Jack Oleck in Marvel Tales and Journey into Mystery

Jack Oleck's writing style is recognizable in the Had-He-But-Known phrasing on the first page of his first story for Atlas's Journey into Mystery: Monty could still think, then...he could still reason...

The main writer for the Atlas fantasy anthologies by this time is Carl Wessler, with rather more stories than Oleck; Wessler's are known from Robin Snyder's transcribing the writer's records in History of the Comics.

Marvel Tales was cancelled with #159 in the Atlas Implosion in 1957; Journey into Mystery was too, with #47, but was reinstated a year later with a few issues out of inventory (although no Oleck scripts) before the beginning of the proto-Marvel lineup (much more work from Jack Kirby, for one) leading into the monster phase.

Jack Oleck scripts
in Journey into Mystery

Aug/56	#37	The Voice in the Night
Nov/	#40	How Harry Escaped
Dec/	#41	I Switched Bodies
Jan/57	#42	Humans...Keep Out!
Feb/	#43	It's Waiting for Me
Apr/	#45	What Happened to Harrison
May/	#46	Voodoo
June/	#47	Bring Back My Body
		He Sits in the Fog!

in Marvel Tales

July/56	#148	The Despot
Aug/	#149	The Thief
Nov/	#152	When Mongorr Appeared
Dec/	#153	It Can't Be Done!
		The Last Man Alive
Feb/57	#155	Man in a Trance
Mar/	#156	Forbidden...Keep Out!
Apr/	#157	The Man Who Was Replaced
		The Man Who Changed
Aug/	#159	The Last Look

A Mysterious Script

Writer Burt Frohman kept records by filing away his comic-book scripts with copies of the issues they were published in; when the Frohman collection was sold off, the scripts were included with the relevant comics. Doc V. shows a few Frohman scripts for Atlas in his Timely-Atlas-Comics post on Stan Lee in the Timely years (use Find twice for Frohman).

This is a script page that was on the Internet by itself (at this point I can't recall where); the stapled-on note to the artist creates a problem in connecting the script with the published story, as the note covers up most of the recipient and the title. The publisher name seems to end in "Productions." (Click for a better view).

When I tried searching for the name of the protagonist, Les Everhurd, on the Grand Comics Database, I came up with nothing; he hadn't been entered as a character. Finally--a few days ago--I Googled the name, and found it elsewhere on the Internet--MyComicShop did enter Everhurd's name in the description. That guessed-at "Productions" may be "Lev Gleason Publiactions"--with the a and the c switched in the heat of typing. The instructions to the artist to leave the top third of the page blank show that this was commissioned as a lead story, as that's where that warning box went for a few months in the Lev Gleason books.

Interestingly enough, although this is supposed to be the only existing copy of the script, it doesn't show any of the editing done to the dialog/caption before it got lettered. In fact all the dialog was dropped, but most of it Frohman reuses when this scene appears toward the end of the story.

Burt Frohman Script Seen Online

Crime and Punishment--Lev Gleason

Nov/52

#56

A Dame Deals Death

A Crossover in Prose and an Homage Cover

Having posted on the American Perry Rhodan book series for some swipes in the covers, I'm turning to the original digest series in German prose and another such series begun decades later.

The Perry Rhodan #1 (Sept 8, 1961) cover is by Johnny Bruck and the Maddrax #523 (Feb 4, 2020) one is by Néstor Taylor for that series' 20th anniversary. A reproduction of the Bruck cover is included in the Maddrax digest just to make it obvious the new cover is an homage.

Perry Rhodan's story begins when, making the first landing on the Moon in 1971, he brings back advanced technology from a stranded ship of the Arkonide star empire in order to prevent World War III and then protect Earth from possible alien invasion. In his series, Matt Drax undergoes a Buck Rogers transition into the post-apocalyptic future and at this point in his adventures is on an Earth littered with pockets of parallel worlds.

Needless to say, Maddrax and his companions enter 1971 and meet Rhodan and company just back from the Moon (thus actually in the second issue of PR, "Die Dritte Macht"--"The Third Power.") By the end of the story, Rhodan's memory is wiped of the encounter--if that reminds you of any comic book time-travel crossovers. Also in the comic book way, this is a cross-company crossover. 

"Crossover" was written by Oliver Fröhlich, and the first two Perry Rhodans by, respectively, K. H. Scheer and Clark Darlton. Perry Rhodan is at issue #3140, having been published weekly all this time.

