Swan/Burnley on Tommy Tomorrow?

The Who's Who's credits for John Fischetti started out as just "Fischetti" on Tommy Tomorrow, if I remember correctly, but now encompass any number of 1950s series at DC--most of them inking Curt Swan, going by the list's matching up with Swan's series there at the time.

These four stories at the end of Swan's run on Tommy Tomorrow look to be inked by someone else with a heavier brush, and I would think it's Ray Burnley, who was inking Swan on Gangbusters and such. Swan/Burnley would soon be the art team on Jimmy Olsen when that title started up in 1954, and for a number of years.

These tiers from Action 167, 170, and 171 showcase faces finished with a heavier line than I see in the earlier Swan TT stories. What do you think?

Edmond Hamilton wrote almost all the Tommy Tomorrow stories from Action 147 to 175 (158 and 172 I don't think are his) and a few after that, so these four are his scripts.

Curt Swan (p)/Ray Burnley (i)
Tommy Tomorrow in Action Comics

Apr/52	167	The Man Who Stopped Space-Flight
May/	168	The Meteor Mystery
Jul/	170	The Great Brain of Space
Aug/	171	The Phantom Space Ship

Bernstein's Last Run on Crime Does Not Pay (and Bonus Artists)

Finishing up Robert Bernstein's scripts for Crime Does Not Pay; the title ended with #147. (It went under the Comics Code with #143.)

But first: while going over the last issues I made a few artist IDs. When I saw Dick Giordano's earliest stuff at Charlton it seemed to me there was a George Evans influence. Sure enough, a Giordano/Vince Alascia job at Lev Gleason has been miscredited in the Grand Comics Database to Evans--"The Fall of the Saturday Night Gang," shown above. Giordano/Alascia have "Unheeded Warning" in the next issue, CDNP 145, correctly attributed to them, and their story in 146, "The Big Mop-Up," is signed.

A few Crime Does Not Pay artists

Apr/55	144	The Fall of the Saturday Night Gang	p: Dick Giordano
			i: Vince Alascia
May/	145	Cornered: The Furious End of Vic Banner	a: Ed Robbins
July/	147	Mighty Rookie	a: Robbins

Crime Does Not Pay Anthology Stories
1953-55
Written by Robert Bernstein

Feb/53	119	Mad Dog Coll, the Mad Gunman
Mar/	120	The Brady Gang
		Cut Rate Murder
May/	122	Set for the Kill
June/	123	Hymie Weiss, Dynamo of Hate
		"Lucky Joe" Masseria, Bullet Dodger
Aug/	125	The Hair-Raising Career of Massacre Mad Frank Nash
Sep/	126	Killers from the Sticks
		Kill-Crazy Fred "Banjo" Blore
Oct/	127	Dead Man's Revenge
Nov/	128	Chuck Dorset's Rage Against Death
Dec/	129	Bill Flint, the Lone Wolf
Mar/54	132	I Beg Your Pardon
June/	135	The Crook Who Set His Own Trap
Sep/	137	Mike "Straw Hat" Vanek and His Steel Coffin
		The Bloody Saga of the Chetter Brothers
Oct/	138	The Scapegoat
Nov/	139	Eyewitness
		Joe Mosdek, the Master Dealer
		A Cop's Last Fight
Feb/55	142	The Vengeful Big "Truck" Brown
		Nickel Fare to Doom

Angel and the Ape Writers--Including Henry Boltinoff

One point makes it easy to tell E. Nelson Bridwell's scripting on DC's Angel and the Ape. Most of the other writers' ape-speak by Sam Simeon is gibberish, but Bridwell's, beginning with #4, is garbled English. In issue #6 the first story, "The Robbing Robot," is credited on the splash page to John Albano (thus I haven't listed it here). "The Ape of 1,000 Disguises" in the same issue is uncredited. Compare the ape-speak, given with translations. The ape-speak in Showcase #77 is garbled English too, but the sound effects confirm the scripting as Howard Post's.

Angel and the Ape #1 confuses me more each time I look. I would have said Post, perhaps, but the ape-speak is now gibberish.

Henry Boltinoff's writing in #7 is easy to spot when he uses the caption "And..." such as he's used in his page-or-two cartoon features like "Jerry the Jitterbug," where brevity counts. He's the best bet for that issue's other one-pagers that I couldn't be positive enough about to enter here.

I can't tell who plotted a story. In the case of Angel and the Ape #2, which I've left off this list too since it's credited, Sergio Aragonés is in those credits as co-scripter with Bob Oksner, presumably plotter as he's listed first. Showcase #77? Supposedly Nelson Bridwell, supposedly Robert Kanigher, supposedly even Al Jaffee. I'd go with Bridwell from the contemporary On the Drawing Board #67 (June 1968) listing.

Writers:
Angel and the Ape in SHOWCASE

Sep/68

#77

Angel and the Ape

Howard Post

ANGEL AND THE APE

Mar-Apr/69	#3	The Curse of the Avarice Clan	E. Nelson Bridwell
May-June/	#4	Remember the Chow Mein	Bridwell
		The Case of Trouble on the Talk Show	Bridwell
		Cheapskater's Waltz	Bridwell
July-Aug/	#5	Pigeon Mob	John Albano
		Hippie, Hippie, Hooray	Albano
Sep-Oct/	#6	The Ape of 1,000 Disguises   (Would You Believe Four?)	Bridwell

MEET ANGEL

Nov-Dec/69	#7	A Busy Little Aunt	Albano
		Suits Me Fine	Henry Boltinoff
		The Case of the "Inside Job"	Boltinoff
		The Case of the Millionaire Cat	Boltinoff