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| Okay, one of the reasons I have started looking at GA books is because of LB Cole. His cover for Tailspin was so simple but beautifully arranged, I looked for more of his work. 
Next post is a brief bio from Lambiek.
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Here's the bio:L.B. Cole(1918 - 1995, USA) |   | Leonard Brandt Cole had worked as art director for a lithography outfit, before entering the comic book field during the Golden Age in the early 1940's. He was mainly a cover illustrator for titles like Suspense Comics and Contact Comics. In his early work, he always used basic, flat colors and produced what he called "poster color covers". Illustrating over 1500 covers, Cole drew everything from funny animals to superheroes to jungle girls and science-fiction. A science-fiction fan, Cole would often slip rocket ships and ray guns onto books such as 'Captain Flight' and 'Contact Comics' which were supposed to be devoted to contemporary aviation.
As for interior artwork, Cole did pencils and/or inks on several features for Holyoke Publications, Gilberton and Farrell. Cole also published comic books through Star Publications, producing various crime, terror, jungle and romance titles in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was art director and editor at Dell Publishing in the early 1960s. He has mainly done commercial art and design from the mid 1960s onwards, working among others on audio-visuals for University Films. | |
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| Blue Bolt 106: 
Suspense Comics #8: 
Here's that nasty ghost spider again on Startling Terror Tales #11:
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| This one has so much going on on the cover, you'd think it shoulda been an interior page: (Blue Bolt 102) And a very slightly less busy 103:
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Nice books argus. Keep up the good work!!
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Here are a few items that LB did the front covers for. I can find no information on these books anywhere. They are dated 1947 and published by Lev Gleason. The interiors are text, not comics, but the rear covers emphasize the comic books published by Lev Gleason. I can find no copies for sale on the web at any of the usual book sites, nor on Ebay. I showed them to noted Comics Historian Bill Blackbeard many years ago and he had never seen or heard of them before. So what were the function of these tomes...were they premiums, come-ons, salesman samples? They have no price on them and are about 64 pages each. They are extremely cool and perhaps one of a kind so enjoy!
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LB was indeed one of the greats...glad this thread is here!
WESTPORTALBOOKS ARE SQUINKY BOOKS!
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| That second cover is absolutely outstanding! It's amazing how it conveys a sense of horror....a dead body, arms and legs hanging over the bed....quite a gruesome scene which was probably quite a surprise at the time. Nowadays, no one would think twice about it....and a modern cover would probably have blood dripping on to the floor and some woman wearing next to nothing on the cover. *Where I don't know, but she would be there. Ahead of its time.....ahead of its time...
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