The Pictorial Arts: New! Strange! Different!

Friday, May 4, 2012

Norman Saunders — Capt. Hazzard — May, 1938

Kid said...: Looks very much like Doc Savage from the covers of his magazine in the '30s. Captain Hazzard came first 'though. Interesting.; May 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Kid said...: Oops, my mistake. I thought the date below the illustration said 1930, not 1938 - hence my erroneous conclusion. Cap Hazzard is therefore a Doc Savage knock-off. (Really must get a pair of spectacles.); May 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Thomas Haller Buchanan said...: Kid, back then everybody was knocking-off everybody, and I guess that's true even now. Nothing-new-under-the-sun kind of thing.

Look how great Saunders handled the forced perspective, to get two complete figures front and center and yet still give them context and the threat above and below as well. Those guys were genius in laying out covers, let alone the beautiful rendering.; May 4, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Kid said...: It's a great picture, and I'm struck by the physical likeness to Doc Savage from a cover of his own magazine.; May 5, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Unca Jeffy said...: It's the jodhpurs that do it. :) Or I just like saying "jodhpurs"; June 9, 2012 at 10:26 PM