I'm fairly certain this isn't Lou Fine. Probably Edd Ashe or Alex Kotzky, or whoever took over after the Eisner shop & Fox parted ways. Still a great book though!
Thanks, I love it. GCD credits Lou Fine for the cover and 5 of the stories. Ill crack it open tonight and see what the book says itself. It contians reprints of a number of Wonderworld 1939 stories.
I never considered flame 1 to be a fine cover, but I always assumed it was, like parker did...but, now that I really look at it, I would lean towards "not"
the cut-off date for the 'good' artists is 7/40--BUT there are two limbo books, flame 1 and green mask 1 which are simply noted as 'summer.' here're my flame 1 and gm 1, both of which cgc labels as fine covers. i think the green mask depiction is fine's probably scavenged from another book, tho' the background characters look to be drawn possibly by the same guy that did the same work on the flame. it's clear to me the flame himself on the flame 1 is fine's work.
Actually CGC just labels the Flame issue as "Lou Fine art", not the cover.
Is there any question as to whether there is Fine art at all within the book?