BOOT Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Some interesting and good guesses...I suspect several hands may have worked on these pages. I don't have a definitive answer, but a sneaking suspicion. Focus on these two characters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 On 11/28/2022 at 1:37 AM, BOOT said: Some interesting and good guesses...I suspect several hands may have worked on these pages. I don't have a definitive answer, but a sneaking suspicion. Focus on these two characters... OK, I'll bite. Lou Ferstadt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 On 11/27/2022 at 8:54 PM, Cat-Man_America said: My best guess would be Paul Reinman and I haven't the foggiest as too the publisher, doesn't look EC caliber, maybe Atlas, Ace, Farrell or Standard. Reinman's art in this era of books was way above this level. If you look through his Atlas oeuvre you'll find nothing but gems. Scrooge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOT Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) On 11/28/2022 at 1:37 AM, BOOT said: This comic appeared in Farrell's Battle Report #3, dated December, 1952. I may be way off base, but does anyone else see a similarity? I don't say this lightly, as this would be about ten months before Daring Love #1, and over a year before Fantastic Fears #5 from the same company. (BTW, I was the person who spotted the Ditko story in Daring Love #1 many moons ago and convinced Bob Overstreet to credit him.) Not sure if this full story is actually Ditko or if he worked on it at all - maybe he worked with others, or maybe he was just finding his style. Here are all the pages to the story (not my scans)... Edited November 29, 2022 by BOOT Scrooge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 (edited) On 11/28/2022 at 4:42 PM, BOOT said: (BTW, I was the person who spotted the Ditko story in Daring Love #1 many moons ago and convinced Bob Overstreet to credit him.) Boot! Great to hear from you btw if you don't know BOOT, he is the most interesting... Edited November 29, 2022 by Dr. Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 The pudgy guy with glasses looks particularly Ditkoish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat-Man_America Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 On 11/28/2022 at 12:41 PM, buttock said: Reinman's art in this era of books was way above this level. If you look through his Atlas oeuvre you'll find nothing but gems. Google is a wonderful thing sometimes. I checked out several pages of Reinman's page work from this era (not being that familiar with his interior work); it varies quite a bit. Some of the more hurried work bears some resemblance to this, but there's no clear evidence one way or the other. On 11/28/2022 at 8:36 PM, buttock said: The pudgy guy with glasses looks particularly Ditkoish! I'm pretty sure this isn't Ditko's work; I'd come much closer to thinking Kurtzman, but anyone's guess here could be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 On 11/29/2022 at 1:17 AM, Cat-Man_America said: Google is a wonderful thing sometimes. I checked out several pages of Reinman's page work from this era (not being that familiar with his interior work); it varies quite a bit. His 1940s work is much more in line with this. By the 50s he developed a more expressionistic style that often looks like Krigstein. It's funny that his name has come up here as he was the first one that came to mind when I saw this thread. I just hadn't got around to taking pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...