vaillant Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Love that one This and the other issue (#1) are probably the only instances of a wartime comic book publishing material from a german author which shortly after would have served in the german army, and strictly speaking was not nazist by any means (he loathed the SS). Here’s the splash page from the Will Sparrow episode (re-titled "Sky Pirates" in the USA edition). His art was influenced (among others) by Alex Raymond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gino2paulus2 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I used to have a #3 -- wish I still did. Neat books everyone!!!! Here is the #3 Jon...its a lowly 3 but a 3 nonetheless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walclark Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Since this seems to be a War Victory thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOT Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 These are pretty obscure. Bell Serviceman comic books for aircraft manufacturer's employees. Posted the whole set here if you want to see bigger pics. Can't imagine there are many sets of these around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Great obscure covers! Here are some more. Everyday Astrology, a monthly magazine/pulp, from Ned Pines and Better Publications. Covers and interior illustrations by Schomburg - his steady "other job" from 1938 into the 50's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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comicjack Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Great covers Doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrocHntr Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Both the Bell Serviceman and the Everyday Astrology are very cool obscure runs. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrocHntr Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 This is not particularly "obscure" but contains one of the few italian comics from the era published in USA, by Kurt (or "Curt", or "Corrado") Caesar, which was german and living in Italy, one of our most important artists of the 1930s and 1940s – the story (an episode and a half, IIRC) is from the Will Sparrow series, and features an air pirate, one of the first "anti-heroes" of italian comics, which lasted quite a lot and had an unusually varied publishing history: Love this cover and appreciate the history lesson behind it! I'm going to have to go back and read mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrocHntr Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Here's a tough Dell run. First comic dedicated to war, and early issues predate US involvement in WWII (Pearl Harbor). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Wow! Thanks for sharing these. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 I totally love the Everyday Astrology – are these magazine sized? @CrocHntr: Thanks much! Curt Caesar is an awesome artist, and has been an incredible person. His "Romano il Legionario", a nationalist hero, was often and schematically labeled "fascist" while it’s obviously something very different, patriotic in the same way we could say the various "american flag" heroes were, but of course he was no superhero, rather very realistic. These are not comics, and not "obscure", but I guess that for an american they could be. Two issues of the rare 1945 year run of the italian edition of "Signal", the famous german magazine. Note how idyllic and pastoral the imagery is: at the end of WW2 there were still german villages like that, barely touched by war. I can also contribute an issue of the Dell run, and a pair of the insides just to give an idea, including the Jinxes (which are obviously chinese fighting the japanese) by David Berg, author of the awesome Death Patrol on Military Comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Of course, the 1945 year run of the italian Signal abrubtly interrups with the end of the war, so they are probably four issues at best. Definitely not common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo_Hogg Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 BOOT, I love the Bell Serviceman. I have 2 or 3 of them but you have the whole run!!!!!! Amazing. Dr. Love, those Astrology covers are incredible!!!!!!! Here is an obscure WW2 Canadian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sardo Numspar Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Published at Stanford: 1950's war comics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOT Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Gorgeous stuff! Never seen any of these before! Lots of great stuff here! These were supposedly distributed around the world during WWII. Only seen these copies, from the estate of a person who worked on the program. Did find the Chinese version in the wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
