SCIENCE COMICS (1940) #3
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crm/ow pages
classic Lou Fine cover; rare!
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crm/ow pages
classic Lou Fine cover; rare!
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A 15% BUYER'S PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO THIS ITEM AT CONCLUSION OF THE AUCTION
crm/ow pages
classic Lou Fine cover; rare!
Ruben Blades CopyEarly comics were hit and miss, with heroes getting renamed, redressed, rethought, and sometimes outright stolen from other companies as publishers desperately raced to meet deadlines and feed a voraciously hungry new readership. In the case of Science Comics' Dynamo, he was originally named Electro, then, probably due to some arcane copyright issue or maybe just panic on the part of Fox's editorial staff, he was rechristened with his new, more recognizable name. Not that any of that matters -- what matters, really, are the gleefully insane sci-fi covers that the character was slapped onto to grab the still-sizable pulp adventure market.
In this case, the reliable Lou Fine, surely one of the Golden Age's preeminent cover artists, was tapped to draft an image sure to capture the eyes and dimes of harried readers rushing past newsstands at rush hour. It's truly remarkable how Fine's classy and supple lines are applied to this lurid, lunatic scene, raising an otherwise garish tableaux to a level of perverse genius. The layout, also, is classical pulp cover, with the damsel in distress neatly foregrounded to attract the Dads, while the bat-crazy space dude in back is given plenty of room to show off his considerable anatomy, all the better to entrap young and impressionable lads still swooning over Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Want proof this sort of thing works? Well, we're still talking about it now, aren't we?
crm/ow pages
classic Lou Fine cover; rare!
Ruben Blades CopyEarly comics were hit and miss, with heroes getting renamed, redressed, rethought, and sometimes outright stolen from other companies as publishers desperately raced to meet deadlines and feed a voraciously hungry new readership. In the case of Science Comics' Dynamo, he was originally named Electro, then, probably due to some arcane copyright issue or maybe just panic on the part of Fox's editorial staff, he was rechristened with his new, more recognizable name. Not that any of that matters -- what matters, really, are the gleefully insane sci-fi covers that the character was slapped onto to grab the still-sizable pulp adventure market.
In this case, the reliable Lou Fine, surely one of the Golden Age's preeminent cover artists, was tapped to draft an image sure to capture the eyes and dimes of harried readers rushing past newsstands at rush hour. It's truly remarkable how Fine's classy and supple lines are applied to this lurid, lunatic scene, raising an otherwise garish tableaux to a level of perverse genius. The layout, also, is classical pulp cover, with the damsel in distress neatly foregrounded to attract the Dads, while the bat-crazy space dude in back is given plenty of room to show off his considerable anatomy, all the better to entrap young and impressionable lads still swooning over Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Want proof this sort of thing works? Well, we're still talking about it now, aren't we?