Lou Fine’s Classic Red Bee Cover on Hit Comics #5, Up for Auction

Despite working on and co-creating quite a few characters now thought-about obscure, Lou Fine was thought-about the most effective artists of the Golden Age.  He was an artist that even different comedian e-book greats admired, and his cowl work for publishers Fox Feature Syndicate, Fiction House, and Quality Comics remains to be extremely regarded by collectors to at the present time. Will Eisner would as soon as say about Fine, “I had respect for his towering kind of draftsmanship. He was the epitome of the honest draftsman. No fakery, no razzle-dazzle — very direct, very honest in his approach,” whereas Joe Simon recalled, “My favorite artist was Lou Fine. He was also Jack Kirby‘s favorite artist. I know that Jack was a fan of and greatly influenced by Fine’s work.”  Fine is credited with roughly 56 covers through the Golden Age by GCD, with numerous of them thought-about iconic by fashionable collectors.  The covers of comics like Planet Comics #1 and Fantastic Comics #3 at the moment are the stuff of legend.  The cowl of Hit Comics #5 that includes the Red Bee is one other highly-regarded basic, and there is a Hit Comics #5 (Quality, 1940) CGC VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages up for public sale within the 2023 January 15-16 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122303 at Heritage Auctions.

The creation of Toni Blum and Charles Nicholas for his debut in Hit Comics #1, the Red Bee was an Oregon-based assistant district legal professional who acquired his title from his utilization of skilled bees that could possibly be deployed from his belt buckle.  Despite this unusual starting, or maybe due to it, the character has not fairly been forgotten.  The Red Bee was alluded to within the 2014 comedy movie She’s Funny That Way. and in addition talked about within the latest DCEU sequence Stargirl.  DC Comics acquired the character in 1956 with the remainder of the Quality Comics IP, though he has since entered the general public area.

An obscure character elevated to accumulating immortality by the artistry of Lou Fine, there is a Hit Comics #5 (Quality, 1940) CGC VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages up for public sale within the 2023 January 15-16 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122303 at Heritage Auctions.  If you have by no means bid at Heritage Auctions earlier than, you will get additional data, you may try their FAQ on the bidding course of and associated issues.

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