Yesterday I promised to post a few of Joe Shuster’s drawings that I didn’t have room for in Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster. Below there’s the common theme of “dirty old men” here that ran through the books (I imagine some of the original buyers of Night of Horror (and Hollywood Detective) could relate—I know *I* can!).

The “dirty old men” in Shuster’s illos do what “Dirty Old Men”/Perry White look-a-likes like to do-fondle and spank Lois Lane and Lana Lang look-a-likes-though THEY THESE LOOK-A-LIKES AIN”T REALLY THEM! There’s a whipping scenerio (also a definite reoccurring theme). And I’m perversely fascinated by the scene at the ocean. The mysterious guy in the background with the shovel has his hands on his hips like so many of the poses of Superman that Joe drew in the comic books (Joe said that his inspiration for this was the Douglas Fairbanks movies). Who secretly IS the guy in the hat and trenchcoat?!? Oh, darn, maybe I should have put that illustration in the book. This is the kind of thing that, uh…tortures book author/designers! (But it’s good blog fodder, so maybe there’s pleasure in the pain).

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From Nights of Horror issue no.5

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From Nights of Horror volume 1

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From Hollywood Detective issue 1

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From Nights of Horror volume 2

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From Nights of Horror issue no. 3

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From Nights of Horror issue no.11

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Secretly,
Craig

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