Archive for April, 2006
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Bill Draut (usual suspect #1)
In previous posts I mention three artists that did a lot of work for the S&K studio over a long period of time. Because of the frequent appearance in S&K productions, I often refer to them as the usual suspects. In this post I would like to write about Bill Draut, the first of the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in 2006/04, 5 Studio, 6 Mainline, Artists, Draut, Bill, Harvey, In Love, Periods, Prize, z Archive by Harry
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Carl Burgos does the Fly
In 1959 Joe produced The Adventures of the Fly for Archie Comics. It was based on the Silver Spider, a never published Simon & Kirby creation. Jack was involved in some of the art, in particular the origin story. But other artists also did work on the Fly comics. Joe’s involvement on the Fly only [...]
No Comments » - Posted in 2006/04, 7 Freelance, Archie, Artists, Burgos, Carl, Periods, z Archive by Harry
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Pocket Comic #3 (November 1941)
I have saved Pocket Comics #3 as the last small sized cover that I would post on. If Speed #14 to #16 were done by Al Avison and if Pocket #1, #2 and #4 covers were done by Joe Simon, it would seem natural to say Joe also did Pocket #3. In fact the depiction [...]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Speed Comics #16 (January 1942)
Everybody makes mistakes, even experts. So when I say that when the Jack Kirby Checklist included Speed #16 it made a whooper, that does not diminish the value of that list. But all that needs to be done to dispel that misattribution is to compare the cover to one by Jack that came out in [...]
