Comic Book Questions Answered, is a feature where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). Today, we look into what are the oldest Batman, Superman and Spider-Man comic book stories drawn by living comic book artists. The legendary comic book artist, Ramona Fradon, is retiring from comic book art commissions at the age of 97. I thought it would be nice to commemorate Fradon while acknowledging the fact that, upon the recent passings of John Romita and Joe Giella, there is a bit of a question now, as to what is the oldest Batman, Superman and Spider-Man story drawn by an artist who is still alive (I believe Mark Millar brought this up on social media after Romita’s passing). Obviously, Romita was the answer for Spider-Man since the passing of Steve Ditko, and Giella was the answer for Batman before HIS passing, so what is the answer now?This one is a pretty straightforward one. The Brave and the Bold had one of the odder evolutions as a comic book series. It began life as a historical adventure anthology (initially starring The VIking Prince, The Golden Gladiator and The Shining Knight), but during the Silver Age superhero boom, it became a superhero team-up series, then briefly a “try-out” series before then going back to being a superhero team-up series, finally settling as specifically a BATMAN team-up series following the “Bat-Mania” of the 1966 Batman TV series. Bob Haney and Ramona Fradon (and inker Charles Paris) launched the character Metamorpho in The Brave and the Bold #57, when it was a try-out series. They did two issues with Metamorpho in The Brave and the Bold before the character was given his own series. The NEXT issue of The Brave and the Bold, #59, was a team-up of Batman and Green Lantern, and it was drawn by Fradon and Paris…
Comic Book Questions Answered, is a feature where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). Today, we look into what are the oldest Batman, Superman and Spider-Man comic book stories drawn by living comic book artists.
The legendary comic book artist, Ramona Fradon, is retiring from comic book art commissions at the age of 97. I thought it would be nice to commemorate Fradon while acknowledging the fact that, upon the recent passings of John Romita and Joe Giella, there is a bit of a question now, as to what is the oldest Batman, Superman and Spider-Man story drawn by an artist who is still alive (I believe Mark Millar brought this up on social media after Romita’s passing). Obviously, Romita was the answer for Spider-Man since the passing of Steve Ditko, and Giella was the answer for Batman before HIS passing, so what is the answer now?
This one is a pretty straightforward one. The Brave and the Bold had one of the odder evolutions as a comic book series. It began life as a historical adventure anthology (initially starring The VIking Prince, The Golden Gladiator and The Shining Knight), but during the Silver Age superhero boom, it became a superhero team-up series, then briefly a “try-out” series before then going back to being a superhero team-up series, finally settling as specifically a BATMAN team-up series following the “Bat-Mania” of the 1966 Batman TV series. Bob Haney and Ramona Fradon (and inker Charles Paris) launched the character Metamorpho in The Brave and the Bold #57, when it was a try-out series. They did two issues with Metamorpho in The Brave and the Bold before the character was given his own series. The NEXT issue of The Brave and the Bold, #59, was a team-up of Batman and Green Lantern, and it was drawn by Fradon and Paris…
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