Battle Action #30 - Angelo Torres art
Battle Action #30, 1957 - During the throes of the Civil War, a Confederate general named Jubal A. Early comes close to striking distance of the White House. In his own mind, he imagines President Lincoln paralyzed with fear from the attack. AT illustrates the tale concisely and adequately. While a few panels are devoid of background, he takes on more complex panels teeming with rebel soldiers and hardware. Jay Scott Pike and George Woodbridge also make fine contributions in this issue. Gene Colan is credited with the intense Korean War-themed cover and accompanying story that immediately follows. This is number 2 of 2 Battle Action issues with Torres art and/or covers. See today's posts or more Torres or Battle Action issues. See also this blog's Angelo Torres checklist.
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"The Man Who was Scared" Torres story pencils and inks 4 pages = ***
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I first was aware of Angelo Torres through his TV parodies in Mad Magazine. I didn't realize he was the same artist who worked for Warren Magazine during this same period. (mid 60's). As a child, I didn't like his work in Mad; I considered him a lesser version of Mort Drucker, one of my favorite artists at the time.
To this day, I feel it was a shame he got hooked up with Mad (although he benefited greatly from it, I'm sure... A couple of weeks ago, I attended a CAPS meeting (Comicbook Artist Professional Society), where the featured presenter, Sergio Aragones, gave a slide show of his summer trips with the Mad gang, organized and financed by Bill Gaines. Angelo attended some of the later expeditions). Angelo's work for Warren was amazingly cool; dramatic, high contrast, bravura inking, like Al Williamson without the dependance on photo-swipe. I prefer Torres to Williamson for that reason.
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