4/11/2023 0 Comments Wildest westerns magazineAlthough I assume those westerns would have to predate Blueberry by quite a bit? Almost a Jean Giraud (Moebius) Blueberry look. The second one down, ‘Gunsmoke Western’, that thing is priceless. It was rumored that Harvey was also the editor of this book,īelieve it or not, Jack actually did a Dell Comic book.Īll the art was sent in the chronological order it was done.Ĭomments (4) 4 Responses to “Early Jack Davis” Who also published Harvey Kurtzman’s “Help!” Magazine. This western magazine was published by Jim Warren The first 3 pages are a spoof on TV show “Peter Gunn”. Stan Lee for Atlas Comics, later to become Marvel Comics.Ī cover for “Cracked” Magazine, Mad’s longest running rival. These first four western covers were done for Jack would say that some of this art was done in his “fast” style. Here are some examples from that period from late 1958 to 1961. Bill Peckmann has sent a number of early Jack Davis crawings our way, so let me turtn it over to Bill:Īfter Jack left EC/Mad Comics in the late ’50′s, after Harvey Kurtzman’s “Trump” and “Humbug” magazine’s didn’t get the solid footing they so richly deserved and went belly up, and before Jack carved out that wonderfully successful niche for himself in the world of humorous illustration in the ’60′s, he had to really scramble for work to keep the wolf from the door.
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