S.H.I.E.L.D. by Jim Steranko storytime part 2

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>>86691172
This

>>86691806
Literally came in just for this

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>>86692037
Favorite page

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COMIC LEGEND: Jim Steranko’s run on Nick Fury was repeatedly (and fairly oddly) censored by Marvel.

STATUS: True

Jim Steranko was a major artist for Marvel Comics during the late 1960s, but at the same time, he and Marvel were often at odds a bit over how to handle his artwork, generally because Marvel was worried about the Comics Code.

Steranko was doing the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD co-feature in Strange Tales during the late 1960s when, in one particular panel featuring Countess Valentina (Val) Allegro De Fontaine (the sexy SHIELD agent who became Nick Fury’s paramour), Marvel actually blacked out her buttocks!

Say Steranko, “There was a page-tall figure of Val seen from the back, and I put a lot of shine on the outfit, particularly on her buttocks. I defined the form on satin material — and they eliminated the shine. Blacked it all in because it was too hot!”

Here’s the panel from Strange Tales #168…

Now, as you might imagine, typically, in that outfit, the Countess would be having a line to denote her cleavage. Instead, it was removed.

Amusingly enough, in the issue where her buttocks was blacked out, there was another panel where Steranko’s cleavage line remained on an ancillery character…

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The cleavage lines were removed specifically by request of the Comics Code (Marvel did the other edits usually as a mix of what their view of what the Comics Code would find objectionable mixed with suggestions from the Comics Code, but the cleavage lines were specifically taken out by request of the Comic Code).

The above panel of the Countess was also part of Marvel’s other particularly hilarious editing job.

Here is the page as it appeared in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #2…

In the middle of the bottom panels, there is a picture of a phone.

Steranko originally drew a phone off the hook…


but Marvel had another artist literally draw the phone ON the hook, because a phone off the hook was too suggestive.

As Steranko recalled, “One panel also showed a telephone that was off the hook. They considered it suggestive, and put it back on. Now, every time I pass a phone that’s off the hook, I get horny!”

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http://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-219/

I've been reading a lot of older comics, recently. Did they have more creative freedom back then? It feels like they were more open to experimentation.

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The end thanks for reading

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>>86693358
Thanks for posting these great digitals.

>>86692913
Steranko was the only one who really wrote his own ticket. Nobody else managed to keep his art. Then again characters were a different story.

>>86692913

kind of. marvel also just had really loose organization between stan leaving and shooter coming on. very inmates running the aslyum

one of the big scams was being the editor on the book you were writing and getting paid twice.

Yay

>>86694641
You welcome anon

>>86695821
Good

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>>86691174
at this year's Dragon*Con Larry Hama claimed these three pages inspired the GI Joe comic "Silent Interlude", which everyone seems to like

>>86691806
how can one man be so based?

>>86691806

Best Fury pic ever.

>>86698728
Hell yeah

>>86697894
No idea

>>86691151
As was said in the last thread, this is pretty much the best comic art ever.

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>>86691806
Why can't Fury Jr be this cool?

I have this story in tpb ultimate collection. Steranko is fucking awesome. Go lurk about him more, anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fadzZwx85e0

this sonovubitch slapped Bob Kane in a face, man

>>86691806
I'll just go try and find a soundtrack metal enough for this.

>>86702864
Fuck yeah

>>86700602
Agreed with this.

>>86702864
His twitter is the most entertaining twitter in existence.

Steranko SHIELD was ahead of its time. Thanks for storytimin anon

>>86705094
Agreed. You welcome anon.

Is this collected in an omnibus or anything?

>>86707584
Thanks

>>86706047
Collected in S.H.I.E.L.D. by Jim Steranko: The Complete Collection

>>86704659
Agreed.

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>>86717623
Thanks

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>>86691806
Now I know what Bruce Timm meant when he said Steranko is "out-ditkoing Ditko".

>>86730192
Thank you

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