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The Grand Comics Database credit L.B. Cole with 341 comedian guide covers 1943-1954, and the covers he did for Captain Flight Comics in 1945 are from the earlier a part of that interval. Cole labored on various aviation-themed titles throughout this period, together with Contact Comics, Captain Aero Comics, Bingo Comics, Eagle Comics, Tailspin Comics, and Captain Flight Comics and these have at all times been prized by collectors. Captain Flight Comics #9 additionally incorporates early work by underappreciated artist Maurice Whitman and there is a Captain Flight Comics #9 (Four Star, 1945) Condition: FN and Captain Flight Comics #8 and 10 Group (Four Star, 1945) Condition: Average FR up for public sale in the 2022 September 18-19 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122238 at Heritage Auctions.
L.B. Cole entered the comedian guide area working for Louis Goodman Ferstadt, whose studio offered artwork for quite a lot of publishers together with DC Comics, Quality, and Ace. The Ferstadt studio additionally employed Harvey Kurtzman. Ferstadt was additionally a famous painter and muralist, and his comedian guide fashion is a transparent affect on Cole’s fashion. Cole rapidly got here into his personal as a comic book guide artist and his earlier expertise designing cigar band and field labels would affect his strategy on comedian guide covers. About this era, he would say: “I was always oriented toward newsstand sales, and these stylized covers drew readers. There was a riot of color out there on the stands and I figured something had to be done to catch the buyer’s eye. Take a look at most of the other books: they’re all done in a linear technique. All of the super-heroes… were a mass of figures kicking and punching and they all looked the same.”
Coles covers didn’t look the identical. The daring coloration and design distinction of his cowl fashion has made L.B. Cole a favourite of collectors ever since. The early work by Maurice Whitman, finest recognized for his later Fiction House period, on the Yankee Girl story in Captain Flight Comics #9 is noteworthy as nicely. There’s a Captain Flight Comics #9 (Four Star, 1945) Condition: FN and Captain Flight Comics #8 and 10 Group (Four Star, 1945) Condition: Average FR up for public sale in the 2022 September 18-19 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122238 at Heritage Auctions. If you have by no means bid at Heritage Auctions earlier than, you may get additional data, you possibly can try their FAQ on the bidding course of and associated issues.
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