Curt Swans first published work?

[shadroch]

I don't post in this section much as its not really an area of interest to me.However.....

I noticed in Overstreet that COLE#1 is listed as Mr Swans first work yet he wrote in an essay for Superman At Fifty that his first work was on BOY COMMANDOS circa 1945/46.

Can anyone shed some light on this.

[Scrooge]

Here's a quote from "Curt Swan: A life in Comics":

 

"Though Curt's first assignment was a Boy Commandos story in [Dec.?] 1945, it was probably not published until 1946 (see Raul Wrona's Curt Swan index)."

 

This goes along what Curt's saying in the Superman in the Fifties (but it could simply be that the book used that quote as source).

 

Nonetheless, it is possible that his first assignment was not his first published comic work (or the OS is off on this). Check out the publication date for King Cole to see if that's what's going on here.

[shadroch]

Cole #1 is cover-dated Dec-Jan 1948/1949.

There appears to be a gap of several years here.

[Zonker]

Here's the earliest Swan listing in the Grand Comic Book Database, for the April 1945 cover for Star-Spangled.

 

 

The first full story citation is World's Finest 21 from Mar/Apr 1946, a Boy Commandos story:

Brooklyn and Columbus Discover America

(Sequence 5 - Story , 12 pages

Feature Story: Boy Commandos

 

 

Credits:

Jack Kirby (-script), Curt Swan (Pencils), George Klein (Inks),

 

Genre: war; adventure

 

Indexer notes:

inker id by Curt Swan to Craig Delich

 

If I understand the indexer note, Curt himself identified his inker of this work as George Klein, so it very likely is Curt Swan pencilling!

[shadroch]

So,it appears the Overstreet Ist appearence is incorrect.