Having shown almost all Mort Meskin pages on Sundays here, when someone online suggested they had found another unknown Meskin story in Standard's Gangworld #5, I had to have a look. At first I agreed, but taking a second look I thought it may be Bernard Baily imitating Meskin's line. It is a hard destinction to make. A couple of years ago, I almost bought an original Meskin page from Heritage, which turned out to be Bailey as well (after I lost the bid). On The Digital Comics Museum and the Grand Comic Book Base, they follow Jim Vadeboncoeur's lead and say it's Jerry Grandenetti. That could be true as well, as Grandenetti at that time could look like anyone.
5 comments:
I agree that this is Bailey, but the inking is Granidetti, IMHO.
interesting...
That does not look like Meskin in my opinion...
Ger:
It's Grandenetti all right. Check out his style on the Spirit sections during the early 1950s. By the way, during this time he was often being inked by Al Hollingsworth.
Best,
Alberto
HI, Alberto. I did not know about the Hollingsworth connection. And indeed, it looks a lot more balanced then when Hollingsworth inked his own work on Scorchy Smith in 1952.
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