#hal sherman

[kalelsonofkrypton]

World’s Finest #10, Summer 1943, cover by Hal Sherman, Fred Ray, Dick Sprang, and Joe Simon.

[smbhax]

Star Spangled Comics #2, November 1941. Cover pencils and inks by Harold Sherman.

Info from @grandcomicsdatabase

[princessmagpiesart]

A rather personal piece of my OC, Hal Sherman. He designed the gun himself!

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[IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Digital drawing by Princess Magpie. It depicts a torso-up picture of an original character named Hal Sherman.

Hal is a caucasian man with short, wavy brown hair and beard, which has a few visible white hairs starting to grow in. He wears an eye patch over his missing right eye while he's looking intensely at the viewer with his left.

Hal is wearing a dark blue/grey-ish jacket with a fur-trimmed hood and brown leather-like details. He's wearing a teal scarf around his neck and protective elbow pads and a grey shirt. He's holding his left arm up by his head, wielding a gun with attached blade. The gun has visible scuff marks and a "½" sign seems to be etched into its metal of the barrel. Hal's skin, clothes and gun are marked with scars, dirt and blood.

The picture has a white paper-textured background.]

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[juhnkit]

Startling Comics, March 1958

Alex Schomburg - Hal Sherman - Art Saaf - Ned Pines -

Better Publications

[browsethestacks]

Star Spangled Comics: The Star Spangled Kid And Stripsey

Art by Hal Sherman

[p-c-ba-dcforever]

it's Jerry Siegel's birthday and it's worth remembering that he cocreated some other DC icons like the Patriotic Pair, Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy!

[thecomicsnexus]

STAR-SPANGLED COMICS #1 OCTOBER 1941 BY JERRY SIEGEL, JON L. BLUMMER, MORT WEISINGER, HAL SHERMAN AND HAROLD WILSON SHARP

Witness the character debuts of Star-Spangled kid (and Stripesy), Captain X (Firestorm’s grandfather) and a superhero that dresses as a spider-hero and uses web fluid and can climb walls and ceilings... yes, you guessed it... TARANTULA.

SCORE: 6

It’s really unfair to judge the art on these stories from modern day perspective. Siegel’s stories in this book were very creative and innovative... but Hal Sherman was probably way over his head. Perspective alone is a mess and sometimes it’s hard to follow the story.

But there is something unique in the first story of this book. First of all, the idea that the kid is not the sidekick. I am not sure how often that was done in the Golden Age up to that point, but it is unusual. This version of Sylvester Pemberton doesn’t have any super-powers or anything. He is just a gifted kid that knows how to box (he will get gadgets in the silver age).

The other unusual thing about the first story is how long it is. Twenty pages was A LOT for a Golden Age story.

Despite these things, I didn’t find Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy that special.

Captain X is another generic mystery man that helped the British in their WWII battles (in what seems to be Dunkirk). Not much to talk about there.

Tarantula was different though. He had a motif and it worked for him. As I mentioned earlier, he does many things Spider-Man later did, but he has no super-powers.

Tarantula came back in the eighties and then as many of you already know, became a regular in Chuck Dixon’s Nightwing (this is probably why his persona became associated with the Bat-Family).

The two main heroes in this book follow a very similar formula... the Golden Age was like that a lot. But at least these features tried to have an identity.

[oldshowbiz]

1944 - don’t make fun of the club