Showing posts with label Winter art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter art. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Not the Two-Gun Kid


Crack Western 72--The Ghost of Grim Gulch

At Quality, Chuck Winter had a four-issue run in Buccaneers, as I posted here. He had twice that in Crack Western on Two-Gun Lil.

On the first four stories I'm taking the Grand Comics Database artist attributions as a start. I think I see three artists among the first four stories (the same one on #64 and 65). Leo Morey is known to have worked on the series, but I can't match him up from his signed stories at ACG a decade later; it may be that he's being inked by other hands here.

Two-Gun Lil in Crack Western

Nov/49 63  She Was Ready w: Joe Millard  a: Charles    Sultan?
Jan/50 64  The Forbidden Star w: ?  a: Leo Morey?
Mar/     65  The Dance Hall of Death w: ?  a: Morey?
May/     66  Even Frontier Terrorists Can Learn w: ?  a: ?
Jul/     67  Two-Gun Lil Votes against Lynch Law w: ?  a: Pete Riss
Sep/     68  Two-Gun Lil Conquers Western Crime w: ?  a: Riss
Nov/     69  Hot-Lead Two-Step w: Millard  a: Chuck Winter
Jan/51 70  The Taming of Big Bat McGrew w: Millard  a: Winter
Mar/     71  A Bargain in Bullets w: Millard  a: Winter
May/     72  The Ghost of Grim Gulch w: Millard  a: Winter
Jul/     73  Six-Guns from the Sky w: Millard  a: Winter
Sep/     74  Gun Trouble in Paradise w: Millard  a: Winter
Nov/     75  The Vultures of Goldhill w: Millard  a: Winter
Jan/52 76  The End of the Owlhoot Trail w: Millard  a: Winter
Mar/     77  A Heart as Big as a House w: ?  a: Pete Morisi
May/     78  Once upon a Time There Were Three Bassett Brothers w: Robert Bernstein  a:   Morisi
Sep/     80  The Murder on Stage w: Bernstein  a: Morisi
Nov/     81  The Target Is Two-Gun Lil w: Bernstein  a: Morisi
Jan/53  82  Target of Hot Lead w: Bernstein  a: Morisi
Mar/     83  The Fiend in Knee Pants w: Bernstein  p: John Forte     i: ?
May/     84  The Kissing Monster w: Bernstein  a: Edmond    Good

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Winter Buccaneers

Here, like John Daly, is another Adventure Comics artist (in this case on the Shining Knight) who did some work at Quality in the Fifities. Chuck (or C. A.) Winter worked on a few strips like Hell Diver at the company in the early Forties, then returned late in the decade to do Black X—which has been recognized—and a few other features which have not. I've seen one Quality romance drawn by him, "Ringside Heartbreak" in Heart Throbs 1 (Aug/49), and imagine there are more.

The Spanish Main was a series with no continuing characters in Buccaneers 19-24; I can't tell the artists on the first five stories. Corsair Queen took over the slot with 25 and lasted the three issues to the title's end.

The inking looks different enough from Winter's work at DC (or even on "Ringside Heartbreak"), that I don't think he's inking himself on Buccaneers. The Liberty Belle splash co-credited with writer Don Cameron is from her debut in Boy Commandos 1 (Win/42-43).

Corsair Queen splash, Buccaneers 25; Liberty Belle splash, Boy Commandos 1

Winter's The Spanish Main story in Buccaneers

Nov/50 24  Destruction or Delight w: ?  p: Chuck Winter

Corsair Queen in Buccaneers

Jan/51 25  The Tigress of the Seas w: Joe Millard  p: Winter
Mar/     26  King of Corpse Cay w: Millard  p: Winter
May/     27  The Castle of Greed w: Millard  p: Winter

Winter had a run of eight stories in a row in another Quality feature around 1951; does anybody riffling through the company's titles for that year pick out that work? I'll post on it later.