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[N e r V]

You know if Stan had more interest in the Timely-Atlas-Marvel humor books he held some  great talents at a given time to draw them. In the 1950’s he held people like Dan DeCarlo, Al Jaffee, Howie Post and others. Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman were there too until the late 1940’s. Can you imagine a Timely-Atlas humor line to revival Harvey or Archie if they had writers/titles to match the above skill sets and actually focused on that line?

[Frisco Larson]

On 10/29/2022 at 11:42 AM, N e r V said:

You know if Stan had more interest in the Timely-Atlas-Marvel humor books he held some  great talents at a given time to draw them. In the 1950’s he held people like Dan DeCarlo, Al Jaffee, Howie Post and others. Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman were there too until the late 1940’s. Can you imagine a Timely-Atlas humor line to revival Harvey or Archie if they had writers/titles to match the above skill sets and actually focused on that line?

I completely agree! There's seemed more of a "dabbling" attempt, just throwing a few titles out there to represent that genre in the marketplace. Al Jaffee did a LOT of the Timely funny animal books in the 40's as I recall with Dan DeCarlo doing more of the 50s books. I have some from that area, but it's been forever since I've taken the time to leaf through them. Here are a couple of raw and a slabbed copy. I need to look through these again very soon! 

[N e r V]

On 10/29/2022 at 9:35 AM, Frisco Larson said:

Very cool, thanks! I'll be looking forward to my bedtime story (I'm making a point to read a funny book every night). I remember some of his work from the tail end of More Fun, but I no longer own any of those. 

He was a good artist that could do humor like Nellie at Atlas or do some of their more “straight” material in the horror books or merge the two styles for later material like Anthro at DC.

 

 

One that I remember growing up was from Sub-Mariners revival title in the 1950’s….

 

[Frisco Larson]

Wow, he did a real nice job on both of those stories, but I really dig that octopus story from Subby! Definitely an under-the-radar type of guy as far as awareness, as I've seldom heard anyone talking about him or his work. Very cool stuff!

[N e r V]

That issue of Patsy has this approval in it from Dr. Jean Thompson.

 

 

So I am familiar with the other previous editorials Timely-Marvel ran in the late 1940’s (see this site to see them: http://www.lostsoti.org/moreanticomics.htm ) but any Timely-Atlas experts here have more info on the Dr. Jean Thompson and the way it all came about as a very early reaction to the comics causing unrest with some? That site has a lot of info but didn’t see much on the doctor.

[MusterMark]

On 10/29/2022 at 1:26 PM, N e r V said:

That issue of Patsy has this approval in it from Dr. Jean Thompson.

 

 

So I am familiar with the other previous editorials Timely-Marvel ran in the late 1940’s (see this site to see them: http://www.lostsoti.org/moreanticomics.htm ) but any Timely-Atlas experts here have more info on the Dr. Jean Thompson and the way it all came about as a very early reaction to the comics causing unrest with some? That site has a lot of info but didn’t see much on the doctor.

Is this the pic you meant to put up ….?

[N e r V]

On 10/29/2022 at 3:40 PM, MusterMark said:

Is this the pic you meant to put up ….?

Yes. The approval is at the top of the page by the doctor.

[MusterMark]

On 10/29/2022 at 5:16 PM, N e r V said:

On 10/29/2022 at 3:40 PM, MusterMark said:

Is this the pic you meant to put up ….?

Yes. The approval is at the top of the page by the doctor.

Oh, I see!  Thank you.

[buttock]

Beyond giddy to get this white paged beauty from an excellent boardie brother.  Comics don't get much better than this one.  #makeatlasgreatagain

[mstrange]

On 11/3/2022 at 4:59 PM, buttock said:

Beyond giddy to get this white paged beauty from an excellent boardie brother.  Comics don't get much better than this one.  #makeatlasgreatagain

Wow Incredible Congrats 

[Jayman]

Always loved this book. Finally snagged an acceptable copy!

[buttock]

On 11/5/2022 at 8:51 PM, Jayman said:

Always loved this book. Finally snagged an acceptable copy!

All time great.  

[Scrooge]

On 11/5/2022 at 10:51 PM, Jayman said:

Always loved this book. Finally snagged an acceptable copy!

Love it.

Finally got a copy of this one myself -

[MusterMark]

On 11/6/2022 at 2:28 PM, Scrooge said:

Love it.

Finally got a copy of this one myself -

I used to not appreciate this book as much as I do now.  My copy is below.

 

[Robot Man]

On 11/6/2022 at 2:28 PM, Scrooge said:

Love it.

Finally got a copy of this one myself -

One of the most disturbing and brutal war covers. Reminds me a lot of this. 

[Ryan.]

[Ryan.]

On 11/6/2022 at 5:28 PM, Scrooge said:

Love it.

Finally got a copy of this one myself -

One of Heath's all time greats.

[buttock]

I'm going to try and post all of Heath's war covers (with the exception of Combat Kelly, because those don't excite me) in chronological order.  It's kind of cool to see how his style and talent evolved.  First one was Battle 6.  You can see that he's trying to capture a scene, but it's almost Schomburgian in how complicated things got.  Over time he refined this and became better at illustrating the narrative more succinctly.  

[Dr. Love]

GO DAN

[Tri-Color Brian]

I love this one...simple and to the point.