Post #1000! Woooo!
Oh, who are we kidding? Who cares?
I had
Andre LeBlanc as a teacher back at SVA, alternating every other week with Will Eisner. At the time, I didn't realize he did any more than assisting on
The Spirit. He was always bringing in panels from
The Picture Bible in another language. In retrospect, I regret not asking him more about the comics world of the 40's. I was too blinded by my iconoclastic ways as a young college student and mocking him behind his back for how out of touch he was. I didn't appreciate “old school” comics like I do now, and he was representative of that chapter of comics.
One of the features he did in his day was Intellectual Amos. It was also one of the back-up strips in
The Spirit. Though Spirit stories have been reprinted ad infinitum since they were originally printed (mostly because of Eisner's business savvy), the contents of the other eight pages have fallen through the cracks.
I have managed to track down the complete comic-book run of Intellectual Amos, the first story appeared in
National Comics #46, February 1945
From
National Comics #47, April 1945
From National Comics #47, April 1945
WOW!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Vivienne, and I am Andres daughter. I remember many times going to meet him (or Will, or alternate days) over at SVA
I didn't realize anyone had managed to find the entire Intellectual Amos run. That's awesome. Please contact me. I have many original pages and unpublished sketches pop made in the years before his passing, when he was growing increasingly nostalgic about Amos and the 1940s.
I'm starting to unpack his things, and hopefully I can find more
BTW, thanks for the kind words about pop :). He loved his students and was always talking about the kids in his classes.
V.
Have been busy unboxing many of pops things...droop a line if interested
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