I have said before that Maurice Whitman is an artist who has not gotten the kudos for excellence I think he deserves. He was self-taught, and good enough that he did many covers and interiors of various genres for the Fiction House line. When Fiction House folded he went to Charlton. He drew for the mix of titles they published, even the characters Atomic Mouse and Atomic Rabbit.
“The Ranch of Riddles” was the lead-off story from the last issue of Cowgirl Romances. It appeared in Cowgirl Romances #12 (1953).
Both Fiction House and Timely (doing business under a different name) had comics titled “Cowgirl Romances”. Timely produced just one issue, that for January 1950.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that Whitman wasn't and hasn't been better recognized. But he had a somewhat painterly style; had his work been skillfully inked by someone else, he would probably have had a greater following.
Las señoritas mexicanas of American popular fiction are sometimes angelically good and sometimes very wicked, but seem always to be very beautiful and somewhat feral. My best Mexican friend is a professor of economics; to the best of my knowledge, she has yet to behave like a wildcat.
I love Whitman's artwork. I'm pleased to say that I recently acquired a page of his original artwork. It's from an issue od the Dell comic JUNGLE WAR STORIES.
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