Obscure Shuster: Ace

Just before Joe Shuster did a love story and a filler in the same issue for Standard in 1950 he did a love story for Ace: "Romance on the Range" in Western Love Trails 7, November 1949. The title lasted only from #7 to #9. I'm only just getting into Ace's comics, with the romance titles on the back burner, so I don't know if he did any more for them. The inks are different from the Standard story and filler's, but one way or the other this story's inks don't look at all to me like early Superman work, i.e. Shuster himself.

The Fawcett Movie Adaptation Writers

Otto Binder wrote three of Fawcett's 35 movie comics issues; the series started off written by Joe Millard and then became Leo Dorfman's most notable assignment there.

Here's a page from "Code of the Silver Sage" with Rocky Lane (Motion Picture Comics 102). The clues to lead to Leo Dorfman are "As" and "Just then" in the captions, but the clincher is the use of periods--all of these not exclusive to Dorfman, but used by him much more often than the other writers at Fawcett at the time. "Ivanhoe" and "The Red Badge of Courage" are, as I never tire of pointing out, the "classics in comics" mentioned in an early 70s Superboy text page and taken by fandom at the time as meaning Classics Illustrated.

 

Writers--
Fawcett movie one-shots

1949		Dakota Lil	Joe Millard
1950		Copper Canyon	Millard
		Destination Moon	Otto Binder
		Montana	Millard
		Pioneer Marshal	Millard
		Powder River Rustlers	Millard
		Singing Guns	Millard

Fawcett Movie Comic

1950	7	Gunmen of Abilene	Binder
Dec/	8	King of the Bull Whip	Leo Dorfman
Feb/51	9	The Old Frontier	Dorfman
Apr/	10	The Missourians	Dorfman
May/	11	The Thundering Trail	Dorfman
Aug/	12	Rustlers on Horseback	Dorfman
Oct/	13	Warpath	Dorfman
Dec/	14	The Last Oupost	Dorfman
Feb/52	15	The Man from Planet X	Binder
Apr/	16	Ten Tall Men	Dorfman
June/	17	Rose of Cimarron	Dorfman
Aug/	18	The Brigand	Dorfman
Oct/	19	Carbine Williams	Dorfman
Dec/	20	Ivanhoe	Dorfman

Motion Picture Comics

1950	101	The Vanishing Westerner	Millard
Jan/51	102	Code of the Silver Sage	Dorfman
Mar/	103	Covered Wagon Raid	Dorfman
May/	104	Vigilante Hideout	Dorfman
July/	105	The Red Badge of Courage	Dorfman
Sep/	106	The Texas Rangers	Dorfman
Nov/	107	Frisco Tornado	Dorfman
Jan/52	108	Mask of the Avenger	Dorfman
Mar/	109	Rough Riders of Durango	Dorfman
May/	110	When Worlds Collide	Dorfman
July/	111	The Vanishing Outpost	Dorfman
Sep/	112	Brave Warrior	Dorfman
Nov/	113	Walk East on Beacon	Dorfman
Jan/53	114	Cripple Creek	Dorfman