Early bowman baseball: Artist

[tedzan]

Jodi

The Charles Steinbacher (art Director) of the George Moll Advertising Agency that I have noted in my prior post here met with an untimely death in 1966.
He was the lead artist who designed many of the 1938 "Horrors of War" cards issued by GUM, Inc. (Blony bubble gum....the former Trademark of Bowman
Gum). This very dramatic and exceptionally artistic set of 240 Non-Sports cards depict the eventual horrors of WWII. This set of bubble gum cards was
the predecessor to the 1939-1941 Play Ball BB issues.

Another Bowman card artist was Tom King. My long-time hobby friend, Jack Weaver (professional artist), and I met with Tom back in the early 1990's at
his home. Tom and his wife (also a former Moll Agency employee) were a wealth of knowledge regarding the "good ole days" working for George Moll and
J. Warren Bowman.

With some amount of research, I can probably find more of the 12 artists that created a lot of the Bowman Sports and Non-Sports cards....no guaratees,
though.


Jodi
If you are interested, I have a newspaper article on Charles Steinbacher from The Philadelphia Inquirer (dated Sept 23, 1993) which I can send you.


TED Z