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Laziness, Re-cycling and swiping in the GA.
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On 1/18/2022 at 1:05 PM, Bookery said:

It is very close (and even the dress is still red)... so I do wobble back and forth on this one.  I guess I would have to see a wide selection of bound carried women images to determine if the pose is direct, or simply standard for the theme (guessing part of this last sentence is going to haunt me in some out-of-context way down the road!).  Swiping a pose is one thing, but I like your term "traceswipe" for some that go far beyond borrowing, homage, or even "inspired by" ... the Kane trace of Lou Fine's gorilla is pretty mind-boggling.

OK.... I've got free time today xD

Let's compare. 

2nd photo I stacked the girls on top of each other (there's a joke there somewhere)

3rd photo is just for fun.

Too bad I don't have a color printer.

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On 1/16/2022 at 4:54 PM, catman76 said:

There is so much swiping from everywhere in 40s comic books. Especially swiping Alex Raymond strips like Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim. Sheldon Moldoff's first few years of work is 80 percent Alex Raymond swipes. Bob Kane was probably the king of it, he swiped from everywhere possible. Swiping art and stories from pulps was super common. I posted tons of examples on a similar thread on here years ago

Just copying other comics or pulps was a super common thing, these things were hacked out fast, it wasn't art it, comic books were the lowest of low it was disposable junk and no one cared they just wanted a paycheck and speed was the thing so it didn't matter. The more somoene could swipe from somewhere else the faster they could crank this stuff out.

My guess is that the majority of panels of Flash Gordon by Raymond, Tarzan by Foster, Prince Valiant by Foster, Wash Tubbs & Cap Easy by Crane, and Terry & the Pirates by Caniff were swiped for covers and stories.  It would take a long time to find and document all instances.

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On 1/18/2022 at 1:50 PM, gadzukes said:

OK.... I've got free time today xD

Let's compare. 

2nd photo I stacked the girls on top of each other (there's a joke there somewhere)

3rd photo is just for fun.

Too bad I don't have a color printer.

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I dunno... still think it's probably just a coincidence...

 

Nah, just kidding!  You have made a great case and I am convinced!  Seeing it like this, even the proportions are exact.  Thanks!

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On 1/18/2022 at 2:18 PM, Bookery said:

I dunno... still think it's probably just a coincidence...

 

Nah, just kidding!  You have made a great case and I am convinced!  Seeing it like this, even the proportions are exact.  Thanks!

It's not a tracing like many of the others but it's pretty close.

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On 1/18/2022 at 1:50 PM, gadzukes said:

OK.... I've got free time today xD

Let's compare. 

2nd photo I stacked the girls on top of each other (there's a joke there somewhere)

3rd photo is just for fun.

Too bad I don't have a color printer.

IMG_9434.jpeg

IMG_9433.jpeg

IMG_9435.jpeg

I forgot about this Schomburg cover.  This Wonder Comics cover came out 3 months before the Startling 49.

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My World by Wally Wood 11/12 1953. (Frazetta inked a different story in the comic). Note the red planet in the lower left panel and the "aero-cab" lower right. 

Fanous Funnies 214 Nov. 1954. I know that FF 213 is admittedly Wood-influenced, but has this been acknowledged? @wombat

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On 1/21/2022 at 1:08 PM, KirbyJack said:

My World by Wally Wood 11/12 1953.

Great splash by WW. Doesn't matter what he drew, even dinosaurs, girlies in skimpy attire were never far away.  :nyah:

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