Which artist did Converse use? I know it isn’t John Byrne or George Perez.
This pair I consider my lucky Supes since I was wearing them on the day our GWD team won the Austin Rumble in the Pub; there was even a question about Superman! “Who killed him in the Death of Superman story arc?” Duh!
I like these shoes better than the first ones I got a couple years ago because this design has the more familiar Silver Age-looking version of Superman I grew up with. Sure he’s wearing his red underoos on the outside and the S on his chest is legible but for almost 50 years, it was the Man of Steel’s look. I think the costume was derived from Curt Swan’s numerous titles, carried on through the Seventies, John Byrne retained most of it for his mid-Eighties reboot and it survived the horrible Nineties while DC gave him a mullet. After the 2011 relaunch, Superman received a more militaristic look from Jim Lee which I’m hoping the artists will soften.
As for the artist used on the Chucks? I will see if this post will get my friend Steve Bryant’s attention. He is the biggest Superman fan I have ever known. How big? Stvee (as we all nicknamed him, due to too many Steves at GDW) made some convincing arguments about how well written the four titles (at the time) were. Thus the plots certainly do make true comic books in my opinion. I am still with Batman yet most knockoffs of the Dark Knight are lousy, illustrated Action-Revenge stories with the protagonist wearing tights: Kick Ass, Punisher, Vigilante (Eighties), Spawn, Shadowhawk, etc. are practically Diehard, Deathwish and Ah-nold flicks. Superman on the other hand, his powers force the writers and artists to write tougher stories in the same way Jack White worked within the confines of Meg’s drumming when they were the White Stripes. Think about this. Who’s a tougher foe for Superman? Another brute that can take his punches, say Lobo, Metallo or General Zod; or a corporate-legal mastermind like Lex Luthor? The latter is a physical mismatch but Luthor’s intellect keeps Superman in check and frustrated.