Well, here's the sketch of Captain America that I got from Mr. Joe Simon who of course created him some 67 years ago!

Joe Simon sent me a sketch of Captain America. I can't tell you how rare this item is from the creator himself. 93 years young. i'll post when i get a scan. I also have a new Superman from George Tuska since I gave the one up here to my brother.

George Tuska

Entering his 92nd year, George Tuska sent me this today. George drew Superman for 15 years as a newspaper strip. His rendering of Superman's face is just so perfect - gives us a sense of 'this guy is on our side'...Marvelous...(no pun intended!)

Here's something interesting. Have a look at this picture, drawn by Carmine Infantino for Alter Ego #5. Now compare it with Irwin Hasen's drawing that he did for me...Notice anything similar? It was sheer coincidence that I asked for all the same characters except for Wildcat (which Irwin created) instead of BlackCanary!

Wow, what a week. last week of classes (for me for 1 year here at TRU) and I got in touch with not 1, not 2, but 3 Comic greats! I got an email from Mr. Joe Simon who created Captain America in 1941. He sent me his price list for a drawing (let's just say, it's more than he got when he started!). I got a wonderful letter from Mr. Marc Swayze who was one of the main artists for Captain Marvel and created Mary Marvel to boot! Finally, I spend a wonderful half hour on the phone talking to Paul Norris who turned 93 this week! He is the creator of Aquaman (pictured here is a later story from the 50's). And he still collects everything about him! Imagine how cool it would be to have your own creation on a stamp some 66 years later. He tells me fans mail him and they use the Aquaman postage stamp. The new Aquaman is too violent to his liking. His favourite work was drawing Tarzan strips because he loved reading Tarzan 85 years ago and to draw them was like a childhood dream come true. Mr. Norris also saved countless lives during WW2 by participating in pamphet drops over Okinawa Japan - battle weary soldiers would surrender and they'd come to the US camps holding Mr. Norris's pamphet. Both Mr. Swayze and Mr. Norris are incredibly kind to be sending me drawings of their characters.

More Artwork

I managed to find a colour scanner so I made new copies of Iron Man by George Tuska (happy 91st birthday today!) George had an 8 year Iron Man run. Jim Mooney's Spider-Man is finally shown in colour as well. Jim did issues 61,65-88 of Amazing Spider-Man among the thousands of others in his career...I'm also showing off Joe Sinnott's Thing. Joe is doing great these days too. Irwin Hasen shows off his talents with this great Justice Society of America Line up.

DC founding artist

I had a bit of a thrill today. I got to speak with Creig Flessel. Mr. Flessel is a wonderful 95 years old! He did a story in Action 1 BEFORE it became Action 1 with Superman. He did a story in Detective Comics 1 too and did the covers for Detective Comics #2 -17, that's before Batman made his appearance in Detective Comics 27 in 1939. A bit hard of hearing but otherwise in good health, it was an honour to speak to one of the founding artists of American comic books! He's even going to do a drawing of Sandman for me. Wow. So very very neat.