RIP Robert Kanigher

[yendi]

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:-( I can't think of any silver-age writer who had more of an impact on me, including that Stan Lee guy. I grew up reading Sgt. Rock, and I loved his Metal Men. And I can't even begin to talk about the impact that Showcase #4 (or, more accurately, the reprints of it) had on me, both directly, and indirectly (the Silver Age Flash was my favorite Silver Age hero, hands down).

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[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

damn. i grew up reading practically all of Kanigher's non-superhero stuff -- Haunted Tank, Enemy Ace, Our Army At War and all the war titles (Sgt Rock at the height of the Kanigher/Kubert collaborations; it was this stuff that inspired me to want to become a comic book artist), Johnny Thunder, Tomahawk...

it was his characters, i think, that really made the comics work for me -- i loved the guys of Easy Company, and poor Jeb Stuart of the Haunted Tank. they were totally believable as people, something i believe gets overlooked too often in comic writing.