DC’s new landmark covers celebrate the artist who shaped an entire era of superhero comics
It’s common to see DC Comics celebrate Jack Kirby or George Pérez, two artists who helped shape an entire era in superhero comics. But there is a name that usually no one remembers, not even the publisher who also gives it the appearance of a period. We are talking about Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, who will have a new series of variant covers with his drawings from 1982.
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Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is a Spanish-Argentinian who worked anonymously for many years on North American comics before DC Comics hired him in 1982 to create a style guide, which would be used for licensed products such as clothing, toys and lunch boxes, including others.
The style guide was designed for internal use, so fans have only seen glimpses of that manual, including other similar notebooks for the publisher.
To give you an idea, the Super Powers designs of the 1980s, responsible for introducing DC Comics to an entire generation, used the majority of Garcia-Lopez’s designs, aka those Superman pajamas you had as a kid had drawings of him.
Now, to do justice to the importance of Garcia-Lopez, who helped shape the design of DC heroes in the Bronze Age of comics, the Artist Spotlight variants of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez will be distributed across seven titles.
The list with all the features launched in July on the foreign market: Batman #150, The Flash #11, Green Arrow #14, Green Lantern #13, Shazam! #13, Superman #16 AND Wonder Woman #11.
All covers will feature the same drawings that the artists consulted to illustrate each hero’s adventures during the Super Powers era.
Over time: Garcia-Lopez’s last work for DC Comics dates back to 2013, in a Superman story. He remains alive and active at conventions and on social media.
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