Thrillling Comic Book Art of Alex Schomburg Deluxe Hardcover HC Slipcase Ltd 600

  
The Thrilling Comic Book Art of Alex Schomburg. The exclusive Deluxe Edition 16-Page Collector's Bonus Portfolio. Compiled, Edited and Art Directed by. Alex Schomburg was a Puerto Rican commercial artist and comic-book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.

In 1923 he began work as a commercial artist with three of his brothers. In 1928, he worked with the National Screen Service, creating lantern. And working on movie trailers there through 1944.

During the 1930s, in addition to working for the NSS, Schomburg freelanced with Better Publications, producing interior line art for Thrilling Wonder Stories and other of the company's pulp magazines. His skill at drawing anything mechanical soon had him illustrating aviation covers for Flying Aces and electronic equipment for the Hugo. Schomburg's first science fiction-themed cover was for the September 1939 issue of Startling Stories. The following decade, Schomburg freelanced primarily for Timely Comics, the 1940s forerunner of Marvel Comics, displaying his talent for action tableaux in covers featuring Captain America, the Sub-Mariner, the Human Torch, and other superheroes. His first recorded comic book work. Two covers released the same month, for Daring Mystery Comics #1 and Marvel Mystery Comics #3 both cover-dated Jan. Schomburg would draw most of Timley's covers, as well as a smattering of single-page interior illustrations, through Marvel Mystery Comics #76 Sept. He also provided covers for Pines Publications, for titles including Exciting Comics and America's Best Comics, featuring such superheroes as the Black Terror and the Fighting Yank, as well as for Harvey Comics, including the licensed radio-series crimefighter star of Green Hornet Comics. On some Pines comics from 1947 to 1949, he signed covers as Xela. Through the 1930s and 1940s, Schomburg produced over 500 comic book covers. In the early 1950s, Schomburg left comics and spent the. Of his career on covers and illustrations for science fiction magazines, astrology publications, and books, including the Winston juvenile series.

In 1977, Schomburg and a few of his fellow Golden Age comic book artists collaborated on. Annual #1, written by Roy Thomas. Schomburg penciled and inked a six-page chapter featuring the Golden Age Human Torch. Is a legendary artist with a legendary legacy that has influenced and shaped the Superhero, Science Fiction and Jungle Adventure genres. Was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post.

With an amazing distinctive style. You could never mistake a Schomburg cover for any other. When it came to illustrating covers, there was simply no one else in Alex's league.

Book featuring the early artwork of Alex Schomburg. Vanguard Productions presents a significant. Collection of Schomburg's vast artistic work profusely illustrated with more than. A 100 reproductions of his vintage cover art.

With the cover's origination and publication information. And outrageous covers of the time. Jammed with detail, these covers were wild and amazing. Schomburg's work during the Golden age of Comics ranged from Captain America, the Human.

And the Sub-Mariner to covers for "Wonder Comics, " "America's Best Comics, " "Exciting Comics, " and "The Fighting Yank" just to name but a few. This Deluxe Hardcover Edition with Slipcase was limited to 600 copies and is.

Also includes a 16-page Collector's Bonus Portfolio. Brand New & Factory Sealed. Alex Schomburg has won every major award for both science-fiction and comic-book art. Thrilling Wonder, Captain America, America's Best, Marvel, Exciting. Are but a few of the dazzling comic-book covers Schomburg produced in the Golden Age of Comics. Schomburg was Timely-Marvel's definitive WWII cover artist. This book collects, for the first time, a host of tantalizing Schomburg treasures in one volume. Patriotic superheroes, as well as jungle girls, robots, wild animals, and space travelers are. In these romantic and nostalgic Pop-Art icons of the bygone era. Title Page "The Thrilling Comic Book Art of Alex Schomburg".

David Spurlock & Dean Motter. The Story of Alex and Xela.

Alex Schomburg's Cover Art. FC/B&W, 128 pages, HC/Slipcase, 11.65" x 9". Collectible Entertainment note: Limited Deluxe Hardcover w/ Slipcase is Brand New & Factory Sealed. Slipcase has bumped corner >> front bottom right... See scan #5 Very Fine condition. A must have for any serious Alex Schomburg collector and/or enthusiast. A fun & entertaining read. Please check out all my other Record or Robert E. Howard or Shark Horror or Bernie Wrightson or Punisher or Tron or Parody or King Kong or Superman or Batman or X-Files or Ralph Snart or 3-D or TMNT or X-Men or Sherlock Holmes or Mummy or Frankenstein or Dracula or Sergio. Or Groo or Tarzan or Conan or Magazines or Horror or Werewolf or Zombie or Frank. Or GI Joe or War or Judge Dredd or Infinity or Marvel Secret Wars or Crisis on Infinite Earths or Spawn or Venom or Carnage or Toxin or Kolchak or Mad Max or Kolchak or Star Trek or Starship Troopers or Science Fiction or James Bond or Adventure Time or Movie Adaptations or Spider-Man or Flash Gordon or Richard Corben or Indiana Jones or Star Wars or Jurassic Park or Dinosaurs Attack or Mars Attacks or Planet of the Apes or Godzilla or Thing or Robocop or Aliens or Predator or Terminator listings by visiting my store and typing. In the store search engine.