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OtherEric:
Sparkling Stars is just one of the most oddball books I've ever seen.  It had a huge page count for the price, and the features are just semi-random at times, it seems.  It's also one of the cheapest GA titles out there; it had a bit of everything and nobody seems to want the back issues if the prices they go for is any indication.

blastaar:
I don't think there's a single artist in the entire run that anyone but a specialist would recognize today, except maybe some early (and to me unrecognizable) Carmine Infantino and some early and dreadful Mel Lazarus (his brother Hal does a fair amount of reasonable work in the series, but he's hardly collectable).  And you're right, they're a miscellany of mostly generic features.  I like 'em myself, but then I'm something of an aficionado of third-rate filler ("The A.W. Nugent Story" is out there waiting to be written).  :)

Still, you can see why they'd look like a pretty good reading bargain for a dime at a time when page counts were shrinking and comics were getting overrun by ads.

OtherEric:
I would call A. W. Nugent at LEAST 2nd tier, possibly even (very low) first.  But yeah, he's hardly the most collectible name out there.  He really was the master of the Puzzle Page filler, though!

JVJ (RIP):
How about Morris Weiss, blastaar?

And the Debunker artist? Now THERE'S a guy I want to identify!

Actually, since you mentioned Infantino, I'll toss in Al Ulmer and Ray Willner. They are both at Sparkling Stars and both pretty good, IMHO.

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blastaar:
Agreed that there's some decent work in the series.  I'd submit, though, that anyone who considers A.W. Nugent to be a big name is by definition a "specialist" (the guy doesn't even get his own Wikipedia page.)  :)  I'm thinking of names you could toss out on a Comics Journal message board and get more than a blank stare, or that would make the e-mail blurb at Heritage Auctions.

Personally, my favorite of the bunch is the funny animal work of Ellis Chambers.  The stories themselves range from inane to not-quite-inane, but I just like the rakish air he always brings to his drawings.  I also have a soft spot for Howard Larsen, whose figures have a kind of blunt Beanie Babies look around the edges.  And yeah, "The Debunker" is one in a million--I think I prefer not knowing anything about him so I can make up stories about him in my head.  Right now I have him as quite a bit older than the comic-book-artist generation of the '40s, an alcoholic, and a somewhat cranky guy, (although I no doubt get that from the fact that he specialized in those "everything you know is wrong" true-fact features).

And I'll be doing whatever I can to bring the artistic stylings of Herman C. Browner to the attention of the discerning public.   :)

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