I'm not sure who actually designed Power Girl but, due to her rather
obvious, err...assets as well as the fact that he inked her earliest appearances, Woody is often given the credit. Were he alive today, he would undoubtedly have taken a zillion commissions for pieces like this naked Power Girl. In fact, one can find literally hundreds of images similar to this (or MUCH more explicit!) online in a matter of minutes. This, however, is the only one I've seen attributed to Wally Wood. I'm fairly certain that I have seen a Wood pencil version of this but this colorized version looks to have been completely (and not very well in spots) traced on computer by whomever added the color.
I would love to be a fly on the wall at the Editor/Staff meeting where they discussed the 'look' of their new heroine Power Girl... I wonder how many times 'big tits' was spoken, and how much laughter ensued~!
ReplyDeleteWasn't there a story told about this, that Woody decided to make her boobs bigger in every issue to see how long it'd take his editor to notice? Something along those lines?
ReplyDeleteThe ironic thing is that the cup size that Wood attributed to the character seems to be increasing constantly as today's artists take, er, whacks at drawing her.
ReplyDeleteAs Woody once put it famously in the Weird Sex Fantasy portfolio, "All the good guys are horny." (Or something to this effect, as I'm paraphrasing.)
Ric Estrada was the penciler for the first few issues of the revived All Star Comics, so the probability is that either he or Joe Orlando, who was Managing Editor of DC at the time did the character design.
ReplyDeleteDid Roy Thomas address this in All Star Companion #2?
I've heard that story as well, that Wood was bored with the comic, and to keep himself amused he made PG's chest larger every time he inked her. Must have taken the Ed an awfully long time to notice what was going on! ;-)
ReplyDeleteBTW, is it true there's no PG in the New 52??
ReplyDeletePG is about to make a comeback at DC in a new version of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS.
ReplyDelete1st appearance Art: Ric Estrada & Wally Wood. Wood was hard to keep on a book so writer Gerry Conway thought Ric would be a good asset to the team. There are early concept sketches by Joe Orlando, Gerry Conway and Ric Estrada. I don't know if Woody did any but assure you, any input Joe had was with Woody in mind. Gerry Conway's sketch might have had Wood in mind too. It couldn't be more appropriate for the most famous bosom in the DC universe to be most closely connected to Wood, whose titillating tales of buxom beauties are legend. Though DC is not as conservative as they used to be, the old adage still resonates: Who would get away with drawing like that at DC? ...Wally Wood.
ReplyDeleteLOL, you guys really, really didn't see much of comics in the seventies, did you?
ReplyDeleteDC was doing a lot of pushy stuff when it came to fanboy sex.
I'd poiny anyone to the "redesigned" costumes of the female members of the LSH, as well as various shots done for Lois Lane (esp. a few bare-naked-back shots from Rose & Thorn backup piece) and Wonder Woman. What fourteen yo fanboy EVER forgot the cover of WW#207?
P.S., I also call attention to the excellent artistic skills of Jim Mooney, who often managed to make a super teenager into a hot number sufficient to interest any fourteen yo boy.
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No, few of these artists outdid Wally Wood in the chest department, but they were all much more sexual as the late 60s progressed into the 70s than has been suggested here.
Guau!!!
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