Oh my! Incredible! Grail indeed! Big time congratulations Rick!!!!

Wow! Amazing!

Otherworldly! It makes me want to read the book! Congratulations!

No, no, no, no....no Power Girl!!! None here!!! Stay away!!! If it was Power Girl in a JSA book, it would be in your gallery!?! Even if the page has a crowd of JSA'ers with Power Girl... Of course, DC prefers Legion over JSA, sigh, gripe, complain, grouse, remonstrate, lament, cry...Now fetch me Will Wheaton!

Perfect phrase for pages like this - Gotham noir! That was the attraction.

Wow! Great design, detail, and crowd of characters. To me, the Marvels convey the Golden Age feel and the background characters feel Spanish or European. Congratulations!

Stunning! Eye popping! 

Wonderful! What a great homage to Nick Fury, Agent of Shield 7 and a Kirby Cap! Two styles that work so well in this design!

Yes! Excellent observation! Thank you, Mark! Kubert was a master of designing his art to make lines that guide the eye. In this case, the three sets of figures are the ends of a triangle. My eye sees the black roofs and Losers form an arrow pointing to the machine gun. The machine gun's horizontal line instantly draws my eye to the gunner and then just as quiclkly the two of them as a single image. Of course, the machine gunner also draws the eye to the Nazis lurking in the shadows. 

Beautiful! It looks like a finished piece!

Great page and story! I like the water spray to convey movement and the zipatone to add texture to the craft. Cool!

Thank you, Rubén! Excellent comments and thorough analysis! Well said!

Thank you, Francois! Great observation about the daguerreotype vibe! 

Great comment about the daguerreotype vibe! I didn't realize that. Hand to forehead. Thank you, ML!

Wow! Thank you for your excellent comment, Matt! Your insight as one of his former students now living in Europe helps me better appreciate the piece and the Battaglia angle. Like you, part of what draws me to George's work is his fearless innovation and excellence in using different techniques and media. Thanks again!

Congratulations on winning the lottery! Cosmic indeed!

Stunning! I'm in the Bradbury Building! Incredible perspective, texture, detail of the railing and elevator. Almost looks like zip-a-tone on the pants. I just rewatched the Outer Limits episode, Demon with a Glass Hand, that also was filmed in the Bradbury.

Thanks, Kavi. I'm glad you enjoyed the story! The brothers are fictional. I edited the description to clarify. I appreciate your comments about issue #7. Poignant - good word! That was the word I couldn't think of while writing the description. I took another look at #7 and only now notice that Sam edited sentences in word balloons by hand like he did in the Midway story, and that he does it more often. Funny how looking at an artist's original art brings out things you never noticed before in their comics. Have I seen any art from that issue? I saw a page in auction a number of years ago before I became absorbed in published art. A major war art collector has pages in his impressive CAF gallery. 

Great dogfight action. It's like a movie! Kubert's storytelling is magnificent.

Wild story and finish, great page! If that's zip-a-tone in the second panel, that's the first time I've noticed it in his work! 

I love that last panel of the doomed pilot.

Thanks for catching that, Kavi! I just corrected it. Spoiler alert - incorrect one was the next page of the story! 

Thanks, Lee! He had a semi-autobiographical series in DC war books called USS Stevens. I bet he had a good time doing the story recounting the crew's ceremony initiating sailors crossing the equator for the first time!

Thanks, Marcus! 

Thanks, Kavi! I agree!

Thanks, Rubén! I agree!

Thanks, Miki! Excellent observation! I didn't realize that. DC war comics also are littered with sound effects, but not Dell's war comics. 

Haha! Or pineapples...

Interesting question. Yes, that also drives me crazy. In the actual battle, the downed pilot feared he was going to be strafed so he hid under his seat cushion as he floated in the water. He didn't get strafed. It was, however, regular practice for Japanese planes to strafe pilots as they parachuted to the ground or were floating in the ocean. Here's an interesting fact: Ben Christman, co-creator of the Wesley Dodds Sandman, flew with the Flying Tigers in China and was killed by Japanese planes after he bailed out and was parachuting to the ground. 

Indeed! Thanks, Rick! 

Thanks, Miki! I like that he had the propeller coming off and spinning away as the plane hits the water. 

This is based on an actual event during the battle, albeit it was a pilot from the preceding torpedo plane attack. He was the only person from his squadron to survive. 

Thanks, Kavi! This sequence is indeed gripping.

Excellent observation, Rubén! I didn't notice that and should have. 

A glorious piece of Marvel magic by Gentleman Gene and Joltin' Joe! Angles and perspectives are wild, looking at it from Red Skull's viewpoint and then, last panel, Steve and the Falcon looking out of the Cube! Thanks for the book recommendations! I wish I had bought the books when Gene and Joe were still with us. 

Cool find! Tuskegee Airmen! Dick Ayers saw these aircraft up close serving in the Army Air Corps during the war.

Stop right there, evil one! 

Foul, she blocked him! Do over! The piece is nicely dynamic. 

Monstroid was in an interstellar war?...maybe? Love Marvel Team-Up #5.

Thanks, Rubén. I don't know much about Tuska but I too prefer the art in this story to much of his Marvel art that I've seen. 

You doctor?

Haha! Bring your own snacks!

Noto did a nice job on these cards. A bit scary. Is this for a sequel to Stephen King's The Stand, The Blight? 

That's a nice Legion group card. 

Miki has card art, Miki has card art! Nice card, bad tea.

Love this cover. I like how the page is divided into two triangles by Supergirl and the tidal energy generation plant. Is the message let's stick it to green energy? Or beware surprise nuclear attacks by North Korean subs?

Ready to slice and dice! Fresh sashimi anyone?

Boy, she really hates the way the statue portrays her. Jimmy Olson looks like a swinger in the left vertical panel. Nice description of the conflicting credits.

I'm amazed how well the hands are drawn in these pages.

Forget Joe Palooka. The warden's call to Section 2 is really to Section 31, who will take care of things.