Sherlock Holmes v2 #1 - Walt Simonson cover + 1st issue

Walt Simonson

Sherlock Holmes v2 #1, 1975
- This odd first issue appears to have been part of DC's adventure genre wave during the mid-1970s. Walt Simonson contributes a cover that seems inappropriately cartoonish. The style suggests it was drawn perhaps a few years earlier than the 1975 publication date. The inclusion of the killer's shadow behind Dr. Watson, while not original, adds a key point of interest to the layout. This issue also includes artwork by E.R. Cruz, a regular on DC mystery comics. This is 1 of 1 Sherlock Holmes issues by Simonson. /// key 1st issue 
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Simonson cover pencils and inks = **

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2 comments:

Kid said...

I have this issue, and it's a nice little read. Shame it didn't go any further.

Britt Reid said...

About the same time, DC did an issue of The Joker featuring an actor believing himself to be Sherlock (and dressed like the Holmes of this story) hunting The Joker, whom he believes to be Moriarty!
Also at the same time, Marvel did their own Sherlock, but in black-and-white in a two-issue adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles

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