tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19696194118459209032024-03-28T23:29:07.033-04:00Who Created the Comic Books?Searching for the Uncredited Writers and ArtistsMartin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.comBlogger418125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-56155449741240611392023-02-17T14:36:00.000-05:002023-02-17T14:36:01.863-05:00Swan/Burnley on Tommy Tomorrow?The <i>Who's Who's</i> 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.<br />
<br />
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 <i>Gangbusters</i>
and such. Swan/Burnley would soon be the art team on <i>Jimmy
Olsen</i> when that title started up in 1954, and for a number of
years.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqc1QB1ZFbbKjS6Em8OPZevAByWDZu4cx5IUrBrlQUBgOKShwLbCHzUn2pT6vz2TrES0eOa0UpXTHmITfcQkKefjpY3Dt8QFC3XyOdFPnPIOkK5LQUFmYHBGXT18ITD5X93Dt63qW4l4piHNLHKXkBEH_5f58yoDC_b4SJSjfy8xS6KpcQLgz3MRzj/s1225/Action%20167,%20170,%20171.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Action 167, 170, 171 Tommy Tomorrow" border="0" data-original-height="1225" data-original-width="950" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqc1QB1ZFbbKjS6Em8OPZevAByWDZu4cx5IUrBrlQUBgOKShwLbCHzUn2pT6vz2TrES0eOa0UpXTHmITfcQkKefjpY3Dt8QFC3XyOdFPnPIOkK5LQUFmYHBGXT18ITD5X93Dt63qW4l4piHNLHKXkBEH_5f58yoDC_b4SJSjfy8xS6KpcQLgz3MRzj/w310-h400/Action%20167,%20170,%20171.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>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?<br />
<br />
Edmond Hamilton wrote almost all the Tommy Tomorrow stories
from <i>Action</i> 147 to 175 (158 and 172 I don't think are his) and a few after that, so these four are his scripts.<br />
<br />
<big><b>Curt
Swan (p)/Ray Burnley (i)<br />
Tommy Tomorrow in <i>Action Comics</i></b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 55px;">Apr/52</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">167 </td>
<td>The
Man Who Stopped Space-Flight</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 55px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">168 </td>
<td>The Meteor
Mystery</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 55px;">Jul/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">170 </td>
<td>The Great
Brain of Space</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 55px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">171 </td>
<td>The Phantom Space Ship</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-3507928638144756802023-01-25T13:21:00.003-05:002023-01-25T13:21:52.076-05:00Bernstein's Last Run on Crime Does Not Pay (and Bonus Artists) <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
Finishing up Robert Bernstein's scripts for <i>Crime Does Not Pay</i>;
the title ended with #147. (It went under the Comics Code with #143.)<br />
<br />
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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, <i>CDNP</i> 145, correctly attributed to them, and their story in 146, "The
Big Mop-Up," is
signed.<br />
<br /><big><b>A few <i>Crime Does Not Pay</i> artists<br />
</b></big><br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Apr/55</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">144 </td>
<td style="width: 260px;">The
Fall of the Saturday Night Gang</td>
<td>p: Dick Giordano</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 260px;">
</td>
<td>i: Vince Alascia</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">145 </td>
<td style="width: 260px;">Cornered: The
Furious End of Vic Banner
</td>
<td>a: Ed Robbins</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">July/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">147 </td>
<td style="width: 260px;">Mighty Rookie
</td>
<td>a: Robbins</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<big><b><i>Crime Does Not Pay</i> Anthology
Stories<br />
1953-55<br />
Written by Robert
Bernstein</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/53</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">119 </td>
<td>Mad Dog Coll, the Mad Gunman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">120 </td>
<td>The Brady Gang</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"></td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Cut Rate Murder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">122 </td>
<td>Set for the Kill</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">123 </td>
<td>Hymie Weiss, Dynamo of Hate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>"Lucky Joe" Masseria, Bullet Dodger</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">125 </td>
<td>The Hair-Raising Career of Massacre Mad Frank Nash</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">126
</td>
<td>Killers from the Sticks</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Kill-Crazy Fred "Banjo" Blore</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">127 </td>
<td>Dead Man's Revenge</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">128 </td>
