Thursday, June 13, 2013

Bible Stories, 1999

(Continued from 1998)

The story of "Moses" continues.  This marked the 8th time the BOYS' LIFE series would cover this material.

An era comes to a close for BIBLE STORIES.  These 12 episodes were the final ones by Frank Bolle, who illustrated the series for 20-1/2 YEARS, longer than anyone else, and quite probably longer than anyone on ANY comics feature in the magazine.

In his time on the series, Bolle had done some of the most-detailed versions of most of the stories seen in the magazine-- and done almost all of them TWICE.  It's probably just as well he got off when he did.  Starting with the July 1999 episode, he began doing the same stories for the 3rd time.

The trend of REUSED text and NEW art continues. If you click "Open Link In New Window" for each pair, you can flip between them and compare.

October 1978  /  January 1989  /  January 1999
November 1978  /  February 1989  /  February 1999
December 1978  /  March 1989  /  March 1999
January 1979  /  April 1989  /  April 1999
February 1979  /  May 1989  /  May 1999
March 1979  /  June 1989  /  June 1999

At this point, Bolle wound up doing the same episodes for the 3rd time!

April 1979  /  July 1989  /  July 1999
May 1979  /  August 1989  /  August 1999
June 1979  /  September 1989  /  September 1999
July 1979  /  October 1989  /  October 1999
August 1979  /  November 1989  /  November 1999
September 1979  /  December 1989  /  December 1999

Story by (??)  /  Art by FRANK BOLLE
BOYS' LIFE  /  January 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  February 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  March 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  April 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  May 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  June 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  July 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  August 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  September 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  October 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  November 1999
BOYS' LIFE  /  December 1999
(Continued in 2000)

Copyright (C) BOY'S LIFE Magazine
Restorations by Henry Kujawa

Visit Frank Bolle's website!
See a collection of Frank Bolle's TIM HOLT covers at this very blog!

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