Great Comics 3 -- cover artist inquiry.

[TupennyConan]

Greetings venerable GA forums!

 

Could anyone help identify the artist here? google isn't helping me & I'm dumb. Thanks!

 

[adamstrange]

The artist is believed to be Charles Sultan, an imitator of Lou Fine who worked for the Iger shop that was responsible for the contents of Great.

[shrunkenhead]

I never get tired of looking at that cover.

[comicdonna]

Greetings venerable GA forums!

 

Could anyone help identify the artist here? google isn't helping me & I'm dumb. Thanks!

I tried to find the anwser for you Tupenny but, come up empty handed. I guess i'm dumb too.

[TupennyConan]

The artist is believed to be Charles Sultan, an imitator of Lou Fine who worked for the Iger shop that was responsible for the contents of Great.

 

My guess was Lou Fine but I was in doubt as it is close but really isn't his style.

 

No offense to the Lou Fine fans but I think this is superior to him.

 

[adamstrange]

The artist is believed to be Charles Sultan, an imitator of Lou Fine who worked for the Iger shop that was responsible for the contents of Great.

 

My guess was Lou Fine but I was in doubt as it is close but really isn't his style.

 

No offense to the Lou Fine fans but I think this is superior to him.

 

Lou Fine is an incredible artist but he did have one weakness in that his overall design of the image was not always of the highest quality. My favorite covers of his are generally those that were designed by Eisner and then pencilled/inked by Fine.

 

Charles Sultan is not a better artist but often produced high quality designs like this cover.

[comicjack]

Listed as unknown but credited to Charles Sultan for this cover and it's a great one at that!

[Sqeggs]

Before looking it up on GCD (no info on cover artist), I hadn't realized that this comic lasted only three issues. The three covers are really strikingly different. Number 3 is by far the best -- but you knew that!

[TupennyConan]

I think Fine is a great artist, too. Very unique & unconventional. Like Kirby in that sense.

 

Thanks for the help, GA forums. I knew you would make this easy for me. A friend is going through BZ's thread this month, they sent the scan to me, & I was in awe.

 

Thanks again.

[vaillant]

Both Sultan and Kirby copied Fine as they were learning, so although I really like Sultan’s work, taken as a whole it can’t be compared to Fine’s.

 

The artwork for the Futuro story anyway, it’s very good, and if he did the story it surely did the cover: they are in the same style.

 

On some book (don’t recall which, it is a Yankee Doodle Jones story) Sultan did a splash page copying this beautiful Fine Doll Man splash page:

 

[Twistty1]

I think Fine is a great artist, too. Very unique & unconventional. Like Kirby in that sense.

 

Thanks for the help, GA forums. I knew you would make this easy for me. A friend is going through BZ's thread this month, they sent the scan to me, & I was in awe.

 

Thanks again.

 

Is that BZ's copy in the scan? One of the nicest copies I've seen.

[Twistty1]

Both Sultan and Kirby copied Fine as they were learning, so although I really like Sultan’s work, taken as a whole it can’t be compared to Fine’s.

 

The artwork for the Futuro story anyway, it’s very good, and if he did the story it surely did the cover: they are in the same style.

 

On some book (don’t recall which, it is a Yankee Doodle Jones story) Sultan did a splash page copying this beautiful Fine Doll Man splash page:

 

 

Both pieces were posted on the boards before as a comparison. I believe a boardie has the OA for one of the splash pages as well.

[MrBedrock]

Before looking it up on GCD (no info on cover artist), I hadn't realized that this comic lasted only three issues. The three covers are really strikingly different. Number 3 is by far the best -- but you knew that!

The back cover of #3 is better than the covers of #1 and 2...

[Sqeggs]

Before looking it up on GCD (no info on cover artist), I hadn't realized that this comic lasted only three issues. The three covers are really strikingly different. Number 3 is by far the best -- but you knew that!

The back cover of #3 is better than the covers of #1 and 2...

 

Nothing quite like '40s movie serials!

[comicjack]

The back is just as interesting as the front only had my hand on one copy in the past. Very nice book to own and hard to obtain,

[TupennyConan]

Is that BZ's copy in the scan?

 

Yes, sir.

[BB-Gun]

Greetings venerable GA forums!

 

Could anyone help identify the artist here? google isn't helping me & I'm dumb. Thanks!

 

 

I noticed that Palais also worked on that series. Could be one of his covers. Early splash pages by Rudi were pretty good.

[jbcomicbox]

Both Sultan and Kirby copied Fine as they were learning, so although I really like Sultan’s work, taken as a whole it can’t be compared to Fine’s.

 

The artwork for the Futuro story anyway, it’s very good, and if he did the story it surely did the cover: they are in the same style.

 

On some book (don’t recall which, it is a Yankee Doodle Jones story) Sultan did a splash page copying this beautiful Fine Doll Man splash page:

 

 

 

This splash is from Dynamic 8 with slight changes from the original version that appeared in Yankee Comics #1

[BB-Gun]

Greetings venerable GA forums!

 

Could anyone help identify the artist here? google isn't helping me & I'm dumb. Thanks!

 

 

I noticed that Palais also worked on that series. Could be one of his covers. Early splash pages by Rudy were pretty good.

 

The sweat panel at the top proves that it is by Palais. He also has credit in the Who's Who.

Another splash by Rudy from Great.

It doesn't prove that he did the cover but the style is similar and he is the only one that worked on Futuro.

[kazoo]

Anybody know of a low-grade copy for sale? I used to have one with a missing centerfold (Hitler story was complete). I sold it some years ago, one of my biggest collecting regrets...