It would also make it easier for the editor if he wants to keep the panel descriptions from the original writer but for whatever reason get a second writer to replace the text. According to his records, Paul S. Newman sold "His Brother's Keeper" in Wild Western #8 to Timely. But from the style, Ernie Hart wrote it. I would figure Newman's left-hand side of the script was used and then Hart did a replacement right-hand side. (Occasionally Timely bought scripts for ongoing strips that weren't even "salvaged" like this--a good ten Captain Americas from William Woolfolk, per his records, were paid for but then never published.)
Here's what makes me assign the final script of "His Brother's Keeper" to Hart: "We pick up the trail again" in that story and then in the Ant-Man story "Music to Scream By" in Tales to Astonish 47 (Sep/63), credited as H. E. Huntley. I'd be a touch less than 100% certain only if I ever ran across Newman using the authorial "we" anywhere.
UPDATE: Robin Snyder tells me he's deleting "His Brother's Keeper" from the Newman bibliography, as Paul S. Newman's earliest credits were reconstructed based on having the books in his files (for most of Newman's career, commencing soon after, his records contain much more corroborating material). "He advised me to delete any credit if there was the slightest doubt that it was his. He was aware that some writers also kept records and he preferred to give up any credit if he or I thought it possible he was mistaken."
Kid Colt writers in All Western Winners
| Win/48-Apr/49 | 2-4 | Kid Colt stories | E. H. Hart |
in Western Winners
| June/-Aug/49 | 5-6 | Kid Colt stories | Hart |
in Best Western
| June/-Aug/49 | 58-59 | Kid Colt stories | Hart |
in Wild Western
| Nov/48-Jan/49 | 4-5 | Kid Colt stories | Hart |
| May/ | 7 | The Curse of the Chinese Idol | Hart (credited in sneak) |
| July/ | 8 | His Brother's Keeper | plot: Paul S. Newman |
| dialogue: Hart | |||
| Oct/ | 9 | The End of the Trail | Hart |
| Feb/-Aug/52 | 20-23 | Kid Colt stories | Leon Lazarus |
| Oct/ | 24 | Whip Savage [2 parts] | Hart |
| Dec/52-Sep/53 | 25-29 | Kid Colt stories [2 each, 25-26] | Lazarus |
| Oct/ | 30 | Justice in His Holsters | Hart |
| Dec/53-Sep/57 | 31-57 | Kid Colt stories | Joe Gill |
in Two-Gun Kid
| Nov/49 | 10 | The Hunter and the Hunted | Hart |
| June/54 | 14 | [The New Deputy] | Gill |
| Aug/ | 15 | The New Sheriff | Lazarus |
| Sep/54-Feb/55 | 16-21 | Kid Colt stories | Gill |
in Two Gun Western
| Aug/51-June/52 | 9-14 | Kid Colt stories | Lazarus |
in Black Rider
| Jan/-Mar/55 | 26-27 | Kid Colt stories | Gill |
Waiting for your rundown on Rawhide Kid!
ReplyDeleteI'll move RK to the top of the Atlas Western to-do list and see what can be found.
ReplyDeleteWho wrote the Kid Colt story in Wild Western #6? Is that unknown?
ReplyDeleteYes, it contains exclamations and sound effects that I can't match up with any other stories at the moment--certainly none by Ernie Hart.
DeleteWhen compling his records, Newman would call fans who had copies of titles that he wrote. In my reading him stories, he could tell if he wrote them either by the plot or the words, One didnt have to go too far to have him say that was enough. The Timely-Atlas westerns are not comics that I read to him.
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