Another Hidden Penciller

Click it to see the double page at a better size. This is another case of a rather overpowering inker hiding the penciller's style is "I Want to Be Free--to Live, to Love" in DC's Falling in Love 122 (Apr/71). The Grand Comics Database suggests Tony deZuñiga is inking himself. But try to picture the pencils without the distraction of deZuñiga's very distinctive style; this artist usually inked himself through the Sixties. Take a moment to look for the characteristic poses in a number of panels, before going to the second page where I've named him.

A Trapani Ghost on the Ghost Who Walks, and Writers

"The Secret of the Golden Ransom" in Charlton's first issue of The Phantom--#30--may or may not have been a ghosting job as far as the editors knew, but it certainly ended up one for fandom, as the pencils as well as the inks have ever since been attributed to Sal Trapani. The penciller is José Delbo, artist on Billy the Kid at Charlton at the time.

The script was evidently passed along out of inventory from King, like Gary Poole's in the same issue and Dick Wood's in the next few. The writer is Pat Fortunato, who wrote the earlier Girl Phantom story, "The Riddle of the Witch," in #24. Note the profusion of exclamation points and question marks in one panel; this would be a noticeable characteristic of Fortunato's work in her credited (and uncredited) work on UFO Flying Saucers at Gold Key.

This post was just going to ID that one Charlton story, but upon seeing how other issues have been attributed on the Grand Comics Database, I ended expanding it by a lot. On the Gold Key issues, the GCD notes that some 40 years after these were published, Bill Harris said he wrote all the Phantom stories. The Comic Reader 40 is cited for attributing the story in #11 as by "Dick Wood?" in addition to "Bill Harris?" That story's note does suggest that actually Harris said he wrote the adaptations of Lee Falk strip stories, which makes more sense. TCR 32 also mentions Wood: "Dick Wood is still scripting SOLAR, and he'll be handling the original PHANTOM scripts." The source of the contemporary Gold Key news at TCR? Gold Key editor Bill Harris.

For your perusal: panels from the Claw story in Daredevil Comics 22 (Feb/46, Lev Gleason), "Interplanetary Olympics" in Jigsaw 2 (Dec/66, Harvey), and "The Terror Tiger" in Phantom 21, all with the use of "Kazar" for "Huzzah"--like "Great suffering Hannah" elsewhere, a sign of Dick Wood's scripting.

I suppose most of the stories not listed here through #30 are indeed by Bill Harris.

Some Phantom writers
Gold Key/King/Charlton

Apr/65	11	Blind Man's Bluff	Dick Wood
June/	12	The Beast of Bengali	Wood
Aug/	13	The Phantom Chronicles	Wood
Nov/66	19	The Astronaut and the Pirates	Wood
		The Masked Emissary	Wood
Jan/67	20	The Adventures of the Girl Phantom	Wood
		The Invisible Demon	Jerry Siegel
Mar/	21	The Terror Tiger	Wood
Mar/	22	The Secret of Magic Mountain	Wood
Mar/	23	Delilah	Wood
Aug/	24	The Riddle of the Witch	Pat Fortunato
Oct/	26	The Pearl Raiders	Wood
Nov/	27	The Story of Hero	Gary Poole
Dec/	28	Diana's Deadly Tour	Wood
Feb/69	30	The Secret of the Golden Ransom	Fortunato
			p: José Delbo  i: Sal Trapani

in Mandrake the Magician
King

Nov/66	2	The Pirate Raiders	Wood
Mar/67	4	The Girl Phantom	Wood

Weisbecker Sports and War at Fawcett

On these Clem Weisbecker pencil jobs at Fawcett, my impression is that Sheldon Moldoff inked most of the true-life baseball stories--in Jackie Robinson and Baseball Heroes. This page is from "Jackie Robinson Breaks into the Majors."

One Jackie Robinson story among these issues is by an artist other than Weisbecker--"Jackie Robinson Carries the Pigskin" in #4.

Joe Louis #1 hasn't been scanned and put online yet, so its omission here doesn't mean Weisbecker didn't draw it. There's a bookseller's scan of page 1 that's obviously not by him, but a second look at the indicia shows that it's the Anglo-American version, and Canadian import laws meant they had to get the script redrawn by a Canadian artist. (The Grand Comics Database calls it a "reprint" but "remake" would be the better term.)

