{"id":4467,"date":"2012-06-16T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2012-06-16T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:22:27","slug":"harvey-horror-alarming-tales-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/4467","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Horror: Alarming Tales #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958), pencils and inks by Joe Simon<\/p>\n

For a long time this cover was considered the work of Jack Kirby but it was actually created by Joe Simon. This confusion is understandable because it is a swipe from an unpublished cover that Jack did (for a more complete discussion see Alternate Versions of the Alarming Tales #3 Cover<\/a>, although I no longer believe Kirby was the inker on the unused cover).<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) content page, pencils and inks by Joe Simon<\/p>\n

The contents page was used is an house advertisement in Black Cat Mystic #61.<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) “This World Is Ours”, pencils by Jack Kirby<\/p>\n

The inking of this story has in the past been attributed to Steve Ditko but I think we can confidently reject that claim. The figure in the lower right corner of the splash does look a little like Ditko’s work, however the blunt brushwork is nothing like Ditko’s inking at the time. One explanation could be that the inking of the splash was done by Mort Meskin whose work greatly influenced Ditko. Beyond the figure’s appearance, nothing in the brushwork suggests Meskin’s inking. Still I find it hard to believe that Kirby inked the splash either. The rest of the story does look very much like the inking of Kirby himself.<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) “They Walked On Water”, pencils and inks by Doug Wildey<\/p>\n

There is a lot of work by Doug Wildey in AT #3 and in fact he would be frequently used in later issues of Alarming Tales and Black Cat Mystic. Wildey was an accomplished artist but unfortunately sometimes worked in greater detail than the crude printing of Harvey comics could handle properly.<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) “Get Lost”, pencils and inks by Ernest Schroeder?<\/p>\n

I am really not that familiar with the artists from Harvey at this time and this attribution is from GCD. Ernest Schroeder is said to have worked for Simon and Kirby around 1954 (Who’s Who<\/a>). I do not find him in my database but that just means that I have not identified his work not that he did not work for them. If he did work for Simon and Kirby he did not sign his efforts. “Get Lost” has some interesting art, particularly the way Schroeder uses lighting to provide dramatic effects.<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) house advertisement, pencils and inks by Joe Simon?<\/p>\n

The art for this house ad was used as the contents page for Black Cat Mystic #61. Someone commented in my post of that issue that Nostrand was no longer working for Harvey at that time. IF that is true it may be that this content page\/ad was done by Joe Simon swiping from an earlier Nostrand piece.<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) “The Strange One”, pencils and inks by Doug Wildey<\/p>\n

I have to admit I am not a great fan of all the Harvey stories particularly those from after the Comic Code came into effect. While I like the Wildey’s art work for “The Strange One” the story is a bit contrived for my tastes.<\/p>\n

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\nAlarming Tales #3 (January 1958) “The Man Who Never Lived”, pencils and inks by Doug Wildey<\/p>\n

It appears to me that Wildey often worked from photographs. That is not to say that all his drawings were done based on photos but that some were. “The Man Who Never Lived” seems to have a larger than normal amount of drawing from photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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