Joe Maneely at Charlton

[josemas]

The more I think about it, the supposedly Maneely art in this issue is obviously Maneely in some fashion, but if it was him doing both pencils and inks then he was beginning to approach an Alex Toth-like simplicity. More likely, it strikes me as Maneely pencils with someone else inking.

Maneely's work at this same time for DC, where he no doubt was making a much better wage, is quite a contrast to this Charlton work.  Much more detailed.  IIRC, some of his work at DC was also inked by Joe Sinnott (also looking for work elsewhere after the Atlas Implosion)..

Best

Joe

[JVJ (RIP)]

I have a listing I did 25 years ago - never updated:
House of Mystery 72,226
House of Secrets 95
Tales of the Unexpected   126
Kid Cowboy (Ziff Davis) 2
Gunfighters (Charlton 1979) 53
Top Secrets  5
Perfect Crime  2
Loco   1
Cracked   1-5,12

I've seen LOTS more in the interevening years. Just failed to list them on the cards. Don't recall any Treasure Chests, but that could easily be a memory problem. Hillman rings a faint bell.

I always thought Maneely pencilled and inked his own work. DocV can answer that better than I can. The variation in his style was attributed by me to the amount of time he had to invest for the amount of money he got in return. If he had to do ten pages to make $100, he did the very quickly. If he could do five and make the save $100, those pages were better drawn and more finished.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[JVJ (RIP)]

Those Hillman and Treasure Chest credits in the Who's Who were originally from me - long ago. I just took a break from working on my website overhaul and here's the info:
Treasure Chest V5:5  11/1/49

Airboy V6:10  11/49

Must have been a time when Joe was thinking about work outside of Timely...

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[josemas]

And reviving a thread from nearly a year ago, I'm toying with putting together a "Maneely at Charlton" collection now that we have most of the stories I'm aware of-                                        

I think that this is a great idea!  The archives and collections section has been so far centered around characters/features rather than artists although some such as Dan Brand/Frazetta, Culture Corner/Wolverton, and Stardust/Hanks are both.  However also having collections just centered around artists would be great for fans of various artists and also a useful tool for researchers (such as the GCD compilers) wanting to study certain artist's styles.

Best

Joe

[narfstar]

How beautiful would a GGA Matt Baker collection look 

[Yoc]

Beautiful and HUGE!

[narfstar]

But most would not get tired looking through the whole thing. What a treat for the eyes.

[JVJ (RIP)]

Tex Ritter Western #43 (October 1958)
"The Vanishing Herd" -5 pages

Definitely Maneely. Pretty quick job, but him alright.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[Yoc]

Thanks Jim!
Now if we could only find a copy of Tex Ritter Western #45 to confirm GCD for that issue as well.

[JVJ (RIP)]

Beautiful and HUGE!

Actually probably only half as "HUGE" as you imagine...

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[OtherEric]

It's not Tex Ritter 45, it's Six-Gun Heroes 45 that the GCD is taunting us with.  That's the only one we don't have, or won't have soon.

[Poztron]

Beautiful and HUGE!

Actually probably only half as "HUGE" as you imagine...

Peace, Jim (|:{>

I'm with JVJ on this, meaning that at least half of the stories out there attributed to Matt Baker are probably mostly Iger shop art.

[JVJ (RIP)]

Someday, Poz,
TwoMorrows will publish Jim Amash's Matt Baker book with a real Matt Baker index - there's going to be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth and a BUNCH of dealers telling their customers that Alberto Becattini and I are WRONG WRONG WRONG and that their high-priced purchases really ARE Baker. But you and I know better...

Someday, all this farce will end. And what makes me the happiest is that the mediocre aspects of "Baker's Style" will be pruned from his career. What will remain is the real work by the real artist and his reputation can only be enhanced by seeing his work separated from his imitators and copiers. It will bring the man UP to the position he truly deserves in the canon of comic artists. Right now he's being held down by the inadequacies of his imitators and the cachet
 (and the price) that is attached to anything he "did".

Someday...

Peace, Jim (|:{>

[Yoc]

Wow, that's a wonderful dream Jim.
Baker, the real Baker, deserves far more attention starting with coffee table collections, bios, etc that all the other Greats of the field are getting.

-Yoc

[narfstar]

Great project Jim. When you look with such wonder at Baker's real work he does deserve the facts out there.