Tuesday, September 22, 2015
R.I.P. Jay Scott Pike
Sad news from the Marvel Masters bullpen, as apparently Jay Scott Pike has passed away. In honor of his frighteningly fine artistic contributions to 50's Atlas horror, THOIA has an encore presentation of one of his creepier classics from the December 1954 issue of Mystery Tales #24. RIP
Lovely little story.
ReplyDeleteA Pre Code Transgender Twist? Didn't see that coming.... The Fifties were weirder than we think....
ReplyDeleteRest in peace, Jay Scott Pike. I liked him, he had a really confident and expressive line style that was not at all lazy. I never felt like he was drawing the same kind of thing the same kind of way over and over. I new he did work for the men's mags, as well as many romance titles--probably my favorite stuff of his--but for some reason was still surprised to see that he did so many cheesecake pin-ups. Seems obvious now.
ReplyDeleteLove the splash on this one.
Rest in peace, JSP! That is a nice story, a really good recipe for how to make a horror tale! Thank you for posting it Karswell!
ReplyDeleteLove the art. But why do so many of these comics list Hungary as the vampire capitol of the world instead of Transylvania/Romania?
ReplyDeleteSecond, third, and fourth on the art. Good sense on perspective, I especially like the graveyard scene on the last page. Atlas did a ton of "this is how you write a story" story, which, come to think of it, is something Stephen King would pick up later with many of his characters being authors.
ReplyDeleteWasn't the Butler not flying away when he hit the cliff edge enough evidence enough for the townsfolk? They sure were dense!
Thanks for appreciating my Dad's artwork on this, and what a cool thing to come across this while searching the internet today for Dad's work! I have five brothers and sisters (with plenty of nieces and nephews) and we all miss him and Mom a ton.
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing, Tim!
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