies and telling me to get whatever I wanted off the comic shelves at our local drug store.

In both cases, the stories were written by the mad genius, Bob Haney. In a Haney story, ANYTHING could happen and usually did. Though I couldn't tell so much when I first started reading them, Haney never let things like "plausibility" get in the way of a really good story idea.

The problem with a Haney story is that only the best of artists could hope to keep up with all the crazy twists and turns he could seemingly weave into a 36-page comic. Luckily, he had the good fortune of being paired often with Mr. Cardy, a man whose storytelling abilities were so acute that a four-year-old just learning how to read could easily follow any story that the man penciled and inked. >

This page is from the final issue of Cardy's run on Aquaman (he started with #1). Though the title hero only appears in a long shot in the first panel, the rest of the page ably displays the artist's creative (and in this case, fluid) layouts, clear storytelling, and attention to detail that made him an early favorite with me. Another plus is that the last panel has a pretty good page-turner image of Aqualad in dire straits.

Update, Dec. 11, 2019:
I originally acquired this page from the gracious Jeff Singh's wonderful collection back in 2011, but I reluctantly sold it last year to help me with my quest to acquire a Vess Sandman page from issue 19. However, it recently showed up on an auction site and, despite the fact that I was trying not to spend any money on art this year, I gave in and put in a bid. The bid price was for less than I received for it last year, but, with all the fees entailed in winning, it ended up costing a bit more.

Nevertheless, it is nice to have it back in the fold. It may not have been the most auspicious of Cardy pages, but my Silver Age collection just wasn't the same without it.

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Hart R.
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 7/23/2011

Brilliant Cardy art page!!!

Mike W
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 7/23/2011

Even without Aquaman, this is a fabulous Cardy page!! Congratulations, my friend!!

Alex Johnson
Member Since 2006
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1 - Posted on 7/23/2011

Classic stuff and a great find. Congratulations.

Will K
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 7/23/2011

Looks good to me... and it has a vintage Cardy signature in the 2nd panel !!!

Lars Teglbjaerg
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 7/24/2011

Great page layout with wavy borderlines. Cardy was a master.

M,B The collector
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 7/27/2011

Hola Colega ! realmente te fecilico por esta gran pagina de Aquaman ! es bellisima !!! ;-)

Maria Coppola
Member Since 2011

1 - Posted on 8/5/2011

Don't own a piece of art by Nick yet, but if I did, it would have to be an Aquaman! He brought life to these pages, when I was young I would love picking up these Aquaman comics! Congratulations on such a fine acquisition!

Shannon Weathers
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 8/7/2011

Wonderful piece-great Cardy action.

Michael Kenyon
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 10/28/2013

Great Cardy page and the cover incidentally is one of my all time favorite SA covers.So glad you got hold of a page from Nick the great and always love your write ups.

Tommy Kohlmaier
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 11/17/2015

Superb designed Aqua-page from the master, congrats !

Bill J
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 7/18/2022

Doesn't get much more '60s Silver Age than Nick Cardy art! Great pick-up!

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