<td>Chuck Dorset's Rage Against Death</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">129 </td>
<td>Bill Flint, the Lone Wolf</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/54 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">132 </td>
<td>I Beg Your Pardon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">135 </td>
<td>The Crook Who Set His Own Trap</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">137 </td>
<td>Mike "Straw Hat" Vanek and His Steel Coffin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Bloody Saga of the Chetter Brothers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">138 </td>
<td>The Scapegoat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">139 </td>
<td>Eyewitness</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Joe Mosdek, the Master Dealer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>A Cop's Last Fight</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/55</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">142 </td>
<td>The Vengeful Big "Truck" Brown</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Nickel Fare to Doom</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-57590191428216324272023-01-04T12:20:00.000-05:002023-01-04T12:20:42.687-05:00Angel and the Ape Writers--Including Henry Boltinoff <style>td {vertical-align: top;}
</style>
One point makes it easy to tell E. Nelson Bridwell's scripting on DC's
<i>Angel and the Ape</i>. 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 <i>Showcase</i> #77 is
garbled English too,
but the sound effects confirm the scripting as Howard Post's.<br />
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<i>Angel and the Ape</i> #1 confuses me more each time I
look. I would have
said Post, perhaps, but the ape-speak is now gibberish.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
I can't tell who plotted a story. In the case of <i>Angel
and the
Ape</i> #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. <i>Showcase
#77</i>? Supposedly Nelson Bridwell, supposedly Robert Kanigher,
supposedly even Al Jaffee. I'd go with Bridwell from the contemporary
<i>On the Drawing Board</i> #67 (June 1968) listing.<br />
<br />
Writers:<br />
<i><b>Angel and the Ape</b></i> in <b><i>SHOWCASE</i></b><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Sep/68</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">#77 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Angel and the Ape</td>
<td>Howard Post</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<i><b>ANGEL AND THE APE</b></i><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Mar-Apr/69</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">#3 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Curse of the Avarice
Clan</td>
<td>E. Nelson Bridwell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">May-June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">#4 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Remember the Chow Mein</td>
<td>Bridwell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Case of Trouble on the
Talk Show</td>
<td>Bridwell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Cheapskater's Waltz</td>
<td>Bridwell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">July-Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">#5 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Pigeon Mob</td>
<td>John Albano</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Hippie, Hippie, Hooray</td>
<td>Albano</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Sep-Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">#6 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Ape of 1,000 Disguises<br />
(Would You Believe Four?)</td>
<td>Bridwell</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<i><b>MEET ANGEL</b></i><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Nov-Dec/69</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">#7 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">A Busy Little Aunt</td>
<td>Albano</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Suits Me Fine</td>
<td>Henry Boltinoff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Case of the "Inside
Job"</td>
<td>Boltinoff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 25px;">The Case of the
Millionaire Cat</td>
<td>Boltinoff</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-11071818601752339602022-12-14T10:39:00.000-05:002022-12-14T10:39:41.743-05:00CDNP: More Bernstein, a Little More Wessler <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
As of 1950 Carl Wessler's personal records are complete
enough to name most of his scripts for <i>Crime Does Not Pay</i>
at Lev Gleason, so stories are noted as his on the Grand Comics
Database. The source is Robin Snyder's Wessler bibilography in <i>The
Comics</i>,
compiled from those records. Here I have another couple of
his where the records didn't give the titles. "The Last Mile for Tony"
