Pre-Mad Berg

Dave Berg (1920-2002) was featured in MAD magazine for 46 years. He's best remembered for his LIGHTER SIDE OF..  feature.

In 1951, 5 years before joining the staff of MAD, he wrote and drew two issues of a comic called ALICE for Ziff-Davis.

Here is a sample from the second & last issue, dated September 1951

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Cover--Saunders maybe?

Another Dell infopage

From Four Color #773, Feb. '57

1936 Dell "Believe It Or Not" pages

From Dell's Popular Comics, March 1936. This was before the feature was called "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"

Comic Book Short Story ~The Chain Letter Murders~

From Ziff-Davis' ELLERY QUEEN #1, January 1952"

cover by Norm Saunders, probably a reprint from a pulp.

Gold Key Info Page from LAND OF THE GIANTS #4

June, 1969

Dell Info page Walt Disney's Man in Space

From four color #716, Aug 1956

Pulp Art Gallery - H. W. McCauley

Bon 1913 in Chicago.

Covered several genres- Science fiction magazines, sleazy paperbacks, & comercial art for defense contractors. He was a staff artist for Ziff-Davis publications. In the 1950s he created advertising art for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Orange Kist, and Schlitz Beer. He also painted pin-ups and calendar art.  In the early 1960s he worked for an erotic paperback publisher, Nightstand Library, in Evanston, IL.

Here are some original pieces with the publication they were done for:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is an example of his work for a defense contractor ad:

Here is an interior line illustration from an unknown pulp, circa 1952

Another trashy paperback cover:

We'll end our visit to this artist with some more examples of his pulp work (click to enlarge)(that's what she said):

 

 

 

 

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