Dig These 13 Great BRONZE AGE COMICS That Should Have Been
DAKOTA ALEXANDER strikes again! Like Steve Rogers, Dakota Alexander is a man out of time: He’s a DIY artist who, if this were, say, 40-45 years ago, would have been a star for Marvel and/or DC. I really believe that. Anything he posts on Facebook — much of which we’ve shown off at 13th Dimension — stops me in my tracks. He’s an outstanding, clever artist who is able to channel Bronze Age artists without ripping them off. He recently completed his 13th faux Bronze Age cover, so in hitting that milestone, he magically unlocked the key to another feature here. So, dig these 13 GREAT BRONZE AGE COMICS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, along with a brief intro and commentary from Dakota: — Hi, folks! Thanks always for the support of my work as well as the support for 13th Dimension. A quick note on some of the pieces you’ll see. Many of them started out as regular pieces, but I found that they would also work well as covers. Also, they are mostly Marvel. Nothing against DC. Excelsior! — Dakota This is one of my first attempts at making covers. I really love Halloween and every year I do a few spooky-themed pieces. This was also my first big try at the vintage weathered look. — This is actually a fairly old piece that I recently made into a cover. Wolverine is one of the few characters who is just as iconic out of costume as he is in costume. I wanted him in his home element and Wendigo just seemed like the perfect foe. — Another piece that started as a pin-up. It is actually kind of hard to fit the entire FF evenly on a single page, and then to put them in some kind of suspenseful situation to feel compelling — so I went with the metaphorical angle. When I converted it into a cover, the tagline title became pretty obvious. — John Romita Sr. is huge inspiration for me and directly influences any classic Spidey I draw. I wanted something with Spidey really filling the whole cover and yet still in danger. — — This started out as me just wanting to see Marvel and DC duke it out with their swamp characters. The EC element kind of just came to me after the...
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