Monday, August 16, 2021

Weisbecker Sports and War at Fawcett

On these Clem Weisbecker pencil jobs at Fawcett, my impression is that Sheldon Moldoff inked most of the true-life baseball stories--in Jackie Robinson and Baseball Heroes. This page is from "Jackie Robinson Breaks into the Majors."

Jackie Robinson 3

One Jackie Robinson story among these issues is by an artist other than Weisbecker--"Jackie Robinson Carries the Pigskin" in #4.

Joe Louis #1 hasn't been scanned and put online yet, so its omission here doesn't mean Weisbecker didn't draw it. There's a bookseller's scan of page 1 that's obviously not by him, but a second look at the indicia shows that it's the Anglo-American version, and Canadian import laws meant they had to get the script redrawn by a Canadian artist. (The Grand Comics Database calls it a "reprint" but "remake" would be the better term.)

Clem Weisbecker pencils
on Fawcett sports and war

JACKIE ROBINSON

1949 (#1)  Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hero
Jul/50 #2  Jackie Robinson's First World Series
    Jackie Robinson and the Stolen Home Run
    Jackie Robinson and the Golden Cup
Sep/     #3  Jackie Robinson Breaks into the Majors
    Jackie Robinson Battles the Teen-Age Terror
    Jackie Robinson Rides the Whirlwind
Nov/     #4  Jackie Robinson Wins the Battling Crown
    Jackie Robinson and the Human Cat
1951 #5  Jackie Robinson and the Crucial Series
    Jackie Robinson and the Rookie on Trial
    Jackie Robinson, All American
1952 #6  Famous Plays by Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hero

JOE LOUIS

Nov/50  #2  Joe Louis, Champion of Champions

BASEBALL HEROES

1952  nn  The True Story of Baseball's Hall of Fame

BOB SWIFT, BOY SPORTSMAN

1951 #1  Bob Swift and the Big Horn Bonanza
    Bob Swift and the King of the Lake
July/     #2  Tiger on a Bait Rod
    The Thrill Killers of the North
Sep/      #3  Fishing in Another World
    Bear Tracks to Danger
Nov/     #4  Sahib's Sacrifice
    Cannibal Trout
Jan/52 #5  Sun, Surf and Stripers
    Bob Swift and the Spotted Killer

BILL BATTLE, THE ONE MAN ARMY

Oct/52 #1  I'm the Best There Is
    A Snowball in Hades
Dec/     #2  Six Feet Under
    Strictly a Southpaw
Feb/53 #3  Human Bazooka
    Death Takes a Furlough
Apr/     #4  Death Warrant
    It Ain't Always Hell

MASTER COMICS

Apr/53  #133  The Biggest Brass There Is [BILL BATTLE]

BATTLE STORIES


May/52 #3  Wanted: One MIG-15
Sep/      #5  They've Got to Kill Me!

SOLDIER COMICS

Mar/52 #2  No More Noise from Snafu
Sep/53 #11  Long Time No Sea! [BILL BATTLE]