Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Where No Boy Has Gone Before

Thursday Story Strip Day.

More from Boy's Life. Spave Conquerors was one of the longest running strips in their comics section. It started right in the first issue and was there almost everytime after that. It was signed by writer Al Stenzel and there were several artists over the whole period. Most famous is Lou Fine, who did it in the sixties (whith a short break when he started his newspaper strip Peter Scratch). Regular visitor and commentor here Smurfwhacker did a selection of them, which lead me to disovering the complete Boy's Life run at Google Books. You can find his post here: http://smurfswacker.blogspot.com/. I have decided against representing all the Space Conqueror strips here. Instead, here is a longer run from 1955. At that point there see m to have been several artists involved. One of them could be Hal Sharp, who was a signing regular at the Boy's Life Comic Section. But I am not fmiliar (or interested) enough with/in his style to be sure.

As with all these Boy's Life posts, the image gets better is you click it.













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