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The Power of Shazam! (Collected Editions) #H& V Collection
Shazam: ¡El poder de Shazam!
Es el Mortal más Poderoso del Mundo. Blande la sabidurÃa de Salomón, la fuerza de Hércules, la resistencia de Atlas, el poder de Zeus, el valor de Aquiles y la velocidad de Mercurio. Sin embargo, ¿cómo obtuvo Shazam sus asombrosas habilidades? En ¡El poder de Shazam!, el maestro Jerry Ordway nos desvela cómo consiguió el joven Billy Batson sus increÃbles poderes por medio de un relato atemporal que él mismo dibuja y colorea. ¡Y el invitado especial es Black Adam, su némesis! Además, Ordway y los dibujantes Peter Krause y Mike Manley nos detallan el capÃtulo siguiente de la vida de este héroe, en el que busca a Mary, su hermana desaparecida. Incluye un epÃlogo de Jerry Ordway, bocetos, notas sobre la creación de este cómic y también un complemento que une la novela gráfica ¡El poder de Shazam! con la posterior serie regular. Y además, un artÃculo que examina la historia del personaje.
EDICIÓN ORIGINAL: The Power of Shazam! números 1 a 4 y Superman & Batman Magazine número 4
EDICIÓN ORIGINAL: The Power of Shazam! números 1 a 4 y Superman & Batman Magazine número 4
208 pages, Hardcover
Published January 4, 2022
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About the author
Jerry Ordway
881Ìýbooks46ÌýfollowersJeremiah "Jerry" Ordway is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books. He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining classic Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985â€�1986), his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986â€�1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel The Power of Shazam! (1994), and writing the on-going monthly series from 1995-1999. He has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema and Steve Ditko.
Ordway was inspired in his childhood by Marvel Comics, and dreamed of drawing Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Avengers. (To date he has only worked on the latter.) He produced occasional work for Marvel between 1984 and 1988, then returned a decade later to write and illustrate a three-issue arc of Avengers (vol. 3) #16-18 (1999), as well as penciling the four-issue crossover mini-series Maximum Security (#1-3 and prologue Dangerous Planet) in 2000-2001.
In 1986, along with writer/artist John Byrne and writer Marv Wolfman, Ordway was one of the architects trusted with revamping Superman, in the wake of the Ordway-inked continuity-redefining maxiseries Crisis on Infinite Earths. Launching, with a revised origin and new continuity, in Byrne's miniseries, The Man of Steel, Superman soon returned to featuring in a number of titles. After the titular title Superman was cancelled and replaced with Man of Steel, it was swiftly relaunched as Adventures of Superman, continuing the numbering of the original Superman comic, with Wolfman as writer and Ordway as primary artist.
When Wolfman departed the title, John Byrne briefly took over scriptwriting duties before Ordway assumed the mantle of writer-artist and took over the series solely. Switching from Adventures of Superman, Ordway took over as writer-artist on the companion title Superman (vol. 2) between 1989 and 1991, before later returning to Adventures.. as writer. While writing for the Superman family of titles, he helped devise the epic "Death of Superman" storyline in 1992. After seven years working on the character, Ordway largely left the Superman titles in 1993, although he would make frequent returns to the character as writer and artist throughout his career.
In 1994, Ordway masterminded the return of the original Captain Marvel to the DC Universe with the 96-page hardcover graphic novel The Power of Shazam!, which he both wrote and painted. The story saw Ordway depict the revamped origins of the former-Fawcett Comics superhero. An early example of the one-shot Original Graphic Novel, it proved to be a success, and was followed by an on-going monthly series, also titled The Power of Shazam! (which ran between 1995 and 1999). Ordway wrote and provided painted covers for the entire run of the regular series, as well as illustrating fill-in issues between series-regular artists Peter Krause and Mike Manley. Towards the end of the series run, he again took on the dual role of writer & artist.
For Image Comics, Ordway co-created the character WildStar (with Al Gordon) in 1993, and published his creator-owned one-shot The Messenger in July 2000.
Ordway was inspired in his childhood by Marvel Comics, and dreamed of drawing Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Avengers. (To date he has only worked on the latter.) He produced occasional work for Marvel between 1984 and 1988, then returned a decade later to write and illustrate a three-issue arc of Avengers (vol. 3) #16-18 (1999), as well as penciling the four-issue crossover mini-series Maximum Security (#1-3 and prologue Dangerous Planet) in 2000-2001.
In 1986, along with writer/artist John Byrne and writer Marv Wolfman, Ordway was one of the architects trusted with revamping Superman, in the wake of the Ordway-inked continuity-redefining maxiseries Crisis on Infinite Earths. Launching, with a revised origin and new continuity, in Byrne's miniseries, The Man of Steel, Superman soon returned to featuring in a number of titles. After the titular title Superman was cancelled and replaced with Man of Steel, it was swiftly relaunched as Adventures of Superman, continuing the numbering of the original Superman comic, with Wolfman as writer and Ordway as primary artist.