contains both an "Ohoo" and an "Owooo" to show Wessler wrote it. I
haven't found any Wessler stories on <i>CDNP</i> after
mid-'51 that he didn't
fully record.<br />
<br />
The GCD
wonders if "The Rabbit-Punch Murder
Case" could be the 9-page 1951 script for Chip
Gardner that Wessler records without a title. Here is an example of why
I
attribute it to Robert Bernstein: "Ieee!"<br />
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<big><b><i>Crime Does Not Pay</i> Anthology
Stories<br />
1951-52<br />
Written by Robert
Bernstein</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/51</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">95 </td>
<td>Having a Wonderful Crime</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">98 </td>
<td>Shock Treatment</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">July/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">100 </td>
<td>The Smell of Death</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Mission: Murder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">101 </td>
<td>Cain versus Abel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Case of the Crooked Politician [CHIP GARDNER]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">103 </td>
<td>The Rabbit-Punch Murder Case [CHIP GARDNER]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Fruits of Crime</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">105 </td>
<td>The Big Cut</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/52</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">107 </td>
<td>You Can't Beat the Rackets!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The State versus "Rock" Madden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">108 </td>
<td>Jim Franton, Bootlegger, versus Bud Rollins, Con-Man</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Apr/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">109 </td>
<td>The Vicious Vendetta Massacre</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">110 </td>
<td>Journey into Horror</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Bootleg "Gold"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">July/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">112 </td>
<td>The Tragic Tale of "Sap" Doretti (art: Sid
Greene)<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">115 </td>
<td>Trapped by the Dead</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">117 </td>
<td>The End of the Underworld</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<big><b><br />
Written by Carl Wessler</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Apr/51</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">97 </td>
<td>The Last Mile for Tony</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">99 </td>
<td>Reprieve Granted--Prisoner Is Dead</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-39220767211524267692022-11-24T11:01:00.000-05:002022-11-24T11:01:36.575-05:00Andru & Esposito? (I've Burned Myself on IDing Them Earlier)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqcGWgqoVy202k5p9eqMuTgHknVqIdi7X_B2ae7To72sd7u4h1RgBy91Oduye9tbRaz8Qcvv4VMzEPwelLzf73GdpN7bEsAEEbVwDnJrC2_UwCRIsNtznGiIvV8vcTJkRZaRbrm4UXSiZCs82b801E-n0Sip8AzRH9I7icktmQYFcrL9_ZLOrRotg/s1887/TomCat004-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1887" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqcGWgqoVy202k5p9eqMuTgHknVqIdi7X_B2ae7To72sd7u4h1RgBy91Oduye9tbRaz8Qcvv4VMzEPwelLzf73GdpN7bEsAEEbVwDnJrC2_UwCRIsNtznGiIvV8vcTJkRZaRbrm4UXSiZCs82b801E-n0Sip8AzRH9I7icktmQYFcrL9_ZLOrRotg/w271-h400/TomCat004-006.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br />I let myself see Ross Andru and Mike Esposito on Dell's <a href="http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2012/06/monkees-1-penciller-mystery.html"><i>Monkees</i>
#1</a> but
at least after "Lee" and Mark Evanier correctly suggested Mo Marcus,
that
led me to more Marcus IDs elsewhere. If anyone has a better idea on
this funny animal art than Andru and Esposito, I'd be gratified to hear
it.<br />
<br />
"Outboxed the Boxer," the first story in <i>Tom Cat</i>
#4, April/56--the first issue; yes, Charlton, why do you ask?--is drawn
in a style not used in the other stories in that issue or the rest of
the 5-issue run. The later issues are by Al Fago, who signs a cover and
a story, and perhaps other artists in his style.<br />
<br />
With the wildly different, comparatively "realistic" style of this
first
story, I'd think that it was another one of those examples of
Charlton's buying up the inventory of a defunct company, but the
writer, whoever it may be--"Ngaaa!" and Kurrash--continues on the
feature throughout the run.<br />
<br />
I'm guessing Andru and Esposito more by the inks than the
pencils. Although this is a comical comic book, the figures aren't
in the industry-wide "make it
look like <i>Mad</i> but not anything actually like the <i>Mad</i>
artists" style that
Andru used on <i>Get Lost</i>.
