I Krenkel Do What You Krenkel Do

Sunday Al Williamson Surprise. 

For today's Al Williamson story for Timely (stick around, I am doing all of them), he either got some help from Roy Krenkel r he decided to show he could do it without Roy as well.

 

The Return of the Hero

Sunday Al WIlliamson Surprise. 

Apparently, the seven page story I showed last week was not by Williamson (despite being credited to him) but by Al Torres - and the arrow sing was in fact an Al Torres signature I had never seen before. This week I have a shorter story that definitively by Williamson (and probably not by Stan Lee). On the first page the inking seems less wispy and less influoenced by Fran Frazetta and Roy Krenkel and more like the slicker Raymond and Prentice inspired line he would later adopt. But on epage two (and to a lesser extent page three) the lighter style returns and it even looks as if Krenkel himself worked on those buildings.

Menace Comes From Mars

Sunday Al Williamson Surprise. 

 Most of the Al Williamson stories I have been showing the last few months seem to have been inked by Gray Morrow rather than Williamson himself. One of the things you can see that from, is how he used borderless panels. This weeks story (another one from one of the fantasy titles, not written by Stan Lee) looks more like Williamson's own work. There seems to be some agreement online that Roy Krenkel helped him with this one, though. I am not enough of an expert to tell, but it doesn't seem unlikely.

The City On The Hill

Sunday Al Williamson Treasures.

Today in the complete run of stories Al Williamson did for Timely/Atlas, we come too one of the few non western stories he illustrated. At first glance it may sem Angelo Torris did this one, maybe with some help by Roy Krenkel on the buildings... but Al williamson signed it. In contrast to the stories before this, it was not written by Stan Lee. Not only did he not sign it, the opening with a flash forward commentary was complete the opposite of his style.