Photo de l'auteur

Murphy Anderson (1926–2015)

Auteur de Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Volume 02

17+ oeuvres 219 utilisateurs 7 critiques

Œuvres de Murphy Anderson

The Flash Archives, Volume 2 (2000) — Inker — 40 exemplaires
DC Comics Classics Library: Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore (2009) — Illustrateur — 36 exemplaires
The Adam Strange Archives, Volume 3 (2008) — Illustrateur — 21 exemplaires
Adam Strange: The Silver Age Omnibus (2017) — Illustrateur — 20 exemplaires
The Life And Art Of Murphy Anderson (2003) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Cerebus Jam No.1 April 1985 (1985) — Illustrateur — 5 exemplaires
Detective Comics # 359 (1967) — Illustrateur — 4 exemplaires
DC Comics Presents (1978-1986) #8 (1979) — Illustrateur — 3 exemplaires
DC Comics Presents (1978-1986) #5 (1979) — Illustrateur — 1 exemplaire
Superboy [1949] #195 (1973) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Secret Origins (1986-1990) #19 (1987) — Illustrateur — 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1988) — Illustrateur — 256 exemplaires
Showcase Presents: The Elongated Man Vol. 1 (2006) — Illustrateur — 76 exemplaires
Green Lantern Archives, Volume 1 (1993) — Inker — 65 exemplaires
Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups, Volume One (2006) — Illustrateur — 61 exemplaires
The Black Canary Archives, Volume 1 (2001) — Illustrateur — 56 exemplaires
Superman in the Seventies (2000) — Illustrateur — 55 exemplaires
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, Volume 10 (2000) — Illustrateur — 54 exemplaires
Showcase Presents: House of Secrets, Vol. 1 (2008) — Illustrateur — 48 exemplaires
The Adam Strange Archives, Volume 1 (2003) — Inker — 45 exemplaires
52: The Companion (2007) — Illustrateur — 43 exemplaires
Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups, Volume Two (2007) — Artist — 42 exemplaires
Showcase Presents: The Witching Hour Vol 1 (2011) — Illustrateur — 32 exemplaires
Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes (1977) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions31 exemplaires
Showcase Presents: House of Mystery, Vol. 3 (2009) — Illustrateur — 31 exemplaires
Showcase Presents: Secrets of Sinister House (2010) — Illustrateur — 29 exemplaires
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Volume Two (2018) — Illustrateur — 27 exemplaires
Batgirl: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2010) — Artist — 25 exemplaires
Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics (1980) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Showcase Presents [1956] #55 (1965) — Artiste de la couverture — 2 exemplaires
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #140 (1971) — Artiste de la couverture — 2 exemplaires
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #126 (1970) — Artiste de la couverture — 2 exemplaires
Superboy [1949] #184 (1972) — Illustrateur — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #127 (1970) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129 (1970) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
The Flash [1959] #144 (1964) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #124 (1969) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #128 (1970) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane, no. 106 (1970) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane, no. 105 — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane, no. 98, January 1970 (1969) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
The Flash [1959] #150 (1965) — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane, no. 99 — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #097 — Artiste de la couverture — 1 exemplaire

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Nom légal
Anderson, Murphy Clyde
Date de naissance
1926-07-09
Date de décès
2015-10-23
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Ashville, North Carolina, USA
Professions
comic book artist

Membres

Critiques

 
Signalé
lulusantiago | Mar 11, 2023 |
My new year’s resolution is to read my stack of ‘DC Showcase’ at the rate of one comic magazine per day. As they usually contain over twenty issues I should get through one and a bit per month. I can’t do more than one a day as they tend to blend into each other in a foggy blur of pseudo-science which makes individual issues hard to remember. This volume runs from Green Lantern # 18 (January 1963) to Green Lantern # 38 (July 1965) so it’s two and a half years worth of comic books.

The thing with Silver Age DC Comics is that nothing changes in the life of the characters. When this volume starts Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) works as a test pilot for the Ferris Aircraft Company run by Carol Ferris who likes Hal but loves Green Lantern. He is assisted by a ‘grease-monkey’ called Thomas Kalmaku – nicknamed Pieface, an Eskimo who knows his super-hero identity and keeps a file of his cases as Doctor Watson did for Sherlock Holmes. Jordan is a member of the Green Lantern Corps founded by the Guardians of the Universe who occasionally summon him to help out on another planet. By the end of the book, none of this has changed.

As most issues contain two stories there are nearly forty tales here so the thing to do would be to pick out the highlights. There aren’t any highlights. One yarn is pretty much the same quality as any other. Partly that’s because they were all written by either John Broome or Gardner Fox. Both have a way with science that is less than accurate but generally, Fox takes it to greater extremes of fantasy. He writes every issue from # 32 onwards but before that, it’s more or less fifty-fifty between these twin titans of the tall story.

