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“A PROPHECY in FOUR COLORS?” the SCINTILLATING UNSEEN CREATIONS of GOLDEN AGE ARTISTS $9.95 HAL SHERMAN, in the USA LEE HARRIS, No Roy Thomas' Prototype Comics Fanzine “A PROPHECY IN FOUR COLORS?” THE SCINTILLATING UNSEEN CREATIONS OF GOLDEN AGE ARTISTS $9.95 HAL SHERMAN, In the USA LEE HARRIS, No. 162 & FRANK FOSTER! January 2020 WILL MURRAY ON THE POSSIBLE PULSE-POUNDING PREDECESSORS OF SOME OF COMICS’ GREATEST! SUPER-HEROES 1 82658 00375 3 Figure at left © Estate of Frank Foster; central figure of Hal Sherman; figure at right © Estate Harris Levey. Vol. 3, No. 162 / January 2020 Editor Roy Thomas Associate Editors Bill Schelly Jim Amash Design & Layout Christopher Day Consulting Editor John Morrow FCA Editor P.C. Hamerlinck Don’t STEAL our J.T. Go (Assoc. Editor) Digital Editions! Comic Crypt Editor C’mon citizen, Michael T. Gilbert DO THE RIGHT THING! A Mom Editorial Honor Roll & Pop publisher like us needs Jerry G. Bails (founder) every sale just to survive! DON’T Ronn Foss, Biljo White DOWNLOAD Mike Friedrich OR READ ILLEGAL COPIES ONLINE! Buy affordable, legal downloads only at Proofreaders www.twomorrows.com Rob Smentek or through our Apple and Google Apps! William J. Dowlding Cover Artist & DON’T SHARE THEM WITH FRIENDS OR POST THEM ONLINE. Help us keep Shane Foley producing great publications like this one! Cover Colorist Glenn Whitmore Contents With Special Thanks to: Writer/Editorial: A Prophecy In Four Colors? . 2 Paul Allen Tom Horvitz Heidi Amash Carla Jordan Super-Hero Skullduggery -1941? . 3 David Armstrong Joyce Kaffel Will Murray unlocks the mystery of the lost Batman, Wonder Woman, & Tarantula! Richard Arndt Jim Kealy The Golden Bat . 35 Bob Bailey Paul King Dan Hagen tells us all about Japan’s “Dark Samurai” of 1931. John Benson Jonathan Levey Brett Canavan Art Lortie “Welcome Home, Roy Thomas!” . 39 John Cimino Doug Martin A photo-strewn remembrance of a comics celebration in Jackson, Missouri—Feb. 2019. Pierre Comtois Peter Meskin Chet Cox Philip Meskin Mr . Monster’s Comic Crypt! The Other Stan Lee, Part 2 . 51 Cash-Book Journal Brian K. Morris Michael T. Gilbert continues to compare and contrast Smilin’ Stan & Charles Biro. (newspaper) Will Murray Comic Book Plus Peter Normanton re: [correspondence, comments, & corrections] . 58 (website) The Paul Norris The Sven Elven family FCA [Fawcett Collectors Of America] #221 . 65 family Barry Pearl P.C. Hamerlinck and Michael D. Frahley showcase early DC & Fawcett artist Sven Elven. Frank Foster, Jr. & John Pierce On Our Cover: It was a real dilemma—what to feature on the cover of an issue that dealt with never- the Foster family Sandy Plunkett published possible prototypes of “Batman,” “Wonder Woman,” Tarantula, and other classic super- Michael D. Fraley Larry Rippee heroes. Spotlighting the DC characters themselves didn’t seem right, so Roy T. suggested to Aussie artist Wayne Gassmann Charlie Roberts Shane Foley that he utilize the predecessors, using as a template the several-hero cover of 1950’s All- Jim Gaylord Al Rodriguez Star Comics #50, by the team of Arthur Peddy & Bernard Sachs. Shane improved on that notion Janet Gilbert Bob Rozakis by basing the figures of the non-DC, unpublished 'Batman' and 'Wonder Woman' on the work of Bob Don Glut Randy Sargent Kane (from the cover of Detective Comics #27, 1939) and H.G. Peter (from the cover of Sensation Grand Comics Janet Myers Database Schuette Comics #1, 1942). The result, we think, is nothing short of terrific! [Art © Shane Foley.] (website) David Siegel Above: Maybe Hal Sherman never got to draw a “Wonder Woman” of his own concoction, but he was Shane Foley Southeast Missourian the first artist of the feature “The Star-Spangled Kid” in DC’sStar Spangled Comics! Seen here are Dan Hagen (newspaper) transformational panels from the two-for-one origin of the Star-Spangled Kid & Stripsey team. SSC #18 George Hagenauer Dan Tandarich (March 1943); possibly scripted by Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman. [TM & © DC Comics.] Tom Hamilton Dann Thomas Heritage Auctions Nicky Wheeler- (website) Nicholson Kent Wilson Alter EgoTM is published 6 times a year by TwoMorrows, 10407 Bedfordtown Drive, Raleigh, NC 27614, USA. Phone: (919) 449-0344. Roy Thomas, Editor. John Morrow, Publisher. Alter Ego Editorial Offices: 32 Bluebird Trail, St. Matthews, SC 29135, USA. Fax: (803) 826-6501; e-mail: [email protected]. Send subscription funds to TwoMorrows, NOT to the editorial offices. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Six-issue subscriptions: $67 US, $101 Elsewhere, $27 Digital Only. All characters are © their respective companies. All material © their creators unless otherwise noted. All editorial matter © Roy Thomas. Alter Ego is a TM of Roy & Dann Thomas. FCA is a TM Hal Sherman, Frank Foster, of P.C. Hamerlinck. Printed in China. ISSN: 1932-6890. & Sven Elven FIRST PRINTING. 