Sunday Al Williamson Day.
After doing short stories for Stan Lee at Timely/Atlas for many years,, Al Williamson branched out to other companies when the soon to be Marvel ran into distribution problems and had to stop production for a short while. I am not sure how much Williamson is in these Cheyenne Kid stories. They used to be credited to Angelo Torres on his own, but recently it was changed to Williamson pencils and Torres inks. But although hints of Williamson's composition is visible, I am not sure how much he actually pencilled. It doesn't help this was from the phase of his career where he changed from doing Frank Frazetta-like impressionistiv work to doing John Prentice like slicker work, with actual borders and stuff. It remains a pretty run, though. Some of these stories were rightfully included in the early Williamson print collection.
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Back in 1959 Steve Ditko sent me silver proofs with color indications of the three Williamson and Torres stories in this issue. You can view them at davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com
Love them! Weird to see how they indicated the colors.
Boy, Williamson could sure draw well. I met him once at a Dallas Con long ago, very nice and humble person.
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