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GREATEST GOLDEN AGE COVER ARTIST
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From a cover only standpoint, my pick for the #1 golden age artist is Lou Fine. In my opinion, his cover work, with its strong pulp influence, makes most other golden age artwork look cartoonish. The following are just a few of his more classic covers. I don't remember ever seeing the original artwork to these though. Anyone have any information as to why? I think the Victor Fox destroyed the Fox Publications covers.

 

P.S. These are not my comics. Hopefully, I'm not devaluing them.......

 

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I don't think too many people will argue about Lou Fine.

 

I'd add L.B. Cole and Alex Schomburg to the short list vying for the title of "Greatest Golden Age Cover Artist".

 

 

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But my personal favorite is Creig Flessel. yay.gif

 

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I don't think too many people will argue about Lou Fine.

 

I'd add L.B. Cole and Alex Schomburg to the short list vying for the title of "Greatest Golden Age Cover Artist".

 

 

 

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Schomburg would be my #2 for golden age artists overall, he's certainly the "Busiest". Look at the detail in the Captain America #28 and then compare it to the detail of the Fantastic Comics #3. This is why Lou is my choice for #1. Obviously, just my opinion.

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I don't think too many people will argue about Lou Fine.

 

I'd add L.B. Cole and Alex Schomburg to the short list vying for the title of "Greatest Golden Age Cover Artist".

 

 

Lou Fine doesn't make my top two, but your other two do. Alex Schomburg and L.B. Cole- I'm proud to have cover art examples by both! thumbsup2.gif

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his cover work, with its strong pulp influence, makes most other golden age artwork look cartoonish.

 

What's wrong with cartoonish? These are cartoons after all, not illustration art. Too many collectors seem to look for the sheer number of brush strokes as indicative of quality, ie. Fine, Wrightson, Adams, etc. Personally, I prefer a comic book to look like a comic book ala Cole, Romita, Sal Buscema, John Stanley, Al Feldstein, DeCarlo, Manning, Swan, etc. I appreciate the former, but prefer the latter. Anyone else??

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I'm fairly new to the GA scene, but from what I've seen I like the following cover artists:

 

Capt. Science #6 cover..though I'm not sure who did it.

 

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Al Feldstein's a fav of mine as well...

 

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L.B. Cole

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...and Don Heck!

 

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-Hart

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his cover work, with its strong pulp influence, makes most other golden age artwork look cartoonish.

 

What's wrong with cartoonish? These are cartoons after all, not illustration art. Too many collectors seem to look for the sheer number of brush strokes as indicative of quality, ie. Fine, Wrightson, Adams, etc. Personally, I prefer a comic book to look like a comic book ala Cole, Romita, Sal Buscema, John Stanley, Al Feldstein, DeCarlo, Manning, Swan, etc. I appreciate the former, but prefer the latter. Anyone else??

 

Whilst I have a leaning towards illustrative styles, I also have a love of those artists who combine a blend of illustration/cartooning in their work (if that makes sense?!). Here, I'm thinking of people like Harvey Kurtzman, Steve Ditko, Al Feldstein and Alex Schomburg (to name a few). Funny thing about Schomburg is that even though there's a cartoonist's leaning in his comic-book work, his pulp illustrations are realistic and precise!

 

It's all about eye-appeal . . .

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while. iam a big fan of lou fine. and l.b cole is nice. i would take a matt baker cover over both of them any day of the week. i would have to say he right up there with vargas as top dog of good girl art.

 

larry ;]

 

Just curious, is that because you favor (I don't know if you do or don't) GGA? Or do you think Matt's just the better all around artist?

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Nice thread! Lou Fine, Schomburg & LB Cole are among my very favorite GA cover artists, and the covers you folks posted could have been taken right off my want list. Fantastic 3 & 5, Weird 1, Mask 1 & others are at the very top.

 

Question: does original art for any Lou Fine covers still exist?

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Nice thread! Lou Fine, Schomburg & LB Cole are among my very favorite GA cover artists, and the covers you folks posted could have been taken right off my want list. Fantastic 3 & 5, Weird 1, Mask 1 & others are at the very top.

 

Question: does original art for any Lou Fine covers still exist?

 

Yeah, there are some Lou Fine covers up for viewing on COMIC ART FANS Galleries, including the cover to PLANET COMICS # 1 (just use the search engine and key-in the artist's name).

 

Terry

 

My CAF Galleries at:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

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don,t get me wrong. fine is a great artist. i love his usa covers. but when i look at the golden age stuff it the cheese cake covers that do it for me. and when it comes to cheese cake in comics. matt baker is the man..

 

larry ;]

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'Golden Age' covers the period up 1955, right? If so, quite a few of the EC artists should be in hot competition for THE GREATEST GOLDEN AGE COVER ARTIST.

 

To my mind, Wally Wood's Science Fiction covers for WEIRD SCIENCE are the best-ever for that genre . . . and in the field of Horror Graham Ingels's HAUNT OF FEAR cover images have never been bettered.

 

Of special note are covers by other EC regulars, such as Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, George Evans, Harvey Kurtzman and Reed Crandall.

 

My CAF Galleries (including nine EC cover originals) at:

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=1865

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