3 Super-Hero Skullduggery – 1941? Or, The Mystery Of the Lost BATMAN & WONDER WOMAN! by Will Murray Seeing Double? Or Not! Bob Kane’s Batman & H.G. Peter’s Wonder Woman—juxtaposed with Frank Foster’s “Batman” & Hal Sherman’s “Wonder Woman.” Read the article for the rest of the story! [Batman & Wonder Woman TM & © DC Comics; Foster art © Estate of Frank Foster; Sherman art © Estate of Hal Sherman.] The Kane Caped Crusader is from a circa-1980 painting by that artist, belonging to David Siegel and photographed years ago by Dr. Jerry G. Bails… while Peter’s Amazon princess is from a Junior Justice Society of America ad that ran in 1947 issues of All-Star Comics, although that illo had appeared several years earlier in ads for the Wonder Woman newspaper comic strip. All Frank Foster art accompanying this article is courtesy of the Foster family, via Will Murray; while all the Hal Sherman “WW” art accompanying it was provided by the late artist to Will for Comic Book Marketplace magazine #78 (May 2000) and appeared therein. 4 The Mystery Of The Lost Batman & Wonder Woman Preface: editorial director Whitney Ellsworth—only to find himself handed art chores on Jerry Siegel’s brand new “Star-Spangled Kid” feature One Awesome Overview— instead of being offered work drawing the super-heroine concept Sprinkled With Star-Spangled Kid he had submitted. The Kid was first seen by readers in a house ad & Aquaman in Action Comics #40 (Sept. 1941); the origin of Wonder Woman came along a month or so later, in All-Star Comics #8. This, too, I wrote up s a comics historian, I enjoy unearthing lost lore and for Comic Book Marketplace (#78, May 2000)—an interview reworked A making new discoveries. Not all of them are pleasant. Some somewhat and added to for this issue of Alter Ego. are puzzling, and a few were downright weird. Still, there was little or no direct Periodically, I stumble upon dark, cobwebbed corners of the evidence of anything sinister going on Golden Age of Comics that no light has touched in generations. in this case, either, and I did not suspect Especially in regards to DC Comics and its affiliate, All-American a pattern. Comics. Among the most remarkable were a series of seemingly unrelated interviews I did for the late lamented magazine Comic Then, a few years later, David Book Marketplace, which uncovered something bizarre. arranged for me to interview artist Paul Norris on the creation of “Aquaman,” It all started back in 1998, when I read a Boston Globe article whereupon the character’s original about Frank Foster, an obscure artist whose surviving son claimed artist told me something he had not that his father had created an unpublished super-hero called previously revealed––an anecdote even “Batman” years before the Bob Kane and Bill Finger version had David did not know. appeared in 1939’s Detective Comics #27. Whitney Ellsworth “Well,” Norris related, “a couple had been a National/DC Interested, I interviewed Frank Foster, Jr., heard his story of weeks before he called me in on editor early on, had left, ‘Aquaman,’ Whit [Ellsworth] asked a concerning his father, and examined the yellowing pieces of art and returned to take the that survived of an Art Deco version of a hero called Batman—as number of artists to come up with some top editorial spot when recorded in the following section of this article, which is a slightly ideas for new features. And I submitted Vin Sullivan moved on to edited version of my piece that appeared in Comic Book Marketplace one. They used the title, but they didn’t co-found Columbia Comics. #66 (Jan. 1999). Though intriguing, the story ultimately proved to be use the feature at all.” something of a dead end, since nothing concrete connected Foster with DC Comics. “What was the title?” I asked innocently. So imagine my surprise when comics maven David Siegel “‘The Vigilante.’ But I had the idea of having him in tights. He read my original article in CBM and informed me that he knew of a wasn’t a cowboy like they did later. He was a super-character, in potentially similar instance! long underwear.” David quickly put me in touch with Golden Age artist Hal I was staggered. Here was another artist telling the same story! Sherman, the original 1940s illustrator of the DC feature “The Instead of accepting his Vigilante, Ellsworth handed Norris Star-Spangled Kid,” and I soon heard his tale of creating a character a humorous sketch of a character called Aquaman who lived he called “Wonder Woman” in 1941 and offering it to DC Comics underwater––while smoking a cigar!––and asked Norris to rework it into a super-hero. A completely different version of another character calling himself The Vigilante swiftly appeared in Action Comics #42, scripted by new DC editor Mort Weisinger and drawn by Mort Meskin.
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