Cat-Man_America

trunk to trunk...

That's one heavy shirt!

back to back Boks or rather Bok to Bok...

mummy nearest to mummy dearest...

Love the books and random 9.6 grades with understated photography. ...Truly awesome!

Jinn Joker rubbing out two wishes to a dwarf clown with an axe to grind...

choke hold to choke hold...

Maltese to (ummm) strip tease...

from tiny & little to BIG & little ...

Hot Lady to Hot Lady...

He also did a substantial number of pulp interior illustrations, but you're right, covers paid quite a bit more and accepting deadlines for fully illustrated stories would've been challenging and probably not the best use of his time given the demands placed on it. His pulp and ...after comics... digest covers were also in high demand, not to mention book and magazine covers, advertising, etc. He was rarely short of work throughout his career as an illustrator, including commissions.

Thanks, I want my slabbed books to feel at home! initial to well established (provenance)...

Who Are You to Squeeze Box...

The Kids are Alright to Baba O' Reilly...

Maybe the Cap 4 panel is the rare Cyrillic interpretation. For instance, in this revised twist of a Shore's cover, a right backhand becomes a left forehand, ...a difficult maneuver even in tennis! S&K left Timely in late '41 ...in rather unceremonious fashion... so it's doubtful any of their art was reworked. Also, paper drive campaigns weren't even on the U.S. radar till mid-'42 or later (we didn't officially enter the war until the month after S&K were fired by Martin Goodman). Nevertheless, it's probably worth noting Shores worked on the first 10 issues of Cap under S&K as an inker along with Reed Crandall, Al Avison and perhaps a few others, so there's definitely a connection. That said, to me the Bucky pose doesn't look anything at all like a swipe or a leftover.

Gill Fox, ...ironically he'd be known for well composed Torchy GGA later in the decade, but his early '40s hero covers ...with rare exception... stank. In spite of having a great eye for art talent, "Busy" Arnold seemed to like Fox's stiff, wooden covers even on Quality's more realistically themed comic characters. IMO, this is the weakest cover of this series; most were done by Lou Fine or Reed Crandall. Go figure...

The Moon Bat to the noon(?) bats...

Good disguise, photos of Shores from this time are scarce.

Unconventional water craft to unconventional space craft...

four legs to none!

cowgirl to cowering girl...

Heath artillery with coordinated swim team to Schomburg artillery with precision air ballet...

Atlas 2/55 to Hercules 4/41...