Trying to figure out the artist of 1953 3-D Superman Comic

[Snowspinner]

I'm trying to figure out who the artist was on the 1953 comic Third Dimension Adventures: Superman. It was a one-off release, though a reprint later got put out alongside the later Superman Red Superman Blue release. I could take a guess based on style, but

I don't suppose any comics historian happens to know the artist on this one. It's not in the GCD, unfortunately.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can ID this one for me.

[dan bailey]

I just dug up, via Google, a Comic Book Marketplace piece by Paul Gravett (reviewing Eddy Zeno's Curt Swan: A Life in Comics) that contains the following statement --

Swan always felt that his first meaningful Superman assignment was the one-shot Three-Dimension Adventures of Superman in 1953.

[Snowspinner]

I just dug up, via Google, a Comic Book Marketplace piece by Paul Gravett (reviewing Eddy Zeno's Curt Swan: A Life in Comics) that contains the following statement --

Swan always felt that his first meaningful Superman assignment was the one-shot Three-Dimension Adventures of Superman in 1953.

Fantastic. I thought the page looked like early Swan, but I wasn't going to bet on it for fear that it was someone else, and the similarities were down to house style, and because it's tough to really judge the art when your eyes are busily bleeding from anaglyph 3-D glasses.

[dan bailey]

Thanks for mentioning this one, btw -- I'm pretty sure I'd never heard of it, & the 1997 reprint apparently isn't particularly hard to find or expensive.

[Rob Allen]

It's not in the GCD, unfortunately.

There is a skeleton, and the cover is there: http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=71236

If you can supply info about the contents - story titles, page counts, etc., use the new GCD error reporting system at http://maelstrom.walton.uark.edu/errors/enter_bug.cgi?product=GCD to send them in and an editor will flesh out the skeleton.

[dan bailey]

http://maelstrom.walton.uark.edu/errors/enter_bug.cgi?product=GCD

Hmmm. I see someone from my home state is involved ... Only appropriate, I guess, since Hames Ware still lives in Little Rock, I believe.

[Rob Allen]

Yes, someone on the GCD board got the university to donate a system. Not Hames; he isn't directly involved in the GCD. I just don't recall right now who it was.