Here's another batch that came from my recent scanning activities witj a credit question. Mike Roy is credited with the creation of the short running comic strip version of novel detective Nero Wolfe. Original writer Rex Stout also lend his name to it, but it is doubtful he did more than have a look. After a year or so, Roy left the art to others, including Fran Matera and someone called Christiansen, but even before that he didn't do it all by himself. Mike Peppe has been mentioned as an inker and here in these pages (certainly the last three) I clearly see the hand of Mike Sekowsky.
Showing posts with label Mike Peppe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Peppe. Show all posts
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Mikefest
Thursday Story Strip Day
Here's another batch that came from my recent scanning activities witj a credit question. Mike Roy is credited with the creation of the short running comic strip version of novel detective Nero Wolfe. Original writer Rex Stout also lend his name to it, but it is doubtful he did more than have a look. After a year or so, Roy left the art to others, including Fran Matera and someone called Christiansen, but even before that he didn't do it all by himself. Mike Peppe has been mentioned as an inker and here in these pages (certainly the last three) I clearly see the hand of Mike Sekowsky.
Here's another batch that came from my recent scanning activities witj a credit question. Mike Roy is credited with the creation of the short running comic strip version of novel detective Nero Wolfe. Original writer Rex Stout also lend his name to it, but it is doubtful he did more than have a look. After a year or so, Roy left the art to others, including Fran Matera and someone called Christiansen, but even before that he didn't do it all by himself. Mike Peppe has been mentioned as an inker and here in these pages (certainly the last three) I clearly see the hand of Mike Sekowsky.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Missing EC
Saturday Leftover Day.
By 1956 the once mighty Lev Gleason empire was crumbling. His crime books Crime Does Not Pay and Crime And Punishment had not survived the arrival of the comic book code and the reslting backlash for hooror and crime books. All he had left were a couple of kids books, some westerns and his long running romance book Boy Loves Girl. Over at he comics museum two scanners are uploading almost all of the issues of ths title (and it's predessor Boy Meets Girl from books donate by Jim Vandeboncoeur Jr. For the next to last issues, Gleason got himself some Leroy lettering and called the book a New Trend book. Leroy lettering was used in all of the EC books which were called part of... you've guessed it, a new trend. All of these books had long gone, EC being one of the first casualties of the comic book witch hunt of the mid fifties. Even their comics code friendly follow up New Direction titles had stopped. But still Gleason must have thought there must be some fans out there would have been missing them.
Ig they did, they were treated by the standard romance fare of the period. But two of these stories were drawn by Bill Walton doing his best Alex Toth impression (even more than usual). The result is a remarkable book, I would love to share. The wo other stories in this book, one of which is drawn by romance regular An Brewster, have been inked in the same sober Toth style, which makes me think that Mike Peppe was involved in the inking of all these stories, maybe even an editor. His style is visible in other books of this series as well, but never more so than in these two stories.
Looking into the Gleason books I found two other Bill Walton stories with Leroy lettering in an Alex Toth style in Crime And Punishment #72 from April 1955. These are from about a year earlier and even has Leroy lettering in the balloons. So there may be even more out there, although all of th Walton stories I have seen in Boy Loves Girl in 1955 and 1956 didn't.
Saturday Leftover Day.
By 1956 the once mighty Lev Gleason empire was crumbling. His crime books Crime Does Not Pay and Crime And Punishment had not survived the arrival of the comic book code and the reslting backlash for hooror and crime books. All he had left were a couple of kids books, some westerns and his long running romance book Boy Loves Girl. Over at he comics museum two scanners are uploading almost all of the issues of ths title (and it's predessor Boy Meets Girl from books donate by Jim Vandeboncoeur Jr. For the next to last issues, Gleason got himself some Leroy lettering and called the book a New Trend book. Leroy lettering was used in all of the EC books which were called part of... you've guessed it, a new trend. All of these books had long gone, EC being one of the first casualties of the comic book witch hunt of the mid fifties. Even their comics code friendly follow up New Direction titles had stopped. But still Gleason must have thought there must be some fans out there would have been missing them.
Ig they did, they were treated by the standard romance fare of the period. But two of these stories were drawn by Bill Walton doing his best Alex Toth impression (even more than usual). The result is a remarkable book, I would love to share. The wo other stories in this book, one of which is drawn by romance regular An Brewster, have been inked in the same sober Toth style, which makes me think that Mike Peppe was involved in the inking of all these stories, maybe even an editor. His style is visible in other books of this series as well, but never more so than in these two stories.
Looking into the Gleason books I found two other Bill Walton stories with Leroy lettering in an Alex Toth style in Crime And Punishment #72 from April 1955. These are from about a year earlier and even has Leroy lettering in the balloons. So there may be even more out there, although all of th Walton stories I have seen in Boy Loves Girl in 1955 and 1956 didn't.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Mike er... Roy
Friday Comic Book Day.
Yesterday I told you about Mike Roy's varied career in comics. He started out early in the forties, working for several companies, including True Comics for Parents Magazine. In the late forties he started the Saint newspaper strip, which I will show as soon as I have a complete story scanned. I have a lot of Sundays from this period, so that'll be a treat. After he left the Saint in th early fifties for whatever reason (the strip itself ran quite succesfully for ten more years), he worked for several companies. Here I have him doing work for Eastern's Buster Crabbe Comics following in the footsteps of Alex Toth, who was just then finding his strength as an artist. After this, Toth went to Standard, where he was inked by Mike Peppe. After Standard folded, Peppe turns up inking Mike Roy on Tormented and lots of other stories. Roy sure knew how to pick them. But not with the romance stories from Personal Love, which look a bit slapdash, copared to the stories surrounding it. . We close with an oddity, Mike Roy doing the funny for DC's Jackie Gleason comics. He did this in the funny DCC house style, but added his own whacky touch.
Friday Comic Book Day.
Yesterday I told you about Mike Roy's varied career in comics. He started out early in the forties, working for several companies, including True Comics for Parents Magazine. In the late forties he started the Saint newspaper strip, which I will show as soon as I have a complete story scanned. I have a lot of Sundays from this period, so that'll be a treat. After he left the Saint in th early fifties for whatever reason (the strip itself ran quite succesfully for ten more years), he worked for several companies. Here I have him doing work for Eastern's Buster Crabbe Comics following in the footsteps of Alex Toth, who was just then finding his strength as an artist. After this, Toth went to Standard, where he was inked by Mike Peppe. After Standard folded, Peppe turns up inking Mike Roy on Tormented and lots of other stories. Roy sure knew how to pick them. But not with the romance stories from Personal Love, which look a bit slapdash, copared to the stories surrounding it. . We close with an oddity, Mike Roy doing the funny for DC's Jackie Gleason comics. He did this in the funny DCC house style, but added his own whacky touch.
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