I really, really want a piece of Curt Swan Legion art with a lot of Legionnaires from his Adventure run in the 1960s especially if inked by George Klein.
Even his later treatments of the Legion would be fine by me, but so often the inker was "heavy" on Curt's pencils.
While at the Boston Comic Con in 2012, I saw page 17 of
The Legion of Super-Heroes 306 up close and personal in
Anthony Snyder's booth and I was sold. It's a recap of the story in
Adventure #342 where Star Boy kills.
It has the traits that I love in Curt's art, e.g., distinct faces and clean lines. I'm thrilled.
So, time passes....
My permanent ebay search on "Swan Legion" reports a hit, I check it and it turns out to be the next and final page of the flashback. It features several Legionnaires and it's affordable (as comic art goes anyway). I debated a little bit, but Kathy, the Wonder Wife, says, "You want it, your birthday is soon, and I don't have a present for you." How can I argue with that logic? So, I paid the Buy It Now and received the art in short order. Of course, that meant that I couldn't actually hold it until my birthday party which we had last night (6/12/15).
It's pretty great. Between these two pages I have Swan images of one of the most famous scenes in Legion history and a fair number of Legionnaires:
BTW, If you like Curt Swan's work, you will probably enjoy:
1)
My LSH commission 2)
My Superman CommissionAlso,
Edmond Hamilton wrote some of my favorite Legion stories including Adventure Comics 342 which these two page recap. As it happens, he also wrote the first science fiction book that I ever read,
City at World's End (1951).
