Friday Comic Book Day.
I am member of a Facebook group celebrating the life and work of Mary Perkins (and later Little Orphan Annie) artist Leonard Starr. In the late forties and early fifties he was a very prolific inker and penciller, who worked just about every company. When he landed at DC, he seems to have cut his lesser paying accounts. But in the mid fifties he must have found something else to do, because his work doesn't appear as much as it did before that. In an earlier series of posts I shared a whole run of his early fifties Nighthawk series from Western Comics and Ghost Breaker from Star Spangled) One of the last things he did for DC was a series of short stories for their crime anthology (all comics were anthologies back then) Gang Busters. I was scanning a few of those issue for the work by Mort Meskin, Joe Maneely and George Roussos, when I came across this one from Gang Busters #56.
Showing posts with label The NIghthawk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The NIghthawk. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2016
Friday, October 05, 2012
Wishing On A Starr
Friday Comic Book Day.
As we know from the recent three part interview in Alter Ego about his early career in comics, Marie Perkins artist Leonard Starr did a lot more comic book pages than one might expect. Not only as a penciller, also as a Milton Caniff inspired inker. After a couple of years taking just about any job he could get his hands on, he finally landed a secure position at DC, the most respected and best paying company. For them he did some of the mystery and mystery detective stuff as penciller and inker, some of which I have shown earlier. He also had a regular cowboy series in Western Comics called Nighthawk. Here just one example, there are a couple more when you follow the label. If there is interest I could do more. I don't think they'll ever be collected by DC and if they would, I'd have them start with Dr. Thirteen anyway.
Friday Comic Book Day.
As we know from the recent three part interview in Alter Ego about his early career in comics, Marie Perkins artist Leonard Starr did a lot more comic book pages than one might expect. Not only as a penciller, also as a Milton Caniff inspired inker. After a couple of years taking just about any job he could get his hands on, he finally landed a secure position at DC, the most respected and best paying company. For them he did some of the mystery and mystery detective stuff as penciller and inker, some of which I have shown earlier. He also had a regular cowboy series in Western Comics called Nighthawk. Here just one example, there are a couple more when you follow the label. If there is interest I could do more. I don't think they'll ever be collected by DC and if they would, I'd have them start with Dr. Thirteen anyway.
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Who's Gonna Make Me A Starr?
Saturday Leftover Day.
Yesterdays subject Leonard Starr did many more stories for DC in the early sixties. He did a couple of Manhunter episodes in Star Spangled before he did Ghostbreaker. Later on he did something called Mysto The Magican Detective for Detective Comics, which I would love to see. Mysto's place was taken by Roy Raymond, another series that deserves some special attention.























Saturday Leftover Day.
Yesterdays subject Leonard Starr did many more stories for DC in the early sixties. He did a couple of Manhunter episodes in Star Spangled before he did Ghostbreaker. Later on he did something called Mysto The Magican Detective for Detective Comics, which I would love to see. Mysto's place was taken by Roy Raymond, another series that deserves some special attention.















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Leonard Starr,
The NIghthawk,
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