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Matt Baker’s first South Sea Girl cowl for Seven Seas Comics #3 would result in work on Phantom Lady, Rulah and past.
An artist who turned legendary for his cowl paintings in explicit, Matt Baker had solely achieved six of them earlier than his first South Sea Girl cowl, on Seven Seas Comics #3. What’s extra, this piece is his first true Good Girl cowl, on a collection that very doubtless helped elevate his profile in the comedian guide trade considerably, resulting in his work for Fox Feature Syndicate and past. A key second in Matt Baker’s profession, there is a high-grade copy of Seven Seas Comics #3 (Universal Phoenix Feature, 1947) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages up for public sale in the 2023 August 17 The Matt Baker Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction #40233 at Heritage Auctions.
South Sea Girl was Baker’s first work on a feminine function character since his collaborative paintings involvement in Sheena a yr and a half earlier, and it isn’t unlikely that was Samuel “Jerry” Iger’s plan. Versatile writer Manning Lee Stokes (June 21, 1911 – January 5, 1976) wrote the South Sea Girl tales in a method that allowed Baker to showcase the creative strengths for which he would grow to be well-known. After attending Indiana University, Stokes turned the managing editor of the Morristown Herald from that paper’s founding in 1936. From 1939, he wrote serialized fiction for newspapers by way of the McClure Syndicate and others. By the time he co-created South Sea Girl, he had written three novels for Phoenix Press (no relation to Iger’s Universal Phoenix Features, it appears), a writer identified for its salacious content material and rock-bottom pay charges. Stokes has a handful of credit in comics moreover his South Sea Girl work, together with Classics Illustrated, and maybe labored once more with Baker on Rulah in Zoot Comics. Most Famously, Stokes wrote the digest-size graphic novel The Case of the Winking Buddha, with paintings by Charles Raab and revealed by St. John in 1950. Stokes had grow to be a prolific paperback novelist by that point, producing an unimaginable vary of labor from the late Nineteen Forties by way of the Seventies.
With his Fiction House assignments starting to taper off, Baker would start getting work from Victor Fox whereas the Seven Seas Comics collection was in progress. An necessary second in Matt Baker’s profession, there is a high-grade copy of Seven Seas Comics #3 (Universal Phoenix Feature, 1947) CGC VF- 7.5 Off-white pages up for public sale in the 2023 August 17 The Matt Baker Comics & Comic Art Showcase Auction #40233 at Heritage Auctions.
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