Saturday, February 05, 2022

Today in Comics History, February 5: Happy birthday, George Evans!

Born on this day in 1920: comics artist George Evans, who did stories for Planet Comics, Wings Comics, When Worlds Collide for Dell and Captain Video for Fawcett, lots of Classics Illustrated issues, and of course EC Comics classics in Crime SuspenStories, The Haunt of Fear, Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Frontline Combat, Two-Fisted Tales, Shock SuspenStories, and much, much more!


from Fromline Combat #13 (EC, July 1953)

Wow, and I thought I used a lot of ellipses. Here's George and the whole dang EC Bunch in the original art for an EC subscription ad by Will Elder!

"The Board of Educational Comics" EC subscription advertisement by Will Elder
(Click picture to adult-education-size)

And here's a Christmas appearance by George, and again, all the ghouls and boils at EC!


from "The Night Before Christmas" in Panic #1 (DC, February 1954), adapated from the poem by Charles Clement Moore, pencils and inks by Will Elder, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Jim Wroten

Happy birthday, George!

Addition on February 5, 2023: New material printed in green.


from Squa Tront #3 (Jerry Weist, 1967), pencils and inks by George Evans

1 comment:

Smurfswacker said...

George Evans has always been a personal favorite of mine. He often drew himself into his stories, like in Dell's adaptation of the movie The Underwater City. George is standing in a group of reporters apparently eyeing the buffet. I was privileged to correspond with Evans briefly many years ago. His letters were friendly and chatty and I got the impression he was a really nice guy. Wish I could have met him in person.