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Lou Fine National Comics #11 Uncle Sam Cover Original Art (Quality, 1941)....

2008 November Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction #830

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Auction Ended On: Nov 14, 2008
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Lou Fine National Comics #11 Uncle Sam Cover Original Art (Quality, 1941). Nothing shouts "Golden Age" quite like a Lou Fine cover. As one might imagine, Fine's covers have proven quite scarce. Prior to this sale, only six have been known to have been offered in the marketplace. As Jim Steranko wrote in his History of Comics, Volume Two, Fine's heroes "were Olympian in stature, classically featured and exquisitely, almost delicately, proportioned. Fine lavished a wealth of stipple, line-shaded, and cross-hatched detail with a brilliant brush-line technique not found in comics up to that point." These observations are spot-on as can be seen here, when America's Greatest Hero, Uncle Sam, engages in a star-spangled slugfest with savage saboteurs. One unfortunate traitor is about to take a bubble bath in molten steel. This masterwork has an overall size of 14.25" x 19", and aside from some paint loss in some areas of white-out, and some light wear to the pasted-on title logo, the art is in Excellent condition. From the Zoltan M. Szenics Collection.

Lou Fine:(American, 1914-1971): Many of his comic book artist peers considered Lou Fine to be the greatest draftsmen ever. Fine studied at the Grand Central Art School and Pratt Institute. He was partially crippled by childhood polio and aspired to be an illustrator in the tradition of his artistic idols, Dean Cornwell, J. C. Leyendecker, and Heinrich Kley. Fine joined the Eisner-Iger comic book shop in 1938 and drew such features as Wilton of the West, The Count of Monte Cristo, and the Flame for the Fiction House and Fox companies. Between 1939 and 1943, Fine drew for Quality Comics, where he illustrated the Black Condor, Stormy Foster, and Uncle Sam. Fine excelled at eye-popping covers, and he turned out dozens of fondly remembered classics. He left the comic book industry in 1944 and moved into drawing commercial advertising strips. Near the end of his career, Fine drew two newspaper strips, Adam Ames and Peter Scratch. Fine’s influence continues to be felt in the superhero genre to this day. Comic Art

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