bob powell Archives

Lightning makes his first appearance on the cover by Bob Powell for this April 1940 cover-dated issue, but the character doesn't show up until the next issue While cover/interior mismatches were not uncommon during the Golden Age, there may be a few circumstances that help explain it in this case Fundamentally, Fiction House wasn't quite[...]

As for the material reprinted from earlier Fox issues, Bob Powell's six-page Dr Fung murder mystery comes from the prolific opening of a career that moved quickly through the Eisner-Iger shop and into Fox material across several genres The two-page Raider of the Spaceways text story is credited to N N Nathaniel, the name used[...]

By extraordinary coincidence, the real American steamer Carlton would later be sunk by the German U-88 in 1942. Eisner returns again here on the script for K-51's "The Three European Dictators," drawn by Bob Powell Dictators named Diableff, Riano, and Morga plan to conquer and divide Europe, but Morga arranges Riano's death, tries to blame the[...]

The art here is credited to Bob Powell with script by Will Eisner "The Coming of Samson" came from Fantastic Comics #1, the Dragor the dictator episode from #2, and K-51 from Wonderworld Comics #10 Put together for the August 1940 release of Samson #1, they became an accidental timeline: pre-war invasion fears, the invasion[...]

The obvious war scene on the cover (possibly by Bob Powell) is interestingly similar in composition to Joe Shuster's cover of Action Comics #17, which was cover-dated the same month Both issues likely hit newsstands in August 1939, seemingly tense with anticipation, along with the rest of the world, for what was to come And[...]

The Golden Age Black Cat debuted in Harvey's Pocket Comics #1, which also helped launch the entire Harvey comic book empire.

France and Britain were also acquiring large quantities of monazite sand from Brazil.  According to the New York Times report, the missing uranium was not monazite sand but uranium ore that had been mined near the town of Curraes Novos. Curraes Novos would become the scene of this Shadow Comics story.  After meeting with government officials[...]

It's commonly said that Beall was also a comic book artist, although I've found no specific credits for him as of this writing.  It would appear Beall's son was briefly a Mad Magazine cover artist in the next decade.  Weeks after the famous photograph hit newspapers the Iwo Jima flag-raising moment also inspired artist Bob[...]

Together, Crossman, the Bobley brothers, and Levin were best known for putting out Radio Best (Later, Radio & Television Best) magazine, a short-lived but historically important broadcasting industry publication that lasted 1947-1950.  The Radio Best connection explains why this group published a comic book called Uncle Milty, starring radio and early television legend Milton Berle. [...]

Newman, Lily Renée Peters Phillips, Bob Powell, and Frank Robbins. Comic book creators, publishers, editors, historians, educators and retailers are invited to vote on their choices Registration can be found here. Marjorie "Marge" Henderson Buell Marjorie Henderson Buell ("Marge") (1904–1993) In 1935 Marge's single-panel gag cartoon "Little Lulu" first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post[...]