Star Spangled War Writers Before Kanigher

Star Spangled War Stories was the one DC war comic not edited by Robert Kanigher at the start, so there are no records extant for its first issues' writers and artists. Reportedly it was Murray Boltinoff, solo, behind the indicia's editing credit to Whitney Ellsworth.

This page from "The Sad Sack Squad" in #9 provides four or five clues to Jack Miller. In some other SSWS stories he uses a sound effect he doesn't need that much in mystery or superhero scripts: Peeow for the sound of a shell. As usual, there are other stories in this run that I'm only half-convinced could be Miller's or Herron's; maybe on another pass I'll be better sure of some and add to the list.

Kanigher takes over editing with issue 13. The one story whose writer is not on his records, "Gen. Hunger" in #19, evidently is inventory from Boltinoff. The art is by Howard Sherman, who had a couple of stories in the earliest issues of SSWS but none that I can think of otherwise in the Kanigher books.

Early Star Spangled War Stories writers

Nov/52	#3	"Hundred-Mission" Mitchell	Jack Miller
		Booby-Trap	Ed Herron
Dec/	#4	Buy Your Way Out	Herron
Jan/53	#5	Take Hill 21--Or Else!	Herron
		Combat Cowboy	Miller
Feb/	#6	Operation Davy Jones	Herron
Mar/	#7	The Rookie Ranger	Miller
Apr/	#8	I Was a Hollywood Soldier	Miller
May/	#9	The Sad Sack Squad	Miller
		Diary of a Dogface	Miller
		Double Trouble	Miller
Jun/	#10	The G.I. and the Gambler	Miller
		The Last Bullet	Miller
Jul/	#11	The Flag and the Fort	Miller
		The Fighting Hick	Miller
		The Girl They Left Behind	Miller
Mar/54	#19	Gen. Hunger	Miller