This might be the case, but as the Rip Regan, Power Man saga progressed in Fight Comics, another possible connection emerged with issue #12 — which happens to be the earliest identified published comic book work of legendary artist Reed Crandall. There's a Fight Comics #12 (Fiction House, 1941) Condition: GD/VG at the 2024 July[...]
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Created by Russ Jones, with Joe Orlando as illustrator and story editor, Archie Goodwin soon took over the managing editor role, and brought in the likes of Neal Adams, Dan Adkins, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta, Gray Morrow, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Alex Toth, Al Williamson and Wally Wood.
In the seventies, Creepy would introduce the artists of the Barcelona Studio of Spanish agency Selecciones[...]
1950 was a turning point of sorts for publisher Quality Comics. Everett "Busy" Arnold bought out his longtime partners in the business John Cowles, Sr and Gardner Cowles, Jr not too long after the comic book industry had shifted from a focus on superheroes to a variety of other material. Long-running Golden Age titles like Smash[...]
But such origin stories changed with the times. Fifteen years later, a completely different explanation of the name made the rounds, and these were certainly not the only theories. It's unlikely that the 1830 era version of the matter is correct — even though it has largely come to be the accepted history in recent[...]
There's a high-grade Modern Comics #78 CGC 8.5 available in Heritage's 2020 July 19-20 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online Auction.
Modern Comics #78 featuring Blackhawk, cover-dated October 1948 from Quality Comics.
Modern Comics #78 was written by William Woolfolk and drawn by Reed Crandall Both creators had a longtime association with Blackhawk. Crandall[...]
They will be reprints of original 1940's stories by their creators such as Phil Bard, Reed Crandall, Augie Froehlich, and Elmer Wexler.
MEN OF MYSTERY #107
The biggest stars from a number of great comics publishers of yesteryear is our special focus in this "Going Long" edition of Men of Mystery, #107; as we present a number of full-length feature[...]