Posted By Dan Greenfield on Nov 24, 2024 | 2 comments

13 SUPER SUPER-COVERS…

By PETER BOSCH

Stan Kaye is a name you have probably seen here in a number of articles about Golden and Silver Age DC Comics, but subliminally more than in any other way. His name, in tiny print, would be listed last in captions as inker to well-known pencillers of whom the articles were likely about (including Curt Swan and Wayne Boring, both of whom he worked with for years).

However, with his birthday November 24 (born in 1916 in the fair New York City borough of Brooklyn), it’s time to shine a light on his contributions to the world of DC. The late Kaye not only inked some of the best covers of the time, but some that would remain decades later as DC’s most iconic.

Here are 13 of them. (NOTE: Occasionally, some online sources may list a different possible inker, but DC in their various omnibi and other publications say it is Kaye and that is what I am going with here.)

Superman #32 (Jan.-Feb. 1945). Pencils by Wayne Boring.

Action Comics #101 (Oct. 1946). Pencils by Wayne Boring.

Superman #53 (July-Aug. 1948). Pencils by Boring.

Superboy #1 (Mar.-Apr. 1949). Pencils by Wayne Boring.

World’s Finest Comics #94 (May-June 1957). Pencils by Swan.

Detective Comics #247 (Sept. 1957). Pencils by Curt Swan. OK, it’s solo Batman, but still…

Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1 (Mar.-Apr. 1958). Pencils by Swan.

Adventure Comics #247 (Apr. 1958). Pencils by Swan.

Action Comics #242 (July 1958). Pencils by Swan.

Action Comics #252 (May 1959). Pencils by Swan.

Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #14 (Jan. 1960). Pencils by Curt Swan.

Adventure Comics #275 (Aug. 1960). Pencilled by Swan.

Superman #147 (Aug. 1961). Pencils by Swan.

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13th Dimension contributor-at-large PETER BOSCH’s first book, American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s – From the Small Screen to the Printed Page, was published by TwoMorrows. A sequel, about movie comics, is coming in 2025. Peter has written articles and conducted celebrity interviews for various magazines and newspapers. He lives in Hollywood.