Clem Weisbecker pencils
on Fawcett sports and war

JACKIE ROBINSON

1949	(#1)	Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hero
Jul/50	#2	Jackie Robinson's First World Series
		Jackie Robinson and the Stolen Home Run
		Jackie Robinson and the Golden Cup
Sep/	#3	Jackie Robinson Breaks into the Majors
		Jackie Robinson Battles the Teen-Age Terror
		Jackie Robinson Rides the Whirlwind
Nov/	#4	Jackie Robinson Wins the Battling Crown
		Jackie Robinson and the Human Cat
1951	#5	Jackie Robinson and the Crucial Series
		Jackie Robinson and the Rookie on Trial
		Jackie Robinson, All American
1952	#6	Famous Plays by Jackie Robinson, Baseball Hero

JOE LOUIS

Nov/50

#2

Joe Louis, Champion of Champions

BASEBALL HEROES

1952

nn

The True Story of Baseball's Hall of Fame

BOB SWIFT, BOY SPORTSMAN

1951	#1	Bob Swift and the Big Horn Bonanza
		Bob Swift and the King of the Lake
July/	#2	Tiger on a Bait Rod
		The Thrill Killers of the North
Sep/	#3	Fishing in Another World
		Bear Tracks to Danger
Nov/	#4	Sahib's Sacrifice
		Cannibal Trout
Jan/52	#5	Sun, Surf and Stripers
		Bob Swift and the Spotted Killer

BILL BATTLE, THE ONE MAN ARMY

Oct/52	#1	I'm the Best There Is
		A Snowball in Hades
Dec/	#2	Six Feet Under
		Strictly a Southpaw
Feb/53	#3	Human Bazooka
		Death Takes a Furlough
Apr/	#4	Death Warrant
		It Ain't Always Hell

MASTER COMICS

Apr/53

#133

The Biggest Brass There Is [BILL BATTLE]

BATTLE STORIES

May/52	#3	Wanted: One MIG-15
Sep/	#5	They've Got to Kill Me!

SOLDIER COMICS

Mar/52	#2	No More Noise from Snafu
Sep/53	#11	Long Time No Sea! [BILL BATTLE]

Disc Jockeying Times Three, Not Two

A while ago I listed some of the teenager scripts that Jack Mendelsohn reworked at Tower from ones he’d written at Quality a decade earlier. One such pair was "Disc Jockeying" in CANDY 49 (July/54) and the story by the same title in GO-GO AND ANIMAL 2 (Oct/66). Now I’ve found an earlier source for the plot at DC--the untitled Liz story in SCRIBBLY 1 (Aug-Sep/48). They're in chronological order below: Liz, Candy, Go-Go. The heroine in each has thrown a platter party to replenish her record collection and every guest has brought a single with the same song.

The Go-Go script reworks the Candy one closely, but they don’t resemble the Liz one aside from the plot. Jack Mendelsohn was working at DC in 1948, or at least for Howie Post there, on Presto Pete and Jiminy and the Magic Book, but I can’t see any of his style in the Liz script.

Clem's Cap

Clem Weisbecker's handful of stories on Captain America are important because, of course, Captain America, and because they're a link between his earlier work at MLJ and later at Fawcett. (Another link is his late-Forties stories in Crime Must Pay the Penalty, at Ace, which have already been identified by James Vadeboncoeur, Jr.)

The page above is from "Scarface and the Script of Death." Some issues in this timeframe are online only as scans of old microfiche rather than of the actual comics, and the fuzziness makes it difficult to scrutinize the art. Inherent in the comics themselves is the number of different inkers. So Weisbecker may have more Cap stories, but these are the ones I can be sure enough of to list now, and not take another few weeks vacillating over some of the other stories.

Clem Weisbecker pencils on
CAPTAIN AMERICA

Nov/45	#50	The Walking Dead
Jan/46	#52	The Case of the Telepathic Typewriter
Feb/	#53	The Robe of Evil
		Murder Etched in Stone
Mar/	#54	Scarface and the Script of Death
Apr/	#55	The Hands of Sensitivo

on Captain America in
ALL SELECT

Sum/46

#10

Crime Takes a Cruise

Strange Tales by Jack Oleck

Two captions from "The Last of Mister Grimm" in Strange Tales #48 signal Jack Oleck's style: his version of Had-I-but-known, But he didn't think of that, at first! and one supplementing the description of action with two digressions into moralizing: Cowards die many times...greed is a mighty force!

