See if any Dick Wood or Bill Finger flags jump out at you in these tiers from #84's "The End of Blackhawk Island" and "The Race of Doom."
Unless I've missed an anomalous story, by this point Dick Dillin (pencils) and Chuck Cuidera (inks) are doing all the art on Blackhawk, including the covers. The Chop Chop back-ups by other hands are reprints.
Blackhawk Writers 1955
Jan/55 | 84 | The Dreaded Brain Beam | Dick Wood |
The End of Blackhawk Island | Wood | ||
The Race of Doom | Bill Finger | ||
Feb/ | 85 | The Fiendish Impersonator | Wood |
The Fire-Wheel | Wood | ||
The Super-Sonic Menace | Wood | ||
Mar/ | 86 | The Human Torpedoes | Wood |
The Weapon for Conquest | Wood | ||
Suicide Decoy | Wood | ||
Apr/ | 87 | Inferno from the Sky | Wood |
The Sea Wolf | Wood | ||
The Ordeal of a Blackhawk | Wood | ||
May/ | 88 | Thunder, the Indestructible | Wood |
The Incredible Silencer | Wood | ||
The Phantom Sniper | Wood | ||
June/ | 89 | The Super Communists | Wood |
The Fight for Survival | Wood | ||
The Ghost Raiders of the Sky | Wood | ||
July/ | 90 | The Storm King | Wood |
The Bubbles of Doom | Wood | ||
Villainess Who Smashed the Blackhawk Team | Wood | ||
Aug/ | 91 | Treason in the Underground | Wood |
The Statue That Attacked Blackhawk Island | Wood | ||
The Steel Colossus | Finger | ||
Sept/ | 92 | Prisoners of the Black Dungeon | Wood |
The World Traitor | Wood | ||
The Flying Cutlass | Wood | ||
Oct/ | 93 | Garg the Destroyer | Joe Millard |
The Floating Fortress | Wood | ||
Breaking through the Time Barrier | Wood | ||
Nov/ | 94 | Web of the Black Widow | Millard |
Blind Victory | Millard | ||
The Prophet of Doom | Millard | ||
Dec/ | 95 | Madame Fury, Queen of Pirates | Millard |
Terra, the Trapper | Millard | ||
Lhala, Tigress of the Desert | Millard |
I gather "suffering caesar!" is a typical Dick Woodism?
ReplyDeleteIt is; "Wha-aat" is the Bill Fingerism--a spelling/hyphenization not used by Wood or Millard.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, last night I was reading the story, "I Found My Love in a Dream World" (DC, Young Love #111, Aug.-Sep. 1974), and at the bottom of page 43 the protagonist exclaims "Wha-at?"
ReplyDeleteThe story is uncredited (both in the comics, and on the GCD), and is reprinted from Young Love, Mar.-Apr. 1967, where it was titled "I Never Gave Love a Chance".
Jerry Bail's "Who's Who" doesn't credit Finger as writing for Young Love, but I guess the possibility is there, especially given Finger was out of the job of Batman writer about that time, and was probably looking for work, even in an unusual (for him) genre.
Lee, the question is whether any of the other Young Love writers at the time like Barbara Friedlander or Phyllis Reed might have used "Wha-at." The exact spelling "Wha-aat" would bring the odds up in Finger's favor. Murray Boltinoff may have been bucking the tide giving Finger work on Challengers and Tomahawk after Batman, but it would have been nice if other DC editors did, too.
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