It should be noted that Alvin Hollingsworth was one of, if not the first African-American artists in comics. He started just a few months before Matt Baker. He wasn’t nearly as good as Baker—just look at the way he drew the hands here in this 1952 cover, about eleven years into his career—but I do like his brushwork. There’s definitely a Caniff influence there.
More pre-EC Wally Wood. It's interesting that all of these Avon books—City of the Living Dead, The Dead Who Walk, this one, and The Phantom Witch Doctor—were all one-and-done. All from 1951, 1952, I guess Avon was throwing a bunch of titles on the wall to see what would stick.
I don't know who drew this, but I’ve loved this cover since I was a kid. It was used in a book called The Golden Age of Comic Books: 1937–1945, which I got when I was eight (?) years old and sick in bed for several days with bronchitis or something. That book made a huge impact on me and my love for the Golden Age of comics.
Yeah, the girl’s pretty, but the head of Lucifer is superbly drawn and inked—almost as if a different artist inked it. John Giunta was an under-rated artist. He did a fair amount of penciling, but was mostly known as an inker for DC. I don't think he did much penciling for DC.
@John_Steed At the top is Tharg the alien "editor" of 2000AD Left is Johnny "Strontium Dog" Alpha right is Blackhawk the Roman slave who became a centurion and was then captured by aliens to fight in an off world gladiatorial arena
Clockwise from Dredd Rogue Trooper Feek the Freak from Ace Trucking Co. Strontium Dog Ace from Ace Trucking Co. GBH from Ace Trucking Co. The Speedo Ghost ship from Ace Trucking Co.
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Let's have some 2000AD annuals and sci-fi specials starting with 1982 and Brian Bolland.
At the top is Tharg the alien "editor" of 2000AD
Left is Johnny "Strontium Dog" Alpha
right is Blackhawk the Roman slave who became a centurion and was then captured by aliens to fight in an off world gladiatorial arena
Rogue Trooper
Feek the Freak from Ace Trucking Co.
Strontium Dog
Ace from Ace Trucking Co.
GBH from Ace Trucking Co.
The Speedo Ghost ship from Ace Trucking Co.
Frank Frazetta