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Talent Pool 25 - Jim Aparo (Jun 2001)
Significant figures of the Silver Age set standards and defined the tone of memorable works and did so in the short and long term, as demonstrated by the decades of excellent work Jim Aparo created for DC Comics.

Talent Pool 24 - Murphy Anderson (Jun 2001)
Back in a Silver Age when DC Comics prided itself on its differences from the upstart Marvel, Murphy Anderson provided a much-appreciated visual polish to an art that did much to breach the gap between the Golden and Silver Ages.

Columns from 2000

Talent Pool 23 - Mort Weisinger (Dec 2000)
Mort Weisinger, in his day, would do more to shape the Superman franchise since any person since Siegel and Shuster created him; and, in spite of attempts to streamline the character of his influence, Weisinger-era elements continue to resurface even today, thirty years after his retirement.

Talent Pool 22 - Julius Schwartz (Sep 2000)
Julius Schwartz provided an influence on the comics of the Silver Age that remains, to this day, as one of its distinguishing characteristics: the infusion of massive doses of science fiction and science fantasy into four-color superhero tales.

Talent Pool 21 - Jim Shooter (June 2000)
Jim Shooter has worn the hat of comics writer, editor, and entrepreneur; but does he also have a dark side justifies labelling him the Nixon of Comics?

Talent Pool 20 - Marie Severin (Mar 2000)
Marie Severin began a career in comics back in the days in which the industry remained an almost-exclusively male refuge, but persistence and talent ultimately brought her into the much-hyped Marvel Bullpen of the 1960s.

Columns from 1999

Talent Pool 19 - Denny O'Neil (Dec 1999)
Very few comics professionals live up to their reputation. Dennis O'Neil has done it more than once.

Talent Pool 18 - Carmine Infantino (Nov 1999)
Carmine Infantino provided an excellence in delivery of his cover designs and interior art that would incline DC to put him on the management fast track.

Talent Pool 17 - Jim Starlin (Oct 1999)
Jim Starlin's iconoclastic approach to superhero comics led him to create some truly classic tales in the Bronze Age of comics.

Talent Pool 16 - John Romita, Sr. (Oct 1999)
John Romita, Senior, turned persistence into excellence in the glory days of Marvel's Silver Age.

Talent Pool 15 - Stan Lee (Oct 1999)
Stan Lee's innovations to the comics medium, though inspired by the desperation of an editor trying to save a moribund company, managed to redefine the superhero comic and still influence comics today.

Talent Pool 14 - Curt Swan (Apr 1999)
Curt Swan's realistic approach to Superman defined the look of DC's premiere superhero for over 30 years.

Talent Pool 13 - Gene Colan (Apr 1999)
Gene Colan's moody approach to comics helped inspire the supernatural comics genre of the seventies.

Talent Pool 12 - Nick Cardy (Apr 1999)
Nick Cardy brought an atypical beauty to the comics form, whether in western, superhero, or adventure comics, during a career that spanned three decades.

Talent Pool 11 - Sal Buscema (Apr 1999)
Sal Buscema produced some memorable pieces in the late Silver Age, showing that an artist can still produce solid works within the constraints of a house style.

Talent Pool 10- Steve Ditko (Apr 1999)
Steve Ditko brought a vigor and eccentric tone to the early superhero comics of Marvel's Silver Age, crafting some works that only compelled in his hands.

Talent Pool 09 - Jim Steranko (Mar 1999)
Jim Steranko joined comics to graphic art, film noir, and surrealism in a career that established him as an immortal after pencilling less than thirty books.

Talent Pool 08 - Roy Thomas (Feb. 1999)
Roy Thomas helped put the human face on Marvel's superheroes in the middle of the Silver Age, when Lee passed on some of his writing burdens to a new generation of talent.

Talent Pool 07 - Barry (Windsor-) Smith (Feb 1999)
Barry Windsor-Smith brought a perfectionism to superhero comics that showed a love for the medium and a drive to excellence.

Talent Pool 06 - Herb Trimpe (Feb 1999)
Herb Trimpe's Silver Age works brought an EC Comics tone to Marvel's superhero comics.

Talent Pool 05 - Gil Kane (Feb 1999)
Gil Kane, in his sixth decade in comics, shows how a career in every age of the superhero comics medium can mature a talent to plateaus of excellence.

Talent Pool 04 - Dave Cockrum (Feb 1999)
Dave Cockrum brought a rare and much-needed excellence to comics in the last days of the fading Silver Age of Comics.

Columns from 1998

Talent Pool 03 - Rob Liefeld (1998)
Rob Liefeld may not make the comics that every fan wants to buy, but does he really deserve the kind of hatred that the mention of his name elicits?

Talent Pool 02 - John Buscema (1998)
John Buscema gave Silver Age comics much of its drive and raw power in a style that managed to unite elements from Michaelangelo and Kirby.

Talent Pool 01 - Neal Adams (1998)
Neal Adams brought a passion and vision to superhero comics and so inspired readers that many still feel the hole left when he moved on to a more rewarding career.

Talent Pool 00 - Jack Kirby (1998)
Jack Kirby inspired his peers in the industry from his first days in the early years of superhero comics, and went on to redefine and redeem the superhero comics medium in the 1960s.

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