Jim Mooney: THE Supergirl Artist Passes

Forkboy

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Tue Apr-01-08 02:54 AM
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Jim Mooney: THE Supergirl Artist Passes

Back in the mid-1960s, the last week of every month (either on the last Tuesday or Thursday, I don’t remember which) I would head to the local liquor store to pick up three comic books: Detective Comics (Batman), Adventure Comics (Legion of Super-Heroes) and Action Comics (Superman and Supergirl).

Action Comics would have one Superman story, usually drawn by Al Plastino and one Supergirl story, always drawn by Jim Mooney. The Supergirl story would take up about 8-10 pages, whereas the Superman story would take up about 12-15 pages.

The Supergirl stories back then, usually because of the number of pages assigned to them, tended to be two-parter stories with a cliff-hanger at the end of the first part. They were well-written and well-drawn. Jim Mooney’s work complimented Supergirl very nicely. To me, Mooney was to Supergirl as Curt Swan was to Superman. Both were equally definitive to those characters.

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Tue Apr-01-08 05:10 AM
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1. Hey!

Edited on Tue Apr-01-08 05:18 AM by Steerpike1

What about Wayne Boring. He was the one I initially equated with the big blue cheese. I actually never really liked his work.

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Tue Apr-01-08 11:24 AM
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2. a better image

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WCGreen

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Thu Jun-05-08 12:41 AM
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3. Yea, I bought those all the time on Tuesday at the local Leader Drug...

And Batman and an occassional Marvel, Captain America

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