DARING MYSTERY COMICS #1
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PUBLISHER: Timely
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Schomburg bondage cover; origin & 1st app of Fiery Mask, Monako, John Steele and Doc Doyle (1/40)
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Schomburg bondage cover; origin & 1st app of Fiery Mask, Monako, John Steele and Doc Doyle (1/40)
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ow/white pgs; Mod(P) sm amt of ct on cvr, pcs added to cvr, cvr& cf reinforced, spine splits sealed, cvr & staples cleaned
Schomburg bondage cover; origin & 1st app of Fiery Mask, Monako, John Steele and Doc Doyle (1/40)The tenuous bridge between the pulp fiction of the 1930s and the hero boom of the 1940s is nowhere more blatant than here, in this characteristically-hyperactive bondage cover from the great Alex Schomburg. The Buck Rogers-esque imagery combined with Timely's trademark nightmare villainy dares the reader to open the page, to behold a bold new direction. The initial entries in this series were hurriedly packaged by the Chesler and Jacquet Studios, allowing many young artists to cut their teeth on the new heroes, including Joe Simon, Bill Everett, and Carl Burgos, with Jack Kirby eventually joining the roster. These early issues crackle with the inventive, fearless creativity of those early days of comics, where artists could take insane chances and publishers would try pretty much anything in pursuit of an enormous and constantly-growing readership. Without this historic issue, Marvel as we know it, may not have happened.
Artists Information
Known for his dizzying, bustling war covers, bondage covers and airbrush Sci-Fi covers! Truly one of the most highly collected artists of the Golden Age. Alex Schomburg was born on May 10, 1905, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Schomburg freelanced primarily for Timely Comics, the 1940s forerunner of Marvel, displaying his talent for action tableaux in covers featuring Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, the Human Torch, and other superheroes. He also provided covers for Pines Publications, for titles including Exciting Comics and America's Best Comics, featuring such superheroes as the Black Terror and the Fighting Yank, as well as for Harvey Comics. Stan Lee said the following about Schomburg "I've always felt that Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post. He was totally unique, with an amazing distinctive style. You could never mistake a Schomburg cover for any other artist's. ... I remember hearing Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman tell me time and again how great a cover illustrator Alex was, and how he wished we had more like him. Despite the quantity of work we gave him, despite the care and effort that went into every Schomburg cover, I cannot remember Alex ever being late with any illustration."
Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930sā1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, such as Captain America, and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
Schomburg bondage cover; origin & 1st app of Fiery Mask, Monako, John Steele and Doc Doyle (1/40)The tenuous bridge between the pulp fiction of the 1930s and the hero boom of the 1940s is nowhere more blatant than here, in this characteristically-hyperactive bondage cover from the great Alex Schomburg. The Buck Rogers-esque imagery combined with Timely's trademark nightmare villainy dares the reader to open the page, to behold a bold new direction. The initial entries in this series were hurriedly packaged by the Chesler and Jacquet Studios, allowing many young artists to cut their teeth on the new heroes, including Joe Simon, Bill Everett, and Carl Burgos, with Jack Kirby eventually joining the roster. These early issues crackle with the inventive, fearless creativity of those early days of comics, where artists could take insane chances and publishers would try pretty much anything in pursuit of an enormous and constantly-growing readership. Without this historic issue, Marvel as we know it, may not have happened.
Artists Information
Known for his dizzying, bustling war covers, bondage covers and airbrush Sci-Fi covers! Truly one of the most highly collected artists of the Golden Age. Alex Schomburg was born on May 10, 1905, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Schomburg freelanced primarily for Timely Comics, the 1940s forerunner of Marvel, displaying his talent for action tableaux in covers featuring Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, the Human Torch, and other superheroes. He also provided covers for Pines Publications, for titles including Exciting Comics and America's Best Comics, featuring such superheroes as the Black Terror and the Fighting Yank, as well as for Harvey Comics. Stan Lee said the following about Schomburg "I've always felt that Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post. He was totally unique, with an amazing distinctive style. You could never mistake a Schomburg cover for any other artist's. ... I remember hearing Timely Comics publisher Martin Goodman tell me time and again how great a cover illustrator Alex was, and how he wished we had more like him. Despite the quantity of work we gave him, despite the care and effort that went into every Schomburg cover, I cannot remember Alex ever being late with any illustration."
Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930sā1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, such as Captain America, and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.