Post your Schomburgs!

[MrBedrock]

 

This is a Schomburg cover?

(thumbs u And a pretty cool one at that.

[groovetuber]

Did someone mention Marvel 29?

 

That is such a beaut!

[adamstrange]

 

This is a Schomburg cover?

 

Schomburg pencils, Ayers inks.

[drbanner]

Schomburg pencils, Ayers inks.

 

 

This website must be new, I remember someone asking if there was a Schomburg checklist available anywhere and there wasn't anything out there - Schomburg Checklist. This doesn't show the Pep 34 as being Schomburg either.

[jbcomicbox]

was most of the cap 4 cover art schomburg or S&K ?

 

Schomburg-c with S & K interiors..in fact only Cap 3 and 4 covers were Schomburg in the 1st 10 Caps...

 

The cover looks like Schomburg to me. It may have a touch of Simon but it still reminds me more of Schomburg. Similar to Human Torch 3 too (at least it reminds me of that one). What do you think of the girl encased in plastic does it seem too late. Speaking of slabs and hypodermic needles, I think Schomburg did some nice work for MLJ but Fujie knew how to slab and jab. Extra dental work and a double needle looks kind of scary. I hope my dentist never thinks of that.

 

 

Imagine my delight when Fujitani agreed to do this cover recreation for me, asking if it was "okay" if he changed it a bit, because his drawing skills had gotten "better" over the years...."Golly gee, if you hafto....."

[Primetime]

my Schomburg Triple Threat

Parachutes & Big Guns

 

....and one Battle cover (thumbs u

[BB-Gun]

Beautiful Peps! Fuji was great.

BTW, did someone mention Human Torch #3?

 

I was thinking of the other number 3.

Not my scan by the way.

And those weren't my Peps.

bb

 

[adamstrange]

Schomburg pencils, Ayers inks.

 

 

This must be new, I remember someone asking if there was a Schomburg checklist available anywhere and there wasn't anything out there - Schomburg Checklist. This doesn't show the Pep 34 as being Schomburg either.

 

That list is missing quite a few. There are more Nedor's with Schomburg covers that haven't been identified via Overstreet or GCD because they are post-war romance and other "lesser" genres and weren't signed. Dear Beatrice Fairfax are signed "Xela" and aren't even on that list.

[jbcomicbox]

sorry, no color

 

 

Ut!---Found my crayons!!!

 

No question in my mind that this cover was the proto-type for Suspense 3. See following column I did for CBM.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROTOTYPE OR RE-TREAD?

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The last issue of CBM spotlighted the run of Suspense Comics, and particularly the third issue with the classic Schomburg cover. Other than the postage size reproduction in the Gerber Photo-Journal and occasionally viewing the book from afar at infrequently attended comicbook conventions, I had never had an opportunity to view the third issue with any degree of care until it was reproduced in the color gallery of CBM 30. After looking at it a bit, it seemed oddly familiar, as if I had seen it in some other form.

 

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I pulled out a copy of All-New Comics 8. There it was. Another Schomburg cover. As viewed, there was a bound blond threatened by an upturned sword. Both issues have the woman surrounded by monstrous Nazis, some hooded in Klu Klux Klan fashion. Both impending executions are set in a tropical locale surrounded by raised walls or land with desperate rescues in sight. In one, a Nazi shoots a revolver from the lower right to the upper left while in the other the shot starts from the lower left and goes to the upper right. Instead of the spear set to be flung from up above in Suspense 3, there is a machine gun firing down into the scene of impending mayhem. Of course, the All-New cover prominently features the “Red Blazer” and the “Boy Heroes”, the title’s resident heroes. However, the overall composition and feel of each cover are obviously similar. Mere coincidence?

 

Click.

 

Suspense 3 has an April 1944 cover date while All-New 8 has a cover date of May 1944- only one month apart! Logic would dictate that Schomburg had to have created these covers in close temporal proximity to one another. Commencing with issue 6, All-New’s prior sporadic output went on an every other month schedule. One could hypothesize that the owner of the title would want to insure a regular schedule by having several issues already prepared. The first Schomburg cover was with the seventh issue. Could Schomburg have created the cover for issue 8 well in advance of its scheduled release? Is it possible that the cover to number 8 was the prototype/inspiration for one of the classic comicbook covers of all time? Is it possible that the cover to issue 8 was created before Suspense 3?

 

Click.

 

All-New Comics contained a text feature that was entitled “The Story Behind the Cover”. The text would then relate a short story. The cover to a particular issue illustrated a dramatic moment from that story. Obviously the text piece and cover in issue 8 involved the comic characters of that title. Succinctly, the story in All-New 8 involved the abduction and planned execution by Nazis of the daughter of the French commander in North Africa. However, these plot elements apply with equal force to the cover of Suspense 3 as demonstrated by the following abbreviated excerpt from All-New 8:

 

Marianna Le Clair was of that startling beauty which

made all stop to stare...Yes, she was a famous general’s

daughter. The General was...[the French] commander of Camel Corps..[in] North Africa. [As she strolled through a bazaar] ...on

a hot sultry day...a dirty rough hand..went across her mouth...

a sharp blow struck her temple....and she lost all

consciousness....

 

A shrill woman’s cry stabbed the sultry air ...

[T]russed by heavy rope, lying limp and helpless was pretty

Marianna....Over her hovered devilishly fantastic creatures,

garbed in weird costumes. To a side, a fiendish-face Nazi..

squatted. In the center of the piazza a ...man stood

raising a wicked short sword....

