Buster Brown and Reed Crandall

Back to comics today with another promotional book that has some great Reed Crandall art in it.  This time it is Buster Brown shoes with a copy from a Paris, Illinois shoe store called McCoy's.

Reed Crandall is best known for his work on EC comics during the hey day of that publisher in the early 1950's.  He drifted around after that working for Atlas and a few other publishers and eventually landed at Treasure Chest where he worked as an illustrator for their books that were distributed exclusively to parochial schools.  He later contributed to Warren publishing magazines Blazing Combat, Eerie, and Creepy...all great magazines with high quality work from many of the greats of the day.  

This particular story featuring Space Siren is wonderfully illustrated...almost Frazetta like.  Just a great line and attention to detail.

                

It really is a shame that all comic books couldn't be this awesome!

Until next time....

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