Another purchase at Heroes Con: Hot Wheels #5 (Nov.-Dec. 1970), cover art by Alex Toth. Took me forever to find a reasonably priced copy of this Toth tour de force.
Another purchase from Heroes Con, the only issue of Angel and the Ape I didn’t already own: Angel and the Ape #4 (May-Jun. 1969), cover art by Bob Oksner. Inside is the interesting combination of Wally Wood inking Oksner.
And the last (actually the first) of my Heroes Con purchases (actually the first): All-Star Western #5 (Apr.-May 1971), cover art by Neal Adams. I got this because it was only $2, and it features an early Jim Aparo-drawn story. He didn't do many westerns.
In honor of the passing of Ernie Colón, here’s his earliest verified cover credit: Jackie Jokers #1 (Mar. 1973). Colón didn’t get a lot of cover work from Harvey—Warren Kremer got most of those jobs. But Kremer couldn’t do everything, and Colón got the call for one of their lower profile books—the series only went four issues. Colón also penciled and inked every story in those issues.
In honor of the passing of Ernie Colón, here’s his earliest verified cover credit: Jackie Jokers #1 (Mar. 1973). Colón didn’t get a lot of cover work from Harvey—Warren Kremer got most of those jobs. But Kremer couldn’t do everything, and Colón got the call for one of their lower profile books—the series only went four issues. Colón also penciled and inked every story in those issues.
Although I may already have this book somewhere, I just bought this book on Sunday, the same day you posted. The irony being I bought it from a store after attending a friend's funeral.
I want to dig through my old issues and maybe scan some of Ernie's Richie Rich pages and post them in the other thread. Maybe pick out some bits from Mark Arnold's History of Harvey book too to accompany them. Time permitting, of course.
Penciled and inked by Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio. He also penciled and inked three of the four stories inside. Mastroserio broke in with Continental Magazines, and briefly served as a staff artist for All-American (before DC bought them out) doing art corrections, paste-ups, and the like before joining the Marines. After the war, Mastroserio worked for a variety of publishers before getting his first job with Charlton in 1954. The vast majority of his work from that point until his death in 1968 was done for Charlton.
Sidenote: Charlton had some awful lettering starting in the mid-’50s using their Vari-Typer instead of hand-lettering, but that first word balloon may be the worst example of typesetting I’ve ever seen.
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I want to dig through my old issues and maybe scan some of Ernie's Richie Rich pages and post them in the other thread. Maybe pick out some bits from Mark Arnold's History of Harvey book too to accompany them. Time permitting, of course.
Great cover @RedRight88
Take the day off.
Be like Bunny.
Go for a swim.
Sidenote: Charlton had some awful lettering starting in the mid-’50s using their Vari-Typer instead of hand-lettering, but that first word balloon may be the worst example of typesetting I’ve ever seen.