In the Shadow of the Atomic Age 6 6

[adamstrange]

We're in season for Baseball -

 

 

Nice cover!

 

Powell? Did he draw any of the stories?

[Scrooge]

Nice cover!

 

Powell? Did he draw any of the stories?

 

Yes Powell. It's signed at bottom right. He did some work in it, including the cover story. After that, it's an ecclectic mix of short sport stories / bios and even some football play diagrams.

[rjpb]

Neat cross-genre book. Never seen it before.

[HouseofComics.Com]

We had that one a year or two ago. As I recall, it's not as cross-genre as it seems.

 

Is my recollection correct? A pretty tepid cover story?

 

Marc

[adamstrange]

Nice cover!

 

Powell? Did he draw any of the stories?

 

Yes Powell. It's signed at bottom right. He did some work in it, including the cover story. After that, it's an ecclectic mix of short sport stories / bios and even some football play diagrams.

 

Looks like I can "see" better than I can read.

[Scrooge]

We had that one a year or two ago. As I recall, it's not as cross-genre as it seems.

 

Is my recollection correct? A pretty tepid cover story?

 

Marc

 

Yeah, the interiors are nothing to get excited about. I liked that cover because in a way it has a BA horror sensitivity to it, well before its time.

 

Powell was warming up for some of the better Shadow covers also for S&S in the following years such as these 4, including probably one of the earliest (?) Atomic Bomb cover. (All scans from the GCD)

 

 

 

 

[Weird Paper]

Here's a pretty funky non-superhero cover that doesn't get much play.

Church copy

Edited June 18, 2006 by Weird Paper

[Scrooge]

 

It's been a while since I added any Airboys to my collection. I received this one today in perfect BTH condition. I'd been wanting this one for a while because I feel it's one of the best Zolne covers of the run. The body position of brute seems spot on to me plus the scene has the perfect atmosphere.

 

[Scrooge]

And this one - v. 4 # 2 I got from 143 a couple of months ago -

 

[adamstrange]

 

It's been a while since I added any Airboys to my collection. I received this one today in perfect BTH condition. I'd been wanting this one for a while because I feel it's one of the best Zolne covers of the run. The body position of brute seems spot on to me plus the scene has the perfect atmosphere.

 

 

I hadn't noticed this cover, but I really like it for the reasons you gave. Very Tuska-ish in the ability to depict the strength of the brute.

[Scrooge]

Just to prove that I have beaters in my collection, here's a book I purchased as part of a deal with a really nice MH.

 

AS,

 

I don't know how up to date you're with your Illustration reading but this illustration from Jon Whitcomb in # 16 sure brought flashes of that wonderful Romantic Marriage # 8 cover you posted a while ago -

 

Here's another Whitcomb illo but with no date -

[Scrooge]

Here's v.5 # 4 - May 1948 -

 

[adamstrange]

AS,

 

I don't know how up to date you're with your Illustration reading but this illustration from Jon Whitcomb in # 16 sure brought flashes of that wonderful Romantic Marriage # 8 cover you posted a while ago -

 

Here's another Whitcomb illo but with no date -

 

That's an absolutely lovely illustration, Scrooge!

[rjpb]

Here's v.5 # 4 - May 1948 -

 

 

Very cool cover - some of those later Airboys appeal to me - how are the stories?

[Scrooge]

Here's v.5 # 4 - May 1948 -

Very cool cover - some of those later Airboys appeal to me - how are the stories?

 

This one has a masterful Airboy Kida story! Here goes -

[Scrooge]

Here's another that came in today from August 1951 -

[rjpb]

Scrooge - thanks so much for posting that story - it had more the feel of a newspaper adventure strip of the era - like Steve Canyon or Johnny Hazard - than it did a comic book! Both story and art were superior to most of what was published in the GA.

 

I've read the Valkeryie stories before, and I think I'll keep an eye out for later Airboys on ebay, the prices are usually pretty good IIRC.

[Scrooge]

Scrooge - thanks so much for posting that story - it had more the feel of a newspaper adventure strip of the era - like Steve Canyon or Johnny Hazard - than it did a comic book! Both story and art were superior to most of what was published in the GA.

 

I've read the Valkeryie stories before, and I think I'll keep an eye out for later Airboys on ebay, the prices are usually pretty good IIRC.

 

To me that job is more Caniff than Caniff. Notice Kida's use of chiaroscuro (esp. in the nightclub's background) and the way that he establishes in most panels three levels in the picture (typical of Caniff's Terry work). The ambiance and the decor is reminiscent of early Terry. Notice on the splash panel to the story, that on the foreground, it's got to be Kida sneaking in Connie with his bowler hat. A nice wink to the knowing audience.

 

I love sharing this kind of jobs to prove that some of these guys worked too much for what they were paid. And you haven't seen the Infantino / Starr Heap story in this book yet!

[mica]

Great story. Thanks Scrooge.

[RareHighGrade]

The Airboy story and art was much better than I expected. Thanks for posting it Scrooge.