Damn. Comics Beat just reported Nick Cardy had passed away; at age 93 or 94 not quite surprising but still upsetting. Twentyfive years or so agao when I started out collecting comics, it was his Aquaman covers that drew me to collect the Dutch reprints of that series, even before I knew who drew them. Just look at the one shown above. That’s a great image but also a brilliant hook, something that makes you want to read the story that it suggests. Almost all his Aquaman covers, especially the later ones, are like that.
What I also like about him were his women, like Aquagirl here, pretty, but like his men with bodies that looked tough and capable of doing all the stunts a superhero life requires. His women had actual muscles.
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