Sun Girl-Ken Bald(?)-1948

I'm sure some of the Timely-Atlas experts know whose distinctive art style graces SUN GIRL but GCD does not. Ken Bald was the creator and regular cover artist so maybe...? Sun Girl was also the latter day partner of the Human Torch who, like Captain America before him, ditched his teenage boy sidekick when he discovered girls.

  

Barbie's Baton-Barbie and Ken-1963

Here's everybody's favorite doll, Barbie, in one of a surprising amount of comic book adventures she's had over the years from various different companies. This one, says GCD with a question mark, is maybe by Vince Colletta. I'll give you probably his inks but I'd guess the pencils are more likely the prolific Tony Tallarico who worked a lot at Dell after the split with Western that led to the creation of Gold Key.

Perils of Pauline-Calling All Boys-1947

This is odd, It's the story of silent film star Pearl White...only it isn't really. It's an adaptation of the then-new 1947 motion picture THE PERILS OF PAULINE starring Betty Hutton as Pearl White. Thus the unnamed artist draws the actors and scenes from the film. There isn't much regard for continuity either as most panels show individual moments rather than actually tell any continuous story. But then what do you expect when you adapt a 90 minute movie in three and a half pages?

Inferior man-Al Stahl-1943

Al Stahl did a ton of these smoothly drawn humor pieces and characters, mostly for Quality, and here's another. INFERIOR MAN was a back-up in FEATURE COMICS in the mid-forties. Stahl would eventually start his own animation studio which he ran into the 1990's.

Chuck-Louis Ferstadt-1944

This is the story of Chuck Conners, the Riflema...wait. No. Not THAT Chuck Conners. No, this guy was yet another in the long line of Archie clones, found in the back pages of SUPER-MYSTERY COMICS. Not only does this dude look the part but this time we even get an ersatz Mr. Weatherbee and a bargain basement Miss Grundy!

Federal Men-Siegel and Shuster-1936

FEDERAL MEN appeared in NEW COMICS, the title that would become ADVENTURE COMICS and is being covered issue by issue at our sister bog, DAYS OF ADVENTURE. Although they had co-craeted SUPERMAN in 1933, the Man of Steel wouldn't see print until mid-1938. The pair was hardy idle in the meantime, selling a number of strips to Dell and National. FEDERAL MEN, although it started out a typical G-Man shoot-em-up, quickly progressed into something more with this particular episode's giant robots arguably inspiring the Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons of the forties as much as anything that actually appeared in ACTION COMICS!

Murder On Time-Dick Giordano-1953

 Although he would later become a major player at DC, in the fifties and sixties, Dick Giordano was the image of Charlton. As an artist and later editor, he was represented all across the company. Personally, I have always found his earlier work to be a bit drab compared to the sleek stylishness he would later achieve but here's a nicely illustrated pre-code horror tale.