After he drew that for roughly three years, he had a bit of a break. Brave and the Bold led into Batman and the Outsiders. Aparo took over Brave and the Bold a couple of issues later and then drew it for the next TEN years until it ended. That story had all of the hallmarks of a Jim Aparo story – great storytelling, the patented Jim Aparo facial expressions, the fluidity of the character action – just great work. That bit was from 1971 and yet it just as well could have come from 1981.
To show off how consistent he was, check out his very first Batman work, from 1971’s Brave and the Bold #98 (co-starring The Phantom Stranger, whose ongoing series was Aparo’s second assignment at DC Comics – the concept of the issue is that strange things are happening at the home of the widow and son of a friend of Batman’s who just died and Batman is investigating)…
His inks started to lose a little focus towards the end of his career and DC stopped letting him ink himself, so a little bit of the magic was lost, but he was still producing top-notch work well into the 1990s. While perhaps not to the level of some of the comic book artists of the 1950s, who just drew forever (like Curt Swan), Jim Aparo was still one of the most amazingly consistent artists you’ll ever see. Jim Aparo – 247 points (4 first place votes) The countdown continues! Here are the next four comic book artists that you voted as your favorites of all-time (out of roughly 1,023 ballots cast, with 10 points for first place votes, 9 points for second place votes, etc.).Ĥ2.
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