[crashryan]

The big head in the Jon Small piece looks uncannily like a Mort Meskin head.

[Electricmastro]

The big head in the Jon Small piece looks uncannily like a Mort Meskin head.

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[The Australian Panther]

Funny Picture Stories V1 # 7, page 33.

The Photographers Dilemma has a blurb at the bottom that credits it to Rodney Thompson - unless it is illustrating a story by Thompson. You credit it to William Allison, Which is it? 

The SwiftArrow splash says Drawn by Perry Williams. Was this a pseudonym of George Roussos ?
Roussos used to ink 60's Marvel comics. I never liked what he did to Jack Kirby's work. I wasn't the  only one.
Worked under the pseudonym "George Bell."
Had a very interesting career.
George Roussos 1915-2000
https://dylanwilliamsreporter.blogspot.com/2015/03/george-roussos-1915-2000.html
Interesting info on his coloring for Marvel. You rarely hear much about the contribution of colorists.
Cheers!   

[Electricmastro]

Funny Picture Stories V1 # 7, page 33.

The Photographers Dilemma has a blurb at the bottom that credits it to Rodney Thompson - unless it is illustrating a story by Thompson. You credit it to William Allison, Which is it? 

The SwiftArrow splash says Drawn by Perry Williams. Was this a pseudonym of George Roussos ?

Ah, I knew it said Thomson, I was just bringing up Allison on a related note.

As for Roussos, the name Perry Williams was said to be one of several pen names he used:

http://www.bailsprojects.com/WhosWho.aspx

[mopee167]

George Roussos also colored the Air Wave stories he drew in Detective Comics #76-112, circa 1944-1945.

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George Roussos also colored the Air Wave stories he drew in Detective Comics #76-112, circa 1944-1945.

He was also caricatured over at Novelty Press in Target Comics #v2#4 (June, 1941), at about age 25:

[ComicMike]

Black Magic # 01, page 26

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Black Magic # 01, page 26

Interesting art by Bill Draut.

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Hillman Periodicals:

Harry Anderson (Air Fighters Comics #1, November 1941):



Harry Sahle (Air Fighters Comics #3, December 1942):



John Giunta (Air Fighters Comics #v2#2, November 1943):



Fred Kida (Airboy Comics #v2#12, January 1946):



Maurice Del Bourgo (Clue Comics #11, December 1946):



Orestes Calpini (Punch and Judy Comics #v2#5, December 1946):



Arthur Peddy (Airboy Comics #v4#4, May 1947):



Clement Weisbecker (Airboy Comics #v5#12, January 1949):



Ernest Schroeder (Airboy Comics #v8#11, December 1951):



Gerald McCann (Frogman Comics #7, January 1953):

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Eastern Color Printing:

Ben Thompson (Heroic Comics #24, May 1944):



Alex Toth (New Heroic Comics #44, September 1947):



Ruth Atkinson (Club 16 Comics #3, October 1948):



Alfonso Greene (Movie Love #1, February 1950):



Fred Guardineer (Movie Love #5, October 1950):



Al Williamson (Buster Crabbe #5, July 1952):



Harold LeDoux (Movie Love #22, August 1953):



Bill Ely (New Heroic Comics #90, April 1954):



Jim McArdle (Conquest #1, Spring 1955):



John Lehti (Tales from the Great Book #3, September 1955):

[ComicMike]

Giggle Comics # 12

[The Australian Panther]

John Lehti (Tales from the Great Book #3, September 1955):

The tower depicted here is from medieval misamaginings found in paintings of the era.

This painting - The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1563.being the best-known example. But it was a universal image in that time period.

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/450993350175203034/

The actual tower was probably a Ziggurat and would have looked more like this.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/ziggurat-mesopotamia-0010625

[Electricmastro]

Giggle Comics # 12

Nice art, though not quite an interior.

John Lehti (Tales from the Great Book #3, September 1955):

The tower depicted here is from medieval misamaginings found in paintings of the era.

This painting - The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1563.being the best-known example. But it was a universal image in that time period.

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/450993350175203034/

The actual tower was probably a Ziggurat and would have looked more like this.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/ziggurat-mesopotamia-0010625

Interesting. No doubt that the romanticized image lends itself to a more appealing comic, which tends to be prioritized more in the business, even in cases of religious comics I suppose. Haha.

