Typically when I do work in Procreate I have the stabilization at max. This time I dropped it down to about 50%. The original illustration and inks by Elias is gritty, dirty and imperfect with very few smooth lines which makes it more of an appropriate style for war comics.

You would be hard pressed to find another illustrator who was accomplished at changing their illustration styles to match the subject matter like Elias.

I also include an additional illustration from possibly illustrator Bob Powell form the one page story ‘He Knew’. If you compare with the original you can tell I modified the helmets some because they seemed a little misshapen .

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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