A.C. Hollingsworth

[dddave]

I am new to the site and am trying to find out what I can about A.C. Hollingsworth, a Comic artist from the forties and fifties. Today, I am specifically after info concerning an issue of Justice Traps the Guilty from around 1947 which had a story about Capt. Charles Gibbs, an American pirate. I have seen pages from this story but nothing on this site. Can anyone tell me in which issue of JTG the story appears? Anything you can say about this or the artist would be greatly appreciated! Love this site by the way...just great!

[tilliban]

Hollingsworth sightings are indexed on GRAND COMIC DATABASE.
http://www.comics.org/penciller/name/hollingsworth/sort/chrono/

Some issues of JTTG are to be found here on DCM.
I will personally be uploading missing issues 3 and 9 soon.
Did not see the story in there...
Sure it's early JTTG?

[dddave]

Thanks for the response. I have seen the entire story in original art pages so It's definitely from JTTG as it has the title of the comic in the final panel. I have looked over the issues here and it's not in any of them, far as I can see. The date I have is from a big auction house's description. I assume that the story would be the final one in the issue as the historical stories go last in JTTG. I think it's a six page story.

[dddave]

If it is from 1947, Hollingsworth would have been nineteen or twenty years old. There is a good amount of info about him on the web as he had successful fine art and teaching careers. He is also well known for a childrens book he wrote and did the art for about the Guggenheim museum.
 I have two of the original art pages from the JTTG pirate story, one of which is signed by him. I believe he did both pencils and inks.

[Yoc]

thanks for the info Dave.
GCD would be your best bet as tilliban mentioned.
You can search for him as penciler and sort by title to see all the attributed JTTG stories.  That doesn't mean the might not have missed one but it's your best place to start IMO.

Good luck!

[dddave]

Thanks for the suggestions. No joy. Perhaps it's an unpublished story. I have only ever seen it as original art so it's a possibility.

[tilliban]

Sorry, can't get my head around that.
A Hollingsworth pirate tale from around 1947 in JTTG?
It's not there, trust me.
I looked again.
Do you happen to know the story's name?
In the DCM-missing JTTG #20 there's a final tale called "Human Cargo" (sounds pirat-y), but attributed to Mort Meskin.
Hollingsworth is quite easy to catch, though.
It seems he only worked for Prize in summer/autumn 1948.
From then on he contributed for other outfits.

[dddave]

Thanks for checking. You can see scans of original pages at ha in the auction archives. There are two groups, one has two pages with missing title splash and the second group has four pages. In the final panel of the four page group, it says JTTG or Justice always traps the guilty. The groups are titled differently but are the same story sold separately. The title splash is signed A.C. Hollingsworth. Thesecond group is designated JTTG c. 1947.

[tilliban]

Hmmmm.
Am at my wit's end.
Seems to be an unpublished story.
Maybe time will tell when more scans of whole books show up.

[dddave]

Yep, it's a mystery. The title splash which is signed by AC has glue where the stat would have been. Stats were very expensive to make so perhaps it was scraped off and reapplied to another story. It seems that most unpublished stories don't have a stat applied and are "written off". Or perhaps it's a tryout for him and precedes the stories he did draw for JTTG. Anyway, thanks for helping try to figure this one out. I really appreciate it!