 

The cover to Suspense 3 had no relationship to the content of that comicbook. It may be stated that while this cover represents the ultimate “refinement” of the cover/concept of All-New 8, it is, nonetheless, a refinement. Clearly, the text piece of All-New 8 easily reflects the scene depicted on Suspense 3. Is the cover to All-New 8 the prototype for the cover to Suspense 3? Is the text piece of All-New 8 the inspiration for the cover of Suspense 3? You be the judge.

 

 

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c. JSB 1996

 

 

So, what do you guys think?

[BB-Gun]

was most of the cap 4 cover art schomburg or S&K ?

 

Schomburg-c with S & K interiors..in fact only Cap 3 and 4 covers were Schomburg in the 1st 10 Caps...

 

The cover looks like Schomburg to me. It may have a touch of Simon but it still reminds me more of Schomburg. Similar to Human Torch 3 too (at least it reminds me of that one). What do you think of the girl encased in plastic does it seem too late. Speaking of slabs and hypodermic needles, I think Schomburg did some nice work for MLJ but Fujie knew how to slab and jab. Extra dental work and a double needle looks kind of scary. I hope my dentist never thinks of that.

 

Imagine my delight when Fujitani agreed to do this cover recreation for me, asking if it was "okay" if he changed it a bit, because his drawing skills had gotten "better" over the years...."Golly gee, if you hafto....."

 

That is a pretty nice cover reproduction. Did he do anything else for you?

bb

[jbcomicbox]

was most of the cap 4 cover art schomburg or S&K ?

 

Schomburg-c with S & K interiors..in fact only Cap 3 and 4 covers were Schomburg in the 1st 10 Caps...

 

The cover looks like Schomburg to me. It may have a touch of Simon but it still reminds me more of Schomburg. Similar to Human Torch 3 too (at least it reminds me of that one). What do you think of the girl encased in plastic does it seem too late. Speaking of slabs and hypodermic needles, I think Schomburg did some nice work for MLJ but Fujie knew how to slab and jab. Extra dental work and a double needle looks kind of scary. I hope my dentist never thinks of that.

 

Imagine my delight when Fujitani agreed to do this cover recreation for me, asking if it was "okay" if he changed it a bit, because his drawing skills had gotten "better" over the years...."Golly gee, if you hafto....."

 

That is a pretty nice cover reproduction. Did he do anything else for you?

bb

 

Yes, one other .....Hangman! (follow this link to other art and recreations i have http://comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=2254)

[BB-Gun]

Schomburg pencils, Ayers inks.

 

 

This must be new, I remember someone asking if there was a Schomburg checklist available anywhere and there wasn't anything out there - Schomburg Checklist. This doesn't show the Pep 34 as being Schomburg either.

 

That list is missing quite a few. There are more Nedor's with Schomburg covers that haven't been identified via Overstreet or GCD because they are post-war romance and other "lesser" genres and weren't signed. Dear Beatrice Fairfax are signed "Xela" and aren't even on that list.

 

I didn't know that the Bobby Benton cover was by Schomburg. It looks like Ayers work to me but it could be only his inks. Pep 29 cover was by Schomburg but 34 was by Fuje. I got a little side-tracked and threw in that 34 cover. I also like Montana covers but I will restrain my self.

bb

[groovetuber]

Schomburg pencils, Ayers inks.

 

 

This must be new, I remember someone asking if there was a Schomburg checklist available anywhere and there wasn't anything out there - Schomburg Checklist. This doesn't show the Pep 34 as being Schomburg either.

 

That list is missing quite a few. There are more Nedor's with Schomburg covers that haven't been identified via Overstreet or GCD because they are post-war romance and other "lesser" genres and weren't signed. Dear Beatrice Fairfax are signed "Xela" and aren't even on that list.

 

I didn't know that the Bobby Benton cover was by Schomburg. It looks like Ayers work to me but it could be only his inks. Pep 29 cover was by Schomburg but 34 was by Fuje. I got a little side-tracked and threw in that 34 cover. I also like Montana covers but I will restrain my self.

bb

 

That 34 is very cool, glad ya got side-tracked!

[jbcomicbox]

while i have the All-News out, here you go. Note Schomburg used the same "theme" for covers for Timely and Nedor....

 

[samurai007]

 

Love this cover!

[adamstrange]

Schomburg pencils, Ayers inks.

 

 

This must be new, I remember someone asking if there was a Schomburg checklist available anywhere and there wasn't anything out there - Schomburg Checklist. This doesn't show the Pep 34 as being Schomburg either.

 

That list is missing quite a few. There are more Nedor's with Schomburg covers that haven't been identified via Overstreet or GCD because they are post-war romance and other "lesser" genres and weren't signed. Dear Beatrice Fairfax are signed "Xela" and aren't even on that list.

 

I didn't know that the Bobby Benton cover was by Schomburg. It looks like Ayers work to me but it could be only his inks. Pep 29 cover was by Schomburg but 34 was by Fuje. I got a little side-tracked and threw in that 34 cover. I also like Montana covers but I will restrain my self.

bb

 

It's Schomburg pencils and Ayers inks and so acknowledged by Ayers.

[MrBedrock]

Beautiful Peps! Fuji was great.

BTW, did someone mention Human Torch #3?

 

I was thinking of the other number 3.

Not my scan by the way.

And those weren't my Peps.

bb

 

Nice book, BB-Gun (I also like that cover). But isn't that #2, or is this....

(Credited as a Schomburg cover, but Everett obviously had a hand in Sub-Mariner's rendering)

[MrBedrock]

And while we are on Torch...

[MrBedrock]

[MrBedrock]