Hey Steve! I agree with you on the artwork from '54 - we had a little discussion about it in another thread. I believe Dave Hornish referenced an article that said the artwork for 1955 was done by Irwin Hasen (who was the cartoonist who drew the Dondi comic strip and did artwork for DC), and we thought that he likely did the artwork for 1954 as well. I think the bigger sized cards really lent themselves to comic strip style back artwork.
The seller that was offering a few of the back artworks from 54 had put some fairly high prices on the pieces - other than the Aaron that I picked up, I don't believe any of the others sold.
Happy collecting!
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