Schomburg’s Princess Pantha Cover for Thrilling Comics #63, at Auction

In regards to the artistry of Alex Schomburg, Stan Lee could have stated it greatest. “I’ve always felt that Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post,” Lee as soon as famous. “He was totally unique, with an amazing distinctive style. You could never mistake a Schomburg cover for any other artist’s. When it came to illustrating covers, there was simply no one else in Alex’s league.” Perhaps greatest recognized for his early pulp covers and his superbly detailed paintings for Marvel/Timely covers on titles like Marvel Mystery Comics, Captain America Comics, Human Torch, and plenty of others, Schomburg’s later-era airbrushed comedian guide covers for titles like Wonder Comics and Thrilling Comics have steadily commanded extra consideration in current occasions.  Alex Schomburg’s basic airbrushed cowl for Thrilling Comics #63 that includes the jungle woman character Princess Pantha is up for public sale within the 2023 February 23 The Thrillingly Exciting Heroes of Nedor Comics Showcase Auction #40219 at Heritage Auctions.

Princess Pantha was seemingly created by artist Art Saaf for her debut in Thrilling Comics #56. Alex Schomburg recurrently drew her cowl appearances, and his cowl for Thrilling Comics #63 is on par together with his greatest airbrushed work of this era. Schomburg created round 40 airbrushed covers for Ned Pines’s Standard/Better/Nedor titles throughout the interval of 1947-1948, and these are also known as the “Xela” covers as a result of Schomburg signing his work from this timeframe utilizing his first identify spelled backward. The iconic airbrushed Schomburg cowl for Startling Comics #49 has change into some of the precious comedian books of the Golden Age period as a result of its seemingly affect on the creation of the Futurama robotic Bender.

As for Princess Pantha herself, she’s a basic comedian guide jungle woman character within the Sheena, Queen of the Jungle mould. Notably, the character was utilized by Alan Moore within the Tom Strong spin-off Terra Obscura. This copy of Thrilling Comics #63 has been graded Fine+ by Heritage Auctions. While that is an unslabbed, uncooked copy, there are 51 entries for this problem on the CGC Census, and high-grade copies of this problem are at all times in demand and barely change fingers.  All potential bidders ought to guarantee they’re aware of Heritage Auctions’ bidding course of and their FAQ for extra details about registering and inserting bids.

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