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Herbert Tauss (1929-2001):

On 2/28/2021 at 4:03 PM, Randall Ries said:

Getting back to subject a bit, all these years we have applied the word "super" to heroes. In my mind, it was never whether or not the hero came from Krypton and was imbued with otherwordly power, but the word "super" more related to their courage, bravery and willingness to put self behind other peoples interests. I mean, Batman is referred to as a "super" hero and has been for decades. Same with Robin. Same with Hourman and he was a drug addict. Wildcat was a washed up boxer. The Woman In Red qualifies as a "super" hero in my book. As much as The Scarlet Pimpernel does or even the Crimson Avenger. He was human, wasn't he? No specific skill set other than throwing punches and being extremely lucky.

Maybe Invisible Scarlet O'Neil was first. She turned invisible by touching a nerve in her left wrist after sticking her finger into the ray beam of her fathers invention. That's as believable as being bitten by a radioactive spider and gaining the powers of a spider. Not leukemia like I would have gotten instead. 

A thought recently came to me is that when Superman lifts himself from the ground, it’s called science fiction, yet if Zatara does the same thing, it’s called magic, as if it’s impossible for anyone else to perceive what Superman does as magic.

On 7/16/2012 at 4:14 PM, Gallifrey-migration said:

Just found this thread and its references to '40s Captain Marvel artist Bob Butts, whose post-comics career was unknown.

 

Bob Butts left comics but later published a series of books under the name Robert Butts, co-written with his wife Jane Roberts, that had a huge influence on the New Age spiritual movement in the 1970s. Info can be found here:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Roberts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Material

 

It is in the book "The Magical Approach" that Butts writes about his history illustrating Captain Marvel comics (pp.36,37,39)

 

Robert Butts died on May 26, 2008.

 

http://www.paulhelfrich.com/essays/in-memoriam-robert-f-butts/

Ah, that would be Robert Fabian Butts (1919-2008):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72983187/robert-fabian-butts

Maurice Kashuba (1917-1973):

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/103848598/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=KASHUBA%2C+MAURICE

Frederick Strothmann (1872-1958):

https://art.famsf.org/frederick-strothmann

http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=STROTHMAN

Sylvester Joseph Sowinski (1923-1986):

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/posse-416867632

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=SOWINSKI%2C+SYL

Milton Hammer (1914-1993):

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144924332/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HAMMER%2C+MILT

William Michael Newton (1924-2014):

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/william-newton-obituary?pid=173930658

http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=NEWTON%2c+BILL

Harold Ellsworth Lockwood (1918-2017):

https://www.hotspringsfh.com/obituaries/Harold-Lockwood/#!/Obituary

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LOCKWOOD%2C+HAL

Arthur Meredith Gates (1916-1976):

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/07/archives/arthur-m-gates-60-cartoonist-drawings-ran-in-280-newspapers.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GATES%2C+ART

Howard Paul Wyrauch (1919-2008):

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/archives/howard-wyrauch/article_96637442-dc72-5067-a53f-19d3f2ae0637.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=TRUETT%2C+W.

Kosti Selim Ruohomaa (1913-1961):

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/ruohomaa-exhibit-at-finnish-house/1197900

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=RUOHOMAA%2c+KOSTI

William Alan Discount (1929-2007):

https://www.artmajeur.com/en/billdisc/presentation

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DISCOUNT%2C+BILL

Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999):

“Pinajian, the son of Armenian holocaust survivors, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics. 

After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist. This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract.”

http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART

Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999):

“Pinajian, the son of Armenian holocaust survivors, was a native of Union City, New Jersey. He started as a cartoonist in the 1930s and found considerable success fashioning comic strips for Quality, Marvel, and Centaur Comics. 

After World War II, during which he earned the Bronze Star for valor, he rejected commercial art, attended the Art Students League in New York, and committed himself to the pursuit of serious painting. Prior to his many years in Bellport with Armen, he rented a studio in Woodstock, New York, and there and in West New York, New Jersey, he began to wrestle with the challenges of being a modern artist. This meant painting in a variety of styles ranging from the figurative to the abstract.”

http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART

Lawrence Tyler Dresser (1888-1980):

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Tyler_Genealogy/mRjGDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="lawrence+tyler+dresser"&pg=PA637&printsec=frontcover

http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DRESSER%2c+LAWRENCE

John Cassone (1923-2008):

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailybreeze/obituary.aspx?n=john-cassone&pid=119727054

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASSONE%2C+JOHN

Otto Joseph William Eppers (1893-1955):

https://www.qcwa.org/w2ea-00012-sk.htm

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=EPPERS%2C+OTTO

Joseph John Cavallo (1922-2020):

https://usobit.com/obituaries-2020/06/joseph-cavallo-july-12-1922-june-2-2020-age-97/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CAVALLO%2C+JOEY

Ellis Eringer (1924-2008):

http://papadukeeringer.blogspot.com/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=ERINGER%2C+ELLIS

Robert Fabian Butts (1919-2008):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72983187/robert-fabian-butts

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUTTS%2C+BOB

George Meyerriecks (1921-1992):

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/meyerriecks-george-the-main-event-oil-on-artists--107-c-gdaraynkku

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MEYERIECKS%2C+G.

