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 |
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