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-68888144728883876682022-11-02T21:10:00.001-04:002022-11-02T21:11:45.633-04:00Robert Bernstein Continues on Crime Does Not Pay <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
Here's Robert Bernstein's next couple of years writing for <i>Crime
Does Not Pay</i> for Lev Gleason. I hadn't convinced myself
of his writing the Who Dunnit? story in #70 when I did the first list.<br />
<br />
<i>CDNP</i> closes out 1950 with #94, but I don't
see Bernstein work in those last issues of the year.<br />
<br />
As I was looking for Bernstein stories I found a couple by Carl Wessler
that
didn't get to the CGD from his records. In this tier from "Jack Rosca,"
note the exclamation that I haven't seen Robert Bernstein ever use.<div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUYNtsbvQet_MzxI2F--Mn2pH5016pinv9gmVedXGmrh1BYzWPJlm5vPk9xZTkchgX8cktBNwJd8paAeF84LaKlRd42SSTR4RPQcplk-CCFOhvCkrzj9mhd6P4AzfNjGEgumovBlFwlcOUmnpZUs2HglMB-giZBTdUhnYNV-qZpNecgdLYbnhW5LCe/s929/Page_20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="'Aghhrr!'" border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="929" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUYNtsbvQet_MzxI2F--Mn2pH5016pinv9gmVedXGmrh1BYzWPJlm5vPk9xZTkchgX8cktBNwJd8paAeF84LaKlRd42SSTR4RPQcplk-CCFOhvCkrzj9mhd6P4AzfNjGEgumovBlFwlcOUmnpZUs2HglMB-giZBTdUhnYNV-qZpNecgdLYbnhW5LCe/w400-h190/Page_20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<big><b><i>Crime Does Not Pay</i> Anthology
Stories<br />
1949-50<br />
Written by Robert
Bernstein</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Dec/48</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">70 </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Jan/49</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">71 </td>
<td>Hank Charters</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">72 </td>
<td>Craig Denby, the Movie-Struck Egomaniac</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Andy Yole</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">73 </td>
<td>Dennis Mayhew and Everett Johns</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">75 </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">76 </td>
<td>Clarence Reese, the Hero-Worshipper</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">July/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">77 </td>
<td>Sheriff Ted Benton</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">78 </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">79 </td>
<td>Spike Spitz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Frankie Darrell vs. Lieutenant Jim Scott</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">80 </td>
<td>Vince Grey</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Black Panther Murder Case [WHO DUNNIT?]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">82 </td>
<td>Death in the Hobo Jungle<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit? </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Jan/50 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">83 </td>
<td>The Long Manhunt for Les Voyles </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">84 </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">85 </td>
<td>Police Teamwork and 3 Blind Rats</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Confessions of a Racketeer's Widow</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">90 </td>
<td>Over My Dead Body!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Unexpected Guest</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">91 </td>
<td>Murder Plays Hide-and-Seek</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<big><b><br />
Written by Carl Wessler</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/49</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">79 </td>
<td>Jack Roscar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/50</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">84 </td>
<td>Death House Blues</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-63584855413303777922022-10-12T12:54:00.000-04:002022-10-12T12:54:25.368-04:00Ken Fitch Writes Tony Gay<style>td {vertical-align: top;}
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The early 50s company Star is best known for its covers by co-owner L.
B. Cole. On the insides it made do with a lot of reprint material from
various publishers, most
notably Novelty, from whom it continued some titles and characters.
Teen-age model Toni Gay, for instance, is a continuation of Novelty's
Toni Gayle girl detective strip.<br />
<br />
Star's romance and teen-age books did contain some original material,
and
every so often in the romance titles Ken Fitch got a scripting credit.
So I knew to look for him at Star, and I found him on at least the
first two Toni Gay stories. This tier from "The Hoaxed Hoax" shows not only his typical
"Aiy-y-y-y-y-y" but the "Eeee<u>eee</u>" found in some of
