Ken Quattro once told me that later in the run, the Chicago comic book series Mr. Ex by Ben Whitman was actually drawn by Bernard Baily. When that would have been I don't know, but Baily also took over Vic Jordan for a short period in 1943.
Showing posts with label Mr. Ex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr. Ex. Show all posts
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Ex Marks The Art Spotter
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Ken Quattro once told me that later in the run, the Chicago comic book series Mr. Ex by Ben Whitman was actually drawn by Bernard Baily. When that would have been I don't know, but Baily also took over Vic Jordan for a short period in 1943.
Ken Quattro once told me that later in the run, the Chicago comic book series Mr. Ex by Ben Whitman was actually drawn by Bernard Baily. When that would have been I don't know, but Baily also took over Vic Jordan for a short period in 1943.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Section B
Thursday Story Strip Day.
Mr. Ex was one of the new strips of the Chicago Tribune Comic Book of the forties (their answer to the succes of comics, just like the Spirit section, which started only months later). It was drawn by Bert Whitman but my friend Ken Quattro thinks Bernard Baily assisted or even took over at some point. Now I usually can pick out Baily by the checkered jacked most of his characters wear, but here there is nothing of the sort. Maybe there may be some in the five new color strips I will ad here as soon as I have cleaned them. So enjoy for now and come back later for more. Tere are also a couple when you follow the link.
Mr. Ex was one of the new strips of the Chicago Tribune Comic Book of the forties (their answer to the succes of comics, just like the Spirit section, which started only months later). It was drawn by Bert Whitman but my friend Ken Quattro thinks Bernard Baily assisted or even took over at some point. Now I usually can pick out Baily by the checkered jacked most of his characters wear, but here there is nothing of the sort. Maybe there may be some in the five new color strips I will ad here as soon as I have cleaned them. So enjoy for now and come back later for more. Tere are also a couple when you follow the link.
Friday, March 18, 2016
The City Of Family Love
Friday Comic Book Day.
All comic book fans know that the Spirit started as a weekly insert into papers, which was sold produced with Will Eisner along with Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck (and other features when those were replaced). Real comic book fans know that the so called Spirit section wasn't the only such a section in the US. It was tried by different packages as well, most notable the Chicago Sunday Comic Book which also had Bert Whitman's Mr. Ex, Ray Bailey's Vesta Wet and Frank Engli's Rocky amongst others. I have shown several samples of those, if you follow the links. But only a few people will know that the Philadelphia Record, the paper that ran the Spirit Section (as well as the Spirit daily comic strip) also had a second book insert, double the size of the Spirit section even (unless you count the years where they were the only paper in the US to carry the Spirit at double size). It was a funny section called Funny Book and it is interesting to comic and newspaper strip collectors because it was the place where The Family Circle artist Bil Keane did his first features almost ten years before he launched Channel Chuckles and fifteen years before his annoyingly sweet yet popular family showed it's face. There were other artists involved, which I will go into when I show the other two of my three copies. Both Silly Philly and Mirth Quakes ended up in the proper newspaper comic section in the early fifties.
All comic book fans know that the Spirit started as a weekly insert into papers, which was sold produced with Will Eisner along with Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck (and other features when those were replaced). Real comic book fans know that the so called Spirit section wasn't the only such a section in the US. It was tried by different packages as well, most notable the Chicago Sunday Comic Book which also had Bert Whitman's Mr. Ex, Ray Bailey's Vesta Wet and Frank Engli's Rocky amongst others. I have shown several samples of those, if you follow the links. But only a few people will know that the Philadelphia Record, the paper that ran the Spirit Section (as well as the Spirit daily comic strip) also had a second book insert, double the size of the Spirit section even (unless you count the years where they were the only paper in the US to carry the Spirit at double size). It was a funny section called Funny Book and it is interesting to comic and newspaper strip collectors because it was the place where The Family Circle artist Bil Keane did his first features almost ten years before he launched Channel Chuckles and fifteen years before his annoyingly sweet yet popular family showed it's face. There were other artists involved, which I will go into when I show the other two of my three copies. Both Silly Philly and Mirth Quakes ended up in the proper newspaper comic section in the early fifties.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
The Mysterious Mr. X
Saturday Leftover Day.
Early on in his career Bernard Baily (the checkered shirt artist mentioned yesterday) made a big entrance by creating the look of The Spectre for DC. Soon after that, he started working for artist/packager Bert Whitman, whith whom he remained associated all through the fifties. I do not know that much abut this perio of Ameican comics and much of what I do know, I know through the work of Ken Quattro, the selfaccliamed Comic Detective. He did two great posts on the early work of Baily at http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.nl/search?q=baily. And if you are there, stay for the other posts, such as a recent one on the correspondence between Iger and Eisner. Ken really is the greatest researcher in and on comic ook history, unearthing transcripts of the trail between DC and Fox, where Will Eisner lied for his boss and the secret tape made in the fifties of a conversation between Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Joe Kubert about the shady dealings surrounding the 3D process. All riveting stuff.
Anyway, Ken can't really tell when Baily ghosted ths strip, which ran from january 19th 1941 to somewhere in 1943.
Saturday Leftover Day.
Early on in his career Bernard Baily (the checkered shirt artist mentioned yesterday) made a big entrance by creating the look of The Spectre for DC. Soon after that, he started working for artist/packager Bert Whitman, whith whom he remained associated all through the fifties. I do not know that much abut this perio of Ameican comics and much of what I do know, I know through the work of Ken Quattro, the selfaccliamed Comic Detective. He did two great posts on the early work of Baily at http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.nl/search?q=baily. And if you are there, stay for the other posts, such as a recent one on the correspondence between Iger and Eisner. Ken really is the greatest researcher in and on comic ook history, unearthing transcripts of the trail between DC and Fox, where Will Eisner lied for his boss and the secret tape made in the fifties of a conversation between Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Joe Kubert about the shady dealings surrounding the 3D process. All riveting stuff.
Anyway, Ken can't really tell when Baily ghosted ths strip, which ran from january 19th 1941 to somewhere in 1943.
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