King Solomon's mines is a perfect example of what a perfect comic book should be. It has excellent formatting, superb arrangement of panel placement and very natural realistic drawings. If only every comic book artist would do the same, I am sure there would be many more comic book fans.
By jscott1520
On the whole a very good adaptation of the novel, better than the movie versions. There are errors -- speech balloon pointers that point to the wrong person, characters confused with one another. The most disappointing is the name Alan QUATermain being consistently misspelled QUARTERmain. The art is very nice, though, and does a fine job of visual storytelling.
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Name
King Solomon's Mines (nn) | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
One-shot publication. Issue # listed on first page.
Scheduled to take advantage of publicity of movie released on 24 November 1950.
Adapted from the novel KING SOLOMON'S MINES by H. Rider Haggard.
Originally credited to Lee Ames, but the art is identical to Astarita's signed stories in "Real Life Comics" #53, "Intimate Confessions" #5 and "Realistic Romances"#8 (IW-edition). Compare the faces, ears, eyes and hands, and also compare the signed Lee Ames "Dusty Rhodes" stories in "Fight Comics" #13 and #19. Faces, hands and "wet look" inking are all very different from this Astarita art.
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