John
was a god of the Silver age, but came up during the late 40’s and
1950’s working primarily for Timely, it’s successor Atlas and for
Dell comics. His story differs from many I’ve recounted here, in
that he left the industry for the world of commercial art. Working
for the Chaite Agency he learned many new techniques in a variety of
assignments including layouts, storyboards, illustrations and
paperback book covers, He credits his 8 years in this field with
transforming his art style. He returned to the comics field in 1966
getting jobs from his old editor Stan Lee at Marvel. He drew nearly
every one of Marvel’s key characters at one time or another. He is
often associated with Conan whom he drew in over 100 different
stories.
“The
Brute I love” is decidedly in his old style, one which may be
barely recognizable to his S/A fans. This appeared in LOVE DIARY #34
(April 1953) as published by Orbit.
Pat
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