After the cancellation of everything but MAD at EC in 1956, Oleck continued writing for Prize as he had been, and soon picked up work at Harvey and Timely/Atlas/pre-Marvel. At Atlas he was in on the early issues of new titles like World of Fantasy and World of Suspense. A look at a longer-running title like Strange Tales shows his tenure didn't predate those titles' mid-1956 beginnings.

The Comics Code was a good year old by the time Oleck started at Atlas. The Atlas Implosion took place with #58 (May/57), so as of #59 (Oct/57) scripts and art were out of inventory. The monster phase begins to show with #67 (Feb/59), with artists Jack Kirby and Don Heck becoming regulars, and newly written scripts by mostly Stan Lee and Larry Lieber becoming necessary.

Jack Oleck scripts
in Strange Tales

July/56	#48	The Last of Mister Grimm
Aug/	#49	The Animal
		The Man Who Cried
Dec/	#53	The Man Who Crushed Rocks
Jan/57	#54	Trapped in the Dark
Mar/	#56	Something Is on This Ship!
		Hide-Out
		Nothing Can Stop It
Apr/	#57	You Used to Be Me
		Murder on His Mind
Dec/	#60	Rude Awakening
Feb/58	#61	The Laundry Machines
		The Disappearing Man
		Menace of the Mirror
Apr/	#62	The Invaders
		It Happened That Night
		Alone in the Night
June/	#63	He Never Came Out
Oct/	#65	Afraid to Open the Door

Two Who Drew Lance O'Casey and One Who Didn't

After a 49-issue absence from Whiz Comics Lance O'Casey returns with #103 and art by Louis Cazeneuve, recognizable from his work on Boy Commandos, Seven Soldiers of Victory, and so on at DC. There's another artist, whom I can't ID, and the next along is Clem Weisbecker, whose Fawcett movie comics I listed in my previous post. The run from #132 to the end, #155, is said to include Charles Tomsey art, but I haven't got a handle on his style.
 
The Grand Comics Database has attributed the Lance O'Casey stories in #119, 123, 125, and 128 to Dick Dillin. I can see why a reader could be reminded of Blackhawk art, but Weisbecker's trademark long square faces do show through under different inkers on the different stories. Shown is a page from "The Poisoned Sea Mystery." Suffice it to say that the inking on the four O'Casey stories mentioned above is no more Dillin's than the pencilling is.

Issues not listed here between #103-131 do not have Lance O'Casey stories.

Lance O'Casey in WHIZ COMICS

Nov/48	#103	LOC and the Lamp of Three Wishes	a: Louis Cazeneuve
Dec/	#104	The Perils of the Pearls	a: Cazeneuve
Jan/49	#105	LOC Meets Longo of the Congo	a: Cazeneuve
Mar/	#107	LOC and the Lady Pirate	a: Cazeneuve
Apr/	#108	The Bandit Birds	a: ?
May/	#109	LOC and the Pirate's Festival	a: ?
July/	#111	The Stolen Starfish	a: ?
Aug/	#112	Magnet of Death	a: Cazeneuve
Sep/	#113	Doomed!	a: Cazeneuve
Nov/	#115	LOC and the Photo of Death	a: Cazeneuve
Jan/50	#117	The Plight of Homer Whittington, Jr.	p: Clem Weisbecker
Mar/	#119	The Pan American Bull Session	p: Weisbecker
Apr/	#120	The Strange Fight	a: Cazeneuve
May/	#121	Frame Up	p: Weisbecker
July/	#123	Treachery Under Cover	p: Weisbecker
Aug/	#124	The Death Warrants	p: Weisbecker
Sep/	#125	Dangerous Cargo	p: Weisbecker
Nov/	#127	The Reign of Terror	p: Weisbecker
Dec/	#128	The Poisoned Sea Mystery	p: Weisbecker
Jan/51	#129	Pirate Warfare	p: Weisbecker
Mar/	#131	LOC Raids the Antarctic Hide-Out	p: Weisbecker

The Grand Comics Database has credited Cazeneuve with some of the Whiz issues listed but mistakenly on Golden Arrow instead of Lance O'Casey (not that I can give a name to the GA artist at this particular point).

Golden Arrow in WHIZ COMICS

Nov/48	#103	GA and the Passenger Bandit	a: NOT Cazeneuve
Dec/	#104	The Vanishing Payrolls	a: NOT Cazeneuve
Jan/49	#105	GA and the Duo of Crime	a: NOT Cazeneuve
Mar/	#107	GA and the Treacherous Masquerade	a: NOT Cazeneuve

Weisbecker and Riss at the Movies

Note the distinctive long, square faces in Fawcett's adaptation of the movie "The Missourians."

