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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 20:40:08 GMT -5
Classic Archie artwork in the 40s was Archie at its best.  </div>I'm very interested in getting into early Archies Try this HC...Americana Best of the 1940s as a starter   I try to treat myself to a genuine Golden Age Archie comic ever so often and settle for books in FINE |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 12, 2014 21:08:16 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 12, 2014 21:53:26 GMT -5
Classic Archie artwork in the 40s was Archie at its best. I haven't read much of it, but I've always found the earliest Archies kind've ugly. I think the peak was the early-mid 60s. To the question at hand, the best things about the 40s were the variety , building the comics vocabulary, and an anything goes attitude. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 12, 2014 21:57:21 GMT -5
The Spirit!!!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 12, 2014 22:49:50 GMT -5
I'd certainly be buying alot more Marvel (Timely) and DC comics back then instead of now. Add to that Fawcett Comics,Quality,Lev Gleason, great newspaper strip reprint comics,Archie,Dell,Fiction House,Street & Smith,Harvey,Classics Ill,St John and some smaller imprints and I'd be in comic heaven
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Post by JKCarrier on Nov 12, 2014 23:55:47 GMT -5
Jack Cole's Plastic Man
Sheldon Mayer's Scribbly (and the Red Tornado!)
Lou Fine's strips for Quality -- The Ray, Black Condor, et. al.
Mac Raboy's Captain Marvel Jr.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 2:11:04 GMT -5
I've read a little of that, but not a whole lot. Not enough to really know much about it. I have a stack of unread issues though. I really just love the art. I think it was far ahead of it's time. Comparing that stuff to Detective and Action of the day, completely different. The first time I ever saw a Spirit comic was in some kind of underground/alternative comix catalog when I was a young kid. I didn't order it, or anything from it, but I spent a lot of time staring at the catalog and it's offerings and loving the look of a lot of the offerings inside. It's also where I first saw the cover to The Death Of Speedy. The two were in the same catalog, and I thought they were contemporaries. The cover to The Spirit to me looked just like the 80's/90's alternative comics in there. It wasn't until much later that I realized those images were from comics from the 1940's. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Nov 13, 2014 3:08:34 GMT -5
All I've read so far of The Spirit is the "Best of" that DC published several years back. I enjoyed it a lot, of course, and I've been debating ever since whether I want to delve into the archives or not. I know that for several years during WWII, Eisner didn't do the artwork. Do those hold up compared to the classic ones that he worked on himself?
I also think the 40's was the best decade for Batman till the 70's put him back on track.
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Post by MDG on Nov 13, 2014 10:35:11 GMT -5
All I've read so far of The Spirit is the "Best of" that DC published several years back. I enjoyed it a lot, of course, and I've been debating ever since whether I want to delve into the archives or not. I know that for several years during WWII, Eisner didn't do the artwork. Do those hold up compared to the classic ones that he worked on himself? Since Eisner didn't really hit his stride until after the war, the issues while he was in the service are probably comparable to what came before. There were folks like Lou Fine and Klaus Nordling working on it, the art was good. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 13, 2014 10:44:26 GMT -5
Getting away from super-heroes for a minute, the '40s also gave us
Carl Barks' Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge
Walt Kelly's Pogo (the Dell Comics stuff, not the newspaper strip)
George Carlson's Jingle Jangle Tales
John Stanley's Little Lulu
Simon & Kirby's romance comics
Paul S. Newman and Tom Gill's Lone Ranger
Gaylord DuBois and Jesse Marsh's Tarzan
and, to get back to the super-guys for a moment
Fox, Moldoff and Kubert's Hawkman
Cei-U!
I summon the Hall of Fame!
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Post by Nowhere Man on Nov 13, 2014 10:51:49 GMT -5
Don't forget Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. It started in 1937, but really hit it's strike around 1941. (I'm reading Vol.3 now)
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 13, 2014 10:54:36 GMT -5
I'm assuming shax is asking about comic books rather than strips (though Prince Valiant was reprinted in comic books, albeit in chopped-up, bastardized form).
Cei-U!
Or do I err?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 13, 2014 10:57:42 GMT -5
I'm assuming shax is asking about comic books rather than strips (though Prince Valiant was reprinted in comic books, albeit in chopped-up, bastardized form). Cei-U! Or do I err? Yep. I agree with all your choices. I avoided strips because they seemed outside the purview. There were a TON of great strips in the 40s. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 13, 2014 11:33:25 GMT -5
I'm assuming shax is asking about comic books rather than strips (though Prince Valiant was reprinted in comic books, albeit in chopped-up, bastardized form). Cei-U! Or do I err? Well we can discuss both, but yes, I meant the books. I adore my Finding Nemo and can't wait to read Prince Valiant. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 13, 2014 12:10:23 GMT -5
There were many.many comics reprinting newspaper strips in the 40s. Could have been the 2nd most popular genre after super-heroes
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