Sunday Meskin Measures.
From Action Comics #64 (fresh scans by my sidekick Sandy):
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Norris Dance
Saturday Leftover Day.
Fellos Yahoo groupie Norris Burroughs asked if he remembered right that he had seen Al Williamson's work in Dell's Gunsmoke series when he was much much younger. I had a look nd found that indeed the great EC and Agent X9 artist did do a series of fillers for that title from #8 to #12. The third one was inked by Reed Crandell and by #13 the feture was taken over by Marvin Stein. Here is what I could find. Happy memories, Norris.
From #9:
From #10:
From #12:
From #13:
Saturday Leftover Day.
Fellos Yahoo groupie Norris Burroughs asked if he remembered right that he had seen Al Williamson's work in Dell's Gunsmoke series when he was much much younger. I had a look nd found that indeed the great EC and Agent X9 artist did do a series of fillers for that title from #8 to #12. The third one was inked by Reed Crandell and by #13 the feture was taken over by Marvin Stein. Here is what I could find. Happy memories, Norris.
From #9:
From #10:
From #12:
From #13:
Plugging along
Friday Comic Book Day.
For today I have some stuff from the DC romance books. Talk about bland. But every once in a while tere is an interestingly drawn story thrown in. Here are some by name artists (which haven't yet been identified at the Grand Comicbook Database). One is by an unknown, which the CBD says could be by Ross Andru, but (although I am familiar with similar work by him) I just don't see. Could it be Arty Saaf (whose son might drop by here if I mention this)?
From Girls' Romances #27 here's the supposed Andru story. I see some of his traits in the first panel of the second tier of the sixth page, but that's about it.
From the same book, a story by Mort Drucker. Drucker was one of a few artists allowed to ink his own work in his own style. But that was later and in the war books. He started out at DC's production department, where he draw fillers for several titles (one of which we'll see later on). Here he was allowed to try a full story and he (or his inker) is still struggling to find the DC style. But the Drucker poses and faces are all there.
Bill Draut drew romance comics all over the place. He did so much work for Prize, one might assume that was all he did, but he also turns up at several other publishers, doing the same quality work. Here he is at DC, much earlier than I would have thought. His work is slicked up in the DC style, possibly by a different inker. In the sixties he would assume this style as his own and continue to do similar work for Marvel and DC.
Mort Drucker drew several series of fillers for the fantasy and romance books. Many were reprinted in the late fifties, but this sample from Girls' Romance #43 seems to have been from the original run. Like the earlier Drucker story, it is dedicated to my friend Bob, who likes Drucker's comic book work a lot and will probably not have seen these two samples. And this seems as good a time as any to tell you I am slowly selling off my huge collection of comics, starting with the DC n=books. This week I have several fantasy books, next week more fantasy will be added, than war and romance... somthing for every one. Like here, I am trying to ad as much information about the books as I can, so you'll know what you are buying. Go to e-bay and look for seller geapelde. That's me, folks.
Friday Comic Book Day.
For today I have some stuff from the DC romance books. Talk about bland. But every once in a while tere is an interestingly drawn story thrown in. Here are some by name artists (which haven't yet been identified at the Grand Comicbook Database). One is by an unknown, which the CBD says could be by Ross Andru, but (although I am familiar with similar work by him) I just don't see. Could it be Arty Saaf (whose son might drop by here if I mention this)?
From Girls' Romances #27 here's the supposed Andru story. I see some of his traits in the first panel of the second tier of the sixth page, but that's about it.
From the same book, a story by Mort Drucker. Drucker was one of a few artists allowed to ink his own work in his own style. But that was later and in the war books. He started out at DC's production department, where he draw fillers for several titles (one of which we'll see later on). Here he was allowed to try a full story and he (or his inker) is still struggling to find the DC style. But the Drucker poses and faces are all there.
Bill Draut drew romance comics all over the place. He did so much work for Prize, one might assume that was all he did, but he also turns up at several other publishers, doing the same quality work. Here he is at DC, much earlier than I would have thought. His work is slicked up in the DC style, possibly by a different inker. In the sixties he would assume this style as his own and continue to do similar work for Marvel and DC.
Mort Drucker drew several series of fillers for the fantasy and romance books. Many were reprinted in the late fifties, but this sample from Girls' Romance #43 seems to have been from the original run. Like the earlier Drucker story, it is dedicated to my friend Bob, who likes Drucker's comic book work a lot and will probably not have seen these two samples. And this seems as good a time as any to tell you I am slowly selling off my huge collection of comics, starting with the DC n=books. This week I have several fantasy books, next week more fantasy will be added, than war and romance... somthing for every one. Like here, I am trying to ad as much information about the books as I can, so you'll know what you are buying. Go to e-bay and look for seller geapelde. That's me, folks.
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