With issue 14 it switches from the West Coast offices of Western Publishing to the East Coast. In the next years there are stories by Paul S. Newman, Arnold Drake, and Steve Skeates. One of the artists known to the Who's Who is John Langton. Since he did a lot of work for Cracked, his style is easy enough to pick out. (The signed tier is from "A Cracked Alphabet Book About Politicians" in #70, August 1968.)
I'm missing a few issues, but #14 through 47 does seem to be the range of Langton's original work on the title.
John Langton art on Yosemite Sam
| June/73 | 14 | Shore 'Nuff |
| A Hair Raising Experience | ||
| Aug/ | 15 | Sing a Song of Pirates |
| Steer Clear | ||
| Sep/ | 16 | For Snoring Out Loud |
| Oil's Well That Ends Well | ||
| Dec/ | 18 | End of the Line |
| Feb/74 | 19 | How the West Was Won |
| Apr/ | 20 | Man Overboard |
| Noah's Ark Is Sunk | ||
| June/ | 21 | Sam's Slapjacks |
| Aug/ | 22 | Friends to the End |
| The Last of the Bad Men | ||
| Oct/ | 23 | Rioting Rivals |
| Wanted! | ||
| Dec/ | 25 | The Secret Formuls |
| Feb/75 | 26 | Keep Dreaming |
| Apr/ | 27 | It's a Gas! |
| Bum's Away | ||
| June/ | 28 | Seaweed Sal |
| July/ | 30 | The World's Greatest Mustache |
| Sep/ | 31 | Lucky Day |
| Sea Scout Rout | ||
| Dec/ | 33 | If It Isn't Christopher Columbus |
| Feb/76 | 34 | Mop Art |
| June/ | 36 | Model Behavior |
| July/ | 37 | High Seas |
| The Old Shell Game | ||
| Radioactive Rabbit | ||
| Aug/ | 38 | Laboratory Retriever |
| Sep/ | 39 | Wind Wagon Sam |
| Oct/ | 40 | Take Pity on a Pioneer |
| June/77 | 44 | Fat's the Way It Goes |
| Aug/ | 46 | Wanted |
| Sep/ | 47 | Policeman's Brawl |
Yosemite Sam was the only Warners comic I didnt follow that well - so I do appreciate the listing of Langton stories. Now what about John Costanza - and did he letter the stories he penciled?
ReplyDeleteOn the GCD I see that he did, but evidently he lettered ones he didn't draw as well--for instance, he's credited with art and lettering on all four stories in #34, and I can see that he could have drawn the last three, but the first is definitely by Langton. I will look more closely for his work on the title now.
ReplyDeleteHow about writer ID's?
ReplyDeleteAt some point, I hope. Those mentions of Newman and Drake come from my noting down Newman? and Drake? a few times as I powered through the run of YS primarily looking for the artists.
ReplyDeleteThere was a very ugly internal fight at Western when YOSEMITE SAM and TWEETY & SYLVESTER were moved from the West Coast office to the East Coast office. The editors in Los Angeles were furious.
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned Don R. Christensen. Want to see him? He was in a video I embedded on my site.
http://www.newsfromme.com/2017/07/29/todays-video-link-2528/
Thanks for the link, Mark. I guess Don R. Christensen's records are available, so his scripts are known and I don't have to track them down; but as I'm looking through, for instance, the pre-Gold Key Warner Brothers strips, his work is distinctive enough to jump out even without a list of writing characteristics in front of me.
ReplyDeleteThanks for ID'ing this artist, Martin. Was wondering for the longest time as to who this fellow was.
ReplyDeletePS: Where can one find Carl Wessler's records?
Robin Snyder has printed a lot of the data from the records in Robin Snyder's The Comics, and much of that is reflected in the Grand Comics Database.
ReplyDeleteLangton’s Cracked artwork is beautiful
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