Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
I was just looking at these two pages in STRANGE ADVENTURES 210 in 1968, reprinted from a 1946 issue of REAL FACT COMICS, by artist Virgil Finlay.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Strange-Adventures-1950/Issue-210?id=47141#20

Like so many artists, Finlay began in pulp magazine illustration before doing Golden Age/pre-Code work in comics, and then more lucrative SF and Book illustration. I have two hardcover books of Finlay's illustrations. Beautiful and ornately detailed work, even his comics work.

But Finlay died rather young at age 56, in 1971.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Finlay

Reprinted from REAL FACT COMICS 4, Sept-Oct 1946.
Finlay did work in REAL FACT COMICS 4-12.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Real-Fact-Comics/Issue-4?id=105500#18

Here is a list of the other work by Virgil Finlay in comics:
https://www.comics.org/penciller/name/finlay/sort/chrono/

Finlay is better known as an illustrator in pulp magazines and books going back to the 1930's work of Robert E. Howard and H P Lovecraft, but Finlay also did a fair amount of work in comics throughout the 1940's and 1950's. And from the pages I sampled, quite nice contributions, way above the norm in comics of that time.