Halloween is this weekend, on Sunday. Extra candy treats, kids! Gain those cavities young! Halloween candy will rot your enamel, correct as absolutely as old dread comics will rot your mind.
But talking of treats, we now web two tales from 1953 Harvey Comics at the present time. It’s miles appealing to me that artist Howard Nostrand became an assistant to Bob Powell, and furthermore did solo work. I be taught years ago in a fanzine that someone became mistaking Nostrand for artist Jack Davis. Or no longer it is apparent, personally, that the aforementioned fanzine creator failed to spy that Nostrand’s inking type, while “borrowed” from Davis, the artist had his have drawing type under the Davis-treasure inking.
In the pre-web days we had to count on the printed note, so we had to steal the unfavorable data along with the appropriate. Invoice Spicer’s amazing Graphic Myth, Journal #16 (1974) became correct. He had an interview with Nostrand. That is where I discovered out the artist’s identification. And the duvet by Howard Nostrand is comely, in a dread comics roughly draw, that’s.
“Huge Shaggy dog story” is by Powell, and became at the foundation published in Tomb of Dread #10 (1953), and “The Blonde Man” became published in Sad Cat #46 (1953). I discovered scans of the distinctive art from Heritage Auctions (and thanks again to Heritage for such entertaining scans). I had the scans in a file known as “Comedian Art 2005,” which is a yr before I began this weblog.
