[JVJ]

I could be wrong here, but I don't feel like I'm allowed to pick and choose on one drawing which parts of it might be the artist and which parts aren't. If most of it couldn't be Powell, then I think it's most likely that none of it is.

There's got to be a reasonable "story" that I can tell myself. "Yeah, Bob Powell is real busy over at Street and Smith drawing The Shadow and stuff, so he takes an afternoon off and waltzes up to Timely and looks over someone's shoulder and says, 'Let me show you how to draw Namora.' and the other guy lets him. And then Powell walks back to his studio to draw some more Shadow Comics."

I have a hard time buying that story, don't you? Coincidences happen, so do swipes. Either is far more likely than that story.

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[narfstar]

Didn't Powell employ artists to ghost him? I think I read that somewhere. Could it have been a ghost?

[JVJ]

Actually, he had a shop with Nostrand, Epp, and a letterer/background artist named George Siefringer. None were hired to "ghost" him but to assist him in producing strips. ALL of these guys were hard at work at Street & Smith and Harvey in 1947 - and add the fact that this doesn't look very much like Powell to begin with. Powell's Studio would have done a better job.

IMHO.

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