A Bit Of Christmas Fun From
Archie's Christmas Love-In #181
Published In 1971. Art by Harry Lucey,
Joe Edwards And Al Hartley
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
It's always nice to see the Archie stuff, and it's also interesting to see the evolution of an artist's art style. I think I can pick out the Harry Lucey story and the Joe Edwards is easy, of course, but I'm surprised by the rounded shapes of the characters in what I take to be the Al Hartley stories. Betty, especially, is quite cartoony. The subject matter I take as more indicative of Hartley: the Bible, certainly, but wasn't Hartley also one to push Betty forward as a love interest? I like the pin-up, by the way.
ReplyDeleteI don't know a lot about Al Hartley but I did find some of his Christian Archie books at a comic shop recently. He worked for Atlas earlier. I believe he drew Patsy Walker and Millie The Model. I can't really pick out his art so I went by the Grand Comics Database.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hartley