scans_daily | Happy 75th Birthday to Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (Reply)

Though his name is not always seen as being in the upper echelons of comic book art, it's hard to imagine anyone who has had a longer, more lasting impact on the DCU than the maestro; Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

Chances are that if you owned ANY DC licensed merchandise in the late 70's or early 80's it either featured art by, or based on, work done by Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano, two stalwarts of the organisation, who produced acres of top notch, lovely licensing art.

The art would be used from notepads to action figures, from t-shirts to underoos, and so had to be both simple and stylish, easily reproduced and instantly recognisable. They could hardly have asked for better! (and where is our coffe table book of all this art? It's MADE for such a project!)

The attached pics are scanned as best I can, and hopefully might bring a little happiness to your desktop should you wish to tweak them that way.

First the gentlemen... (Note that despite being out on his own for years by the time this was used, poor Dick still get's the batlogo behind his name. Of course, few people would be paying much attention to his LOGO)

And the ladies too of course, with Bab's up first supplying some equal opportunities hot ass (I may not be interested, but I can appreciate the aesthetics). I LOVE the Catwoman logo for some reason. It would never do as a comic headline, but it would work on a T-shirt, which is where this one appeared I think.

Here we see the old secret identity switcheroo.... Though Bruce... a BROWN dinner jacket? ICK! Rest assured Alfred will be taking a flamethrower to it first chance he gets, if you're lucky he'll let you take it off first.

And the bad guys get a look in too of course

A couple of heroic clashes. I love the Riddler one here, the butterfly net for BATMAN rather than him is an inspired touch.

And a couple of images of the Happy Couple... I'm sorry, I mean the Dynamic Duo (Yeah Dick you swing in there crotch first, there's not a bad guy would put up a fight!)

And I do have to mention the one that I own the original artwork for, because even my ego has to be stroked sometimes.

After lurking around Gotham City, I think we need some representation from another character inextricably intertwined with Mr Garcia-Lopez's style, the Amazing Amazon herself!

Batman isn't the only one who can breathe in space! :)

And fimally, one featuring the only villain that most people would have associated with Wonder Woman at the time... That's right, Wonder Woman fought Josie from the Pussycats... I mean The Cheetah in the pre-werecat era!