Builderboy's uploads

[builderboy]

...coming:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/builderboy/Fantastic-007-pg-01sm.jpg

Youthful's Fantastic 009, 36 pages, April 1952, featuring Ed Goldfarb / Bob Baer, Stephen Kirkel, Vince Napoli, and Harry Harrison / Ernie Bache.

[Yoc]

Another soon off the Precode List - Very Nice!

[builderboy]

...and picked this up today

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t252/builderboy/Humphrey-001-pg-01-sm.jpg

Humphrey Comics v1 n01, Oct 1948, 52 pages. I like the work, signed Ham Fisher.  Could it be another pen name for Bud Fisher?.

[JVJ (RIP)]

Actually, bb, the work done here is probably a combination of strips by Al Avison, Warren Kremer and other Ham Fisher ghosts. Ham was a real person but was notorious for not working very hard. The Joe Palooka comics were all newly drawn strips using his newspaper strip title character. Kremer is credited with creating the Little Max character which first appeared in the comic book.

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[builderboy]

Thanks, JVJ.  I did notice a varying quality to the interior pages that would have suggested something like that.  I will pull up some Avison and Kremer samples and have em handy when I pour over the interior.

BB

[builderboy]

Now up: JVJ's Prize Comics 23.

Some really nice things in the book: apart from Briefer's Frankenstein (always a favorite), there is some great work by John Cassone on the Spike Mason feature, and Binder's Black Owl has some choice panels.  JVJ, I believe your notation on the Doctor Frost feature is that you have made a tentative ID on the pencils...is that the circle's meaning?  I liked many panels in this piece as well...I will have to track down more Ben Thompson stuff.

[krankyboy]

Great issue of Prize Comics, BB! Thanks so much for scanning/uploading it -- hope to see more issues of Prize down the road from JVJ's collection.

[Yoc]

Thanks BB.
I sure would like to see Prize 25 some day to see if the 'Prize Fighters' story continues after capturing Franky.

[builderboy]

Thanks, kranky and Yoc.  I have hit the bottom of the barrel on the Prize Comics title, but more Treasure, Black Magic, and JTTG (MANY more JTTG) to come.

Freddyfly send me a note that he is on the hunt for missing issues of Prize Comics, so we can all wish him good hunting.

[Yoc]

Len's been super nice to me today and I certainly wish him luck with Prize Comics fills!

[builderboy]

Double header weekend: Youthful's Fantastic 009 now up.

[Geo (RIP)]

Thanks BB, we've been waiting for this one to be added since you announced it.

Geo

[JVJ (RIP)]

Now up: JVJ's Prize Comics 23.
JVJ, I believe your notation on the Doctor Frost feature is that you have made a tentative ID on the pencils...is that the circle's meaning?  I liked many panels in this piece as well...I will have to track down more Ben Thompson stuff.

Ben Thompson was a Funnies, Inc. stalwart, with art on Ka-Zar in Marvel Comics #1. His work varied tremendously, and was always, IMHO, derivative of Alex Raymond. It's always easy to find more about these guys by checking the Who's Who. I doubt this was done through Funnies, Inc. but one can never tell. By 1942 Binder had set up his own shop and it's possible that folks like Thompson were working for him freelance. There never seemed to be much loyalty to any particular shop.

As for other Prize issues, I've got quite a few. Any of the scanners up for a new batch and want to include them, just holler.

Books like Fantastic #9 are great because ALL of the stories are signed. Makes IDs pretty easy, eh?

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[builderboy]

More of Jim's box-o'-Prizes coming atcha:  Treasure Comics 004, all raw with a color restored version of the cover and JVJ's index cards.

More Arabian Knight and Marco Polo goodness...plus: Dr. Styx versus the Devil

[builderboy]

...THAT's what I get when I try to rush a book out the door. Prize's BLACK MAGIC #4 is now up, tragically mis-labeled as BLACK MAGIC 0041.   

A JVJ beauty for the Prize section.