Mr. District Attorney: Eppure è Ed Dobrotka

Nowadays I can't compare this artist's work to any of what he did on Superman, because on the Grand Comics Database the Jerry Siegel records at one remove of the Shuster Shop work seem to be disappearing Ed Dobrotka from the feature and replacing him in the history books with the mistakenly mentioned Sam Citron.

Well, Dobrotka also worked on the Seven Soldiers of Victory at DC, and Captain Triumph and Betty Bates at Quality (Sam Citron worked there too, but on different features and later, in a style recognizable from his credited stories later still at ACG). Here is art from the Betty Bates story in Hit 40 (May 1946) to compare with panels from DC's radio show tie-in title Mr. District Attorney—ones from "The Million-Dollar Racket," "Station K-I-L-L," and "The Case of the Fat Crook." A very different inking style almost suffocates the pencils on Mr. District Attorney; still, art-spotters have discerned Dobrotka's style underneath, but—sigh—misattributed it to Citron.

France Edward Herron's scripts are distinctive enough to jump out at me while I'm primarily looking for the artist.

Mr. District Attorney stories
pencilled by Ed Dobrotka

Jan-Feb/48	#1	The Innocent Forger
		The Five Days That Shook a City
		The Million-Dollar Racket	w: Ed Herron
		The Spook Crooks
Mar-Apr/	#2	The Richest Man in Prison	w: Herron
		The Case of the Crooked Models
		The Case of the Blind Crook	w: Herron
		Station K-I-L-L
May-June/	#3	The Honest Convicts	w: Herron
		The Case of the Fat Crook	w: Herron
		In This Corner—Death	w: Herron
July-Aug/	#4	The Merchant of Death	w: Herron
		The False Code of Honor	w: Herron
		Death Writes a Forgery
		The Case of the Loan Shark
Sept-Oct/	#5	The Booby-Trap Killer
		The Gas-Man Sleuth	w: Herron
		The Counterfeit Medicine Mob