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Fred Kida, John Giunta, and Bob Fujitani from Air Fighters Comics #v2#2 (November, 1943):

I’d rather call that an emphasis on responsibility than “censorship,” the sort of responsibilities any person should be aware of and hold themselves to no matter how financially successful and experienced they may think they are otherwise. There’s actually a text article in the comic Patches #4 (September, 1946) which talks about juvenile delinquency in the form of white kids beating up other kids for being black. It brings up the idea that hatred is put into kids’ hearts not only to due to dishonest parenting and school teaching that isn’t good enough, but also due to madmen like Hitler, who was known to propagate racist-oriented literature that could get into the hands of kids. Not to say American comic books and Nazi propaganda were the same, but that said, one doesn’t need to be Hitler to still be held accountable for the racist-based depictions they put into their comics, regardless of original intent, especially in light of it happening during the era of Jim Crow and terrorist groups like the KKK spreading their own lies of propaganda which could also make their way into the minds of kids, not to mention others spreading lies about others, including kids, who are Irish, Polish, Italian, and of a different religion. Again, this isn’t to justify censorship, but responsibility, a responsibility to ensure that kids don’t get the wrong idea about others to the point of looking down at them and leaving themselves more susceptible to getting filled with hate and lies.

Great acquisitions!

Fred Kida, John Giunta, and Bob Fujitani:

Myron Fass, Mel Keefer, and Ben Brown:

Ingrid Bergman: Barbara Stanwyck: Rita Hayworth: Ava Gardner: Bonus: a painted cover of Lauren Bacall

Various non-comic works by Schomburg: 1939: 1941: 1953: 1954: 1960: 1961: 1964: Source: https://www.pulpartists.com/Schomburg.html

Lee Sherman’s art from Tim McCoy #16 (October, 1948):

Jingle Jangle Comics #27 (June, 1947):

Seems I was mistaken on the Tewks artist, with the really artist apparently being William Tewkesbury, and his credits getting mixed up with Alberta Tews’. I think other credits are correct though.

Binder in general definitely had great attention to detail, not just with anatomy, but also giving the convincing feeling of fast paced movement. He used dramatic lighting and angling, and could even get a little grotesque as well.

Thanks. Despite Binder’s name being used quite a number of times, it can get one wondering if his name was eventually being used as a house name for other artists. I suppose the same could apply to Charles Biro.

That’s apparently George A. Ward, the one that shared a studio with Joe Maneely and Peggy Zangerle, as well as assisting Walt Kelly on Pogo.

Various non-comic works by Flessel: 1939: 1940: 1951: 1957: 1958: Source: https://www.pulpartists.com/Flessel.html

Thankfully, there are people like David Saunders helping bring as much info together as possible from the artists of back then, including Maurice Whitman, whom doesn’t seem to be written about much in the first place: https://www.pulpartists.com/Whitman-M.html It was interesting learning quite a few things about him, such as him having to be rescued off the roof of Charlton Press at one point, as well as this poster he made for the Army:

Comic book artists active in and around the Golden Age that you’d like to familiarize yourself with more, either to potentially discover more interesting art that you previously didn’t know about, or out of curiosity in general. For me, one of those artists would have to be DickRyan, who drew various funny animal comics in the late 30s for companies like Centaur, and even drew for a newspaper comic called Animal Crackers at that time, but I don’t know much else about him or his other work.

Quite a number of them too: Madge Geyer: https://www.pulpartists.com/Geyer.html Georgia Warren: https://www.pulpartists.com/Warren,Georgia.html Gloria Stoll: https://www.pulpartists.com/Stoll.html Dorothy Flack: https://www.pulpartists.com/Flack.html Irene Zimmermann: https://www.pulpartists.com/Zimmerman.html Margaret Brundage: https://www.pulpartists.com/Brundage.html Martha Moore: https://www.pulpartists.com/Moore.html Constance Bailey: https://www.pulpartists.com/Bailey.html Thelma Gooch: https://www.pulpartists.com/Gooch.html Zoe Mozert: https://www.pulpartists.com/Mozert.html Gertrude Orde: https://www.pulpartists.com/Orde.html Xena Wright: https://www.pulpartists.com/Wright.html Margery Stocking: https://www.pulpartists.com/Stocking.html Ilo Kopland: https://www.pulpartists.com/Kopland.html Eunice Hatfield: https://www.pulpartists.com/Hatfield.html Ethel Plummer: https://www.pulpartists.com/Plummer.html Helen Dyer: https://www.pulpartists.com/Dyer.html Doris Stanley: https://www.pulpartists.com/StanleyD.html Marjorie MacIntyre: https://www.pulpartists.com/MacIntyre.html Jill Elgin: https://www.pulpartists.com/Elgin.html Alice Kirkpatrick: https://www.pulpartists.com/Kirkpatrick.html Nina Albright: https://www.pulpartists.com/Albright.html Connie Naar: https://www.pulpartists.com/Naar.html Marcia Snyder: https://www.pulpartists.com/Snyder.html Ann Brewster: https://www.pulpartists.com/Brewster.html

I felt that his non-comic work really showcased his talent: 1921: 1926: 1927: 1937: 1948: Bonus pics just for fun: A close up of Flanagan’s face: Flanagan at age 31: Flanagan at age 52: Flanagan at age 62: Source: https://www.pulpartists.com/Flanagan.html

I imagine quite a lot of artists resorted to using photographs out of only knowing so many faces before it becomes noticeable that all the faces distractingly start to look the same. I suspect the faces of many of the men drawn in comics from the 40s resemble the men like Humprey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, and the women like Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Audrey Hepburn.

There’s this list as well: Source: http://www.bailsprojects.com/WhosWho.aspx

A more in-depth list: Matt Baker A. C. Hollingsworth E. C. Stoner Cal Massey Adolphe Barreaux Ezra Jackson Alfonso Greene Robert Pious Warren Broderick Ted Shearer Tom Feelings Elton Fax Jay Jackson Harper Johnson John Terrell George J. Evans Jr. George Corley Owen Middleton

Known cover artists include Ken Battefield, Paul Reinman, Bob Jenney, and Ellis Chambers, so maybe one of them?

The back of New Fun #1, cover dated February 1935, but on sale January 11 1935, features ads from Ralston: Famous Funnies #7 (covered dated February 1935, but on sale January 15 1935, featured a Daisy Air Rifles ad.

Didn’t realize how several black artists were working for Fox by the late 40s until recently: Elmer Stoner (Blue Beetle #44, September 1946): Matt Baker (Phantom Lady #13, August 1947): Alvin Hollingsworth (Blue Beetle #51, December 1947): Warren Broderick (Crimes by Women #4, December 1948): Harper Johnson (Feature Presentations Magazine #6, June 1950): Along with Alfonso Greene said to have worked on My Secret Life #22 (July, 1949), which I haven’t seen.

I don’t think so, though Joe Louis did appear on the cover of True Comics #5 (October, 1941):