While Ray Bailey is definitely the main artist on this book, some pages look strange, as if someone else worked on the pencils. Compare this book to the other Bailey Steve Canyons and you'll see what I mean. Page 10 is a good example. I also get the impression Caniff didn't finish all the Canyon faces like he did in other Canyon books. Yet I'd swear Caniff did ink a non-Canyon panel here and there.
All this may simply be the result working too fast--a number of pages seem rushed. Puzzling.
Additional Information
Name
0641 - Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon | Published
Publication
Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
Indicia title is "Milton Caniff's STEVE CANYON, No 641." "Copyright 1955 by Field Enterprises, Inc." Code number is S.C.O.S #641-5510.
Cover
1 page
Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Genre
Adventure; Spy
Characters
Steve Canyon; Tuck Tucker
Notes
Art is by the artist of the cover of Jungle Jim (Dell, 1954 series) #9.
Publisher advertisement
A Pledge to Parents (1 page)
Letters
typeset
Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Full page of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents,"
Comic Story
T-Bomb Experiment / Steve Canyon (34 pages)
Synopsis
Steve Canyon is sent to the Philippines as an undercover agent to keep enemy spies from observing the results of a test of a "T-Bomb" on the Pacific island of Ebee.
Genre
Adventure; Spy
Characters
Steve Canyon; Tuck Tucker; Narita; Professor Nesbitt; Angelica
Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Ray BaileyMilton Caniff (see notes) ?
Inks
Ray BaileyMilton Caniff (see notes)
First Line
This circle, Colonel Canyon, is a forty-mile zone around the Pacific island of of Ebee!
Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Milton Caniff only drew and inked Steve Canyon's heads in the story. Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Atomic bomb explosion depicted on inside back cover as part of story.
According to information in the foreword of "Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: The Complete Series" (Hermes Press, 2011) #1, Milton Caniff inked the heads of the Steve Canyon character.
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