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Welcome to very lucky (and very late) the thirteenth issue of The Neon Bone Yard, the comic art comedy club. This issue continues my series honoring the unsung hearoes of the comic art work, the inkers. This issue features selections from artist, editor and inker Dick Giordando. I have spent several afternoons (when I should have been working) comic art mining in the Dick Giordando's section at The Artist's Choice , and these are a few of the gems I have picked up. The featured page is from DC's 1970's SHAZAM comic. This particular issue featured the introduction of Isis to the DC Universe. I'm sure most young men (in their 40's) remember the smokin' Joanna Cameron from the live saturday morning Isis show. I stumbled across this page in Mr. Giordando's section, and bought it for several reasons: 1) The first introduction and origin page for a new character in the DC Universe (Ka-CHING!) 2) This charcter has recently been reintroduced to the modern audience in DC's "52" series (Ka-CHING, Ka-CHING!!) 3) This is one of the "Art of Controversy" pages I have recent started to collect (DING, DING, DING, DING, DING.... JACKPOT!!!) It's not hard enought to collect "one of a kind in the universe" original comic art pages for me anymore. I am now dedicated to finding pages which have an addition story behind them. Apparently, DC could not reprint SHAZAM #25 due to the inclusion of Isis, who's TV visage was a trademark of Filmation (and lets not even get started why the comic could not be called "Captain Marvel" or his history with DC and Marvel comics). The new Isis in the DC universe is more of a public domain version, similar to other mythical characters (Thor, Atlas, Hercules, the "Where's the Beef" lady) who appear in comics. The Filmation version however, is now apparently verboten at DC, thus making this page a banned "Art of Controversy". I'm planning on my "Art of Controversy" collection being my next web project after finishing my Neon Bone Yard tales later this year. Speaking of controversy, these are a few more nuggets I dug up from the Dick Giordando comic art mines: 
These pages are from the comic mini-series based on the infamous 1990 movie "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". This movie was was set up to be a staring vehicle for raunch comedian "Andrew Dice Clay" . While appearing on the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards to promote the movie, "The Dice Man" earned a "lifetime ban" from the network when he started performing some of his already-notorious nursery rhymes, causing the movie crashed and burned at the box office. Personally, I still think it's one of the funniest movies I've every seen, and is a perfect coda to the 1980's Yuppie Greed Decade. The most amazing thing to me is, DC Comics had banned the infamous Swamp Thing #88 (Swamp Thing meets Jesus Christ) just a few months earlier due to fears of offending the religious right, yet I was picking up the above comic at my local 7-11 right out of the standard comic book rack. Richie Rich, Donald Duck, and Ford Fairlane all together. UN F*CKIN' BOLEAVABOLE!!! The next issue of the Neon Bone Yard will finish my salute to the inkers and will be a special Valentines Day issue, featuring love (OK, actually sex...same thing!!!...re-write already in progress).  Grail Page Original Comic Art Store
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