his romance stories. The artist is Norman Nodel.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQCL1fXrtr0_7JEVXZb4vhkCtuobHCye2IAltbuJ9gHFCeJfQJSQI3prQr9jpJSjPH1ClxFOy49WsBz-sBkCrM3j1gq5gm6LTs9dwPj41p0EvQ5CGSANakXVu311kaldQkNnvnC-K9FcF_-I0vvwgNo-izkxaybTqB7E4SDBg2JoGX0naQiZLXi-k/s1501/scan09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Toni Gay 'Aiy-y-y-y-y-y' 'EeeeEEE'" border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1501" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQCL1fXrtr0_7JEVXZb4vhkCtuobHCye2IAltbuJ9gHFCeJfQJSQI3prQr9jpJSjPH1ClxFOy49WsBz-sBkCrM3j1gq5gm6LTs9dwPj41p0EvQ5CGSANakXVu311kaldQkNnvnC-K9FcF_-I0vvwgNo-izkxaybTqB7E4SDBg2JoGX0naQiZLXi-k/w400-h184/scan09.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>On many of the stories in the other strips in <i>School-Day
Romances</i>/<i>Popular Teen-Agers</i>--Ginger
Snapp/Ginger Bunn/Honey Bunn, Midge Martin, and Eve Adams--I find one
writer whom I can't identify who uses the expression "Sufferin' Susie"
often.<br />
<br />
<big><b>Ken Fitch Scripts on Toni Gay<br />
in <i>School-Day Romances</i></b><br />
<br />
</big>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 80px;">Nov-Dec/49</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">1 </td>
<td style="width: 210px;">The Hoaxed Hoax</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 80px;">Jan-Feb/50</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 25px;">2 </td>
<td style="width: 210px;">Mixed Pix</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-69786483889909365252022-09-22T11:32:00.001-04:002022-10-12T12:54:41.761-04:00Sal Trapani Credit Where Due: Nature Boy <style>td {vertical-align: top;}
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexJguI3kYz-kAS1Y3FjIg00L_ZoCcsRFTwYWtU67dkku4lj2ZaU8uy8I5LZ7YyBtoh-MRCdQq4wf-lPVQR282d9Tqyv0Q_HIZ27QTG-8giBDzqOAB_rrli-cMRTswHpyhl6r_kct5S9C5Ud4Yc0jPjJr_Es5wDr8I-LzSJahYruwsflTkTY_YblC9/s1222/NAT00511.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Nature Boy 5 Desert Intrigue 'Aiyyy'" border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="836" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexJguI3kYz-kAS1Y3FjIg00L_ZoCcsRFTwYWtU67dkku4lj2ZaU8uy8I5LZ7YyBtoh-MRCdQq4wf-lPVQR282d9Tqyv0Q_HIZ27QTG-8giBDzqOAB_rrli-cMRTswHpyhl6r_kct5S9C5Ud4Yc0jPjJr_Es5wDr8I-LzSJahYruwsflTkTY_YblC9/w438-h640/NAT00511.JPG" width="438" /></a></div><br />After all the times that Sal Trapani was given the attribution for his
ghosts' pencils, it's only fair to give him credit for some
stories he did ink without being recognized. I'm not sure who did the pencils on "Starvation Valley" in <i>Nature Boy</i> #4. Could Bill Fraccio have done any?<br />
<br />
Jerry Siegel has been correctly credited with the John Buscema drawn
stories in #3 (the first issue) and #5. The guess at Joe Gill for #4
and one story in #5 happens to have hit the mark, but another writer
known to have been at Charlton in the 1950s wasn't considered. That's
Ken Fitch, whose "Aiyyy" is seen in his later Dell work such as Space
Man.<br />
<br />
<big><b><i>Nature Boy</i>
</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Aug/56</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">4 </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">A World Gone Mad</td>
<td>i: Sal Trapani</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">Starvation Valley</td>
<td>p: Molno? i: Rocke Mastroserio?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">Nature Boy's Private War</td>
<td>i: Trapani</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"></td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">Peaceful Island</td>
<td>i: Trapani</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Feb/57</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">5 </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">Desert Intrigue</td>
<td>w: Ken Fitch i: Trapani</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">Menace from the Hills</td>
<td>w: Fitch i: Trapani</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 170px;">Bringing Up Junior</td>
<td>i:
Trapani</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-54083076144793183572022-09-01T13:55:00.000-04:002022-09-01T13:55:03.953-04:00Robert Bernstein Starts Out on Crime Does Not Pay <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieBBmw7gTMnqPuERhXDqKRRQ5ulkzsUCB_eMRa6oUYcsn-Zj547-utd6PZ87C8XIUwwoUNk31CoUoBd7R4yDnzgF6vHorHu2s-2jZWAr3rYAO3iatdPM4KSsx4CByTE-s7UX9uhpvclwB6XuootF2xCskvlTo7H5KfGalVJE6ZMUbrhfMJY2CiF4PX/s911/CDNP057-04_Bonnie%20Parker-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="'Eeeiii' Bonnie Parker CDNP 57" border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="911" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieBBmw7gTMnqPuERhXDqKRRQ5ulkzsUCB_eMRa6oUYcsn-Zj547-utd6PZ87C8XIUwwoUNk31CoUoBd7R4yDnzgF6vHorHu2s-2jZWAr3rYAO3iatdPM4KSsx4CByTE-s7UX9uhpvclwB6XuootF2xCskvlTo7H5KfGalVJE6ZMUbrhfMJY2CiF4PX/w400-h195/CDNP057-04_Bonnie%20Parker-04.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Flipping through <i>Crime Does Not Pay</i>, I'll stop to
