Template:Did you know nominations/Barry Windsor-Smith
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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 04:50, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
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Barry Windsor-Smith
- ... that Barry Windsor-Smith illustrated Conan the Barbarian comic books for Marvel Comics during the 1970s, based upon pulp magazines of the 1932 character created by Robert E. Howard? Source: Sanderson, Peter (2008). "1970s". In Gilbert, Laura (ed.). Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 146. ISBN 978-0756641238.
Writer Roy Thomas and British artist Barry Smith (later known as Barry Windsor-Smith) launched Marvel's sword-and-sorcery comics with Conan the Barbarian, in a series that ran for 275 issues.
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Improved to Good Article status by FlairTale (talk). Self-nominated at 03:31, 16 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Barry Windsor-Smith; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- earwig reports something
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@FlairTale: Good article, but i'm not exactly liking the hook all that much, so a new hook would be nice. Also Earwig reports some copyvio here [1]. It's probably a WP:MIRROR but I would like some confirmation. Onegreatjoke (talk) 15:46, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Onegreatjoke: Is Windsor-Smith illustrating Conan comics in general an unintersting hook in your opinion?
- If not I would like to try to find another hook involving Conan and Howard if possible, otherwise here's an alternative idea:
- ALT1: ... that Barry Windsor-Smith is credited with introducing Romanticism to American comic books?
- That Curtisstone.com page did not even remove the numeric citation tags (ex. "quickly became a considerable success story,[29] selling nearly two million copies") when it copied the Wikipedia article. And it seems to be dated to this year, at the bottom of the page. On top of all that, this seems to be a cooking website. Bizarre. FlairTale (talk) 01:05, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
I do have to ask if citing that hook to an interview is alright but technically it's saying that he was credited so maybe. Onegreatjoke (talk) 23:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Onegreatjoke: Here is a source for Windsor-Smith bringing Romanticism to Conan comics specifically, which combined with the interview saying this was unprecedented might be sufficient? FlairTale (talk) 13:35, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
