Chuck Full Of Fun

Sunday Kubert Tribute.

I have had to put my ongoing project of sharing stories from Mort Meskin's career in some sort of chronological order on hold until I have made some more scans of his work for Prize. Scans of these books are not easy to come by, so I will have to make my own. Until then, here are two more of Joe Kubert's C.B. stories for Boy Comics. With the earlier one Steve showed on his blog (http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.nl/2012/08/cb-joe-kubert-1954-rip-joe.html) you now have them all. He also did work for Crime Does Not Pay around the same time, which I'll share later.

C.B. Before Radio

Friday Comic Book Day.

Some more stories Joe Kubert did for Gleason after his imprint with Norman Maurer for St. John colapsed.

Old Kubert

Friday Comic Book Day.

I love the early work of Joe Kubert. What he is producing these days is pretty impressive as well, back in the late forties and early fifties when he was still using loads of inkin his lines, it had a mesmerizing quality for me. I have shown several samples of this work over the years, most recently from his late forties oddjobs for DC titles. After that he roamed for a bit doing work here and there. He ended up at St. John's doing his own imprint with Norman Maurer, including the 3D comic, Mad imitation Whack and Tor. When those failed, he flaundered for a bit, doing jobs for Stan Lee and in 1955 he worked for Norman Maurer's most important employer for many years, Gleason. He started doing stories for the later issues of Crime Does Not Pay and sonn added the lead story for Boy Comics (from #110 to #118). I have two of those stories here. It looks as if Bob Bean was involved, who worked with Kubert on serveral features at St. John's.