Tomahawk 83-101 Writers

When Murray Boltinoff took over editing Tomahawk he changed the format from three stories per issue to a double-length one and a back-up (with #95 a full-lengther). #83, his first issue, introduces the "G.I.s of 1775," Tomahawk's Rangers, as supporting cast for the lead stories, but through #93 the back-ups still team Tomahawk with his original young partner Dan Hunter. The use of some fantastic elements carries over from Jack Schiff's stewardship.

Boltinoff didn't make any great change in the creative personnel; on this run the feature's mainstay artist Fred Ray drew all but one story, and one-time Tomahawk artist Bob Brown every cover, as well as the lead story in #98 and the backup in #101. Ed Herron and Dave Wood had been sharing the writing chores for a number of years under Schiff.

Boltinoff credits Herron, Ray, and letterer Stan Starkman every so often in the letters columns. The sure sign of Ed Herron's work in the Sixties is the sound effect Kwhamma; note the "a" at the end that the other DC writers at the time don't use. Some lettercol credits for Herron are for individual stories and some are general; he wrote most of this run, but not every single story before Bill Finger's first credit.

Tomahawk 83-101
Writers (underlined=credited on story or in letters page)

N-D/62	#83	20 against the Tribe	France Ed   Herron
		The Mighty Hand of Chief Great Storm	Herron
J-F/63	#84	There's a Coward among the Rangers	Herron
		Miss Liberty's All-Girl Army	Dave Wood
M-A/	#85	The Whispering War	Herron
		The Giant from Inside Earth	Herron
M-J/	#86	The Rangers vs. King Colosso	Herron
		Lord Shilling—Yankee Ally	Herron
J-A/	#87	The Secrets of Sgt. Witch Doctor	Herron
		The Tick Tock Terror	Herron
S-O/	#88	The Rangers Who Held Back the Earth	Herron
		Miss Liberty Rides Again	Herron
N-D/	#89	The Terrible Tree-Man	Herron
		Hold That Bridge	Herron
J-F/64	#90	The Prisoner in the Pit	Herron
		Booby-Trap Town	Herron
M-A/	#91	The Tribe below the Earth	Herron
		The Straw Soldiers of Devil Pass	Herron
M-J/	#92	The Petrified Sentry of Peaceful Valley	Herron
		Target—Tomahawk	Herron
J-A/	#93	The Return of King Colosso	Herron
		Dead Silence	Herron
S-O/	#94	Rip Van Ranger	Herron
		Heartbreak Hill	Herron
N-D/	#95	The Tribe beneath the Sea	Herron
J-F/65	#96	The Ranger Killers	Herron
		The Battle That Never Died	Herron
M-A/	#97	The Prisoner behind the Bull's-Eye	Herron
		Coonskin Lottery	Herron
M-J/	#98	The Pied Piper Rangers	Bill Finger
		The Man in the Muzzle	Herron
J-A/	#99	The Rangers vs. King Cobweb	Herron
		The Battle of Little Ben	Finger
S-O/	#100	The Weird Water-Tomahawk	Herron
		The Ghost of Trigger Hill	Finger
N-D/	#101	Tomahawk, Enemy Spy	Herron
		Battle Hat	Finger