recheck a story for more Robert Bernstein clues once my eye has been
caught by his typical exclamations like "Eeeiii" and "Iiiieee." This tier is from "Bonnie Parker" in #57.<br />
<br />
"Ghouls' Gold," possibly Bernstein's first published comic book story,
is given a rare credit line. He wrote for <i>CDNP</i> and other titles for the publisher, Lev Gleason, from 1943 to 1955; here's the first part of a listing.<br />
<br />
I haven't seen <i>CDNP</i> 46 and 54.<br />
<br />
<big><b><i>Crime Does Not Pay</i> Anthology
Stories<br />
1946-48<br />
Written by Robert
Bernstein</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Jan/46</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">43 </td>
<td>Ghouls' Gold</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">44 </td>
<td>Mrs. Bluebeard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">47 </td>
<td>A Weird Weekend (WHO DUNNIT?)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">48 </td>
<td>The Greedy Gunman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Mutiny on the Rock</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Jan/47 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">49 </td>
<td>Devil's Diary</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Mother of Murderers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Brother Rats</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">50 </td>
<td>The Kill-Crazy Fleagle Brothers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Danny Iamascia, Dutch Shultz's Triggerman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Invisible Killer (WHO DUNNIT?)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">51 </td>
<td>The Hoover Brothers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Pretty Boy Floyd, the Two-Faced Terrorr</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Washed in Blood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">July/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">53 </td>
<td>Carlo Barone, the Murderous Bully</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Dr. Holmes, the Master of Murder Castle</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Death Stalks the Diamond (WHO DUNNIT?)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">55 </td>
<td>Louis Lepke Buchalter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>"Shoe-Box" Annie</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">56 </td>
<td>The True Story of Big Mouth Nick Luciano</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">57 </td>
<td>Bonnie Parker</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Wild Spree of the Laughing Sadist--Herman Duker</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Case of the Murdered Bathing Beauty (WHO DUNNIT?)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">58 </td>
<td>Thomas Dun, Single-Handed Killer of Thousands</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Jan/48</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">59 </td>
<td>Vic Everhart, the Kill-Crazy Scoundrel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Alvin Karpis</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Cut Rate Murder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Financier of Death</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Feb/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">60 </td>
<td>Verne Miller</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Was She a Monster?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">61 </td>
<td>Clay Fogelman, Meanest Man of Crime</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Apr/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">62 </td>
<td>William Nevinson, the Terror of the Roads</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>William Bonney, Alias Billy the Kid</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">64 </td>
<td>Walter Legenza the Gangster</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Robert James</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">66 </td>
<td>The Savage Genna Brothers--Bootleggers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Dick Richards</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">67 </td>
<td>Once There Were Three Killers from Brooklyn...</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The End of the Deadly O'Malley Gang</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">68 </td>
<td>Little Hymie Nabosco</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Belle Shirley, the Angel-Faced She-Devil</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 53px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">69 </td>
