Chamber of Chills Sept. 1953

Illustration Info.

Original Pencils: Lee Elias

Original Inks:

various

Source:

Harvey Comics

Origin Date:

Sept. 1953


About the illustration


I’ve been doing a lot of flyers for a local bar when they have “True Crime Trivia Night”. I saw this cover and I thought it would be perfect for that or maybe for a Rockabilly show.

About Lee Elias


Emigrating to the United States from Manchester, England, when he was a boy, Elias studied art at the Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York. He started working in comics in 1943 at Fiction House,where his work included features such as “Captain Wings” in Wing Comics, on which he succeeded Bob Lubbers, as well as the Western hero Firehair.

After leaving Fiction House in 1946, he worked for several different comics companies, including Timely Comics, Hillman Periodicals, and National/DC where he worked on such characters as the Flash, Tommy Tomorrow, and Black Canary. He drew three issues of All Star Comics in 1947 and co-created the Fiddler and the original Star Sapphire with writer Robert Kanigher in All-Flash #32 (Dec. 1947).

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