Hahahahaha!!!

These years when he was working with Byron Preiss are an interesting transition period between the rough Chaykin artwork of the early to mid 1970s and the masterful era that begins with American Flag in 1983. In ten years he went from novice working for Gil Kane and Neal Adams to become a master of the comics medium.

Ken Bruzenak is one of the best letterers in comics. Period

That was the date the strip was supposed to be published in newspapers.

Tyler, thanks for the 411!

Yes! After Blondie and Dagwood got married in 1933, they spent the next few years having and rasing their two kids. By the late 1930s you could also see Chic Young's stylization crystalize.

Yes. It amazes me when artists can get both the perfect body gesture and perfect facial expression. By the late 1970s he'd become a draftman's draftman when it came to his human figure work.

Jeff, fingers crossed I might pick up one or teo more from 1939-1946.

Yeah. You get that small bit of insight reading the instructions for the color separation. It's like a small time capsule showing how they were dealig with advanced 3M coloring techniques back in 1985 using photography and xerography/slicks before computers, digital scanners, Quark, Photoshop, and Illustrator took over the coloring process in the 1990s.

Paul, thanks for the 411. I literally grabbed the desciption from the last auction and never disputed it.

Visually it's both dark and lush at the same time. It's also a very unnerving piece of visual storytelling. I remember reading this when it came out and it completely changed my view of Sienkiewicz as an artist. To me he was, and still is, bigger than Moon Knight, the New Mutants, or comics in general.

Francesco, per favore, perdona la mia brutta traduzione italiana. Questa copertina sarebbe un grande poster per i giovani arrabbiati di qualsiasi cultura - italiana o americana.

I love the trippy psychdelic moments especially.