PLANET COMICS (1940-54) #2
CGC VF: 8.0
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PUBLISHER: Fiction House
COMMENTS: off white pgs; mnr amt ct cvr; sm amt dried glue spn cvr
classic Lou Fine cvr (2/40)
Jon Berk Collection
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classic Lou Fine cvr (2/40)
Jon Berk Collection
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off white pgs; mnr amt ct cvr; sm amt dried glue spn cvr
classic Lou Fine cvr (2/40)
Jon Berk CollectionFeaturing one in a long run of excellent, racy and thrilling covers, this second issue of Planet Comics picks up where the first left off. The art inside the book is a cut above the standard Golden Age fare, as are the storylines, which show the amazing distillation of the sci-fi genre from Victorian novels into small, digestable chunks, influenced heavily by the pulps that ruled the roost before comics took over the newsstands. Planet Payson, Flint Baker, Tiger Hart, and Spurt Hammond all get in on the action in this GA classic!Coming from the lovingly curated collection of Jon Berk, known for its incredibly rare and sought after Golden Age goodies, this book is in excellent condition. The VF cover projects strong colors, pushing the four-color process to its limitations. Every shade of the rainbow seems to be on display on this thrilling Lou Fine cover that features Flint Baker battling it out with a tentacled space creature against an alien background. Another sci-fi classic from the beloved run of Planet Comics.
Artists Information
Louis Kenneth Fine was born in New York. He studied at the Grand Central Art School and Pratt Institute. He was partially crippled by childhood polio and longed to be an illustrator. Among his major influences were Dean Cornwell, J.C. Leyendecker, and Heinrich Kley. Fine joined the Eisner-Iger comic shop in 1938 and soon was drawing for the Fiction House and Fox lines on such features as 'Wilton of the West', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', and 'The Flame'. Within a short time he became one of their best artists. He drew parts of the 'Jumbo' and 'Sheena' comics, and he also produced several adventure comics. Between 1939 and 1943, he worked for the Arnold's Quality Comics group. He produced 'Black Condor', 'Stormy Foster' and several issues of 'Uncle Sam'. From early on, Fine's specialty was covers, and he turned out dozens of them. Lou Fine left the comic book industry in 1944 and moved into drawing Sunday advertising strips for the funnies. On his advertising work, he cooperated extensively with Don Komisarow. Together, they created characters like 'Charlie McCarthy' and 'Mr. Coffee Nerves' for Chase and Sanborn Coffee, and 'Sam Spade' for Wildroot Cream Oil. They also made 'The Thropp Family' for Liberty magazine, using the combined signature of Donlou (scripts by Lawrence Lariar). Next, Fine drew two newspaper strips, 'Adam Ames', and 'Peter Scratch', about a tough private eye who lived with his mother. Fine died in 1971 and according to Will Eisner, he was one of the greatest draftsmen ever.
George Tuska who used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay and for his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters. He also drew the DC Comics newspaper comic strip The World's Greatest Superheroes from 1978–1982.
classic Lou Fine cvr (2/40)
Jon Berk CollectionFeaturing one in a long run of excellent, racy and thrilling covers, this second issue of Planet Comics picks up where the first left off. The art inside the book is a cut above the standard Golden Age fare, as are the storylines, which show the amazing distillation of the sci-fi genre from Victorian novels into small, digestable chunks, influenced heavily by the pulps that ruled the roost before comics took over the newsstands. Planet Payson, Flint Baker, Tiger Hart, and Spurt Hammond all get in on the action in this GA classic!Coming from the lovingly curated collection of Jon Berk, known for its incredibly rare and sought after Golden Age goodies, this book is in excellent condition. The VF cover projects strong colors, pushing the four-color process to its limitations. Every shade of the rainbow seems to be on display on this thrilling Lou Fine cover that features Flint Baker battling it out with a tentacled space creature against an alien background. Another sci-fi classic from the beloved run of Planet Comics.
Artists Information
Louis Kenneth Fine was born in New York. He studied at the Grand Central Art School and Pratt Institute. He was partially crippled by childhood polio and longed to be an illustrator. Among his major influences were Dean Cornwell, J.C. Leyendecker, and Heinrich Kley. Fine joined the Eisner-Iger comic shop in 1938 and soon was drawing for the Fiction House and Fox lines on such features as 'Wilton of the West', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', and 'The Flame'. Within a short time he became one of their best artists. He drew parts of the 'Jumbo' and 'Sheena' comics, and he also produced several adventure comics. Between 1939 and 1943, he worked for the Arnold's Quality Comics group. He produced 'Black Condor', 'Stormy Foster' and several issues of 'Uncle Sam'. From early on, Fine's specialty was covers, and he turned out dozens of them. Lou Fine left the comic book industry in 1944 and moved into drawing Sunday advertising strips for the funnies. On his advertising work, he cooperated extensively with Don Komisarow. Together, they created characters like 'Charlie McCarthy' and 'Mr. Coffee Nerves' for Chase and Sanborn Coffee, and 'Sam Spade' for Wildroot Cream Oil. They also made 'The Thropp Family' for Liberty magazine, using the combined signature of Donlou (scripts by Lawrence Lariar). Next, Fine drew two newspaper strips, 'Adam Ames', and 'Peter Scratch', about a tough private eye who lived with his mother. Fine died in 1971 and according to Will Eisner, he was one of the greatest draftsmen ever.
George Tuska who used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay and for his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters. He also drew the DC Comics newspaper comic strip The World's Greatest Superheroes from 1978–1982.