Who Drew This Story?

[Lone Ranger]

Here's are some samples from the story "River Crossing" from War Fury #1.

Don Heck did all the covers and many of the stories for this Comic Media series, but I'm not familiar with the other artists who worked for that publisher.

I feel like I know who it is - but at the same time, I haven't a clue. There's some very elegant stuff here - but the faces and figures can be a bit awkward.

Anyone have a clue? It's really driving me nuts.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/rivercrossing1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/rivercrossing2.jpg

[Lone Ranger]

Here are some more images.

I am particularly impressed by the panels showing the soldier swimming underwater. The sense of movement is amazing.

Anyone? Anyone?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/rivercrossing4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/scottandkat/CBR/rivercrossing5.jpg

[Paiute 1]

Early Russ Heath? Although the faces don't seem as detailed.

[Lone Ranger]

Jerry Bails' Who's Who has people like Don Perlin, Pete Morisi and Howard Nostrand working on this title and a lot of people I don't know.

Anyone know what early Don Perlin looked like?

[Rob Allen]

You might be able to find 1950s-era work by most of those artists at the Atlas Tales site.

[berk]

Jerry Bails' Who's Who has people like Don Perlin, Pete Morisi and Howard Nostrand working on this title and a lot of people I don't know.

Anyone know what early Don Perlin looked like?I haven't see any of Perlin's early stuff, but I'm pretty sure this is his work, based on the last 5 panels or so of that last sample, which I think are very recognisably his style as seen in Werewolf by Night in the 70s.

[MWGallaher]

I wouldn't have guessed at it without Berk's suggestion, but I'm agreeing on Perlin. That penultimate panel on the last example is very consistent with what he was drawing in the 80's on The Defenders.

[dan bailey]

Hmmm. As someone who liked Perlin's Werewolf By Night work a lot (didn't he draw Ghost Rider as well?), offhand I'm not sure I saw him on anything after the horror implosion, especially since I dropped comics after '78. That has to be memory playing tricks on me, though ... I'll have to go check out his GCD listing.

[DonEMC]

Looks like Nostrand to me moreso than Perlin, simply because of the way the characters move so fluidly in the underwater panels. I've owned some of Perlin's early work and this work doesn't totally look like his early work. I'm going with Nostrand.

[InfoBroker]

I was looking at some Perlin work earlier today and thinking along Berk's line, but I was also thinking about the ink work and poses of several of the soldiers (especially the dead ones) and thinking how Nostrand-y they felt. Course I also thought that several of those panels match the layout and camera angles of Heck himself.

But I'm favoring Perlin the more I look at it in total.

-jb the "Artie Simak lettering is clean and fine as always" ib -

[Lone Ranger]

Hmmm.... I'm almost feeling like two artists were involved.

I can see Nostrand in the underwater stuff - especially in the panel where he's removing his boots, as it is very fluid. On the other, I now see Perlin elsewhere, such as the machine gun attack on the small boat and some of the more stiff panels, such as the "Just what the doctor ordered" panels.

Still confused, but appreciate everyone's input.

[prince hal]

Anyone know what early Don Perlin looked like?

I bet his mom knew. :biggrin:

[berk]

Hmmm.... I'm almost feeling like two artists were involved.

I can see Nostrand in the underwater stuff - especially in the panel where he's removing his boots, as it is very fluid. On the other, I now see Perlin elsewhere, such as the machine gun attack on the small boat and some of the more stiff panels, such as the "Just what the doctor ordered" panels.

Still confused, but appreciate everyone's input.I suspect you're on the right track with the idea of two or more artists being involved. The nicely done folds and creases in the soldiers' uniforms in the earlier panels are very un-Perlin-like, as is the form and body position of the blonde soldier in the first underwater panel. Everything after that looks like Perlin to me. I haven't seen enough of Nostrand's art to guess whether he was responsible for the rest, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were at least inked, but probably both pencilled and inked by someone other than Perlin.

I loved Perlin's work in Werewolf by Night, BTW, especially once he started doing his own inks. I always thought he would have been an interesting choice to do Spiderman for a bit, if they ever decided to go back to something derived more from the Ditko-weirdness rather than the Romita-smoothness most later Spiderman artists went for.