Helpful Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Patton
Chuck Patton is a DC Comics Icon. His work would be seen all around the DC Universe in the 1980s.
Co-Creations with Gerry Conway for Justice League Detroit:
GYPSY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_%28comics%29
VIBE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_(comics)
And he also revised the costumes for Vixen and Steel, The Indestructible Man. All 4 are pictured below:
Below are comparisons of the original costumes for Vixen and Steel:
Clearly Chuck's version is much better and more representative of the 1980s.
Every version of the costume since the Justice League Detroit days has only been a variation of what Chuck did for Vixen.
The change to Steel were more important to continuity than keeping a clearly better costume in Justice League.
The other costumes of the team fit the vibe, no pun intended, for the period.
The Totem is too large on the first costume. Clearly a smaller one was needed.
Helpful resource for Vixen:
https://www.writeups.org/vixen-jla-dc-comics-mccabe/
I love the original costume, but the changes of Costume fit better with stories in the DC Universe to come.
And I must note that the Justice League character was in fact connected to the first book.
Like the other customers in this version of the team, it fit the 1980s better.
To be honest this team is where I come to love Chuck's art.
It is a cleaner style that does not have a gritty feel like Joe Kubert. It feels more like a Mike Grell or Jim Aparo style. It is fresh clean and tells the story without extra lines to show extra definition.
I will be doing a blog on the artists I just mentioned in future blogs.
The following will be a history of his time at DC. Each will feature a cover from that run or art from an issue.
HISTORY
- Action Comics Weekly #613–618 (Nightwing) (1988)
- Batman #385 (1985)
- Blue Beetle #10 (1987)
- The Brave and the Bold #198 (Batman and Karate Kid) (1983)
This is significant because Jim Aparo, who I mentioned earlier in the Blog,was essentially the artist on this series. Aparo only does a cover on this issue.
- DC Challenge #2 (1985)
- Detective Comics #533–534 (Green Arrow backup stories) (1983–1984)
- The Flash #320–323 (Creeper backup stories) (1983)
- Green Lantern vol. 2 #163, 177 (1983–1984)
- Justice League of America #217–227, 233–239, Annual #2 (1983–1985)
- Justice League of America vol. 2 #7 (three pages) (2007)
- Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 3 #19 (1986)
- The New Teen Titans vol. 2 #15–16 (1985–1986)
- Omega Men #29–30, 36 (1985–1986)
- Outsiders Special #1 (1987)
- Secret Origins vol. 2 #12 (Challengers of the Unknown) (1987)
- Tales of the Teen Titans #56–58 (1985)
- Teen Titans Spotlight #13, 16 (1987)
- Vigilante #6–7, 31, 33, 35 (1984–1986)
- Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe
- Who's Who: Update '87 #4–5 (1987)
