It's award season! Let's celebrate the worst of Golden Age anatomy! 1 1

[Electricmastro]

Blue Beetle #36 (November, 1944):

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Truly heinous

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Gotta respect this being the first Simon and Kirby collaboration, but what a disappointing cover. This blue bolt guy is supposed to be dramatically busting thru a wall, but all I see is a 2 dimensional image, totally devoid of a sense of action or drama. 

[Electricmastro]

6 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Gotta respect this being the first Simon and Kirby collaboration, but what a disappointing cover. This blue bolt guy is supposed to be dramatically busting thru a wall, but all I see is a 2 dimensional image, totally devoid of a sense of action or drama. 

I’ve seen the cover attributed to Larry Antonette, whose art I was analyzing earlier today actually. There’s also a William E. Rowland listed in Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who as if being a real person and not a pen name though, so I’m not sure.

Edited September 26, 2020 by Electricmastro

[lou_fine]

Was looking at a thread in the General Forum and for the life of me, simply couldn't figure out if there was any difference between bad GA anatomy and the ones from the 90's:    

On 9/22/2020 at 9:20 PM, William-James88 said:

You don't say ... 

 

 

And the best one!

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2020 by lou_fine

[Electricmastro]

Fantastic Comics #7 (June, 1940):

[William-James88]

5 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Was looking at a thread in the General Forum and for the life of me, simply couldn't figure out if there was any difference between bad GA anatomy and the ones from the 90's:    

 

The difference is that the bad GA anatomy does not give me a hard on.

[Electricmastro]

As ambitious as George Tukel was, he seemed to always have trouble with drawing anatomy, particularly the eyes. It’s as if he could never figure out how to convincingly portray someone facing forward without awkwardly making them look like some bug-eyed alien (Blue Beetle #25, September 1943):

Source: CB+

Edited September 30, 2020 by Electricmastro

[sfcityduck]

Folks make fun of Kirby's hands,  But its his legs which make me think of him as a rubberband style artist. 

Is this hero bulemic?  Or is it that he has an abnormally long and thin left (our right) leg?

 

[Electricmastro]

Fight Comics #9 (October, 1940):

[ThothAmon]

Wrong thread. 

 

Edited April 3 by ThothAmon

[ThothAmon]

[The Black Hand ®]

On 7/29/2020 at 3:59 PM, Electricmastro said:

Steel Sterling got back.

[Ameri]

The Shield from the waist down isn't quite right

[Point Five]

Brings to mind *this* bad girl...   

[jimbo_7071]

On 4/3/2024 at 10:37 PM, Point Five said:

Brings to mind *this* bad girl...   

She can pull down about 6,000 pounds on the lat machine at the gym, I reckon.

Edited April 4 by jimbo_7071

[Cat-Man_America]

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...