Batman 121-130 Writers
| Feb/59 | 121 | The Body in the Bat-Cave | Bill Finger |
| Crime Rides the Rails | Finger | ||
| The Ice Crimes of Mr. Zero | Dave Wood | ||
| Mar/ | 122 | Prisoners of the Sargasso Sea | Finger |
| The Cross-Country Crimes | Finger | ||
| The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman | Finger | ||
| May/ | 123 | The Secret of the Everglades | Finger |
| The Joker's Practical Jokes | Finger | ||
| The Fugitive Batman | Finger | ||
| June/ | 124 | The Invisible Batman | Finger |
| The Return of Signalman | Finger | ||
| The Mystery Seeds from Space | Wood | ||
| Aug/ | 125 | The Secret Life of Bat-Hound | Finger |
| King Batman the First | Finger | ||
| The Last Days of Batman | Finger | ||
| Sept/ | 126 | The Mystery of the 49th Star | Finger |
| The Menace of the Firefly | Finger | ||
| The Batman Lighthouse | Finger | ||
| Nov/ | 127 | Batman's Super-Partner | Jerry Coleman |
| The Second Life of Batman | Finger | ||
| The Hammer of Thor | Finger | ||
| Dec/ | 128 | The Interplanetary Batman | Finger |
| The Million Dollar Puzzle | Finger | ||
| The Batman Baby | Finger | ||
| Feb/60 | 129 | The Web of the Spinner | Finger |
| The Man from Robin's Past | Finger | ||
| Merriweather Jones—Crime Prophet | Coleman | ||
| Mar/ | 130 | Batman's Deadly Birthday | Finger |
| The Master of Weapons | Finger | ||
| The Hand from Nowhere | Finger |
Martin, I have never read whatever happened to Jerry Coleman. It's almost as though he disappeared off the face of the earth. A bit like the Wood brothers, except that I believe they died relatively young.
ReplyDeleteNice to see some new (to me) Dick Sprang art.
So little was known about Jerry Coleman, Lee, that by the Eighties the sole story he was known to have written was "The Super-Family from Krypton" in SUPERBOY 95; that was the only handle I had on his style.
ReplyDeleteMartin, as you probably know, very occasionally, Mort Weisinger would mention the writer's name in the lettercols of his books. I know of at least one instance (maybe, but doubtfully, more) where he credited Jerry Coleman as the author of a story; this MAY even be that story, in Superboy #95.
ReplyDeleteLee, now that I look, I find that the Coleman credit is indeed given in the letter column of SUPERBOY 97, where 95 is discussed.
ReplyDeleteDo we know anything at all about Coleman, other than he worked for DC from 1951-1962, and possibly wrote the text filler credited to a Jerry Coleman at Spark in 1946. Did Weisinger ever say anything about him? He apparently didn't write pulps, didn't write books. Not the sports guy, as Wesinger would have mentioned that.
ReplyDeleteJake Oster tells me that Coleman was primarily a high school English teacher, writing comic books on the side. A school paper article mentioned his writing Superman, which shows he felt better about letting people know he was a comic book writer than Stan Lee did at the time, per Stan's own anecdote.
ReplyDeleteHello! What high school did he teach at? Where might someone find this school paper article?
DeleteThe info from Jake Oster was in an email in regard to this post, if I recall correctly, so I got it in 2013 and it's long gone; at this point I can't recall the source of his data. Sorry!
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