Alex Schomburg created round 40 airbrushed covers for Ned Pines’s Commonplace/Higher/Nedor titles in the course of the interval of 1947-1948.
Regarding the artistry of Alex Schomburg, Stan Lee could have mentioned it finest. “I’ve all the time felt that Alex Schomburg was to comedian books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Night Publish,” Lee as soon as famous. “He was completely distinctive, with a tremendous distinctive model. You would by no means mistake a Schomburg cowl for some other artist’s. When it got here to illustrating covers, there was merely nobody else in Alex’s league.” Maybe finest identified for his early pulp covers and his fantastically detailed paintings for Marvel/Well timed covers on titles like Marvel Thriller Comics, Captain America Comics, Human Torch, and lots of others, Schomburg’s later-era airbrushed comedian e-book covers for titles like Surprise Comics and Thrilling Comics have steadily commanded extra consideration in current occasions. Alex Schomburg’s traditional airbrushed cowl for Thrilling Comics #63 that includes the jungle lady character Princess Pantha is up for public sale within the 2023 February 23 The Thrillingly Thrilling Heroes of Nedor Comics Showcase Public sale #40219 at Heritage Auctions.
Princess Pantha was probably created by artist Artwork Saaf for her debut in Thrilling Comics #56. Alex Schomburg frequently drew her cowl appearances, and his cowl for Thrilling Comics #63 is on par together with his finest airbrushed work of this era. Schomburg created round 40 airbrushed covers for Ned Pines’s Commonplace/Higher/Nedor titles in the course of the interval of 1947-1948, and these are sometimes called the “Xela” covers as a consequence of Schomburg signing his work from this time-frame utilizing his first title spelled backward. The enduring airbrushed Schomburg cowl for Startling Comics #49 has turn into one of the vital helpful comedian books of the Golden Age period as a consequence of its probably affect on the creation of the Futurama robotic Bender.
As for Princess Pantha herself, she’s a traditional comedian e-book jungle lady character within the Sheena, Queen of the Jungle mildew. Notably, the character was utilized by Alan Moore within the Tom Sturdy spin-off Terra Obscura. This copy of Thrilling Comics #63 has been graded Nice+ by Heritage Auctions. Whereas that is an unslabbed, uncooked copy, there are 51 entries for this subject on the CGC Census, and high-grade copies of this subject are all the time in demand and barely change arms. All potential bidders ought to guarantee they’re aware of Heritage Auctions’ bidding course of and their FAQ for extra details about registering and inserting bids.
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