Somewhere along the line, Clem Weisbecker and Bob Butts have had some work conflated at early Fifties Fawcett, making it difficult to sort out their stories going by their credits in the Who's Who. I finally took a long look at their credited Forties stories at other companies. I believe I can follow the progression of Clem Weisbecker's style on the Black Hood and such to the Fawcett artist with those distinctive faces.

Butts is given "Copper Canyon" in the Who's Who, which is the main point of confusion here, but the actual penciller is Weisbecker. The style matches that on Jackie Robinson at Fawcett at the same time, which the WW gives to Weisbecker and not Butts.

The other problem with "Copper Canyon" is that it's also been attributed entirely to Sheldon Moldoff. I can accept that Moldoff inked it. "Pioneer Marshall" and "The Missourians" are also supposedly entirely by Moldoff, but the inking on those two doesn't overwhelm the Weisbecker pencils.

In many cases on the Fawcett movie adaptations the inker did a lot of the heavy lifting on likenesses. Some didn't. Thus, Pete Riss's issues vary wildly as far as that "overwhelming the pencils" goes; on "Dakota Lil" you have to look twice to find Riss, but on "The Thundering Trail," as seen here, he's easier to spot (although it's been attributed to Stan Campbell).

movie one-shots at Fawcett

1949	nn	Dakota Lil	w: Joe Millard p: Pete Riss
1950	nn	Copper Canyon	w: Millard  p: Clem Weisbecker
			i: Sheldon Moldoff
1950	nn	Pioneer Marshall	w: Millard  p: Weisbecker
			i: Moldoff?
1950	nn	Powder River Rustlers	w: Millard  p: Riss

Fawcett Movie Comic

Apr/51	#10	The Missourians	w: Leo Dorfman  p: Weisbecker
			i: Moldoff?
May/	#11	The Thundering Trail	w: Dorfman  p: Riss

Motion Picture Comics

Nov/51

#107

Frisco Tornado

w: Dorfman  p: Riss

Almost Comics--But Not Quite

A Golden All-Star Book from Western (as a Golden Press imprint) is a storybook--prose and illustrations. Online sellers have mistaken it for a comic book--not only is it comic book size in dimensions and number of pages (36 including covers), most of the writers and artists were working at Western's Gold Key comics at the time. The exceptions as far as known credits go: Mary A. Mintz, whose only comic book credit is a story in Spidey Super Stories at Marvel, and Bill Ochs, credited on no comic books. (The Greatest here, by the way, is a novelization of the Muhammad Ali movie.)

These two covers are the only paintings among almost all photo ones (Fat Albert is line art). I couldn't say who the painters are.

A Golden All-Star Book — 1977 — 59¢

6413	WELCOME BACK KOTTER
	w: Arnold Drake  a: Mel Crawford
	Kotter for Sale
	Wake Me to Say Goodbye
	Down on the Farm
6414	STARSKY & HUTCH
	w: George Kashdan  a: Jack Sparling
	Brother Avenger
	No Time for Crime
	A Mixed-Up Murder
6415	DONNIE & MARIE
	w: Wallace I. Green  a: José Delbo
	If This Is Tuesday...
	Some Vacation!
6416	ISIS
	w: Steve Skeates  a: Sparling
	The Discovery
	The Bermuda Triangle
	Hard Lesson
6417	THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
	w: Mary A. Mintzer  a: Alden McWilliams
	The Captive Crowd
	Aunt May's Crusade
	The Taking of Manhattan Isle!
6418	WELCOME BACK KOTTER
	w: Drake  a: Crawford
	The Unteachables
	Barbarino's in Love!
	Kotter King of Krime
6419	WELCOME BACK KOTTER
	w: Drake  a: Sparling
	Julie vs. the Gerbils
	"Kotter's Pet"
	Dreamboat Woodman
6420	CHARLIE'S ANGELS
	w: Kashdan  a: Sparling
6421	THE GREATEST
	w: Bill Ochs  a: John Celardo
	The Greatest
6422	SPACE: 1999
	w: Mintzer  a: Frank Bolle
	The Return of the Metamorph
	Queen Brain
6423	STARSKY & HUTCH
	w: Kashdan  a: Crawford
6424	DONNIE & MARIE
	w: Gary Poole  a: Delbo
	"Someone's Following Us!"
	Pranks Aplenty!
	Lost and Found
6425	FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS
	w: Drake  cover & a: Winslow Mortimer
	The Night We Spent in Spooky House
	Save Our Clubhouse
	Happy Anniversary

