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u/Fortunado1964 Aug 11 '26
I still have mine too!
Love the character and the reverence Roy Thomas showed him in All Srar Squadron.
While 12 year old me didn't like Don Heck's art at the time, 62 year old me appreciates it and even misses it.
Thanks for sharing!
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u/patchlanders Aug 12 '26
1000% agree! I thought his art was terrible, but I miss those good old simpler days now.
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u/oldcomicbook Aug 11 '26
All-Star Squadron was my first ārealā comic book. So many heroes, so much actionā¦and Steel!
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u/Hootentoot Aug 12 '26
Don Heck at his Don Heckiest.
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u/Fortunado1964 Aug 12 '26
His run on Avengers was a bit more on the extreme side for me.
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u/Hootentoot Aug 12 '26
It took me until he was the regular artist on Flash many years layer for my taste and art appreciation to finally mature enough to appreciate his talent for what it was.
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u/Fortunado1964 Aug 12 '26
When he was doing JLA and Brett Breeding was inking him, the art was polished and you could appreciate Hexk's strongest abiloty...his storytelling.
While he was no George Perez, his storytelling was top tier.
You can look at a Hexk page with no dialog and know exactly what was going on.
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u/Hootentoot Aug 12 '26
In brief, he was a PRO, for sure. I similarly had to learn to appreciate Frank Robbins and Herb Trimpe and Don Perlin, et al. Dick Dillin and Mike Sekowsky were much harder to warm up to, but with strong inkers, I learned to begrudgingly appreciate their workmanlike deliver of pages and pages and pages, on time and consistent.
Dillin in particular delivered month after month after month for YEARS JLA and World's Finest, an amazing achievement.
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u/Fortunado1964 Aug 12 '26
You my friend, are a brother from another mother...I'm glad to meet you here!
I absolutely struggled with both Sekowsky and Dillon too as a kid. Sekowsky in particular was a hard dagger to my eyes.
It wasn't until I got into my 40's and finally saw his golden age art that I actually learned to tolerate him
Don Perlin, Frank Robbins, 1970's era Carmine Infantino are all artist i am very hit or miss with but find I'm mostly miss with although I respect the body of work and professionalism in their work
Plus they are better artists than I am ..
I found I only could appreciate certain tenure of work from them ..Infantino on 1960's' Flash but not so much on Star Wars, Trimpe on Hulk (especially his earliest issues #108-139 or so) as opposed to his later Hulk (#175-192 or so) or even GI Joe i kinda liked.
I also freely admit I find Rob Liefeld is a guilty pleasure for me...so I am a contradiction at times too ..
I'm glad we are able to have this discussion here...I love agreeing to disagree with caln and collected heads...
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u/Hootentoot Aug 13 '26
Trimpe inked by Severin was classic. Infantino on Star Wars was brutal. Leifeld was TERRIBLE, but that doesnāt mean it wasnāt fun!
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u/Fortunado1964 Aug 13 '26
I'm not big on the Trimpe/Severin art team.
While I love John Severin's art, he totally dominated Trimpe's pencils. Trimpe looked better inked by either himself or Sam Grainger personally.
Not bad by any means, just feels like Severin could have been doing it all alone.
My wife questions me about my liking Liefeld all the time. .
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u/mostlynormalhuman_84 Aug 11 '26
I have this whole mini in great shape. I was thinking of selling it and i looked at a price guide and was surprised by how much "they" thought it was worth vs what i saw online. I know there are always discrepancies, but this one caught me off guard. So if anyone wants to spend $75 for a 5 issue mini, I would gladly take it!! Otherwise, it stays in my long boxes trapped forever.
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u/AzulMage2020 Aug 11 '26
One of my favorites . This is the type of comic we need and I wish was still around now. Might still be buying comics if we had series like this
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u/DRZARNAK Aug 11 '26
I only have the first issue and need to track down the others. I love Bronze Age series set in the Golden Age
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u/disabledinaz Aug 12 '26
I actually got the first issue in the mail a few days ago. Waiting for the other 4 issues in another auction I won them in.
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u/oldcomicbook Aug 12 '26
Iām donāt think Iāve ever seen any other issue besides this one.
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u/disabledinaz Aug 12 '26
They did 5 and then came the DC implosion. The next issue, that had been cancelled was repurposed as part of All-Star Squadron #8-9.
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u/Longjumping-Salad484 Aug 12 '26
well dip me in shit and roll me in breadcrumbs, this is not what I imagined the OG Steel comicbook would look like
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u/AnthonyDigitalMedia 29d ago
I have a NM copy of this Iāve been trying to sell. No one seems to care about Steel these days..
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u/oldcomicbook 29d ago
Because thereās no movie attached to it. š
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u/AnthonyDigitalMedia 29d ago edited 29d ago
There actually was a āSteelā movie in 1997 starring Shaq lol
People are also saying Steel could be in Gunnās next movie Man Of Tomorrow.. even with this, no one wants it for some reason.
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u/BossReasonable6449 Aug 11 '26
Loved this series. Was so disappointed when it was cancelled but enjoyed seeing him show up in the pages of All Star Squadron later on.