When National (DC) Comics and All-American Comics merged around 1946, that brought in a raft of All-American titles with logos Ira Schnapp did not do, but over the next few years some of those were cancelled and others were renamed because of a genre change. A few of DC’s long-running titles had logos created before […]
In 1945, National (DC) Comics began a new funny animal title after having had success with converting LEADING COMICS to one a few months earlier. It saw print with a March, 1946 cover date, though the work on the first issue had been done in 1945, but throughout this series we will take the cover […]
Here begins a new series of posts focused on Ira Schnapp’s logo work mostly for DC Comics. I will cover what I’ve found chronologically, with links to other relevant articles on my blog. I can’t be sure I haven’t missed some, of course, nor can I be sure all the ones I’ve called his actually […]
This series of articles will look at the work of Ira Schnapp for DC Comics other than his logos, cover lettering, and story lettering, which will be mostly his house ads. The earliest work I know of by Schnapp at DC was his revamp of the Superman logo by Joe Shuster that first appeared on […]
There’s very little work by Ira Schnapp in these two late 1940s titles from DC Comics, but I’m including them as part of my effort to list all of Ira’s lettering for the company. ROMANCE TRAIL ran for only six issues under editor Julius Schwartz, and is an early example of a relatively rare crossover […]