JLA#1 cover by...Ramona?

[Aman619]

I never noticed it before, but I'll be danged if Ramona Fradon wasnt called in to ink Aquaman's face for the cover of JLA#1. Definitely not Murphy Anderson like the rest fo the inking...

[Zonker]

Hmmm...I'm not so sure. Didn't Ramona Fradon draw Aquaman with a Superman-esque "spit-curl?" I'm at the office now with no way to check, but that still looks like Murphy Anderson to me. Fradon was much more cartoony-- and this looks like a straight-up Murph illustration, to me at least.

 

(But maybe he used Fradon's work for reference, since it's one of the first times Murph ever drew the character?)

[Aman619]

that could be, but he never drew John Jonnz either... and hes a ringer for Murphy. The black 'blobs' and bushstroke inking is not very Murphyish. I dunno. Just looked different once I took a close look today...

[aardvark88]

Aquaman's face looks like Metamorpho's style of inking; ergo, Ramona Fradon.

[Zonker]

Maybe... but at that time DC pretty much had each artist pigeon-holed into a particular editor's stable. Schwartz' guys were Infantino, Anderson, Kane, Sekowsky, plus inkers Giella, Greene, Sachs. I can't remember a case where someone outside that stable like Cardy or Fradon or Andru or Bob Brown was called in (at least prior to 1967 or so). But anything's possible.

 

Here's how I remember Fradon's Aquaman looking...