Most stories from Tomahawk 102 through 118 are drawn by Fred Ray, but for "The Attack of the 'Gator God" in #105 he only pencils; Bob Brown inks the story. Brown draws "Battle Hat" (#101), "The Frontier Frankenstein" (#103), and "The Ghost of Tomahawk" (#104) as well as the covers through #115. Irv Novick draws "The Mad Miser of Carlyle Castle" (#113).A letter column credits Jerry Grandenetti's pencils along with Joe Orlando's inks (credited for the only time in that combination that I'm aware of, after all the ghosting Grandenetti did for Orlando) on "Tomahawk: Guilty of Murder" (#118). Neal Adams draws the covers of #116-118.
The back-up stories not entered here are reprints; in "The League of Tomahawk Haters" in #113 (from #54), Dan Hunter has been minimally redrawn, recolored, and relettered into the young Ranger, Stovepipe.
Tomahawk 102-118
Writers (underlined=credited on story splash or in another issue's letters page)
| J-F/66 | #102 | The Dragon Killers | France Ed Herron |
| Bring Back a Prisoner—Alive | Bill Finger | ||
| M-A/ | #103 | The Frontier Frankenstein | Herron |
| The Super-Ranger with Nine Lives | Herron | ||
| M-J/ | #104 | The Fearful Freak of Dunham's Dungeon | Herron |
| Take Me Alive | Finger | ||
| J-A/ | #105 | The Attack of the 'Gator God | Finger |
| Hold That Bridge | Herron | ||
| S-O/ | #106 | The Ghost of Tomahawk | Herron |
| One-Man Fort | Herron | ||
| N-D/ | #107 | The Tribe below the Earth | Herron |
| Last Stand of the 3-in-1 Ranger | Herron | ||
| J-F/67 | #108 | New Boss for the Rangers | Herron |
| M-A/ | #109 | The Caveman Ranger | Finger |
| The Toy Tiger | Herron | ||
| M-J/ | #110 | Tomahawk Must Die | Finger |
| J-A/ | #111 | Vengeance of the Devil-Dogs | Herron |
| S-O/ | #112 | The Rangers vs. Tomahawk | Finger |
| N-D/ | #113 | The Mad Miser of Carlyle Castle | George Kashdan |
| J-F/68 | #114 | The Terrible Power of Chief Iron-Hands | Carl Wessler |
| Traitor of the Totem Pole | Finger | ||
| M-A/ | #115 | The Deadly Flaming Ranger | Wessler |
| M-J/ | #116 | The Last Mile of Massacre Trail | Wessler |
| The Making of a Hero | Wessler | ||
| J-A/ | #117 | The Rangers' Last Stand | Dave Wood & Murray Boltinoff |
| The Gauntlet of Doom | Wessler | ||
| S-O/ | #118 | Tomahawk: Guilty of Murder | Kashdan |
| The Ranger Who Wouldn't Fight | Herron |
Splash page credits begin consistently with #119; the one story thereafter presented uncredited (drawn by Frank Thorne) is this one:
| M-A/70 | #127 | Big Anvil's Big Lie | Kashdan |
It's become part of comic book lore that Bill Finger was a slow writer; something which I find very hard to believe, especially given he was writing for DC, Quality, and possibly others, all at the same time in the 1940s and 1950s.
ReplyDeleteExactly so, Lee; history has been written by the winners.
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked, do you hear me, shocked that anyone at DC Comics would ever knowingly lie about or slander a freelancer!
ReplyDeleteRound up the usual suspects.
ReplyDeleteHe was definitely writing for Timely and probably for Novelty and Lev Gleason back then, too.
ReplyDeleteMartin do you have any characteristic writing traits of Ed Herron, apart from his "kwaaama" please?
ReplyDeleteOne that jumps out when he uses it is "Ulps"--so you have to be careful on series both Herron and Otto Binder wrote (if I recall, Herron was using it at Fawcett in the early 40s before Binder picked it up there). Herron uses variations like "Ullps" and "Uuulps" that Binder doesn't.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for that, Martin.
DeleteI must bear that in mind as their writing efforts on Superman (at least) overlapped for some years, according to Bail's "Who's Who" online.
A search of the GCD reveals only one solo Superman story (S/man #98's "Superman's Secret Life!", July 1955) by Herron.