1978 — 69¢

[no #]	THE NEW KROFFT SUPERSHOW
	w: Mintzer  a: Mortimer
	Wonderbug in Honk Meets a Quack
	Kaptain Kool and the Kongs [1-pager]
	Bigfoot and Wildboy in The Abominable Snowman
	Kaptain Kool and the Kongs [1-pager]
	Magic Mongo in The Three Wishes

Molno's Other Dell Heroes--and This Time a Writer

Continuing on from my ID a few posts ago of Bill Molno as one of Sal Trapani's ghost pencillers on Dell's Super Heroes, here he is on two issues of Hogan's Heroes. This time I have a writer, too--Alan Riefe, who took over after Paul S. Newman wrote #1.

The thing that set me on to Alan Riefe at Dell earlier (on <i>Get Smart</i>)--he wasn't previously known to have been there--was Kerblam, Kerblamo, and Kerbammo on a number of stories, which I recalled from the final run of Jerry Lewis at DC a little later. When I compared I found more matches like "Heyyyy" and "Halllp" and so on.

Speaking of Super Heroes, Riefe is yet another writer at late-'60s Dell who I'm pretty sure has nothing to do with that feature.

Hogan's Heroes

Sep/66	2	Operation Double Klink	w: Alan Riefe
Dec/	3	Operation Goat	w: Riefe
Mar/67	4	Operation Flick Flack	w: Riefe
Apr/	5	Fly Now...Crash Later	w: Riefe
		Cheese It	w: Riefe
May/	6	Klink Must Go	w: Riefe  p: Bill Molno
		Driving Klink Koo Koo	w: Riefe  p: Molno
		Secret Weapon	w: Riefe  p: Molno
July/	7	Klink, Klank, Klunk	w: Riefe  p: Molno
		General Nuisance	w: Riefe  p: Molno
		Klink's Office Party	w: Riefe  p: Molno
Sep/	8	The Great Stone Klink	w: Riefe
		Klink's Housewarming	w: Riefe
		General Klink	w: Riefe

The Man of Brandon

These pulp/paperback hero swipes are not trying to hide; I'd call them out-and-out homages. The New Ebook Library didn't last more than a few months in 2019; it folded due to lack of sales. The Rex Brandon books reprinted a series from Curtis Warren, a pulpish British paperback house of the 1950s. 

From the memory of a look online in 2019, I'm pretty sure the artist on these is Tony Masero, who painted British paperback covers in the 60s and is today doing ebook covers for Piccadilly Publishing, the parent of New Ebook Library. He's also a Western novel writer, a reminder of comic book artist Lou Cameron's later prose output.

Beck & Costanza Bring Mickey Marks to Canada

In the inventory of comic book writer Mickey Klar Marks' papers at the University of Southern Mississippi there are stories noted as sold to "Bech and Cortaza" and "Bill and Cortazar" (with the collection's transcriber putting a "(?)" after those names). To comics fans, as SangorShop has pointed out, this is obviously "Beck and Costanza" written in the records themselves.

The C.C. Beck-Pete Costanza Studio supplied scripts to Canadian publisher Anglo-American in the mid-40s (importing American artwork wasn't allowed). Otto Binder's scripts for AA may or may not have gone through the studio. But per her records, Mickey Marks' text pieces certainly did. They were published anonymously. Three formed a series about private detective Britt Nielson.

There's a text piece called "The Gold Seal" sold to Beck & Costanza in 1946 that I can't track down. Marks also sold two untitled comics stories to them in 1945 for a series called Dink, but if these ever came out (under a different series title, perhaps?), who can tell? Just to confuse things, there was a Dink series by Milt Hammer at the U.S. publisher Novelty, cheek by jowl at times with Marks' credited text pieces there.

Britt Nielson text pieces by Mickey Klar Marks
published at Anglo-American
(all anonymously)

THREE ACES	Feb/46	51	Hear No Evil
THREE ACES	Sep-Oct/46	54	The Plastic Madonna
ROBIN HOOD AND CO.	Oct-Nov/46	33	In the Groove

Miscellaneous text pieces 

FREELANCE	Apr/46	31	Vermont Comes to Texas
ROBIN HOOD AND CO.	Jun-Jul/46	31	The Wrong Signal
GRAND SLAM	Aug-Sep/46	54	"Daisy" Rafferty