Click on image to enlarge
This is a 1970 John Stanley ‘s recreation from Marge’s Lulu and Tubby Halloween Fun #6 seen over at Heritage Auctions. Alas! Always short of money…
According to Heritage, it’s “taken from a 1957 Dell comic book cover originally finished by Irving Tripp. Stanley added considerable detail missing from Tripp’s version“. There are substantial differences between them, both in technics and character design. So Tripp’s version has the 1950 children’s book distinctive appearance so often associated to Little Golden Books, whereas Stanley’s freestyle, being much more conventional, does without connections: Witch Hazel’s face has a more wicked expression here -actually, the facial traits reminds me Miss McGargoyle’s, and Tubby’s attitude seems to me more baffling, as if it would contain something’s beyond astonishment…
More Stanley’s original art here.
Original front cover with Irving Tripp art (1957)