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Fred Guardineer

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404:...a true nonpareil, an artist whose style was unmistakably his own. ... His style was almost fully formed from the start. He seems always to have thought in terms of the entire page, never the individual panel. Each of his pages is a thoughtfully designed whole, giving the impression sometimes that Guardineer is arranging a series of similar snapshots into an attractive overall pattern, a personal design that will both tell the story clearly and be pleasing to the eye.... 172: 422:
located him "and became the first of many collectors to pay what Guardineer considered tidy sums to re-create some of his old covers." Guardineer again lost contact with the comics community until 1998, when a comics fan found him in northern
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April 1937). Through that year, he continued writing and drawing such short features in a variety of genres in some of the medium's first comics, including Centaur's
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best known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s during what historians and fans call the
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Guardineer followed Sullivan to the editor's next venture, the comic-book company
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Guardineer's first known comics credits appear in several one- to three-page
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and comic-Western stories, and in spot illustrations for a text story, in
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itself, Guardineer contributed two features to the seminal
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wrote that during Guardineer's years away from comics,
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feature "Dan Hastings" before going freelance in 1938.
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The Durango Kid
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