This is DC Super Friends: Superman!, a 7x8" Golden Book focusing on The Man of Steel but also featuring his Super Friends pals, including (in a brief appearance) Aquaman! The art in this book is by Ethen Beavers, and boy howdy do I love it--it's uber-kid friendly, but also kinda retro and funky. Its as if they asked Saul Bass to do a children's book. Delightful stuff!
BTW, if you want to pick up a copy for a kid in your life (or yourself!) use this handy Amazon link and throw some of Neptune's Treasure the Shrine's way:
4 comments:
Wow! I don't care for the standard DC Super Friends house style at all -- the combination of over-modelled muscles with giant extremities looks grotesque to me -- but done this way they look MUCH better. I've liked Ethen Beavers work elsewhere and he gets the balance of old and new design elements just right.
This is really nice! I think my daughter needs this.
Chris
The look is reminiscent of "Samurai Jack" from Cartoon Network.
Barron, I, too thought of "Samurai Jack" when I saw this. I love this stuff! There's a few of them out there, but Aquaman was not in the BATMAN book. :-(
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