Showing posts with label Ed Lipowski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ed Lipowski. Show all posts

04 February 2020

Gimme Some Lip!

When i was a youngling, one of the big fantasies was joining the French Foreign Legion.


I could never figure out the appeal.

Then Ed Lipowski explained it to me...


Ed wasn't around in comic books for very long, just a few years in the early '40s working with Holyoke. And he didn't do a lot of them. I don't believe i've confirmed more than a dozen stories, if that many. Several of them were reprinted at least once or twice to help confuse things.

But, i do like what he did. Besides French Foreign Fun, he took us to Atlantis with Lance Rand, signing the work Edouardo -


And we put out to sea with Captain Storms under the EL signature -


Holyoke ceased publishing in 1945, and Ed Lipowski seemingly disappeared from the comic world with them. 

To my knowledge, he only surfaced once more in 1949, for a single page PSA in Jingle Jangle Comics -


We didn't get to see many comics from Lipowski, but i rather liked his work.

page art by Ed Lipowski from Captain Aero Comics #2, Cat-Man Comics #1, Captain Fearless Comics #1, and Jingle Jangle Comics #39 (1942, 1944, 1949)