I took your advice and checked out Al Eadeh on Atlas Tales (what a great web site). You know if Eadeh had not signed both the Prize and Atlas stuff I do not think I would have recognized him as the penciler of both. Obviously John Belfi’s contribution was significant. I’ll have to see if I can track down any of the work that Belfi penciled.

Harry

I’ll stick with Draut for “The Man I Kept On A String”. Perhaps if you could list the stories of that other artist but to me it looks like Draut.

You got it, slot machines.

I do not know, the inking for the Nancy Hale example that I provided looks like a good match for all the others. The only thing missing are the picket fence and the course simple hatching that I described. As for the western romances I thought of covering them now as they truly are romances but they are unique enough that I decided to cover them separately. They will be the subject of my next chapter sometime in the future.

Harry

I stay away for a week and suddenly there are thre new posts! I was pleasantly surprised! Loved th photo’s, but as you know I think this serial covering of the romance titles is absolutely splendid. I wish I had the time to get out my own books and compare notes – and I will at a later time. But here are some thoughts for now.

The female on The Man I Kept On A String doesn’t really look Dratish to me. He never did many women this thin. It looks more like that one artist involved in the early years of Prize I haven’t been able to identify. Draut inks of course, but I am not sure about the pencils on this figure.

Could the background on the Lady Luck splash be some sort of slotmachine (with all those sevens)?

As I understand it, Belfi was primarily an inker, who worked with a lot of young talent to provide him with pencils. He did a lot of work with John Severin, before he joined up with Bill Elder, for example. I wonder if Belfi was the one who brought Severin in. Here he seems to have normalized Al Eadeh’s sometimes quite weird style. Have a look at Atlas Tales at some of his later work and you’ll see what I mean. The main method for me of identifying Eadeh, is the slant of the mouths. Usually just a thin line and mostly bent downwards.

I don’t think the sampe you chose of Vic Donahue’s work is typical of his inking style. It always struck me that his linework was too thin for Jack and Joe’s books and I have the impression sometimes some of it would be ‘beefed up’. For what I consider his true style, you should compare this to the work he did in the western romance (which I hope you’ll cover along side these romance titles, as they are both similar and not).

Great find on George Gregg!

The splash od Twotimer does have a superficial Premiani look to me. I always wondered if he used models or photo’s for his work.

Like the checklist!