ME:You were the regular penciller on
Dr Solar 24 to 26 at GoldKey in 1968. The title ended with issue 27,
that you did not pencilled. Were you already out of Goldkey? Did you
choose to stop to pencil it?
ERNIE: I barely remember my experience at Gold
Key.
-Did you inked yourself on
those Dr Solar issues? I don't think you regard this as some of you
best work, am I right?
-I think I did ink my own work and
no--this was not my best work.
-What were the differences you
noticed beetween working for Harvey and Goldkey?
-There's no comparison. In 25 years at
Harvey, we developed characters, storylines, whole atmospheres.
I was at Gold Key for five minutes,
working on a character I didn't know or cared that much about.
Further, I was still getting accustomed to--and struggling
with--drawing in a more illustrative style.
- You were
part of Jim Shooter Valiant company, on a new version of Magnus Robot
Fighter, following not only Russ Manning, but also Steve Sitko who
worked on the title around the same time as you. Did you met him?
What were your feelings on Jim Shooter? He was praised and despised
at the same time after his tenure at Marvel Comics, some people
swearing never to work for him ever again.
-I enjoyed Magnus and working with Jim.
Following Manning and Ditko was disconcerting.
As to Jim Shooter, I have always been
put off by the weird conspiracies of large corporations. Cliques,
discontent, power issues, are all counter-productive. Shooter had a
complex, fascinating vision that encompassed the entire Marvel
Universe. I thought it was rich and full of great promise. The dwarfs
who envied him and whose sole talent was encyclopedic trivia, did all
they could to sabotage the project and eventually succeeded in doing
just that.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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