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Topps Baseball Card Cartoonists – 2nd Inning (Wayback Whensday)

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In “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons, Part I“, we examined the cartoons made by the small number of artists for whom we possessed prior documentation of their work on baseball cards for Topps. In that introductory article I also announced that subsequent installments would provide identifications of five previously anonymous Topps baseball cartoonists. Here in Part II, we’ll look at the evidence for identifying three heretofore unsuspected artists who drew baseball cartoons for Topps in the years 1956, 1958, 1962, and 1968, with a promise of more to come!

Wesley Morse
Bob Powell
Tom Sutton

In “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part II” Eric White for Sports Collectors Daily gives some convincing arguments and evidence that Wesley Morse, Bob Powell, and Tom Sutton were among the anonymous cartoonists that contributed to the Topps Baseball cards of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Comments 3

  1. Great read! Its fascinating to finally know who drew some of those classic Topps cartoons. Eric Whites research is convincing, and its cool to see names like Morse, Powell, and Sutton getting the recognition they deserve. Looking forward to learning about more hidden artists!

  2. Agreed: very good, highly persuasive read.

  3. This is great comics scholarship.

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