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38. Leialoha is really something

Dude can spot an (obscure to me) inker's work so quickly.
Once I showed him some original stats from Fantastic Four #1 and he declared George Klein the inker, a question that rarely had a correct answer over the decades. Another time he spotted Steve Mitchell over Gil Kane in maybe one seconds glance.
I was incredibly fortunate to pick up what I think is the very best of Cannon strips and he assured me it was 85-90% Wood, rather than
something finished by Adkins, Reese or whoever else assisted at the time. Those differences being fairly obvious to me as well, Wally Wood had amazing skills as an artist.

On a similar note, we were very lucky to have Trina Robbins and Spain Rodriguez over on the 4th of July years back when they were teaching a summer program at the nearby college. I would think we have one of the larger Trina collections around, and she is really something. Spain was relatively unfamiliar to me, although I did have a Daredevil piece he did which Marvel published, and is one of the very few if not the only mainstream heroes he has bothered to draw. Spain's importance staggers and shames me that I couldnt make more of the occasion due to my own ignorance. He certainly was a Johnny Craig fan, and I enjoyed so much showing them our collection.
RIP Spain, your work continues to blow me away!