Tribute To Creig Flessel 4 4

[BuyTheRedCar]

Case is a bit smudgy and label has Mr. Flessel's name misspelled. Nevertheless...  Always thought the baddy in the background looked like Ronald Reagan.

Edited June 28, 2020 by drwente

[Electricmastro]

Flessel’s earliest comic story art (More Fun Comics #9, March 1936).

[143ksk]

Don't thinkI've posted this in this thread yet...

[Electricmastro]

Not sure if Flessel was personally involved with this one:

[KCOComics]

On 6/28/2020 at 4:01 PM, 143ksk said:

Don't thinkI've posted this in this thread yet...

Wow! That's really cool! 

[Frisco Larson]

On Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 3:01 PM, 143ksk said:

Don't thinkI've posted this in this thread yet...

That's AWESOME Steve!!! I always enjoy seeing this!!!  

[KirbyJack]

Just noticing something amusing about that cover. The artist shows us very little of the menacing figure. Two things we are shown are 1. The “bad guy’s” hands are empty, and 2. He’s raising them. 

He’s giving up, and getting a bullet for it.

 

Wait. That’s a gorilla, isn’t it? Never mind.

Edited August 7, 2020 by KirbyJack

[telerites]

23 hours ago, KirbyJack said:

Just noticing something amusing about that cover. The artist shows us very little of the menacing figure. Two things we are shown are 1. The “bad guy’s” hands are empty, and 2. He’s raising them. 

He’s giving up, and getting a bullet for it.

 

Wait. That’s a gorilla, isn’t it? Never mind.

Rondo Hatton aka The Creeper in "The Brute Man" 

[Electricmastro]

Various non-comic works by Flessel:

1939:

1940:

1951:

1957:

1958:

Source: https://www.pulpartists.com/Flessel.html

[Electricmastro]

[ThothAmon]

Some detectives. 
 

[KirbyJack]

Wow! Love the nine!

[ThothAmon]

Sadly the only Flessel original art I own. Not Don. 
 

[Moondog]

[Yorick]

12 hours ago, Moondog said:

I like the re-creation more than the original. 

[ThothAmon]

15 hours ago, Moondog said:

 

2 hours ago, Yorick said:

I like the re-creation more than the original. 

Certainly a different take on Superman.  Lol. Not familiar with the character. Any idea if it’s a swipe of older art or contemporaneously created and drawn?  It would be an awesome cover. 

[Moondog]

4 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

 

Certainly a different take on Superman.  Lol. Not familiar with the character. Any idea if it’s a swipe of older art or contemporaneously created and drawn?  It would be an awesome cover. 

It appears to be a very pulpy generic maniac.  The art was originally slated for the cover to Detective 2 but Ellsworth or Sullivan rejected it as being too gruesome.  Here's the ashcan.

Edited February 25, 2021 by Moondog

[lou_fine]

On 12/15/2020 at 10:54 AM, ThothAmon said:

Some detectives. 
 

 

On 12/15/2020 at 1:38 PM, KirbyJack said:

Wow! Love the nine!

Yes indeed, and if I remember correctly, wasn't 'Tec 9 listed as being the rarest out of all of the pre-Batman 'Tec books by Win in terms of his Windex scarcity rating system that he had in place for us here from quite a few years ago?     

Edited February 25, 2021 by lou_fine

[RareHighGrade]

2 hours ago, lou_fine said:

 

Yes indeed, and if I remember correctly, wasn't 'Tec 9 listed as being the rarest out of all of the pre-Batman 'Tec books by Win in terms of his Windex scarcity rating system that he had in place for us here from quite a few years ago?     

Yes, that was Win's analysis.  Tec 9 is very tough.  In the CGC census, Tecs 3, 5, 23 and 24 have even fewer slabbed copies than Tec 9, with 24 being the least common.

[woowoo]

18 minutes ago, RareHighGrade said:

Yes, that was Win's analysis.  Tec 9 is very tough.  In the CGC census, Tecs 3, 5, 23 and 24 have even fewer slabbed copies than Tec 9, with 24 being the least common.

That's why you don't have any Tecs @RareHighGrade they are RARE  There is a board member that has a nice run  if i could just remember who that was