Here's another whack-a-doodle story from the December 1953 issue of Strange Fantasy #9 (see previous post), concerning a very mad artist who-- to be honest-- doesn't seem that much different than most of the actual mad artists that I know in real life! As noted in the comments of the last post, every tale from this issue was reprinted, and a few even reworked a few decades later for the Eerie Pubs... I'll try to dig those out and we'll take a look at them sometime in the coming new year. Also of note: before becoming a doomed studio model for Tony in today's yarn, beautiful blonde Susan also appeared in various advertisements featured in Golden Age comics. I've included a few below after the story...
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I am extremely impressed that the coroner can diagnose epilepsy with just a cursory examination of a body.
This guy needed a couple extra blank canvasses.
The unknown Iger Shop artist who illustrated this did a pretty neat job of representing the same painting in multiple panels, framed from different angles. That's a pretty tall order, frankly. I'm impressed.
What with all the blood and sweat in this thing already, it was totally a shoe-in for the Eerie Pubs reprint. Myron and Rudy hardly had to tweak it.
PS, I kind of LOL-ed when I got to the word "balmy" substituted for the word "barmy" in the story (page three, panel six). But then it turns out that the words are indeed related, and that they share a definition of eccentric behavior. An alternate definition in the case of "balmy", but still. I had no idea.
Course, the usual Brit slang should still be "barmy", so I do think they chose the word that was less apt. But I did learn something from that.
A couple points to the poor tied to his drafting table artist that was forced to churn this one out. He did a really good job! There's some stilted figures here or there, but I like his mad painting on page 2, he drew some decent good girl art, and the action is pretty good. He did a pretty good job on this, all with no glory!
"Reduce Large Bust" ... it goes to show how what is attractive on a woman is a moving target from decade to decade.
Women in second ad can come to my door but I don't think in my advanced age I've ever need "Men's Hosiery." Maybe it's time for a change!
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