JERRY ORDWAY’s BAT-TASTIC BIRTHDAY WEEK — DAY 3!
Some of my favorite pieces that Walt Grogan has colored over the years have been illustrated by Jerry Ordway. So, we decided to celebrate Jerry’s upcoming birthday Thursday — Da Ordster will be 67 — with five days of gorgeous color renditions of black-and-white sketches.
Some Jerry pencilled, some he inked. All are terrific. Walt chose to take this celebration to Gotham City, so here’s our third of five installments of JERRY ORDWAY’s BAT-TASTIC BIRTHDAY WEEK:
Jerry illustrated this back in 2008. As he often does, he clearly drew inspiration for Batman’s cowl from the Michael Keaton version. Makes sense, given his deep connection to the 1989 Batman film.
Here’s the original:
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MORE
— DAY 2: The ORIGIN OF THE BAT-SIGNAL… Through the Pencil of JERRY ORDWAY. Click here.
— DAY 1: The JERRY ORDWAY and GIL KANE BATMAN Miniseries That Should Have Been. Click here.
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A 10-year-old Walt Grogan fell in love with the Big Red Cheese thanks to essays written by Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson in the paperback edition of All in Color for a Dime, released in 1970 and bought for him by his father off a paperback spinner rack in a liquor store on the South Side of Chicago. Walt runs The Marvel Family Web Facebook page devoted to all incarnations of the Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel and blogs about Captain Marvel at shazamshistorama.com.
November 26, 2024
This is an absolute masterpiece.