Robert Kanigher (1915–2002)

What should be a fun high concept idea, soldiers vs dinosaurs, turns out to be one of the most uninteresting collection of stories that DC has published. Every story recycles the same plot, platoon (usually paratroopers or frogmen) on a mission to some isolated island where there plane (or submarine) is suddenly attacked by prehistoric monsters. A small band of survivors then fights the same four monsters (I’m guessing that’s all artist Ross Andru knew how to draw) until a few are show more rescued and vow to keep quiet, because no-one would believe them. Maybe they should have told someone so the US military would stop sending troops to strange isolated islands!! show less

Jonah hex was the pinnacle of comic westerns to me. He wasn't just a superhero with a horse and a gun that many of the Marvel & DC western series seemed to be. The stores had a grit and underlying real world feel to them. Great collection of the 1st 1/2 of DC's run of classic hex stories.

Jonah Hex is such a volume that looks amazing in black and white. There is a wide variety of artists here, from Tony DeZuniga to Luis Dominguez to George Moltieri and others. Each artist gives us a visual show more imprint of there talent through story. The reproduction we get here is crisp with fine detail for a period comic.

Whereas super-hero titles like Superman may suffer somewhat from the lack of color , comics that depicted more realistic genres like westerns and war, with art that are not full of buff muscle gods and barely covered nymphs, seem to fit this format very well. Many of the artists working in these genres were using black shading, for instance, to create mood and nuance long before Frank Miller made it a popular motif among super-hero artists. show less

I wasn't a big comic book guy as a kid, more into sports stuff. But one year I went to camp and another kid brought along his comics to read and the one that really caught my fancy was the Metal Men. The whole concept was so different from the standard super heroes of the time that it really entertained me. Over the years I had wanted to reread the comics and until this book came along that wasn't possible unless I wanted to hunt the individual books down. 50 years later I have to admit they show more aren't as well conceived as I had remembered, and reading them in book form, one after the other, the plot devices become stale. But the entire premise is still entertaining and I enjoyed it. show less

I wasn't a big comic book guy as a kid, more into sports stuff. But one year I went to camp and another kid brought along his comics to read and the one that really caught my fancy was the Metal Men. The whole concept was so different from the standard super heroes of the time that it really entertained me. Over the years I had wanted to reread the comics and until this book came along that wasn't possible unless I wanted to hunt the individual books down. 50 years later I have to admit they show more aren't as well conceived as I had remembered, and reading them in book form, one after the other, the plot devices become stale. But the entire premise is still entertaining and I enjoyed it. show less