This artist REDEFINED Batman- with UNPUBLISHED ART from the sequel to his GREATEST run!
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Marshall Rogers was going to be an architect. It's a good thing he didn't.
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Highlighting Marshall Rogers- one of my favorite Batman artists of all time. I think of any Batman artist, the impact his work created is a lot greater than the credit he gets. The comics he made with Steve Englehart and Terry Austin were the go-to for a decade while Hollywood tried to figure out to approach Batman without the 60's camp- and there's arguably more of Rogers' influence in the great versions of the Dark Knight we got in the late 80's and the Timm animated series than any other artist!
No mention of Terry Austin's inks :(... still nice to see you highlight this run... and I bought that Batman portfolio as soon as it came out in the early 80's. They were fantastic images! Some of the most iconic ( to me) of Batman. Glad you included them in the video. Overall , good job, and thanks for putting this together.
Big fan of his, especially the earlier stuff with Rogers and Byrne! Will definitely get more into featuring inkers down the line!
You post this video a month ago, and YT only lets me know about it now?! Nice algorithm, UA-cam! Anyway, always nice to see Rogers get the recognition he deserves. Thank you.(And, DC! When are you going to publish a "Complete Batman by Marshall Rogers" edition?)
I hope they do publish that! And I'm glad the video finally made it's way to you! Should have the new one up in a couple of days- looking at Norm Breyfogle's work!
Steve Englehart wrote the Mister Miracle issues that Rogers drew. Michael Golden drew the Steve Gerber issues.
I think you're right! I'll have to check things like that for the next video and make sure I'm getting it from 2 sources to confirm!
I really like Marshall Rogers' work, but he didn't single-handedly turn Batman back into a dark figure. That got started when Editor Julius Schwartz started the "new look" Batman, with more down-to-earth stories and art by Carmine Infantino. It got serious when Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams started doing their infrequent Batman stories, with others like Frank Robbins, Irv Novick, Jim Aparo, Walt Simonson, Michael Golden, Ernie Chua, and others trying to continue down the serious, Dark Knight path. That was all from the late 60s and early 70s. So Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers came along rather late in the game, even if what they did was quite good!
I totally agree with what you're saying- the move towards the darker Batman started even in the early 60s, and I'm being a little hyperbolic with my title. But it kind of came out of the research I did on this. The first thing I think of as far as redfining Batman's world in the 70's is Adams and O'Neil- but their output was a lot spottier (in terms of timing, not quality, of course!) than I realized. They had a great stories here and there, but jumped around a lot, and it wasn't really a "run" that built up momentum. And Aparo- probably my favorite Bat-artist- was still on Brave and Bold for such a long stretch, not really on one of the Batman flagships. I'd never been a big Rogers/Englehart fan as a kid, and their run certainly didn't last that long- but it was always something I'd read about as what other teams looked at as a good baseline for the 70s "darker" Batman. But when I finally checked it out a few years ago, I can see what the fuss was about- it was seemed like it was kind of the first time all the cool things that had been happening with the character post Adam West came together, both in art and writing tone, and really took shape over a few arcs. Thanks for your comment- and some of those artists who you listed will definitely be featured in a new video soon!
The Batman being portrayed as a dark figure started with Detective Comics #27. Any other time you want to point to him becoming a dark figure is simply a return to the darkness of his first appearance.
@@ChrisLawton66 Of course. I DID say "...turn Batman *back* into a dark figure" in the original post.
@@macsnafu yes, you absolutely DID.
@@ChrisLawton66 I agree- it all stems from there!
Adams already redefined the character earler.
Adams' version is definitely a big step in Batman's visual evolution- and I'm being a little hyperbolic with my title. But Rogers' run really solidified the character and Gotham. Adams' batman output was a lot spottier than I'd thought before looking into it- my take is that rogers and englehart took a lot of what they'd seen about batman in the late 60s and early 70s, how it gad started to move away from camp, and formalized that into the approach to the character that was the blueprint until Miller came along.
Sad to hear that Rogers passed I was wondering why I haven't seen any of his work in years.
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I've always been curious why he didn't have a longer run on Batman was it his choice to leave? Does anyone know?
I'm not 100 percent sure on that- I know Englehart had an at times fraught relationship with DC, but I don't think Rogers did. I certainly wish he'd stayed longer- that we'd have as many issues by Rogers as we do Breyfogle, Nolan or Aparo!