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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 15:52:46 GMT -5
I must shamefacedly admit that I'd completely forgotten about Ken Bald till some great pages of his from Namora #2 (October 1948) popped up in FB's Comic Book Historians group last week. Here are the first two (click to enlarge) --  According to Wikipedia, he turned 96 on Aug. 1. I'm pretty sure that makes him among the very last Gold Age artists still with us. Given the spate of deaths (inevitable, of course) among that age-group the last few years, how many remain? Is he the very last, perhaps? (The same Wikipedia entry notes that for the last few decades of his active career he concentrated on syndicated strips, which might be why I forgot about him in the context of comics.) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 15:54:28 GMT -5
I should add that I really love his style. Vaguely (p)reminiscent of Trina Robbins.
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Post by MDG on Sept 14, 2016 17:18:07 GMT -5
I should add that I really love his style. Vaguely (p)reminiscent of Trina Robbins. Yes, but later on he became more photo-realistic. I associate him most with the Dark Shadows newspaper strip. Alan Bellman someone I never heard of five years ago, but he's been doing convention appearances. He worked at Timely during the GA. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 14, 2016 17:22:40 GMT -5
Dan Spiegle is still alive at age 95. He started out on the Hopalong Cassidy comic strip in 1949.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 14, 2016 18:56:21 GMT -5
Does John Romita count or are we only talking about guys who did the bulk of their work in the Golden Age? Romita started his career in 1949 on Famous Funnies, so he just makes it in as a creator who started in the Golden Age.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 14, 2016 19:51:44 GMT -5
Bob Fujitani is still alive I believe.
Joe Giella started his career in 1945 and did some work for Timely starting in 1946 - actually, he lost his first assignment on a train. Stan Lee gave him some work Mike Sekowsky had penciled and asked him to ink it and Giella lost the whole package. Stan Lee flipped out and Sekowsky came to his defense and offered to redraw everything.
Although I never heard of him until recently, Allen Bellman has been making convention appearances recently and goes as far back as 1942 when he worked on Captain America. He has a website which contains a checklist of what he's done (including material for All-Select Comics/All-Winners, Captain America, Blonde Phantom, Human Torch, Marvel Mystery, Submariner, and more)
www.allenbellman.com/my-works.html
Ken Bald also remains amongst the living.
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Post by DubipR on Sept 14, 2016 19:53:25 GMT -5
Russ Heath is 90 and still going. I'm going to be his booth partner this weekend at LBCC.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 14, 2016 19:53:34 GMT -5
OK you already mentioned Ken Bald.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 14, 2016 19:55:01 GMT -5
Sam Glanzman is still with us. His career started in '40.
Cei-U!
I summon the evergreen!
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 14, 2016 21:06:02 GMT -5
Joe Giella, who just retired from drawing Mary Worth, was inking Infantino in the mid- to late-40's Flash Comics.
According to the GCD, Frank Bolle's first work appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #48 in 1943. Bolle was drawing the newspaper strip Apartment 3-G when it was cancelled less than a year ago, at the age of 91!
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 14, 2016 21:40:53 GMT -5
 Mad infamous Al Jaffee age 95  He worked for Timely and Atlas back in the day before migrating to Mad Magazine. There was a 49 year stretch in there, to the month, where all was in every issue of Mad except for one. Also, his fold-ins are trademarked. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 22:49:42 GMT -5
OK you already mentioned Ken Bald. I'm surprised to see Ken Bald is still around ... I just loved his Sun Girl work. |
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Post by dcindexer on Sept 15, 2016 1:59:14 GMT -5
Ken Bald's first published work from More Fun #9 (1936). A young fan who turned pro.  |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 15, 2016 10:49:18 GMT -5
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 15, 2016 20:35:17 GMT -5
Ken Bald's first published work from More Fun #9 (1936). A young fan who turned pro.
1936!!
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