In the days before comic-book movies became blockbusters, when they were looked on as just "kid stuff", comic fans used to suggest and argue about what actor was the best choice to play a favorite character.
These illustrations, though done just a few years ago, represent the people I saw as most physically or temperamentally suited to play these characters in my youth.
Roger Smith, best known as one of the stars of
77 Sunset Strip and Ann-Margret's husband, as Green Lantern Hal Jordan. Gil Kane based Jordan's looks, in part, on Paul Newman, and I thought Smith embodied the same kind of All-American good looks.
Jack Lord, star of the original
Hawaii Five-O, resembled, to me, a cross between Jack Kirby's and Jim Steranko's version of Nick Fury. His gruff, no-nonsense attitude as Steve McGarrett seemed to be the right personality for a guy who was a commando sergeant in World War II.
This one isn't really an actor, and may only be familiar to New Yorkers of a certain age. Jim Jensen was the news anchor at WCBS Channel 2 in the Big Apple for something like two decades. I always thought he bore a startling resemblance to Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four.
Do you have any actors or celebrities you think would be perfect for a role as a comic-book character?
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