tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post6263644245445308098..comments2024-02-24T03:23:15.797-05:00Comments on Who Created the Comic Books?: A 70s Marvel Artist's First Stories at Timely (UPDATE: Well, One of Them)Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-86822178780976032442015-09-27T10:57:16.619-04:002015-09-27T10:57:16.619-04:00Doc, I'll leave the page as an example of art ...Doc, I'll leave the page as an example of art that manages to end up looking remarkably like Perlin's even if, as you say, he's not known to have been there under the staff/freelance situation in 1948.Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-48328213378532305032015-09-26T23:54:23.882-04:002015-09-26T23:54:23.882-04:00Martin, I just took a good luck at "He Dreamt...Martin, I just took a good luck at "He Dreamt of Doom" in ALL TRUE CRIME #35 and I believe that is early John Buscema with a bad Timely staff inker. Buscema is all over these Timely crime issues because he was on staff at the time, working out of the Empire State Building. Very few of the crime stories in 1948-49 were freelanced and Perlin would have been a freelance if he was doing anything at all for them (which I don't believe he did until his work with Abe Simon started cover date October 1952).Doc V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06815470072568462626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-38059828805863315732015-09-25T10:11:21.381-04:002015-09-25T10:11:21.381-04:00Doc, I don't know who I'd say did those st...Doc, I don't know who I'd say did those stories after a closer look (I have no clue whatsoever on Pierce Rice's style; I think I've only seen his ghost-penciling IDed at DC). But I've updated the post: they're not Perlin.Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-84337300635294976612015-09-24T07:28:03.501-04:002015-09-24T07:28:03.501-04:00Martin, no Perlin in any of those 3 stories you me...Martin, no Perlin in any of those 3 stories you mentioned the GCD had listed as such. The Lawbreakers Always Lose #8 story looks like Pierce Rice, The Marvel Tales #96 story looks like Vern Henkel with an inker and the Western Winners #6 1-pager I have no idea but Perlin wouldn't even be on the list. Doc V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06815470072568462626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-1466791826279886312015-09-19T12:02:25.490-04:002015-09-19T12:02:25.490-04:00An artist whose style had to tracked both forwards...An artist whose style had to tracked both forwards and backwards by Doc Vassallo and others, if I recall correctly, is Mike Sekowsky. He signed some of his earliest stuff in the 40s, but between those stories and the recognizable ones in the later 50s, there's a drawn-out evolution in his style.Martin OHearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-2171337508259837782015-09-19T03:34:37.855-04:002015-09-19T03:34:37.855-04:00"Dr. Michael J. Vassallo has tracked Gene Col..."Dr. Michael J. Vassallo has tracked Gene Colan's Timely work, for instance, to the artist's first stories, by working backwards month by month from his earliest signed work later in the Fifties—Colan's style is just the tiniest bit different a month before, and just a tiny bit more different the month before that, until at last it would be just about unrecognizable around 1948 if one didn't follow it step by step through the increments of change."<br /><br />An interesting and possibly unique method for identifying artists earlier work, and not one I that would have thought of!Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01704864683974549961noreply@blogger.com