BB-Gun Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpsunburst Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Beautiful Everett cover on that Famous Funnies, the Frazetta's tend to get all the attention but there some great covers in the run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Beautiful Everett cover on that Famous Funnies, the Frazetta's tend to get all the attention but there some great covers in the run. I like all three Everett covers. His Heroic covers are pretty good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StingerMcK Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 From my DC anthology thread: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gozer Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 There are some pretty fabulous groups of books on display here. Here's my contribution -- for several years, I was focused on Rangers Comics with GGA (Fiction House). Here's my collection, at about its largest (about half of these are spread to the wind now): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) Middle issues seem to have more color. Later issues more babes. Perhaps the later issues were often used as wall books and saw more light causing fading. Planes were P-41, B-17 and Swordfish, which was an English plane from an aircraft carrier usually armed with torpedoes. Seems to be mislabelled but it is shooting at an American plane. I doubt that a Swordfish would last very long in a dogfight with a more heavily armoured Dauntless dive bomber. Edited July 14, 2015 by BB-Gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 and a few more. I don't think I'll dig out the coverless issues but I might search for a few old posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Fiction House Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Middle issues seem to have more color. Later issues more babes. Perhaps the later issues were often used as wall books and saw more light causing fading. Planes were P-41, B-17 and Swordfish, which was an English plane from an aircraft carrier usually armed with torpedoes. Seems to be mislabelled but it is shooting at an American plane. I doubt that a Swordfish would last very long in a dogfight with a more heavily armoured Dauntless dive bomber. As a 40 year long model builder, I find the Wings aeroplanes to be an odd mix of very accurate and wildly fanciful. On those covers the P-40 on #43 and B-17 on #44 look pretty good. On #39 the American plane is an F2F Buffalo, but the German plane seems to be nothing in particular. (It's not a Swordfish.) The Germans has a few biplane floatplanes like that, but none of them looked like that. I also don't like the perspective on a lot of the covers. To fit dueling aircraft into the cover frame, they're drawn too close and often at the wrong angles. #39 is a good example - to be hitting the tail of the Buffalo like that the German a/c would have to be in an entirely different place. Your #44 is much more realistic, but the enemy plane is drawn so small it's not immediately obvious to the eye. And some of them aircraft attacking things on the ground at dive angles that would only have one possible outcome - a smoking crater. Look at some boxtop paintings on model kits to see how a less 'comic-book' depiction of air combat looks. Don't get me wrong - I have a bunch of Wings and really like them. But they're all GGA covers, where the preposterous nature of the image is more forgivable. (Like the couple hanging from the B-25 on #92 - nice colours on that copy BTW.) 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJD Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 and a few more. I don't think I'll dig out the coverless issues but I might search for a few old posts. A few really nicely drafted images here. The Dauntless on #72 looks great and the posing is good. (Zero versus dauntless didn't usually end that way, but poetic license...) The Hurricanes on the early issue bottom right are really good (and maybe high enough to be able to pull out - not so the A-20 on #54, which is about to plow in). 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 and a few more. I don't think I'll dig out the coverless issues but I might search for a few old posts. A few really nicely drafted images here. The Dauntless on #72 looks great and the posing is good. (Zero versus dauntless didn't usually end that way, but poetic license...) The Hurricanes on the early issue bottom right are really good (and maybe high enough to be able to pull out - not so the A-20 on #54, which is about to plow in). I missed the call on the P-40 even though I went back to google to check. Used a Flight number instead on the model number. I was only guessing with the Swordfish and dive bomber. Just thought it important to make the point that the US plane outgunned and was too well built to lose to a biplane (which reminded me of the stringbag-Swordfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotham Kid Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Cool ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gojira Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 That's a mind blowing group shot of Chesler goodness Jack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagii Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Outstanding group of books and cover selection Jack! Bravo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRCostigan Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Yeah, that's good stuff newbie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Thanx (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBedrock Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 That is a beautiful batch of comics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Thanks Richard love all your books you show (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Thanks Richard love all your books you show (thumbs u[/quote Where is the BIG BOY. ?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
