Dick Wood was credited for any number of stories in Crime Does Not Pay at Lev Gleason, but by no means all. This is a list of his anonymous ones that I've found. There are CDNP issues missing here that haven't been scanned yet. Scarce due to Forties paper drives? Fifties comic book burnings?
Dick Wood is recognizable by expressions like "Suffering Hannah," and in Crime Does Not Pay he has an even easier-to-spot characteristic on some stories. Starting with the bylined story "The True Life Story of 'Pretty Boy Floyd'" leading off #27, when he uses narrator Mr. Crime, very often the latter prefaces a speech or caption with "Ho, folks," or "Ho, Pretty Boy" to the protagonist, or just "Ho," all with a comma--"Ho, and where is he now?" The tiers are from the bylined story "One-Man Crime Wave" in #35.
I've mentioned Wood's use of the exclamation "Kazar" in The Claw, Jigsaw, and The Phantom; here he uses it in, for instance, "The True Story of Jean Cavillac" in #31 and "Wild Beasts of Paris" in #38--and it's after seeing it here that I realize it's meant for "Huzzah."
Dick Wood scripts without byline
in CRIME DOES NOT PAY
| May/ | 27 | The Dead-Eye Romeo |
| The Strange Saga of Rafael Red Lopez | ||
| Sep/ | 29 | The True Story of "Two-Gun" Crowley |
| Nov/ | 30 | The Texas Terrors |
| Crime Close-Ups | ||
| Jan/44 | 31 | The True Story of Jean Cavillac |
| The Million Dollar Robbery | ||
| Mar/ | 32 | The Man Who Loved Murder |
| Señorita of Sin | ||
| Playboys of Crime | ||
| Jan/45 | 37 | 10 Years of Terror: Vincent Piazzero |
| Case of the Confident Killer | ||
| The Singing Slayer | ||
| Mar/ | 38 | The Meek Murderer |
| Murder by Night | ||
| Wild Beasts of Paris | ||
| May/ | 39 | Blonde Queen of Crime |
| The Case of the Tell-Tale Watch | ||
| The Crime of Terry Almodovar | ||
| Sep/ | 41 | The Cocksure Counterfeiter |
| Who Dunnit? | ||
| Jan/46 | 43 | Case of the Love Sick Clown |
| Doctor of Evil | ||
| Mar/ | 44 | The True Story of "Legs" Diamond |
| Death on the Tracks | ||
| May/ | 45 | The True Story of John Dillinger |
| The Fire Fiend | ||
| Crime of the Friendly Enemy | ||
| Sep/ | 47 | Thug's Throne |
| The Horrible Halzingers | ||
| Jan/47 | 49 | The Case of the Voodooed Hangars |
| Mar/ | 50 | The Belmont Bandit |
Great research!\
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteI believe that all the issues through #61 have been reprinted by Dark Horse, and the PD website Digital Comics Museum has all the rest of them (and many of the earlier ones). So you should be able to find them, or have someone look for Ho Kazar.
ReplyDeleteThe Digital Comics Museum's gaps--22,23,33,36 etc.--are the issues I figure for unscanned. The Dark Horse reprints are something to consider, though--they show that copies of the comics must be around somewhere.
ReplyDelete#33: Career of Carrington Hill: Wood
ReplyDeleteFour Crooks and a Coffin: Wood
Nolan the Notorious: Wood
More to come!
One characteristic of Wood: His characters sometimes say "Shud up!" instead of "Shut up!"
ReplyDelete#36: "Phantom in the Fire": Wood
ReplyDelete#40: "The Last Laugh of the Lone Wolf Bandit": Wood
ReplyDelete#42: "Willie the Actor": Wood
ReplyDeletedarkmark, thanks for filling in these issues!
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