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I am trying to create a timeline of the word of Mort Meskin and Jerry Robinson in the period they worked together. No one has done this systemeticly yet. First thing I ran into was Justice Traps the Guilty (1947 series) #v1#4 [4] - Guilty Boys, which at the GCD has no credits, but looks like it's pure Meskin to me. Steven Brower has it as Meskin/Robinson in his Meskin checklist, but I don't see Jerry here. In fact, if you compare it to the story they did in JTTG #5, you can clearly see, what it is he brought to the collaboration.

Nice take... I'll look for that. That would mean this might be their first collaboration of that period?

My take, Ger,
is that they learned their weaknesses and strengths in that first JTtG #4 job, and quickly and permanently shifted roles for the one in JTtG #5. I think #4 is Meskin pencils and Robinson inks, and almost every other team-up is Robinson pencils and Meskin inks.

my 2¢

Peace, Jim (|:{>

And the Headline estory before that?

No, actually, there are 'collaborations' in Headline #29 and on ein Young Romance with an earlier publication date. As well as Billy The Kid  #v1#2, which the GCD has as solo Meskin, but which has a lot of Robinsonisms, startin from the splash page. So first thing I have to do, is ut them all in libe...

I am anxious to participate in the discussion, Ger, but I require (sorry) issue numbers, publishers and dates to do so. Which Billy the Kid #2? Not all of us share all of your familiarity? Please make it easier for us to join in the conversation.

Thanks and Peace, Jim (|:{>

I hate to tell you this, Ger, but I don't want to wade through your blog. I generally HATE blogs. Can you just give me a publisher, title, issue # and let me go from there. I have all those comics, too, and it's so much easier to just grab an original comic and take a look for myself.

Thanks. (|:{>

Yep... I will do a list with my opinions as soon as I am ready. As I said, I may have jumped the gun here. I am still getting everythng ready for a discussion. I am just now scanning the Mesking story from Headline #29. But if you want to have a look, Jim... there is an interesting mix of things happening with Meskin and Robinson in early 1948.

First Meskin drops out of The Vigilante and his place is taken by George Roussos. This may have been do to the new stories for Western, although they do no appear until later that year. Then Meskin reappears in Action with Vigilante. We have the Billy the Kid story. Meskin and Robinson start working for Headline, Young Romance and JTTG. Some of these stories are credited to Meskin solo, but I just don't know. The first Headline story (probably the first Prize story anyway) looks the same as the first JTTG story. I am intrigued b your notion that Meskin and Robinson may have started their collaboration the other way around. The Young Romance story has more Robinson in it. On the whole you can see that all of these stories are better drawn and more detailed than anything Meskin had been doing up to the point he temporarily left Vigilante. I am trying to get all these stories up on my blog to try and do a comparison...

Yep... I will do a list with my opinions as soon as I am ready. As I said, I may have jumped the gun here. I am still getting everythng ready for a discussion. I am just now scanning the Mesking story from Headline #29. But if you want to have a look, Jim... there is an interesting mix of things happening with Meskin and Robinson in early 1948.

Take a look at Postage Stamp Killer (or something like that) in Headline #28, Ger. I think that is the perfect example of them getting it backwards the first time.

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