When Wolfman departed the title, John Byrne briefly took over scriptwriting duties before Ordway assumed the mantle of writer-artist and took over the series solely. Switching from Adventures of Superman, Ordway took over as writer-artist on the companion title Superman (vol. 2) between 1989 and 1991, before later returning to Adventures.. as writer. While writing for the Superman family of titles, he helped devise the epic "Death of Superman" storyline in 1992. After seven years working on the character, Ordway largely left the Superman titles in 1993, although he would make frequent returns to the character as writer and artist throughout his career.
In 1994, Ordway masterminded the return of the original Captain Marvel to the DC Universe with the 96-page hardcover graphic novel The Power of Shazam!, which he both wrote and painted. The story saw Ordway depict the revamped origins of the former-Fawcett Comics superhero. An early example of the one-shot Original Graphic Novel, it proved to be a success, and was followed by an on-going monthly series, also titled The Power of Shazam! (which ran between 1995 and 1999). Ordway wrote and provided painted covers for the entire run of the regular series, as well as illustrating fill-in issues between series-regular artists Peter Krause and Mike Manley. Towards the end of the series run, he again took on the dual role of writer & artist.
For Image Comics, Ordway co-created the character WildStar (with Al Gordon) in 1993, and published his creator-owned one-shot The Messenger in July 2000.
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July 2, 2023
Este tomo es una de las joyas ocultas de esta colección de Salvat, gracias a un nombre legendario: Jerry Ordway. Shazam (ex Mr. Marvel) pertenece a aquella primera generación de superhéroes, la creada antes y durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando el género todavÃa estaba en pañales y básicamente lo que buscaban los guionistas y dibujantes (que ni siquiera firmaban sus historias) era crear personajes super poderosos que llevaran uniformes coloridos para atraer a los lectores. Esa fue la época de gloria de Shazam-Mr. Marvel, que nunca pudo repetir, ni siquiera cuando DC compró sus derechos en la década de los '70. Shazam era visto como un personaje añejo, con un origen demasiado enredado para los nuevos lectores, influidos por la revolución Marvel de los '60s y sus héroes más humanizados. Por eso es muy meritorio lo que logra Ordway en las dos historias que componen el tomo. La primera, "El Poder de Shazam", es sencillamente una preciosidad, quizás de los mejores comics de DC de los 90's. Ordway cuenta su versión del origen del héroe, situándolo en los años 40, jugando con su trágica infancia y los enormes poderes que de pronto adquiere y que lo abruman. Los villanos son creÃbles y resultan más odiosos por el hecho de que, a sabiendas, se enfrentan a un niño. El dibujo, pintado en acuarela, es obra del propio Ordway y saca aplausos. La segunda historia reune los primeros 4 números de la serie "El poder de Shazam", escrita por Ordway, pero dibujada bella y luminosamente por Krause y Manley. Acá Ordway retoma los cabos sueltos que habÃa dejado en su historia seminal, especialmente lo relativo a Mary Marvel. Lo notable es cómo se detiene en los problemas domésticos de Billy Batson: un huérfano que debe trabajar por las noches -como Shazam-, y por las mañanas, somnoliento, ir a clases. ¡Parece más un héroe Marvel que uno de DC! Como sea, ambas historias son muy disfrutables, de gran calidad.
February 7, 2022
La primera parte del tomo, la reinvención del origen del héroe, realizada con acuarelas y un montón de historia detrás como se relata en la carta del final del libro, resulta fascinante, pero no se puede evitar durante toda la lectura tener esa sensación de comic añejo, que no ha superado muy bien el paso del tiempo. Un poco como leer ahora mismo a Roberto Alcázar y PedrÃn, o al Guerrero del antifaz... La sensación de moral antigua, que hoy dÃa ha evolucionado (a veces a mejor, pero no siempre) en todos y cada uno de sus parámetros, porque la sociedad no es la misma de hace cuarenta o cincuenta años.
Hoy en dÃa, un héroe sonriente y positivo como este, no iba a durar ni un tebeo de los de grapa, de los pequeños. El primer enemigo traicionero al que se enfrentase se lo llevaba por delante, sin dudarlo.
El álbum resulta muy bonito, y entretenido junto a las historias que ahondan en la serie del personaje y sus devaneos en busca de su hermana (tema que, por cierto, se deja ahÃ, en cierto modo, pendiente; pues aunque sà que aparece en una de las historias del final, lo que sucedió en todo el tiempo intermedio, no convence).
En definitiva, se deja leer y la estética de acuarela es bella, pero flojea hoy en dÃa.
Hoy en dÃa, un héroe sonriente y positivo como este, no iba a durar ni un tebeo de los de grapa, de los pequeños. El primer enemigo traicionero al que se enfrentase se lo llevaba por delante, sin dudarlo.
El álbum resulta muy bonito, y entretenido junto a las historias que ahondan en la serie del personaje y sus devaneos en busca de su hermana (tema que, por cierto, se deja ahÃ, en cierto modo, pendiente; pues aunque sà que aparece en una de las historias del final, lo que sucedió en todo el tiempo intermedio, no convence).
En definitiva, se deja leer y la estética de acuarela es bella, pero flojea hoy en dÃa.
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February 19, 2023
Didn't know much about the character before hand. Really really enjoyed this.
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