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SOLD ON: Tuesday, 03/14/2023 8:14 PM
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PUBLISHER: Timely
COMMENTS: ow pages; cvr re-attached with tp; tp on cvr & interior cvr
Schomburg cover
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ow pages; cvr re-attached with tp; tp on cvr & interior cvr
Schomburg coverThe Second World War was big business for comic book publishers, who were able to take advantage of loose standards, fast turnaround times, and vivid imaginations in a way that the movie and radio industries just couldn't. In a weird way, the close of the war, even its final days in 1945, was a kind of withdrawal period for the four-color industry, as their model was based so completely on patriotic derring-do and propaganda covers that V-J Day was almost a death knell for the superhero racket. You can see, on covers such as these, the frantic attempts to maintain the classic war-era imagery without actually using Kamikaze pilots, Nazi agents, or Italian spies. Don't let it be said, though, that the legendary Alex Schomburg didn't do a bang-up job making the transition, deftly tailoring his now-trademark style of hyperactive action to the new milieu of mad scientists, masked bandits, and urban thuggery. A classic late-period Timely cover, and one that, thanks to the sudden drop in circulation and popularity of hero comics post-1944, an extremely rare one.