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VERONICA: Ooh, Archie! Isn’t this the Wildest?
ARCHIE: Yeah! The artist even had to turn the page around to draw it!
Connections: Harry Lucey (1964) and Richard Corben (1978)
Tag: Harry Lucey
Look Here, Read: “Cottage of Love,” with art by Harry Lucey
From Darling Love #8 (Summer 1951), here’s “Cottage of Love,” with art by the incomparable Archie artist and 2012 Eisner Hall of Fame inductee, Harry Lucey, and script by the great unknown, and since the cover of Darling Love #8 is also by Lucey, I’ve included it as well, though it’s obviously just a recoloured version of the opening panel of the story:
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Heads Up: THE BEST OF HARRY LUCEY VOLUME 2
Coming in July 2012 from IDW:
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“The Best of Harry Lucey,” writes the publisher, “is all scanned from original art and then re-colored using the original comics as guides to match the original published comics as much as possible – except with far batter production values!” Pre-order now from Amazon.ca, and it’ll set you back a mere CDN$16.62 for an oversized 152-page hardcover collection of beautifully drawn, crisply reproduced, classic comics by a newly minted member (Class of 2012!) of the Eisner Hall of Fame — and that’s a bargain any way you slice it, kids!
Out of Context: “Blast ’em with the ray”
Heads Up: ARCHIE: THE BEST OF HARRY LUCEY
Coming in August from IDW:
Other artist-centred collections of Archie Comics have either been published or are in the works, but Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (ISBN-10: 1600109934; ISBN-13: 978-1600109935) is definitely the collection I would buy if I could only buy one.
Like other Archie collections from IDW, The Best of Harry Lucey is scanned from original art and digitally re-coloured using the original comics as guides to match the original published comics as closely as possible — only with better production values.
Though the cover design gives no indication, Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey is apparently volume one in a series of collections of Lucey’s work for Archie Comics, and of course, I WILL have them ALL!
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