Here is his debut from the first issue of DYNAMIC COMICS in October of 1941.
The
scripter for the tale is unknown but the artist is believed to be
Charles Sultan. Sultan was a veteran of numerous publishers. For
Fawcett he did Minute Man and Spy Smasher, at DC he worked on Johnny
Quick and for Quality, the Black Condor.
In the
following issue Al Plastino takes over on the artwork
I’m most
familiar with Plastino via his Silver Age DC work and I’m quite
surprised by this early stuff. He was channeling art-god Lou Fine to
the max.
The
original run of DYNAMIC COMICS only lasted 3 issues. Chesler stopped
publishing comics for a couple years but in 1944 resumed issuing the
4-color mags and returned the title to the newsstands. Curiously he
restarted the numbering at issue 8. In the mid 1940’s Dynamic Man
added the ubiquitous boy sidekick, Dynamic Boy. A battery of talents
that included Newt Alfred, Tony Cataldo and Stan Aschmeier took up
the art duties during this period. But the most interesting to me was
the Puerto Rican émigré, Ruben Moreira. Here is the job he turned
in for issue #14 in April 1945.
Chesler
ceased publishing the title with issue 20 in 1946. The following year
the Canadian publisher Superior took the comic up and put it out
through issue 24. Silver Age fans may remember Dynamic Man from the
IW/Super reprints in DARING ADVENTURES.
Pat
