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For the record I would have assigned Lee Elias regular work on the House of Mystery and House of Secrets titles to start. I would also would have had him on all the romance books of the time. Lots of covers too.
His style was much better suited to that type of work and we'd probably have a lot more classic covers from those titles for collectors today.
I think there was only a House of Secrets and a few My Greatest Adventures covers done by him before he left. A shame.
You see a lot of these types of artists who were fish out of water in the superhero field. Johnny Craig is another who comes to mind. What's sad is there was plenty of titles you could have put guys like this on where they could show off their skills but people seemed to try to get them to do something that just wasn't going to work. Oh well, it was a production based cookie cutter industry back then that had little patience with artists styles even if they were better artists than the work being offered them. How else can you explain leaving John Romita and Gene Colan on romance books or having Johnny Craig ink Iron Man? If Frank Frazetta walked in DC's doors at the time he probably would have been banished to their romance line too. At Marvel he would have been told to ape Kirby. Lol. It's no wonder so many left comics in part or as a whole to get real art jobs. Sigh....
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