Would You Believe Alan Riefe?

I had no idea Alan Riefe wrote for Dell, but the style on Get Smart #3-7 seemed familiar to me what with sound effects like Ker-blammo; finally the penny dropped when it reminded me of Riefe's run on Jerry Lewis at DC and I compared lists.

Riefe goes on to write for paperbacks in the Seventies, some under his own name, some under pseudonyms, and some under house names, on detective and Western series. One earlier comics-related credit is as sole writer on one of those magazines adding funny speech balloons to news and Hollywood photos, 1964-65's three-issue Talking Pictures.

Issues 1-4 are full-length stories. "Quilt While Ahead" is a pun on "Quit While Ahead"; the latter is not the actual title. Dick Giordano is ghosting the pencils on Get Smart 1; Sal Trapani takes the sole signature in the run on that issue (two times if you count #8's reprint). Tony Tallarico does no work on Get Smart.

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June/66	#1	The Hairless Hound Caper	w: ?  p: Dick Giordano   i: Sal Trapani
Sept/	#2	The Dumb Bunny	w: ?  p: Steve Ditko   i: Trapani
Nov/	#3	The Nuclear Gumball Caper	w: Alan Riefe  p: Ditko   i: Trapani
Jan/67	#4	The Great Baseball Caper	w: Riefe  a: Henry Scarpelli
Mar/	#5	The Great Fly Caper	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
		Quilt While Ahead	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
		The Double Purpose Porpoise Caper	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
Apr/	#6	The Kookie Kanine Kaper	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
		The Captured Copter Caper	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
		The Screwball Scooter Caper	w: Riefe  a Scarpelli
Aug/	#7	The 4000 Year Old Man Kaper	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
		The Airborne Bathysphere Caper	w: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
		The Infiltration Caper	w: Riefe  a Scarpelli