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Two Tuska more pages from Fight Comics #4, 1940, featuring Shark Brodie. As you can see, Tuska's line work from this period is delicate, and he didn't vary line weight so much as spot blacks. I traded Dewey Cassell, aka Tuskaman, for these two Fiction House pages. It's interesting to compare Tuska's inking to that of a page from Red Seal Comics 14 (1947), below. |
It's not evident from the scans, but these Fiction House pages are huge. They don't even fit into large art mylar sleeves from BCE. Uber collector Jon Berk, in an essay on Victor Fox published in CBM 107 (and on Comicartville), points out that Fine had been credited with having drawn the cover to Weird Comics #1 (April 1940), but that the cover is actually by Tuska, which is evident if you compare the male figure in the middle of that cover with that of Shark Brodie in the last panel of this page. |
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According to Dewey Tuskaman Cassell this is the splash to the earliest known published work by George Tuska. Love the hand-drawn lettering on the logo, the boxing kangaroo, and check out that George Aksut byline! |
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I love Tuska's ink on this page. People were guessing it might've been inked by Frazetta--it wasn't. I'd really like to know that was pasted over the classic Tuska-style profile in the right middle panel. |
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