CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #39
CGC F/VF: 7.0
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PUBLISHER: Timely
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Schomburg Japanese WWII cover; awesome Red Skull cf
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Schomburg Japanese WWII cover; awesome Red Skull cf
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off white pgs
Schomburg Japanese WWII cover; awesome Red Skull cfGolden Age tastemaker Alex Schomburg is at it again on this amazing wartime cover, it boggles the mind, after having viewed so many of the artist's masterpieces, that there are always more to astound the senses. This particular cover belongs to the rarely employed stateside wartime genre, which shows a group of Japanese saboteurs attempting to blow up the Boulder Dam and cause all sorts of pandemonium in the good old USA. But Cap and Bucky have something to say about that! Their evil plot is doomed to failure as the perpetrators are laid waste, lickety-split! Does one really have to say anything besides Alex Schomburg and WWII to pique interest? I think not.
Artist 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."
Schomburg Japanese WWII cover; awesome Red Skull cfGolden Age tastemaker Alex Schomburg is at it again on this amazing wartime cover, it boggles the mind, after having viewed so many of the artist's masterpieces, that there are always more to astound the senses. This particular cover belongs to the rarely employed stateside wartime genre, which shows a group of Japanese saboteurs attempting to blow up the Boulder Dam and cause all sorts of pandemonium in the good old USA. But Cap and Bucky have something to say about that! Their evil plot is doomed to failure as the perpetrators are laid waste, lickety-split! Does one really have to say anything besides Alex Schomburg and WWII to pique interest? I think not.
Artist 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."