Marion Sitton : Avon, Close-Up, Fawcett, Fox, Hillman and Quality

After Marion was let go by Timely in January of 1950, he began to freelance all around the industry. Here is a sampling of his work in other company's titles. Marion does complete pencils and inks, with the result being the art is often light-years ahead of the Timely romance work seen in the last post. Away from the constricting 1949 Timely house style grid, I'll especially draw your attention to the Close-Up DARLING LOVE #5 and Fawcett ROMANTIC SECRETS #6 splashes. They are just beautifully composed romance splashes and the best of the bunch below. I'll include the covers to the books, which he did "not" draw.

AVON 

E.R. Kintsler cover

BLACK HAWK INDIAN (nn) 1951 p.1

FAMOUS GANGSTERS #1 (Apr/51) p.1

E.R. Kintsler cover

KIT CARSON (nn) #1 (1950) p.1

CLOSE-UP

DARLING LOVE #5 (June-July/50) p.1

FAWCETT

ROMANTIC SECRETS #6 (May50) p.1

 ROMANTIC STORY #5 (July/50) p.1

  

 FOX

SPECTACULAR STORIES MAGAZINE #4 (July/50) p.1

HILLMAN

AIRBOY COMICS vol 8, #1 (#84) (Feb51) p.1 

CRIME DETECTIVE #18 (Jan-Feb51) p.1

CRIME DETECTIVE #19 (Mar-Apr/51)  p.1

REAL CLUE CRIME STORIES (Feb51) p.1

QUALITY

RANGE ROMANCES #5 (Aug50) p.1