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Yoc:
I've split this away from Roy's topic to encourage more readers and clean up Roy's Commissions topic.
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Hey Roy,
Here's a suggestion if you are still looking for any.
I had an idea for a commission that could not only be fun but historically significant.
The problem would be only a few still living artists could supply it.

Background -
AlterEgo101 has a Fox Features theme.  Victor Fox as you know was one of the first to jump on the superhero bandwagon after DC published Action #1.  He had many heroes in his stable, most of them second and third stringers most don't know.
Fox also had a lot of great artist come through his stable as they matured and moved on usually being owed money!

So we know what he published, the characters, etc.  And we know who he used for artists - Simon, Kirby, Fine.
BUT we don't have a clue just What did Victor Fox LOOK LIKE?  AE101 didn't have a picture.  This was my big hope but it was not to be.

My suggestion - find a GA artist that worked for Fox to do a portrait of the mystery man that is Victor Fox!
It could be a simple job or more involved if you had some of the characters he published included.

I'm actually surprised that nobody has done this already at some point in the past.

The hard part will be finding someone still alive that is willing to do it.  Two that come to mind are Joe Simon and Al Feldstein.

It's all most likely pie in the sky but the man that was Victor Fox is almost a complete enigma and I'm sure many would like to put a face on him.

-Yoc

Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: Yoc on May 22, 2011, 11:47:20 AM ---Hey Roy,
Here's a suggestion if you are still looking for any.
I had an idea for a commission that could not only be fun but historically significant.
The problem would be only a few still living artists could supply it.

Background -
AlterEgo101 has a Fox Features theme.  Victor Fox as you know was one of the first to jump on the superhero bandwagon after DC published Action #1.  He had many heroes in his stable, most of them second and third stringers most don't know.
Fox also had a lot of great artist come through his stable as they matured and moved on usually being owed money!

So we know what he published, the characters, etc.  And we know who he used for artists - Simon, Kirby, Fine.
BUT we don't have a clue just What did Victor Fox LOOK LIKE?  AE101 didn't have a picture.  This was my big hope but it was not to be.

My suggestion - find a GA artist that worked for Fox to do a portrait of the mystery man that is Victor Fox!
It could be a simple job or more involved if you had some of the characters he published included.

I'm actually surprised that nobody has done this already at some point in the past.

The hard part will be finding someone still alive that is willing to do it.  Two that come to mind are Joe Simon and Al Feldstein.

It's all most likely pie in the sky but the man that was Victor Fox is almost a complete enigma and I'm sure many would like to put a face on him.

-Yoc

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Hi Yoc

That sounds interesting, but not really up my alley or pocketbook.

Michael Netzer has actually drawn a bunch of portraits here: http://michaelnetzer.com/mnop/?tag=portraits-of-the-creators-sketchbook

I think the idea was that they were for Wikipedia. Maybe he'd be able to do it - I'd imagine even GA artists couldn't do a portrait from memory, they'd need a photo reference.

Yoc:
Memory is all they'd have to work from Roy.  As far as I can tell there's no pictures of the man out there.
Even his background is very fuzzy.  Only one published source has speculated on his roots and I've never seen it confirmed anywhere.

Well, like I said, it was a pie in the sky thought.
-Yoc

philcom55:
Nice idea, and not necessarily 'pie in the sky'. Did anybody ever find out what happened to him in the end? Perhaps he's still alive somewhere in South America, along with all the other aging crooks and war criminals! :)

Bearing in mind the number of artists he swindled over the years it's possible that one of them would be only too happy to produce a suitable caricature on the understanding that he'd be remembered that way in all future histories of the medium until the end of time. Perhaps something along the lines of Marvin Stein's famous image of Ben Oda, Joe Simon, Joe Genola, Mort Meskin and Jack Kirby from the cover of the American Justice Traps the Guilty no.56 would fit the bill...?

http://i53.tinypic.com/24mb4g6.jpg(In fact it occurs to me that somebody probably did use him in this way as the model for a crook or unscrupulous publisher. The problem is that there are so few people left who'd be able to spot the likeness after all these years!)

 - Phil Rushton

Roygbiv666:
Well, I believe Al Feldstein has a web-site, http://www.alfeldstein.com/. His painting are around $2k, I'd imagine a pencil sketch would be far less. You never know, he might do it for free if you tell him about it.

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