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Re: Tippy Teen 019

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jimmm kelly

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Re: Tippy Teen 019
« on: June 28, 2013, 05:58:42 PM »

I wonder if anyone has any speculation for who the artist was on Tippy Teen. It's a Stan Goldberg-ish style, but not Goldberg I'm sure. I used some of this for my blog and I really like the artwork. It'd be nice to give a credit. The GCD gives nothing, but usually comic experts have hunches even if they can't say officially.

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narfstar

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Re: Tippy Teen 019
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 01:09:29 AM »

i'm no expert and i have no idea but would like to know
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jimmm kelly

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Re: Tippy Teen 019
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 01:34:54 AM »

Ah, okay! I answered my own question. I looked it up on Don Martin's Toonopedia and he says Samm Schwartz created TIPPY TEEN. Further search, on Wikipedia, shows that Samm worked at MLJ/Archie in the '50s/early '60s and his main work was on Jughead. Explains why he was so familiar to me--I knew I'd seen that art somewhere before. My siblings especially liked Jughead comics and I have a few remnants of those from the early '60s. Schwartz left Archie for Tower Comics in '65--Tower was founded by former Archie editor Henry Shorten. Schwartz helped edit THUNDER AGENTS, but his main work was on TIPPY as creator/artist. Other Archie artists moonlighted for Schwartz on TIPPY and G0-GO AND ANIMAL. Harry Lucey and Dan DeCarlo are mentioned on Wikipedia and I think I can detect DeCarlo on some of the Tippy pages. In '69 he briefly worked for DC on A DATE WITH JUDY (back when they were trying to give their teen humour comics an Archie house-style), before returning to Archie Comics. Samm Schwartz did his own inking and lettering, so looking at the letters would be one way to detect which stories he did. He had a rubbery style and used silhouettes. Schwartz didn't usually write the stories, but he would re-work them and add additional dialogue.
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jimmm kelly

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Re: Tippy Teen 019
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 03:49:48 AM »

Adding to this and looking at the credits for the 1st issue--which I should have checked before (duh)--I think there are at least three different artists in 19. At first I thought the stories at the beginning were by Schwartz, but now I don't think so because they don't look like the stories he did in No. 1 and the lettering is different. The last story is by a third artist--the figure work is different. The second to last story might be by Samm Schwartz, because the lettering and the inking style are fairly similar to the work credited to him. But I would have to really study the pages some more to be sure.
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