Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 1 of 3)
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Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 1 of 3)
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 2 of 3) <-- You are here!
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 3 of 3)

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Over the next couple of days (if not sooner), I plan to post all of Aldren Watson’s illustrations from volume two of the 1948 Doubleday & Company edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books, designed by Oscar Ogg. I bought my battered copy of the book a little less than a year ago at the annual book sale organized to benefit the Regina Symphony Orchestra. My copy is no collector’s item, but on the other hand, because it is in rough condition, I did not feel too bad about pressing it down on my flatbed scanner to take the following pictures:


Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 1 of 3) <-- You are here!
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 2 of 3)
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 3 of 3)


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Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 1 of 3) <-- You are here!
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 2 of 3)
Look Here: Aldren Watson illustrates THE JUNGLE BOOKS: VOLUME TWO (Part 3 of 3)

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From Savage Combat Tales vol. 2, no. 2 (April 1975), here’s “Warhawk: ‘Chennault Must Die!!’” with script by Archie Goodwin and art by Alex Toth:

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From Men Against Crime #4 (April 1951), here’s “The Death Touch of Chick Rigney,” with art by Louis Zansky:

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The above page of original art was produced by Jack Rickard for a piece called “Modern Wildlife Species” that appeared in the paperback collection, Mad Looks at the Future (1978). If you like it, it’s available right now, cheap, on ebay from a very reliable seller (not me).

Here in the Queen City, the end of Christmas vacation is today; school starts tomorrow.

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If you haven’t yet sent thank-you letters for the gifts you received at Christmas, Nigel Molesworth has a time-saving solution for your consideration:

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[Source: Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, How to Be Topp: A guide to Sukcess for tiny pupils, including all there is to kno about SPACE (London: Max Parrish, 1954). The scan is from my personal copy.]

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