[Captain Audio]

John Lehti (Tales from the Great Book #3, September 1955):

The tower depicted here is from medieval misamaginings found in paintings of the era.

This painting - The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1563.being the best-known example. But it was a universal image in that time period.

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/450993350175203034/

The actual tower was probably a Ziggurat and would have looked more like this.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/ziggurat-mesopotamia-0010625

I've always looked at ancient texts with a modern eye.
Take the Chimera so common in pre deluge histories. They appear when civilizations come to an end. Now days genetically altered flora and fauna are a reality, and may presage the demise of modern civilizations.
The tower of Babel might be seen as a space program of an ancient advanced civilization. The first moonshot certainly required a huge launch tower to support and even larger tower like space vessel.
Look up the video of the destruction of the Russian booster rocket fueled by "the Devil's venom" rocket fuel. A disaster that halted Russia's aspirations for a moon landing.
Ancient Hindu texts tell of weapons that sound remarkably like tactical nukes. They also tell of flying beasts that sound like multi engine aircraft.

[ComicMike]

Giggle Comics # 12

Nice art, though not quite an interior.

Oops - sorry about my mistake, I have probably misunderstood something fundamental.

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United Feature Syndicate:

Reg Greenwood (Tip Top Comics #65, September 1941):



Paul Berdanier (Tip Top Comics #114, January 1946):



Bernard Dibble (Tip Top Comics #141, April 1948):

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Novelty Press/Star Publications:

Jack Warren (Target Comics #3, April 1940):



Basil Wolverton (Target Comics #9, October 1940):



Jack Kirby (Blue Bolt #5, October 1940):



John Jordan (Target Comics #v3#5, July 1942):



Ray Ramsey (Blue Bolt #v3#9, February 1943):



Ken Battefield (Target Comics #v9#1, March 1948):



Nina Albright (4Most #v7#3, May 1948):



Jay Disbrow (Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror #119, June 1953):



Lee Loeb (Ghostly Weird Stories #120, September 1953):



George Peltz (Spook #26, October 1953):

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The Bob Rogers credited with inking Syd Shores' pencils in The Westerner Comics #39 (Aug 1951): Wild Bill Pecos in

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Fox Comics:

Dick Briefer (Mystery Men Comics #5, December 1939):



Grieg Chapian (Fantastic Comics #1, December 1939):



Jack Kirby (Science Comics #4, May 1940):



Henry Kiefer (Fantastic Comics #8, July 1940):



Rolland Livingstone (Science Comics #6, July 1940):



Larry Antonette (The Flame #6, August 1941):



Roland Patenaude (Big 3 #7, January 1942):



Arnold Hicks (Rocket Kelly, 1944):



Lou Ferstadt (Everybody's Comics, 1944):



Ellis Chambers (Ribtickler #1, 1945):



Elmer Stoner (Blue Beetle #41, March 1946):



Ken Battefield (A Feature Presentation #5, April 1950):

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Ace Comics:

Art Saaf (Our Flag Comics #1, August 1941):



Bruce Currie (Our Flag Comics #2, October 1941):



Lou Ferstadt (Four Favorites #12, November 1943):



Warren Kremer (Super-Mystery Comics #v5#3, December 1945):



Rudy Palais (Four Favorites #21, January 1946):



King Ward (Western Adventures #2, December 1948):



Ken Rice (World War III #1, March 1952):



Jim McLaughlin (The Beyond #22, September 1953):



Lou Cameron (Web of Mystery #24, May 1954):



Sy Grudko (Web of Mystery #27, November 1954):

[ComicMike]

Lou Ferstadt (Four Favorites #12, November 1943):

Obviously Lou Ferstadt was a Picasso fan. 

[Andrew999]

This looks pretty much like the inside of my brain

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Lou Ferstadt (Four Favorites #12, November 1943):

Obviously Lou Ferstadt was a Picasso fan. 

He was also a painter known for making murals with that surreal quality. His comic work wasn

[Andrew999]

He was good - I particularly like the one of the guys playing chess

[The Australian Panther]

While there were great comic artists in the Golden Age who were largely self-taught, it is a revelation to find how many Golden Age artists had serious training and went on to prodigious careers in various arms of the serious Art World. Everett Raymond Kinstler became a Renowned Portrait Painter

Among Kinstler