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Bruce Timm's TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES #11: Tesla Strong!

Artist: Bruce Timm (All)

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Bruce Timm's TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES #11: Tesla Strong! Comic Art

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Title:	Bruce Timm's TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES #11: Tesla Strong!
Artist:	Bruce Timm (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	Can't. I'd never find another
Views:	1,502
Likes on CAF:	9 10
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	5/8/2022
Comic Art Archive:	Tom Strong's Terrific Tales Issue: 11 Page: 5 View

Description


Bruce Timm’s “cartoon” style was once considered 
too cartoon-y for mainstream comics. These days,
celebrated for the very style that once caused him
to be ignored, he’s highly-admired and highly-
collected. Too highly collected. There are scads if
wanna-be Timm rip-off artists offering a ton of faux-
Timm originals to unsuspecting OA collectors. His 
style appears deceptively easy. Some of the crooks 
aren’t bad. So what’s a collector to do?
 
In my case, I went to Timm’s dealer, Albert Moy,
to buy my original. There aren't any bargains to be
found at Albert's site, but no bogus Bruce, either. 
There, I was delighted to find this panel page from
"Tom Strong's Terrific Tales #11", drawn by Timm
and written by Alan Moore. Even better, the page came 
with a prelim drawn on thin paper.
 
In the story, Tesla Strong says she's "Not technically
a jungle-girl, but still." As it happens, I have a 
jungle-girl cover from a different series. I think I'll
post it this week, too.

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AMR 1
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 5/8/2022

Congrats an amazing example of Bruce style in comics.

Eric B
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 5/8/2022

Love the Bettie Page cameo. But it takes nothing away from Tesla herself! Congrats.

John Stuart
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 5/8/2022

Stellar! Superb good-girl art.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 5/8/2022

Published Timm panel pages are getting very rare as Timm has mostly done work in covers. Here, we can see his storytelling and the animation storyboarding flow of story and action!

Matthew Miller
Member Since 2015

1 - Posted on 6/2/2022

Sequential Timm! I love it!

Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006

Posted on 2/15/2025

As you say, his work does look deceptively easy but is highly skilled. Buying his art is a bit of a minefield for the exact reason that its easy to do a copy. Anyone with reasonable skills could knock out a 'Timm' but have only done one as I could not afford my favorite at the time and do not know who has the original. Nothing wrong with doing copies as long as you do not try and sell them as work by the artists themselves. There are so many bad copies and fakes out there. I will never be buying one off the site you got it from as I would not deal with Albert ever again. I have sound reasons for saying that.

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