Thrilling, Wonder, Captain America, America's Best, Marvel, Exciting,
Startling: Alex Schomburg produced the most dazzling array of
high-quality comic-book covers in the Golden Age of American Comics.
Spider-Man, Hulk, and X-Men co-creator Stan Lee said, Alex Schomburg was
to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to The Saturday Evening Post.
Golden Age comic books with Schomburg covers are selling for record
prices in America's leading auction houses. This book collects, for the
first time, a host of tantalizing Schomburg treasures in one volume.
Superheroes, jungle girls, robots, wild animals, and space travelers
abound in these romantic and nostalgic Pop-Art icons of the bygone WWII
era. Alex Schomburg has won every major award for both science fiction
and comic book art, from the Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award to the
Inkpot, the Doc Smith Lensman Award, and the Frank R. Paul Award. He was
inducted posthumously into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame. During WWII,
Schomburg turned out a plethora of ornate, flamboyant, and outrageously
pro-American comic book covers jammed with detail. Schomburg was
Timely-Marvel's definitive 1940s cover artist. Ron Goulart, author of
Comic Book Culture, called Schomburg the undisputed champ and
Hieronymous Bosch of comics artists. After the war, Schomburg's comics
subjects shifted toward adorable pin-up quality jungle girls and sci-fi
(often signed Xela) in the trademark airbrush style that made the artist
famous as a book and magazine illustrator. About this book, Harlan
Ellison said, Finally and at last! The magnificent answer to the
question, 'What do you buy for the Man Who Has Everything?' No matter
what age he may be, this every-page-a-wonder assemblage of Schomburg
paintings will thrill, charm and delight any guy on his anniversary,
birthday, holiday or need for apology from you. It might please women,
too, but for guys, for sure.
