The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics

(2009)

Harry N. Abrams, 2009 Series

Published in English (United States)

Price: 40.00 USD; 44.00 CAD; 20.00 GBP
Pages: 264
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Abrams ComicArts
Brand: Abrams ComicArts
ISBN: 978-0-8109-7296-4
Barcode: 9780810972964

Editing: Charles Kochman (credited) (editor)

Color: color
Binding: hardcover with dust jacket

Issue Notes

Printed and Bound in China

Awards

The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well, fellas... this is it!

Genre

war

Reprints

from The Carry All Vol. 1 #19 (June 10, 1944)

cartoon / 0.75 page (report information)

Script: John Severin
Pencils: John Severin
Inks: John Severin
Letters: John Severin

Genre: humor

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H. K.)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H. K.)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed as H. K.)
Colors: ?
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

Job Number

2614

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey look! Diving!

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Comedy Comics (Marvel, 1948 series) #1 (May 1948)

Indexer Notes

Kurtzman draws himself in last panel.

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Colors: ?
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

Job Number

2612

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey look! A crayon pencil!

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Nellie the Nurse Comics (Marvel, 1945 series) #14 (August 1948)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Colors: ?
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

Job Number

3710

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm going to the movies!

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Margie Comics (Marvel, 1946 series) #43 (October 1948)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Colors: ?
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Yeah! Hey look at my little twisty nail puzzle!

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Gay Comics (Marvel, 1944 series) #36 (February 1949)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

Job Number: 5084
First Line of Dialogue or Text: Working on the farm's fun...
Genre: humor

Indexer Notes

Original art of the story from Willie Comics #19.

Silver Linings / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Every once in a while, I get that urge for power!

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Silver Linings daily (New York Herald Tribune) 1948-xx-xx - 1948-xx-xx

Rusty / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: I told you not to leave your roller skates...
Genre: humor; domestic

Indexer Notes

Original art from a story in Hedy De Vine Comics #35.

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Varsity (December, 1949)

cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)

Genre

war

Reprints

from Compact #5 (May, 1952)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Ben Oda

Genre: war
Characters: American soldier; North Korean soldier (villain, death)
Synopsis: An American soldier muses about the corpses of soldiers floating down the Imjin River and how they may have died, when he is suddenly attacked by an enemy........and one of the two becomes the next corpse floating down the river.
Keywords: Imjin River; Korea

Indexer Notes

Original art of the story from Two-Fisted Tales #25.

Hero Worship Dept. / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Wally Wood
Inks: Wally Wood
Colors: Marie Severin
Letters: Ben Oda

Genre

satire-parody; superhero; humor

Characters

Superduperman [Clark Bent]; Lois Pain; Copy Boy; W. Twitchell; Captain Marbles [Billy Spafon]

Synopsis

Superduperman defeats Captain Marbles by causing Marbles to punch himself out, but Superduperman still can't make it with Lois.

Reprints

from Mad (EC, 1952 series) #4 (April-May 1953)

Indexer Notes

A parody of both Superman and Captain Marvel.

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)

Genre: fantasy-supernatural

Indexer Notes

Unfinished story.

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Colors: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Reprints

from Esquire (May, 1960)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman

Genre

humor

Reprints

from Esquire (April, 1959)

Little Annie Fanny / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (credited)
Pencils: Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (painting)
Inks: Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (painting)
Colors: Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (painting)
Letters: ?

Genre: satire-parody; humor
Characters: Annie Fanny
Keywords: adult

Indexer Notes

Unpublished story.

Little Annie Fanny / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (credited)
Pencils: Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (painting)
Inks: Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (painting)
Colors: Bill Elder (credited as Will Elder) (painting); Larry Siegel (credited) (assistant)
Letters: ?

Genre

satire-parody; humor

Characters

Annie Fanny; Benton Battbarton

Synopsis

Spoof of Paris.

Reprints

from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #v14#8 (August 1967)

Keywords

adult; bread; Eiffel Tower; kissing; Paris; wine

Indexer Notes

Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Larry Siegel."

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)
Letters: Harvey Kurtzman (signed)

Genre: humor; satire-parody

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Table of Contents

1. ["Well, fellas... this is it!"]
2. A Normal Day at the Chas - Wm. Harvey Studio!!
3. ["Hey look! Diving!"]
Hey Look!
4. ["Hey look! A crayon pencil!"]
Hey Look!
5. ["I'm going to the movies!"]
Hey Look!
6. ["Yeah! Hey look at my little twisty nail puzzle!"]
Hey Look!
7. ["Working on the farm's fun..."]
Hey Look!
8. ["Every once in a while, I get that urge for power!"]
Silver Linings
9. ["I told you not to leave your roller skates..."]
Rusty
10. Follow That Girl!
11. Scenes from College Life
12. Corpse on the Imjin!
13. Superduperman!
Hero Worship Dept.
14. Marley's Ghost
15. The Grasshopper and the Ant
16. Assignment: James Cagney in Ireland
17. [Origin]
Little Annie Fanny
18. [Americans in Paris]
Little Annie Fanny
19. Dracula: His Cousins

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The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics (2009)

Issue Notes

The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

A Normal Day at the Chas - Wm. Harvey Studio!! (Table of Contents: 2)

cartoon / 0.75 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Hey Look! / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Silver Linings / comic story / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Rusty / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Follow That Girl! (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Scenes from College Life (Table of Contents: 11)

cartoon / 2 pages (report information)

Corpse on the Imjin! (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Superduperman! (Table of Contents: 13)

Hero Worship Dept. / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Marley's Ghost (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Grasshopper and the Ant (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Assignment: James Cagney in Ireland (Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

[Origin] (Table of Contents: 17)

Little Annie Fanny / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[Americans in Paris] (Table of Contents: 18)

Little Annie Fanny / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Dracula: His Cousins (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics

(2009)