BangZoom Posted March 26, 2010 Author Share Posted March 26, 2010 Vault of Horror 29? Congratulations, BB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 BB (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BB-Gun Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Shoot. I would have guessed that cover was by Johnny Craig no matter who did it. I was reading this issue of RBCC last weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 BB (thumbs u Thanks BZ and Scrooge. For a fun Zombie movie, I recommend "Shaun of the Dead". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 For the 85th anniversary, BangZoom this solo shot: That was two years ago. Now it's the 87th anniversary. Happy birthday, WEIRD TALES. The unique magazine for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Shoot. I would have guessed that cover was by Johnny Craig no matter who did it. I was reading this issue of RBCC last weekend. I wanted this scan for another thread but since we are talking about Craig. Hereeee's Johnny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 27, 2010 Author Share Posted March 27, 2010 I was reading this issue of RBCC last weekend. Is that a Johnny Craig cover? I love the stacks of comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 27, 2010 Author Share Posted March 27, 2010 I know Johnny Craig did some early work for Heroic Comics so I went looking through my issues. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any with Craig's work. However, I did find this interesting strip. Christman also did work for Centaur and DC prior to WWII: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 The American Comic Archive who reprinted Christman's solo work on Scorchy Smith has this sample up - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 27, 2010 Author Share Posted March 27, 2010 Beautiful artwork. I love the cinematic approach Christman used in varying the reader's viewpoint in each panel. Just a note for those who didn't read the "Remembering Bert Christman" link. Christman did all his work for DC (including being the co-creator of The Sandman) while he was serving as a Naval aviation cadet. He died in 1942 while flying with the legendary Flying Tigers . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Here's another set of dailies by Christman as reprinted in Big Fun # 4 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I received my copy of Blood'n'Thunder # 25 this week which prompted me to catch up on reading the mag. Issue 22 / 23 reprinted the The Mask story from Exciting # 1 (April 1940). It showcases The Mask's origin story which is similar to Pines' Black Bat character, renamed to avoid any issue with another Bat character popular at the time. Here are the first 3 pages below. Note that the art is by Raymond Thayer. Thanks to the Who's Who, we know that Thayer worked extensively in the '20's and 30's in magazine illustration and advertising and yet we find him slumming in the comics as other "passé" artists did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 This lead me to look up what earlier Thayer art was available online. Here are some cover illustration to such mags as Judge and Life as well as ads for Procter & Gamble products, all from the '20's - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrooge Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 As a strange coda to his career, while Thayer was only working in comics in the 1940 - 1942 period, he is credited with the art for Four Color 449 - Tappan's Burro, an adaptation of a 1923 Zane Grey novel. Tappan's Burro came out in 1953, just two years before Thayer's death when the artist was 66. Here's one page I scanned for Thayer's work in this Four Color and for the animal violence theme - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I was reading this issue of RBCC last weekend. Is that a Johnny Craig cover? I love the stacks of comics. That cover is attributed to Craig too. There is a nice article on him in that issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I know Johnny Craig did some early work for Heroic Comics so I went looking through my issues. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any with Craig's work. However, I did find this interesting strip. Christman also did work for Centaur and DC prior to WWII: Link According to the GCD, Craig did some work for Heroic around issue 50. I have early issues with Everett art and later issues with Frazetta but don't know about the middle stuff. He did a lot of Crime and Horror work for EC. Crime Patrol had some nice work by Feldstein on the inside and Keifer and Larson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Craig did some pretty nice work for Crime SuspenStories. And the lady in the red dress was pretty handy with that shovel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 BZ, what issue of Heroic was the Christman bio in? This sample page is from AMF 1/4 (reprinted from FPS): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted March 27, 2010 Author Share Posted March 27, 2010 Here are the first 3 pages below. Note that the art is by Raymond Thayer. Thanks to the Who's Who, we know that Thayer worked extensively in the '20's and 30's in magazine illustration and advertising and yet we find him slumming in the comics as other "passé" artists did. While I'm very familiar with Thayer's work in the illustration field, I had absolutely no idea he'd ever done any work in comics. Thanks for the education. (thumbs u Thayer's artwork looked old fashioned even in the 1920's. Compare his covers to that of some of his contemporaries John Held, Jr.; Percy Crosby; Don Herold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
