The Spider Widow's Boy

You may recall that we were recently looking at Frank's Girl - The Spider Widow - and left off just as The Raven was about to appear on the scene. And then as we peeked at Frank's Other Girl - Phantom Lady - we saw the same mysterious Raven showing up. The Frank in question is, of course, Frank Borth, whose work we've been enjoying around these parts. He created, wrote, and drew The Spider Widow, and both wrote and drew the episodes of Phantom Lady in question.

Let's rejoin the Spider Widow and see how this all connects, shall we?

Next time: They actually connect

page art by Frank Borth from Feature Comics #s 60-62 (1942)

More Stargazing With Feg

I'm heading out on my monthly foraging run down the hill, so not a lot of words just now. Unless you count Feg's words accompanying his Stars. Here's another batch of Feg Murray's classic Seein' Stars, collected from Ace Comics and Magic Comics -

page art by Feg Murray from Ace Comics #s 46-48, 52, & 63 and Magic Comics #s 13-15, 17, 26-28, 30, 32, & 38 (1940, 1941, 1942)

Star Gazing With Feg

Feg Murray was quite the interesting fellow. A skilled portrait artist, he gained national fame with his newspaper strip Seein' Stars - essentially a Hollywood trivia magazine in comic strip format. It was insanely popular for many years, and like many popular strips it was reprinted in comic book form.

But, before that, Feg was a medal winning Olympic Athlete (1920 Olympics). Not exactly your usual desk-bound artist. Let's cube a three and check out some of those old strips. How many big stars do you still recognize eight decades later?

Depending on how you count, that's about half of the Seein' Stars strips we have sitting here. (The count gets confused because it switched to a 2-page spread format) The other half will be moseying along directly...

page art by Feg Murray from various issues of Ace Comics between #s 13-49 (1937-1941)