Robert Bruce Bugg (1920-1993):

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/09/nearly-anonymous-robert-bugg.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUGG%2C+BOB

Andrew August Bensen (1902-1976):

https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2012/02/andrew-bensen-1902.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BENSEN%2C+ANDREW

Franklin Newell Beaven (1906-1975):

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50748699/obituary-for-franklin-newell-beaven/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BEAVEN%2C+FRANK

Arthur Ashod Pinajian (1914-1999):

http://www.pinajianart.com/largeformat/biography.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PINAJIAN%2C+ART

John Ralph Hearne (1924-1985):

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/01/textbook-example-jack-hearne.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HEARNE%2C+JACK

Herbert Tauss (1929-2001):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Tauss

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=TAUSS%2C+HERB

August Maria Froehlich (1880-1952):

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/froehlich_august.htm

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FROEHLICH%2C+AUGUST

Philip Willis Hustis (1916-1991):

https://www.askart.com/artist/Phillip_Hustis/11330477/Phillip_Hustis.aspx

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HUSTIS%2C+PHIL

Victoriano Martín (1927-????):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://historiaspasado.blogspot.com/2008/01/vic-martinel-pionero-neoyorkino.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MARTIN%2C+VIC

Robert Globerman (1929-2016):

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/robert-globerman-obituary?pid=182373546

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GLOBERMAN%2C+BOB

Joseph Edmund Peckover (1896-1982):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Peckover&prev=search&pto=aue

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=PECKOVER%2C+EDMUND

Rodney Thomson (1878-1941):

https://www.davidsongalleries.com/collections/rodney-thomson

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=THOMPSON%2C+RODNEY

Robert Edgar Lamme (1917-1998):

https://firefightingnews.com/firefighters-sudden-death-broke-family/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LAMME%2C+BOB

Lachlan MacLachlan Field (1913-2004):

https://www.nhpr.org/post/thanksgiving-tradition-snow-geese-migration-vermont#stream/0

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FIELD%2C+LOCHLAN

Harvey Kenneth Fuller (1918-2017):

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theday/obituary.aspx?n=harvey-k-fuller&pid=187336369&fhid=6913

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FULLER%2C+HARVEY

Robert A. Boyajian (1922-2012):

http://brascosonmemorialfuneralhome.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/1135902/Robert-A-Boyajian/obituary.php

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BOYAJIAN%2C+ROBERT

Craig Joseph Fox (1895-1965):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189541845/craig-joseph-fox

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=FOX%2C+CRAIG

Grieg Hovsep Chapian (1913-1996):

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/grieg-hovsep-chapian-american-1913-1995-the-old-teacher-1932oil-on-masonite28-x-22-inches-711-x-559/a/5101-86253.s

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CHAPIAN%2C+GRIEG

Stephen Bern Dahlman (1912-1958):

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/psychiana/items/psychiana545.html

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DAHLMAN%2C+STEVE

Kenneth Vernon Landau (1926-2012):

https://www.kennethlandau.com/

http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=LANDAU%2C+KEN

Walter Howard Chapman (1912-2015):

“Comic book addicts will be interested to know that one of the creators of funnypaper art is now joined with the 84th infantry division stationed at Camp Claiborne. He is Cpl. Walter Howard Chapman who in his pre-war days worked as a cartoonist with the Jack Binder Studios in New York and spent his time dreaming of drawings for Captain Midnight, Doc Savage, Nick Carter, and The Shadow. He is like the boogie-woogie piano player who composes a symphony during his spare time. He studied at the Art Students League in New York, one of the country's outstanding art schools, and he worked under such well-known American artists as Henry Keller and John Corhina. His pictures have been exhibited in museums all over the country, and he painted a large mural for the University of Toledo. More than anything else, he enjoys painting portraits and hopes someday to devote most of his artistic energy to this work. Drawing cartoons is a pleasant past-time, and the pecuniary compensation is very high. That is its most attractive feature, Chapman assured us, but it lacks the real soul satisfaction of serious art. Chapman has been with the 84th Division since its activation at Camp Howze, Texas. He is now the No. 1 gunner in a mortar squad.” - https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/213312818/

