More artist IDing!

[zilch]

This is the second story from Boy Commandos #34, page 4.

http://www.geocities.com/dotymo@sbcglobal.net/BoyComm034.2.50percent.JPG

Any guesses?

The art style from the third story is different from the other two.

And its a wild story! Middle eastern nomads terrorized by a bandit who cant be killed by bullets... because he's a werewolf!

[MDG]

The cowboy in the last panel looks kind've Meskin-ish.

MDG

[MichikoS]

Looks like pure Kirby to me -- variety of camera angles, foreground framing in almost every panel, back-of-head shots, hunched over stance of characters in panel 5 -- it all screams "Kirby" to me.

Michi

[Red Oak Kid]

Thanks for posting this.

This is an example of why I would never pay big bucks for Golden Age original art.

The majority of this art was produced in an assembly line atmosphere. When comics were booming, the pages had to be produced at a rate that no single human could produce.

I would say that Joe Simon probably art directed this page, perhaps inked some faces. I am by no means a Meskin expert, but I lean more toward him than Kirby. I see someone perhaps throwing in some Kirby mannerisms, but not the king himself.

In the Silver age, artists tended to have more time to do everything themselves, perhaps with one assistant. But the Golden Age had insane deadlines so I go with the "diverse hands" theory squared.

[MDG]

The majority of this art was produced in an assembly line atmosphere. When comics were booming, the pages had to be produced at a rate that no single human could produce.
In one of the studios--either Eisner-Iger or Binder, they would rubber-stamp the back of the art boards with eight lines labelled: layout, pencil main figures, pencil secondary figures, pencil backgrounds, ink main figures, ink secondary figures, ink backgrounds, letters.

The board would start with the layout man and get passed around, each man signing his name next to what he did. The studio paid each man a dollar per item, so they got finished art for $8 a page.

MDG

[Red Oak Kid]

In one of the studios--either Eisner-Iger or Binder, they would rubber-stamp the back of the art boards with eight lines labelled: layout, pencil main figures, pencil secondary figures, pencil backgrounds, ink main figures, ink secondary figures, ink backgrounds, letters.

MDG

I think you are thinking about Continuity Comics:D :D

Thanks for backing me up on this. People see one name in a credits box and, understandbly, attibute everything to him. But the truth is more complicated.