Fiction house anyone? 26 26

[Straw-Man]

3 hours ago, Robot Man said:

Bummer, sorry I mad you sad. This is the Robot Man copy and I'm stoked to have it!

 

no biggie; and it went to a pal/good home.

Edited August 3, 2017 by Straw-Man

[Sqeggs]

8 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

Cool run of books.  Good luck landing the last two you need.

[Tsp99]

On ‎8‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 11:18 AM, Straw-Man said:

i'm after 1-10, and this leaves me short of just 2 & 10.

Metro has a couple 2s but 10 is a tough one, especially above 5.0 or so.

[Ricksneatstuff]

I am glad these will be sharing a room 

Page 6- Baker

[comicnoir]

2 minutes ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

I am glad these will be sharing a room 

Page 6- Baker

You won that? Congrats.

[Ricksneatstuff]

Yeah @comicnoir

Went for my max bid but I got it. 

A Baker, a Renee, a Feldstein and a Wood original are all on my bucket list. 

Edited August 7, 2017 by Ricksneatstuff

[Zolnerowich]

2 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Yeah @comicnoir

Went for my max bid but I got it. 

A Baker, a Renee, a Feldstein and a Wood original are all on my bucket list. 

Congrats Rick! Really great stuff! Where'd you find the OA? 

[Ricksneatstuff]

Just now, Zolnerowich said:

Congrats Rick! Really great stuff! Where'd you find the OA? 

Was on HA tonight. 

[Zolnerowich]

9 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Was on HA tonight. 

Intrepid find!

[Sqeggs]

13 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

I am glad these will be sharing a room 

Page 6- Baker

Nice pickup.  I bid on it but wasn't entirely certain of the Baker attribution.  Vadeboncoeur says it's not Baker, but I think there's a lot of ambiguity about who did what with the Iger Shop work from this period. HA hedged their bets on attributions in the lot description.

Either way, though, it's a great piece of GA OA.

[Ricksneatstuff]

52 minutes ago, Sqeggs said:

Nice pickup.  I bid on it but wasn't entirely certain of the Baker attribution.  Vadeboncoeur says it's not Baker, but I think there's a lot of ambiguity about who did what with the Iger Shop work from this period. HA hedged their bets on attributions in the lot description.

Either way, though, it's a great piece of GA OA.

Well, they specifically say "Matt Baker drawing and inking the women on this page". If that is not the case I have a problem with that. 

[comicnoir]

1 hour ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Well, they specifically say "Matt Baker drawing and inking the women on this page". If that is not the case I have a problem with that. 

I'm amazed they are able to pin-point the credit, even down to the inking. The rest of the page was inked by someone else?

I bid on this piece and it's value lay with how many women were present on the page. You got a nice looking page.

[Zolnerowich]

3 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

Nice pickup.  I bid on it but wasn't entirely certain of the Baker attribution.  Vadeboncoeur says it's not Baker, but I think there's a lot of ambiguity about who did what with the Iger Shop work from this period. HA hedged their bets on attributions in the lot description.

Either way, though, it's a great piece of GA OA.

 

2 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Well, they specifically say "Matt Baker drawing and inking the women on this page". If that is not the case I have a problem with that. 

 

12 minutes ago, comicnoir said:

I'm amazed they are able to pin-point the credit, even down to the inking. The rest of the page was inked by someone else?

I bid on this piece and it's value lay with how many women were present on the page. You got a nice looking page.

 

Hmm. Not sure anyone will ever be able to provide a definitive answer...

I'm guessing (totally guessing though educatedly totally guessing) that Baker was in the Iger shop in 1945, which would add plausibility anyhow that he drew and inked the chicks.

[MB1952]

Matt Baker first jobs over at Fiction House were late 1944.

earliest duties were to assist Alex Blum inking and drawing the ladies.

[comicnoir]

19 minutes ago, kat123 said:

Matt Baker first jobs over at Fiction House were late 1944.

earliest duties were to assist Alex Blum inking and drawing the ladies.

So Will, does that look like an Alex Blum page to you?

Correction, Ha. says it's Blum and the Iger Shop. Looks like it's Baker as well.

Edited August 7, 2017 by comicnoir
correction

[Sqeggs]

3 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Well, they specifically say "Matt Baker drawing and inking the women on this page". If that is not the case I have a problem with that. 

Good point.  I misinterpreted the sentence: "Hooks wraps up the case just in time to take a slap to the face from his girlfriend for being "entirely too interested in the women in this case. It's not necessary!" With Matt Baker drawing and inking the women on this page, we think it is!" to indicate that "we think it is Matt Baker" when HA is actually referring to the quote "It's not necessary!" from the page dialog. So, HA is clearly saying they believe Baker worked on the page.

Anyway, Vadeboncoeur in The Art of Glamour book only credits Baker with working on the Tiger Girl story in this issue.  He doesn't credit him with working on the Hooks Devlin story, which this page is from.

But that's just his opinion.  Like the rest of us, he's making inferences from looking at the art.  Apart from knowing that Baker was working for the Iger Shop during this period, Vadeboncoeur has no other info, so far as I know, to base an attribution on.

I don't think we'll ever know definitively unless FH or Iger Shop records unexpectedly turn up, which seems unlikely.

Bottom line is that it's a great page and I don't see how anyone can definitively rule out Baker's having a hand in it. 

Edited August 7, 2017 by Sqeggs
Typo

[Ricksneatstuff]

Well, I did not look as deeply into this as I should have. I am being told Baker did the girls on the page by "reputable" sources. Considered Blum page with Baker assist. 

Edited August 7, 2017 by Ricksneatstuff

[Ricksneatstuff]

I remember this page from the same story being attributed to Baker as well

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/panel-pages/alex-blum-and-matt-baker-fight-comics-39-hooks-devlin-page-original-art-group-of-2-fiction-house-1945-total-2-original-art-/a/121629-13014.s?ic3=ViewItem-Inventory-BuyNowFromOwner-PreviousPricesHeritage-081514

[Zolnerowich]

What did Alex Blum's ladies look like when Blum was solo artist? That might at least help shed light on whether Blum might have drawn the ladies in the Hooks Devlin story (though not necessarily ruling out other Iger ghost artists).

 

[MB1952]

4 hours ago, comicnoir said:

So Will, does that look like an Alex Blum page to you?

Correction, Ha. says it's Blum and the Iger Shop. Looks like it's Baker as well.

Yes Ron its a Alex Blum pg with Baker assist in babes and inking only.