Ed Smalle Archives

Blue Ribbon Comics #7 (MLJ, 1940) featured image from the Corporal Collins story. Corporal Collins fights with the British Expeditionary Force and French Army near Dunkirk

Dunkirk & a Hundred Years of War in Blue Ribbon Comics #7, at Auction

Ed Smalle's cover for Blue Ribbon Comics #7 announces "Extra! War!!!" beside a plug for the Corporal Collins feature of that issue The newspaper-headline-style phrasing was justified here, as this story was inspired by very recent events in the war The issue reached newsstands on August 15, 1940, about ten weeks after the Dunkirk evacuation[...]
Top-Notch Comics #6 (MLJ, 1940) featured image. The Wizard looms over a medieval battle featuring Galahad

The Real Hoover Dam Threat Behind Top-Notch Comics #6, at Auction

Ed Smalle's career would eventually include a number of aviation features, and his expertise in this area shows in the artwork here. There are 18 Universal copies of this issue on the CGC Census, with two of those at 6.0 and six higher Top-Notch Comics #6 turns the real-life Hoover Dam threat into one of the[...]