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Coming next: I dive into the batch of Eastern books JVJ just sent while I'm still inspired to scan like crazy after seeing how great some of the material is. Hopefully I'll be VERY busy this weekend and next scanning.
(I really should go ahead and scan my 10 or so issues of Famous Funnies and post them without the Buck Rogers pages, since we've decided to go ahead with partial books when only one feature is unusable.)
Buster Crabbe #2 JVJ's tentative guess on the last page is H. G. Peters. Personally, I doubt it; I just think the next to last panel is a swipe. Actually, I think the whole page is a bunch of swipes; it looks like seven different artists to me!
Quote from: OtherEric on September 11, 2009, 06:55:05 PMBuster Crabbe #2 JVJ's tentative guess on the last page is H. G. Peters. Personally, I doubt it; I just think the next to last panel is a swipe. Actually, I think the whole page is a bunch of swipes; it looks like seven different artists to me!You could be right, Eric, but Peters WAS there and I'll stick by my guess: I think he did everything here except for the portrait of Buster Crabbe.
Personal Love #24 now ready for download. This one has an 8 page Frazetta story; so once again I highly recommend it even if you don't like romance comics. Just enjoy the incredible drawings. As promised, I had a question on one of your identifications on this one as well, Jim. You say Bill Everett did the third story, and it doesn't seem impossible based on the art in some panels. But it seems odd that he wouldn't sign the story if the publisher was allowing it, yet it's the only unsigned story in the book. Of course, it's possible he didn't want Atlas to know he was moonlighting or there was some other reason. And at least some of the art- the splash panel in particular- just screams Jim Mooney to me. I would call it an outright Supergirl swipe if it didn't predate Kara's first appearance by several years. (I don't know enough about Mooney's early career to know if he was even drawing at this point, for that matter.)
Like I said, what seemed odd was the lack of signature. Everett had one of the most distinctive signatures in comics and he didn't hesitate to use it.Did Everett do anything else at Eastern, or was it just this one story?