JERRY ORDWAY’s BAT-TASTIC BIRTHDAY WEEK — DAY 2!
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 fab. Walt opted to take this celebration to Gotham City, so here’s our second of five installments of JERRY ORDWAY’s BAT-TASTIC BIRTHDAY WEEK:
Man, Denny Goodwin was a terrific editor, wasn’t he? So many great stories.
Here’s the original sketch:
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MORE
— DAY 1: The JERRY ORDWAY and GIL KANE BATMAN Miniseries That Should Have Been. Click here.
— Dig JERRY ORDWAY’s Magnificent Tribute to BATMAN History. 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 25, 2024
Great piece by Mr. Ordway, and wonderful colors by Walt! I always love how Ordway keeps just a bit of Keaton’s cowl and costume in his Batman, thanks to him drawing that wonderful adaptation of Batman 1989.
November 26, 2024
This is another wonderful Bat-themed Jerry Ordway piece that you’ve made even better with your colors, Walt!