“He fought overseas during World War II, participating in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of Company H, 334th Infantry Regiment 84th Division. He was a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes while in the Army and received a Bronze Star for his combat service. While in the service, Walter illustrated the book "The Battle of Germany" by Theodore Draper. He also has several illustrations included in the book "The Liberators" by William Hirsh. Walter returned to Toledo and established himself in the local art community, eventually opening Chapman Art Gallery where he could paint and sell his works exclusively. His professional memberships included Allied Artists of America, Watercolor USA Honor Society, Ohio Watercolor Society, Ohio Realists, Northwest Ohio Watercolor Society, the Toledo Artists Club, and the Toledo Museum of Art. Walter was a member of the Toledo Tile Club since 1954, meeting every Tuesday night with fellow artists, and also Sylvania First United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Jean, enjoyed traveling and spent their winters in Arizona for over 30 years.” - https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?n=walter-chapman&pid=175145684&fhid=15375

- https://84thinfantrydivisionphotoswordpresscom.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/84th-division-after-action-report-covers-painted-by-walter-chapman/

Myron Strauss (1917-1999), who was actually approached about his Centaur Comics work by a high school student around 1980:

http://www.outofbodies.com/sketchbook/strauss.html

On 2/25/2021 at 7:25 PM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

Great thread topic. I'd like to learn more about H.G. Peter who was already pretty old when he started working on the Wonder Woman series for DC comics. His style is very reminiscent of work like Jon R. Neill's OZ work; another artist I wish I could find out more about.

For those who like to read biographies there are certainly some good ones out there. Krazy on George Herriman was really a good read and fascinating. Also don't forget to page through Steranko's History of Comics; he talked to lots of the Golden Age folks. While I haven't read it in years he had some interesting material on Jack Cole's youth. And it's kind of amazing no one ever wrote a biography of Carl Barks!!

Rob Stolzer wrote a good article about him, which goes into his style and possible influences, including Nell Brinkley and Franklin Booth.

https://inkslingers.ink/2020/08/25/h-g-peter-from-judge-to-wonder/

Well if Al Luster was 56 by the time of his passing in 1980, then he’d have presumably been born in the mid-1920s. Going by that, my research points me to the Albert Berry Luster born in Bremerton, Washington in 1924.

https://www.fold3.com/image/649178129?terms=luster

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8099462/albert-b-luster

https://sortedbybirthdate.com/small_pages/1924/19240329_1000.html

Lawrence Tyler Dresser (1888-1980), artist who exhibited at the first modern art exhibit in 1913 (Classics Illustrated #82, April 1951):

Might as well mention the artists said to have drawn for Camera Comics:

Bill Allison

Gerald Altman

Ken Battefield

Fred Bell

Tex Blaisdell

R. Louis Golden

Tom Hickey

Arnold Hicks

Henry Kiefer 

Howard Larsen

Norman Nodel

Bob Oksner

Roland Patenaude

Louis Schroeder

Gus Schrotter

Leonard Starr

Charlie Tomsey

Maurice Whitman

Everett Kinstler:

6 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

It's not in the Toth catalogue, compiled mostly by JIm Vadebonceur.  Jim is one of the great comic indexers/researchers/art identifiers and walked Toth through his list.

https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Isolated-Life-Alex-Toth/dp/1600108288/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=toth+genius+isolated&qid=1613267791&sr=8-1

I also believe it is wholly inconsistent with his output at the time or at any time after 1950.  The pose of the figures is far looser and more energetic than what Toth would do.  I believe it to be by Infantino.

I’m inclined to agree. There does seem to be more consistency with Infantino’s work:

10 hours ago, Dr. Love said:

I have it on good authority, and at this point I would have to agree, that it's not Toth on the GR 13 cover. Infantino.

Ah, where was it made known that it was by Infantino instead of Toth?

Tony Yuknis of Comics Magazine Company (1916-1994):

A. S. Van Eerde (aka Andel Synco van Eerde), who was born in southern Africa in 1897 and died in New York in 1979. He was a commercial artist that designed advertisements for clients. He also sold his own fine art and was a writer/illustrator that did covers and interiors for magazines like "American Legion Weekly", and comic books. He had a short-lived comic strip called "2038 AD: An Excursion to Mars", that ran only four installments in "Amazing Mystery Funnies" comic book series published by Centaur between 1938-1940. - 

https://www.eclectibles.com/product-p/22021101.htm

More covers with uncertain art credits:

53 minutes ago, rjpb said:

This looks like Mort Meskin to me.

I do see similarities, though Meskin seemed to have his human proportions down by 1946.

Kane also has good proportions, though he noticeably tended to draw the hand area of the arms as if being smaller than the rest of the arm, as if it’s more deflated/bonier, regardless of how old or muscular the character is.

3 hours ago, BB-Gun said:

That cover is a reprint from another MLJ comic.  The splash is signed by Paul Reinman in Pep 32.

Thanks!

Rudy Palais:

1 minute ago, adamstrange said:

Speed 20 -- Kirby pencils.  Kirby's art is dynamic, giving you a sense of action & motion, like with the circular motion of the kid's rifle.

Speed 23 -- Simon pencils.  Awkward design with stiffly posed lead figure.

Airboy -- Kirby layout.  No particular reason,  that is the dramatic feeling I get when looking at it.

Thanks!