[RickDeckard525]

These covers are impossible!!! If people can do hat, why diesn't every comic book look like this?!?!?

Link to the book: Tom Corbett Space Cadet 006

[narfstar]

Painted covers were high art and I love them. I would guess that there were many who prefered a drawn cover and the action it showed.

[jimmm kelly]

I tolerate painted covers. It's nice to see how your favourite character would look if he appeared in a painting. But paintings aren't comics to me. The real comic is the line drawing and I don't fancy those paintings invading the rest of the comic. Then it just becomes an art gallery and not an action packed sequential story.

[crashryan]

I loved the painted covers on Dell comics. They were the thing that caught my eye on the drugstore comic rack (remember those?). Two Tom Corbett covers--the shot through the porthole on FC #421 and the "shooting at the ground" cover on Tom Corbett #7--made such an impression that I remembered the images ages after the comics had disappeared. Admittedly, after that burst of excitement the interiors were sometimes a letdown. Not in the McWilliams books, but definitely on the Lehti issues.

[crashryan]

While on the subject of Tom Corbett covers, I notice that the info sheets credit Alden McWilliams with painting all of them. I am inclined to disagree. The only signed McWilliams cover (on FC #400) is painted in an entirely different style from the rest. I'm not certain, but based on clues like face design, fold treatment, and backgrounds I speculate there may have been two different artists working on the TC covers, neither of them McWilliams.