About the item: 

From the Dick Giordano Collection (his personal copy), this ad slick* features a Navy recruitment advertisement with an illustration of a Naval officer by Giordano.  In excellent condition, it will be shipped with the utmost care.  Includes original COA from VaultCollectibles. 

*Of note, this particular item was selected by Giordano to be included in Michael Eury's Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day at at Time biography (released in 2003).   It appears on page 64 of the book as one of several examples throughout the biography of Giordano's artwork.  Please note- this is, in fact, the actual item the image was scanned from as it appears in Changing Comics.  Giordano selected it from among his personal effects, temporarily released it to the publisher who, in turn, used the item to create the image that ultimately appeared in the published biography.  As noted by Giordano in the caption, he earned $1,200 per drawing for these illustrations. A scan of the page from the book is included below for reference as is the cover to the book itself (please note - they are included below for reference only as this sale is for the ad slick- the book is not included in the listing- again, it is shown for reference only).

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About the Dick Giordano Collection:  

Saved by Dick Giordano over the course of his fifty-plus year career in the comics industry, the Dick Giordano Collection spans from the beginning of his career in the 1950’s into his semiretirement period in the mid 1990’s and beyond. It includes various comic books, special projects items, advertisements, book covers, cards, stickers, and more. While the reason Giordano may have kept any given item is now unknown, the comic books themselves (all of which date back to the early days of his career) were specifically used by Giordano as source material and references images for latter works.  The Charlton Comics portion of his collection include some books Giordano himself contributed to, either as artist, editor, or inker and the remaining comics - which he did not contribute to - were obtained by Giordano in the early days of his career (possibly to examine the styles and methods of other artists as the books including work from such talents as Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Nick Cardy, John Romita, Sr., and many others).  They were perhaps even passed around the offices at Charlton Comics by artists working under Giordano during his years there as editor.  Each item in the collection comes with its own Certificate of Authenticity, hand-numbered and signed (COA shown is a sample and will actually be hand-signed, numbered, and note the item information). 

About Dick Giordano (From the VaultCollectibles biography): 

Alley Award winner, twice awarded the Shazam award, and mentor/inspiration to a generation of comics creators, Dick Giordano (1932-2010) was an artist, inker, editor and ultimately became the Vice President/Executive Editor at DC Comics. He is perhaps best known for his work on Batman but his contribution to comics in general cannot be overstated. 

He began his career at Iger Studios and soon moved to Charlton Comics (in 1952), where worked his way up to editor, bringing in new talent such as Jim Aparo and Denny O’Neil (who he would later bring to DC). In 1968, at the suggestion of Steve Ditko, Irwin Donefeld and Carmine Infantino hired Giordano. One of his first assignments was editing Ditko’s creation Hawk & Dove for Showcase #75. He went on to pencil and ink numerous DC characters, including inking Neal Adams' classic run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow. 

He left DC for a time, drawing The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Dracula for Marvel’s black & white magazines, co-founded with Neal Adams Continuity Studios, and illustrated several other projects before returning to DC.  There he went on to be the editorial force behind not only such works as The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen in the 1980’s but his hand can also be seen in everything from DC’s landmark Crisis on Infinite Earths to the company’s revamp of characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and the Justice League. He was also instrumental in helping to develop DC’s popular Vertigo line of books and bringing in such British talent as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. 

After leaving DC in 1993 and continuing on in to the early 2000’s Giordano illustrated a graphic adaptation of Modesty Blaise, helped launch Future comics, illustrated several European and Australian comics featuring Lee Falk’s classic character the Phantom, and completed with writer Roy Thomas their Dracula comic originally began in the 1970’s but left unfinished when Marvel canceled their magazine-sized monster comics line. His last published work appeared in, appropriately enough, a DC comic- Johan Hex #51, published in March 2010.

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