Bob Oksner would have a 66-issue run on The
Adventures of Jerry Lewis from
61 (Nov-Dec/60)
to 126 (May-June/71) if it weren't broken up by Neal Adams' doing
101-104 in 1967—and this artist, whoever he may be, drawing issue 80 (Jan-Feb/64).
Any idea who this is?
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Don Segall at Charlton--One Story Found
Back in antediluvian days, the only two credits superhero fans knew for
Don Segall were the Creeper origin in Showcase
73 (March-April/68) and
the story in Inferior Five
8 (May-June/68). If I'm recallling correctly, some time later in a
letter in one
of the fanzines—The
Comic Reader?—Mark
Evanier expanded upon Segall's writing career—mentioning his
working in television and, beyond DC in comics, for Dell and Charlton.
It's taken this long for me to stumble across a Charlton story by Don Segall: the Young Doctors back-up "Twenty-Four Hour Duty" in Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love 69 (Apr/63).
The use of "It seems" in the blurb is mirrored in the inside front cover one-pagers in Dell's Calvin and the Colonel 1 (Four-Color 1354, Apr-June/62) and 2 (July-Sept)—"It seems" in the first and "It looks like" in the second. "The boys" as in the final caption is something Segall uses likewise at Dell in, for instance, The Frogmen 7 (Nov-Jan/64).
The logical place to look for other Don Segall stories at Charlton would be in the Young Doctors' own title. I don't see such obvious clues to his writing there, but #1 and 2 are certainly not by Joe Gill, who takes over by #4 (I haven't seen #3).
Is Charlton trying to cash in on two particular doctor TV shows at once with the Young Doctors? I'd be shocked—shocked—to think so.
It's taken this long for me to stumble across a Charlton story by Don Segall: the Young Doctors back-up "Twenty-Four Hour Duty" in Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love 69 (Apr/63).
The use of "It seems" in the blurb is mirrored in the inside front cover one-pagers in Dell's Calvin and the Colonel 1 (Four-Color 1354, Apr-June/62) and 2 (July-Sept)—"It seems" in the first and "It looks like" in the second. "The boys" as in the final caption is something Segall uses likewise at Dell in, for instance, The Frogmen 7 (Nov-Jan/64).
The logical place to look for other Don Segall stories at Charlton would be in the Young Doctors' own title. I don't see such obvious clues to his writing there, but #1 and 2 are certainly not by Joe Gill, who takes over by #4 (I haven't seen #3).
Is Charlton trying to cash in on two particular doctor TV shows at once with the Young Doctors? I'd be shocked—shocked—to think so.
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