STARTLING COMICS #52 Facsimile Edition

Schomberg's airbrush covers make this short run of covers highly collectible. Inside is a nicely drawn Tygra, a scantily-clad jungle girl, drawn by Art Saaf; Catman artist Charles Quinlan in the pirate Sea Eagle, "Return of the Hook"; a superbly drawn Lance Lewis, sci-fi/space hero by Raphael Astarita;  a teen strip Jefferson Jones by Harold Sherman and a humor strip. All-in-all, another very well drawn, top-tier issue! Also: a Tygra text story with more Saaf art; Teen-Age Trues "Seed Demon;" Zippie, another teen-age humor strip, by Al Hartley and more... Schomberg often signed these beautiful airbrush covers "Xela." He of course is even better known for his dozens of amazing covers for Timely, on Marvel Mystery, The Human Torch, Sub-Mariner and in fact, most of Timely's early Golden Age titles. This facsimile comic book is reprinted to match the quality when first produced in 1948, reprinting Pine Comics' Startling Comics complete with all ads and every page. Here's one story synopsis: Tygra and Terry come upon the dying form of the Kokuri Chief's brother and learn from the Chief himself that his bride to be has been abducted, but he blames the pair for the foul deed as well as the disappearance of hundreds of his warriors. Tygra discovers an underground area where Assyrian warriors have the kidnapped Kokuri, using them as slave laborers. And don't miss the ad for Butterfinger candy bars on the back cover. Those were the days...bet they cost 5 cents back then! Plus ads for a Charles Atlas muscle building course and Johnson Smith's assorted merchandise, from BB guns to a two-way wrist radio!