Charles Quinlan’s Spectacular Work on Cat-Man Comics #1, at Auction

Posted in: Comics | Tagged: cat-man, Charles Quinlan, Frank Z. Temerson

Explore Cat-Man Comics #1’s public sale debut, delve into its Golden Age historical past, and uncover Charles Quinlan’s creative affect.

The Cat-Man Comics sequence has turn into a favourite of Golden Age comedian guide collectors in recent times. The 32-issue run has stand-out covers by Charles Quinlan and L.B. Cole, and it’s Quinlan’s distinctive fashion, design sense, and skill to depict motion that makes your complete sequence work.  Quinlan was not the unique creator of the Cat-Man character, however he revamped Cat-Man and made the character his personal starting in Cat-Man Comics #1.  There’s a pleasant copy of Cat-Man Comics #1 (Helnit, 1941) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream to off-white pages up for public sale within the 2023 June 22 – 25 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7340 at Heritage Auctions.

Created by Irwin Hasen, Cat-Man’s origin could be traced again to Crash Comics #4, the place he was launched as a Tarzan-inspired character raised by a tigress within the jungles of Burma and gifted with cat-like skills and instincts. Upon his return to the US, he fought crime underneath his civilian id as a non-public detective and as his alter ego, Cat-Man. Beginning in Cat-Man Comics #1, Charles Quinlan offered the character with a brand new costume and an entire new feel and look to his adventures.

Quinlan’s credit embrace work for Temerson, Holyoke, Ned Pines and Quality Comics amongst others. Besides his now-legendary run on Cat-Man Comics, he is greatest identified for overseeing a very bonkers stint on Blue Beetle throughout the title’s Holyoke period. Little is thought about Quinlan except for his comedian guide credit.  During the mid-Nineteen Thirties he’s mentioned to have contributed illustrations to Lewis De Claremont’s Oracle Products Company catalogs and maybe associated publications throughout the mid-Nineteen Thirties.

Cat-Man Comics #1 writer Helnit Publishing Co. is one in all quite a lot of firm names utilized by Frank Z. Temerson throughout his comedian guide publishing profession. It’s broadly identified that comics writer Et-Es-Go as an organization identify was impressed by shorthand for Temerson’s youthful sisters Ethel, Esther, and Goldie, and lesser identified that writer Helnit is called after Temerson’s nieces, Helen and Anita. Temerson had one more imprint known as Nita as nicely.

The subject additionally options the primary look and origins of characters named Rag Man and Black Widow, although no relation to later variations of characters of these names in both case.  Quinlan’s work makes the Cat-Man Comics sequence extremely collectible for Golden Age followers, and there is a good copy of Cat-Man Comics #1 (Helnit, 1941) CGC FN- 5.5 Cream to off-white pages up for public sale within the 2023 June 22 – 25 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7340 at Heritage Auctions.

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