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\nBlack Magic #34 (September 1957) “The Hidden Doors”, pencils by Joe Orlando<\/p>\n
\nBlack Magic #34 (September 1957) “The Hidden Doors”, pencils by Joe Orlando<\/p>\n
In recent entries of the serial post of The Art of Romance (Chapter 34<\/a> and Chapter 35<\/a>) I discussed the cover art by an artist who used the initials JO. Although I have not yet written about him in my other serial post, Criminal Artists, the same artist also did covers for Justice Traps the Guilty. I had tentatively credited Joe Orlando as the artist in question. The main reason for uncertainty of this conclusion was that I had not had a chance to do a comparison of work from this period that can be confidently attributed to Orlando. One great thing about databases is that the remember details that the human mind sometimes forgets. I was pleased to find that my database indicated that I did in fact have something with a full signature by Joe Orlando, “The Hidden Doors” from Black Magic #34 (September 1957). This was the first issue of the re-launched Black Magic (the final issue of the earlier run was cover dated November 1954) . The new series was a very different comic from the earlier, Simon and Kirby, produced one. I am sure I will someday do a serial post on the second Black Magic run.<\/p>\n But let me get back to the actual subject of this post. While “The Hidden Doors” was a different genre, there are enough similarities to the romance and crime covers that I believe all were done by the same artist. Further the date for the Black Magic piece is perfectly aligned with the cover art. Therefore I am going to dispense with the question mark and just go with the Joe Orlando attribution.<\/p>\n Chapter 1, A New Genre (YR #1 – #4)<\/a> Black Magic #34 (September 1957) “The Hidden Doors”, pencils by Joe Orlando In recent entries of the serial post of The Art of Romance (Chapter 34 and Chapter 35) I discussed the cover art by an artist who used the initials JO. Although I have not yet written about him in my other serial post, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129,161,173,38,218,51,73],"tags":[561,398],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-129","category-7-freelance","category-art-of-romance","category-periods","category-prize","category-serial-posts","category-z-archive","tag-art-of-romance","tag-joe-orlando"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uriT-MJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChapter 2, Early Artists (YR #1 – #4)
\n<\/a>Chapter 3, The Field No Longer Their\u2019s Alone (YR #5 – #8)<\/a>
\nChapter 4, An Explosion of Romance (YR #9 – #12, YL #1 – #4)<\/a>
\nChapter 5, New Talent (YR #9 – 12, YL #1 – #4)<\/a>
\nChapter 6, Love on the Range (RWR #1 – #7, WL #1 – #6)<\/a>
\nChapter 7, More Love on the Range (RWR #1 – #7, WL #1 – #6)<\/a>
\nChapter 8, Kirby on the Range? (RWR #1 – #7, WL #1 – #6)<\/a>
\nChapter 9, More Romance (YR #13 – #16, YL #5 – #6)<\/a>
\nChapter 10, The Peak of the Love Glut (YR #17 – #20, YL #7 – #8)<\/a>
\nChapter 11, After the Glut (YR #21 – #23, YL #9 – #10)<\/a>
\nChapter 12, A Smaller Studio (YR #24 \u2013 #26, YL #12 \u2013 #14)<\/a>
\nChapter 13, Romance Bottoms Out (YR #27 \u2013 #29, YL #15 \u2013 #17)<\/a>
\nChapter 14, The Third Suspect (YR #30 \u2013 #32, YL #18 \u2013 #20)<\/a>
\nChapter 15, The Action of Romance (YR #33 \u2013 #35, YL #21 \u2013 #23)<\/a>
\nChapter 16, Someone Old and Someone New (YR #36 \u2013 #38, YL #24 \u2013 #26)<\/a>
\nChapter 17, The Assistant (YR #39 \u2013 #41, YL #27 \u2013 #29)<\/a>
\nChapter 18, Meskin Takes Over (YR #42 \u2013 #44, YL #30 \u2013 #32)<\/a>
\nChapter 19, More Artists (YR #45 \u2013 #47, YL #33 \u2013 #35)<\/a>
\nChapter 20, Romance Still Matters (YR #48 \u2013 #50, YL #36 \u2013 #38, YB #1)<\/a>
\nChapter 21, Roussos Messes Up (YR #51 \u2013 #53, YL #39 \u2013 #41, YB #2 \u2013 3)<\/a>
\nChapter 22, He\u2019s the Man (YR #54 \u2013 #56, YL #42 \u2013 #44, YB #4)<\/a>
\nChapter 23, New Ways of Doing Things (YR #57 \u2013 #59, YL #45 \u2013 #47, YB #5 \u2013 #6)<\/a>
\nChapter 24, A New Artist (YR #60 \u2013 #62, YL #48 \u2013 #50, YB #7 \u2013 #8)<\/a>
\nChapter 25, More New Faces (YR #63 \u2013 #65, YLe #51 \u2013 #53, YB #9 \u2013 #11)<\/a>
\nChapter 26, Goodbye Jack (YR #66 \u2013 #68, YL #54 \u2013 #56, YB #12 \u2013 #14)<\/a>
\nChapter 27, The Return of Mort (YR #69 \u2013 #71, YL #57 \u2013 #59, YB #15 \u2013 #17)<\/a>
\nChapter 28, A Glut of Artists (YR #72 \u2013 #74, YL #60 \u2013 #62, YB #18 & #19, IL #1 & #2)<\/a>
\nChapter 29, Trouble Begins (YR #75 \u2013 #77, YL #63 \u2013 #65, YB #20 \u2013 #22, IL #3 \u2013 #5)<\/a>
\nChapter 30, Transition (YR #78 \u2013 #80, YL #66 \u2013 #68, YBs #23 \u2013 #25, IL #6, ILY #7)<\/a>
\nChapter 30, Appendix (YB #23)<\/a>
\nChapter 31, Kirby, Kirby and More Kirby (YR #81 \u2013 #82, YL #69 \u2013 #70, YB #26 \u2013 #27)<\/a>
\nChapter 32, The Kirby Beat Goes On (YR #83 \u2013 #84, YL #71 \u2013 #72, YB #28 \u2013 #29)<\/a>
\nChapter 33, End of an Era (YR #85 \u2013 #87, YL #73, YB #30, AFL #1)<\/a>
\nChapter 34, A New Prize Title (YR #88 \u2013 #91, AFL #2 \u2013 #5, PL #1 \u2013 #2)<\/a>
\nChapter 35, Settling In ( YR #92 \u2013 #94, AFL #6 \u2013 #8, PL #3 \u2013 #5)<\/a>
\nAppendix, J.O. Is Joe Orlando
\nChapter 36, More Kirby (YR #95 \u2013 #97, AFL #9 \u2013 #11, PL #6 \u2013 #8)<\/a>
\nChapter 37, Some Surprises (YR #98 \u2013 #100, AFL #12 \u2013 #14, PL #9 \u2013 #11)<\/a>
\nChapter 38, All Things Must End (YR #101 – #103, AFL #15 – #17, PL #12 – #14)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"