For comic books Marks wrote mostly fiction text pieces, but she did write a few comics stories. The Zany Giraffe series in Novelty's, later Premium's, Frisky Fables is hers. Although the installments were published without titles, these are her working ones. The only byline on each was "art by Jim Adams."
Zany Giraffe's strip appeared on-and-off. I believe these are all of the strip's original appearances. There are a handful of scripts in the USM collection that seem to have gone unpublished: Zany Earns a Badge; Zany Giraffe, American; A New Twist; and Zany Takes a Stand. I can't reconcile any with the Spots story. [UPDATE: It wasn't labeled as a Zany story in the collection; here's Marks's working title replacing my description. The character is named Spots in the published story itself; Spot is the dog in Novelty's Speck, Spot and Sis series.] However, the collection of papers may not not complete; there are some bylined text pieces of hers published whose typescripts are not at USM (at least under the published titles).
Zany Giraffe in Frisky Fables
written by Mickey Klar Marks
| Win/46 | v1 #3 | Zany Engineers a Rescue |
| Apr/ | v2 #1 | Zany Solves a Mystery |
| July/ | v2 #4 | Zany Furthers Education |
| Sept/ | v2 #6 | Zany Almost Talks |
| Oct/ | v2 #7 | Zany and the Tigers |
| Nov/ | v2 #8 | Zany Starts a Trading Post |
| Feb/47 | v2 #11 | Zany Debunks a Ghost |
| Apr/ | v3 #1 | Zany Sticks His Neck Out |
| May/ | v3 #2 | The Taffy Pull |
| Aug/ | v3 #5 | Spot Sees Spots Before His Eyes |
| Oct/ | v3 #7 | Zany Giraffe Becomes Mayor |
| Dec/ | v3 #9 | Zany Helps Heat a House |
| Feb-Mar/49 | v4 #7 | Zany Stars in a New Role |
| Aug-Sept/ | v5 #3 | Zany Turns Nautical |
i've made printouts off the site back in 2002 and every so often added credits to the GCD. Many of the comics still aren't in the GCD. Two of her Timely humor Annie Oakley's have been tentatively ID-ed for example. Who she sold the stories to is interesting, for example Beck-Costanza (misspelled by USM) bought some.
ReplyDeleteI see that a certain number of the text pieces in the USM collection were published anonymously. I looked for a couple of the ones sold to "Bech and Cortaza" or "Bill and Cortazar" (USM acknowledges with "(?)" that those are the best they can decipher the studio name) and I found those pieces anonymous too--in Anglo-American comics.
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