Lacking highlights I will, in a good-natured way, pick out the worst science. Not that I know much science but a clever ten-year-old could see through most of this hokum. In ‘Green Lantern vs. Power Ring’ (GL#18) Hal is practising controlling the ring at a distance through rock when he is separated from it by a cave-in. A hungry hobo picks it up and thinks he fancies a melon. A melon appears! But the ring cannot work on anything yellow ‘due to a necessary impurity’ so how can it create melons? In GL#24, ‘The Shark That Hunted Human Prey’, a tiger shark is evolved into a human and then beyond by a freak nuclear accident so that with ‘mind power’ it can do anything. An ‘invisible yellow aura’ protects it from Green Lantern’s ring. How can something invisible be yellow? In ‘The House That Fought Green Lantern’ (#28) the ring is useless because it’s affected by the vibrations of a grandfather clock. In ‘This World Is Mine’ (#29), an evil force animates a giant papier-mâché model of Green Lantern and uses it to destroy fairground rides. Steel is generally reckoned to be stronger than papier-mâché and able to resist it. In ‘Three Way Attack Against Green Lantern‘ (GL#34), villain Hector Hammond uses his super-brain to create an ‘energy duplicate’ of a Guardian of the Universe to defeat Green Lantern. This is from Gardner Fox who had someone use ‘tornado power’ to create duplicates of the Justice League of America to defeat them. How can you create things more powerful than yourself? Oh, those duplicates!

Part of the problem is that the power ring can do anything. In ‘Secret Of The Power-Ringed Robot’ (GL#36), it transforms Hal’s flesh into a robot body, allowing a spectacular cover in which his arm comes off. In another story, ‘The Spies Who Owned Green Lantern’ (GL#37), it turns him into a letter and Pieface posts him to the criminals' hideout. It frequently reads minds and there’s a microworld inside it where Abin Sur trapped a villain called Myrwhydden in ‘World Within the Power Ring’ (GL #26) as you do.

On the credit side, a few ideas here seem to precede similar stories over at the Mighty Competition, a company whose oeuvre I know well. ‘Parasite Planet Peril’ (GL#20, April 1963) is a kind of highlight because it’s of ‘novel’ length and teams GL up with Flash. They are both shrunk down to a microworld. Something similar happened in the world’s greatest comic magazine in July 1963, though to be fair, the microworld idea is older than that. In fact, it dates back to ‘Out Of The Sub-Universe’, a 1928 story by Roman Frederick Starzl. In ‘The Strange World Named Green Lantern’ (GL#24, October 1963), the emerald crusader meets a living planet, a whole world that is one single entity. Perhaps lacking a big ego (geddit?), it calls itself Green Lantern after the hero it so admires. Research indicates that the notion of a living planet dates back to Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat’s 1931 short story ‘The Menace From Andromeda’. There are probably few far-out ideas that weren’t explored in the first three decades of American Science Fiction magazines.

In a few of the adventures, our hero wins when all seems lost because he had, with unusual prescience, done something earlier to foil the villain’s final attack. In ‘Master Of The Power Ring (GL#22), he had ordered the ring to drain itself of energy if another mind took it over. In ‘The Defeat Of Green Lantern’ (GL#19), he had previously created a globe of green energy to rescue him in time of need. Perhaps he read the script first, like Colombo.

As for the art, Gil Kane pencils are constrained by the DC house style and the inks of Joe Giella and Murphy Anderson up to issue #28. In number #29, Sid Greene takes over the inks and there’s a bit of a step up in quality, I think. Not a giant leap, the other two are worthy professionals, but he seems to put in more blacks and generally give it a more solid look. Kane’s pencils still keep the house style but there are odd flashes of the more dynamic poses and knobbly figures he developed over time. Personally, I prefer the restrained stuff to the unleashed Kane of later years. All the art is fine and much of it is first class.

Some of these reprint editions are being sold at ludicrous prices but this one is still available for a few pounds or dollars. A reasonably good read if taken in small doses and not too seriously. The art is a treat and the stories are good for a laugh. The science should be taken with a pinch of salt. No, an oil tanker of salt. I’m off to have dinner now. I shall eat beans and then use the wind power generated to create an energy duplicate of Superman who will conquer the world for me.

Eamonn Murphy
This review first appeared at https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/
… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
bigfootmurf | 2 autres critiques | Aug 11, 2019 |
GL is really a stupid concept if you think about it. Hal Jordan has a magic ring that essential functions like Aladdin's genie, but rather than simply scooping up the bad guys and hauling them to jail, GL makes his ring form all kinds of silly shapes and snares. I guess it was done to keep things interesting but it reminds me of the old Popeye cartoons where a hive of bees would shape themselves into the form a pair of scissors and cut Popeye's clothes to pieces.
Still it does have Gil Kane's wonderful art so it's not totally bad.… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
jameshold | 2 autres critiques | Jul 22, 2017 |
The intro was well done and I appreciated the diffrention about this science-fiction super-hero from his peers back in the day. Rather than using strength or fighting skill as the number one method of overcoming obsticles and/or enemies Adam Strange used his mind to come up with creative means of winning out.

Art work was really well done. Stories seemed very simple with minimal character development.

Standard excellent quality for Archive editions.
 
Signalé
Chris_El | 1 autre critique | Mar 19, 2015 |

Vous aimerez peut-être aussi

Auteurs associés

Statistiques

Œuvres
17
Aussi par
33
Membres
219
Popularité
#102,099
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
7
ISBN
10
Langues
1

Tableaux et graphiques