by Rick Coste | Dec 21, 2020 | Bronze Age, Colorist, Golden Age, Illustrators, Silver Age
Marie Severin EC Comics was a powerhouse back in the 1940s-50s. Much of its catalog after 1950 consisted of dark stories of horror and science fiction. Its last title was published in 1956 due to increasing pressure from the Comic Code Authority and a growing...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Tarpé Mills One of the most popular female characters in comics at the start of World War II was Miss Fury. The character, a socialite named Maria Drake, who donned a skintight panther suit to fight crime, was so popular that her name appeared on the nose of three...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators, Writers
Jackie Ormes Readers of the Pittsburgh Courier received an unexpected treat in the comics section on May 1, 1937. It was the first appearance of Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, a fictional character who left Mississippi to perform in Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. Not...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Virginia Krausmann When Dorothy Urfer ended her run on Annibelle in 1936, the Newspaper Enterprise Association needed another artist to continue their popular title. They turned to staff-artist Virginia Krausmann to carry the torch. Kraussmann did so successfully...
by Rick Coste | Dec 19, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Fran Hopper Somewhere out there, you may stumble across Planet Comics #24 (1943). If you do, there’s a story in there called “Norge Benson.” That story was penciled and inked by Fran Deitrick. You’ll also find the same artist responsible for...
by Rick Coste | Dec 18, 2020 | Golden Age, Illustrators
Lily Renée Imagine being an artist and one day finding your life’s adventures captured in a graphic novel almost seventy years later? That’s precisely what happened to Lily Renée in 2011 when Graphic Universe published her biography in Lily Renée, Escape...
