Valiant Vinnie
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Valiant Vinnie
or: You Almost Lost Me There
This one's for Valiant Vinnie Colletta who just had a birthday a couple days ago. While it was Ditko's work that brought me to comics, Vinnie had quite a hand in it too. I discovered Ditko's work just two months before he left Marvel. I had just enough time to get hooked and then, he was gone.
My interest in comics could've stopped right there. Flipping through the books on the spinner, looking for something, anything, all I found reminded me of why I was an animation geek with no interest in comics. And then I stumbled on a copy of Thor. I had a memory, from years before, of seeing a Thor book at a friend's place. The front of the book was, well, bleech, but, the art on the back up strip at the end was kind of interesting.
At the time I had no idea that the only difference in the art was Vinnie's inks. But those four pages had stuck in the back of mind such that I pulled the Thor book out of the rack to give it a look. Had Vinnie not taken over the entirety of the ink chores by that time I'd have put the book back and, quite possibly, never started my love affair with comics at all.
This one's for you Vince!
Happy Trails
Smitty
D'OH!
Just now I see that I scanned the blue line sideways and cropped off his widdle head. Ouch!