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ComicLink Featured Auction, which starts October 30th, and which features Original Comic
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This dynamic 1941 page comes from the lead Ray story, "The Atom Smasher" from Smash Comics #27. The art for this story has long been attributed to Reed Crandall and several passages throughout the piece (especially the middle panels) appear to be his handy work. Golden Age pieces like this featuring the Ray rarely surface, and this is the first Ray page that we have had the opportunity to offer our bidders.
Like most pages that came out of the famous "Eisner & Iger Studio" in the late 1930s and early 1940s, this piece was likely at least a partial collaboration by more than one of the very talented artists in residence. Lou Fine, Jack Cole, Bob Powell, Jules Feiffer, Gil Fox, and many more famous names all worked for Jerry Iger and Will Eisner's shop, which produced some of the most respected stories of the era. It is impossible to say for sure who might have collaborated with Crandall on this piece, but it is undeniably a rare example of classic Golden Age superhero art and it is the first page from this story that we are aware of ever offered at auction. This art has an image area of approximately 13" x 18".
