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| Oh wow! I don’t think I’ve seen a painted/wash story done this early beyond the covers before. Probably a close precursor to artists like Alex Ross actually. |
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| The grey tones in this story were created with Craftint Doubletone paper, a specially-treated drawing paper that revealed one light and one dark tone when special developers were brushed on. It was used a lot by newspaper artists because the finished art could be reproduced as a cheap line cut instead of a halftone. Halftones were not only more expensive, the small dots reproduced poorly on cheap paper. I'd bet this exquisite Raboy work looks even better in its original black and white. Color tends to muddy some of the art.
FYI, Craftint was used extensively by Wallace Wood (and sometimes Al Williamson) on EC s-f stories. Masters of the technique in newspaper strips were Roy Crane, Leslie Turner, Mel Graff, and Noel Sickles. |
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| Publication | January 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont] |
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| Comic Story | The Turn of the Scrooge! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Lama has to battle a group of thugs hired to dump the catches of the local fishermen because he holds the mortages on the boats, and wants them to literally work for slave wages for him. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Skivvy; Tommy; Amos Pinchpenny (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Christmas story. The story is done in a painted or wash style very similar to that which Bill Everett did on the first Sub-Mariner story. The last 1/3 of the last page has an Angus Mac Erc illustration (by George Roussos) and promotional advertisement for the Green Lama Club. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Merlin Miracles, Inc. (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wilbur discovers that he has stayed too long in Comic Land and can no longer revert back to his secret identity. Meanwhile, Merlin is approached by a rich couple seeking a servant and conjurs up Attila the Hun to work for them, unaware that Attila will take a liking to the couple's pretty daughter. |
| Featuring | Lieutenant Hercules |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Lieutenant Hercules [Wilbur Klutz]; Merlin; Pierpont Square; Attila the Hun (villain) |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-12-26. |
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| Text Story | Home From the Wars (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Back from the Army, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient is offered a new job by his boss: to break the union that had been formed by employees after the war! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Matthew Guilfoil; Jimmy Collins; John Forrest |
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| Comic Story | Tuffy Sees Red! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The boys, after being denied the chance to give blood because they are too young, decide to try and get a Red Cross nurse's fiance to donate himself. |
| Featuring | The Boy Champions |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Boy Champions [Tuffy; Mickey; Wellington Smith]; Phoebe; Percy Clark (introduction); un-named thugs (villains) |
| Notes | Writer and letterer credits, artist revision from Mort Meskin to Jerry Robinson, added by Craig Delich 2008-12-26. |
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| Synopsis | Pop figures that he can settle the problem between Mike and his girl, who think's the fighter is a roughneck. |
| Featuring | Pop Flys |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Mike McTigg; Pop; Sal |
| Notes | Letterer revision from Rhoda Lewis ? to Al Liederman, added by Craig Delich 2008-12-26. |
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| Comic Story | Practical Paradoxes (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hitler orders his scientists to create a super weapon of total destruction immediately, and Angus throws a monkey wrench into that plan by allowing the scientist to create the univeral solvent |
| Featuring | Angus McErc |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Angus Mc Erc [aka Mac Erc]; Dr. Von Kracks (villain, introduction), Adolf Hitler (villain) |
| Notes | Letterer revision from Rhoda Lewis? to ? added by Craig Delich 2008-12-26. |
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