<td>The Gruesome Foursome--Including Emil, the Half-Wit</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-83200328782515305942022-08-10T10:28:00.000-04:002022-08-10T10:28:05.954-04:00When Is a Self-Swipe Not a Swipe?<p>Cover painter Allen Anderson's comic book work was mostly for Ziff-Davis's comics, but even though Fiction House didn't use paintings for their comics covers, they of course used them on their pulps.</p><p>With comic books pencilers the first think you'd think at seeing these similar images is that the artist is swiping from an earlier work, even if his own, but in these cases Anderson might not have even looked at the earlier paintings if he was just reusing particular photos from modeling sessions.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWcIUI3uKSRnM-oOMu17CnvY8Pc52Noy4yvEsa5e3eWlxYmNTpcT1Q8cLAWf7yZbDBo-pA8-xUMDSmRYSFX3Hj5fmts9CKO-eGEl30NE9iFhlD0OU8KTlyiV-1gUhT4LFWdBxY7s3zf50gqPcV2-iDccyZ1UquUuI-__EdsYVRfzf_phke4Ks5NIh1/s1175/Action%20Spr%2047,%20Planet%201-51,%20Lariat%203-53.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Action, Planet, Lariat" border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="1175" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWcIUI3uKSRnM-oOMu17CnvY8Pc52Noy4yvEsa5e3eWlxYmNTpcT1Q8cLAWf7yZbDBo-pA8-xUMDSmRYSFX3Hj5fmts9CKO-eGEl30NE9iFhlD0OU8KTlyiV-1gUhT4LFWdBxY7s3zf50gqPcV2-iDccyZ1UquUuI-__EdsYVRfzf_phke4Ks5NIh1/w400-h193/Action%20Spr%2047,%20Planet%201-51,%20Lariat%203-53.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaOfimRPFwKz8yAyJk3GV8UEGb_9B2-z-TJ_GD4n1WxPUUy8nel_yjVRyDI3Okc2lfXzV25V0fmk66x84edlhm4Vt2hcqlI1sRkml9t8c5IbT41e6fZhkDKa-ZgWmvvV6BrmkuXG1x9JDCPf_5Y2gAGnRT-mtYeMQXjQ_PcnEinoFvSkB-YFX_F9j0/s890/Planet%20Win%2047,%20Action%20Win%2048,%20Planet%201-52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Planet, Action, Planet" border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="890" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaOfimRPFwKz8yAyJk3GV8UEGb_9B2-z-TJ_GD4n1WxPUUy8nel_yjVRyDI3Okc2lfXzV25V0fmk66x84edlhm4Vt2hcqlI1sRkml9t8c5IbT41e6fZhkDKa-ZgWmvvV6BrmkuXG1x9JDCPf_5Y2gAGnRT-mtYeMQXjQ_PcnEinoFvSkB-YFX_F9j0/w400-h190/Planet%20Win%2047,%20Action%20Win%2048,%20Planet%201-52.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>These are <i>Action Stories</i> Spring/47, <i>Planet Stories</i> January/51, and <i>Lariat Story</i> March/53; and <i>Planet Stories</i> Winter/47, <i>Action Stories</i> Winter/48, and <i>Planet Stories</i> January/52.</p>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-43437546516359243902022-07-21T11:15:00.000-04:002022-07-21T11:15:12.565-04:00Dell Tie-ins by "The Mystic of the Lower East Side" <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
Wikipedia, may wonders never cease, has it almost right on Lionel
Ziprin: "Ziprin wrote comic book scripts for Dell Comics in the
mid-1960s, including <i>Kona Monarch of Monster Island</i>
and several stories
depicting combat during World War II." It was more accurately the early
1960s (and the "several stories" were the first 10 or 11 issues of <i>Combat</i>).<br />
<br />
I mention the up-to-date Wikipedia entry because the original sources
of info on Ziprin still floating around on the Internet,
derived from his 2009 obit, sent historians way off in the wrong
direction by saying he wrote for Dell "in the late forties and into the
fifties." (In 2009 <a href="https://www.newsfromme.com/?s=lionel+ziprin">Mark
Evanier</a>, bringing the news of Ziprin to fandom's
attention, soon concluded that "the bio of [Ziprin] had events
somewhat out of sequence.") See the 2020 <a href="https://allenginsberg.org/2020/10/t-o-13/">Allen
Ginsberg Project</a> post, which quotes that time frame but goes
on to
mention Ziprin's doing the first 10 issues of <i>Kona</i>
without realizing that
the 12-cent comic they show couldn't have come from that earlier era.<br />
<br />
Part of the quote from Ziprin himself (in it he never says nineteen
forties or fifties) mentions his doing movie adaptations too.
So far I've found one
movie adaptation by him and three original-story TV tie-ins. The
Aladdin plot he was stuck with (although it would have aligned with his
interests in mysticism) but the three TV ones are, like Kona, worthy of
the description "hallucinogenic."<br />
<br />
The Grand Comics Database doesn't even include Lionel Ziprin yet; it
still
attributes the early issues of <i>Kona</i> to Don Segall
(derived from, I think--mea culpa--a long-ago misatttribution by me).<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWlKYkFxrGfDJeO1rsm-sf39tDAk9rlZ2_MueurTpDS72v04zR4RQLhWQCHxur08fEEcPslmd406sQOo6i6lWI1bX4X29M2meu24mzZRUgonn2rD8xSREs9tdnIqltCBpo-utnvZ2a7sf2lbLA4l1Qq0XlOWu4ghfqCjOql9oRdCwf43kFa3KwF-G/s1318/4c%201255%20(Dell%201961)%20Aladdin%2033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Wonders of Aladdin" border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="944" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuWlKYkFxrGfDJeO1rsm-sf39tDAk9rlZ2_MueurTpDS72v04zR4RQLhWQCHxur08fEEcPslmd406sQOo6i6lWI1bX4X29M2meu24mzZRUgonn2rD8xSREs9tdnIqltCBpo-utnvZ2a7sf2lbLA4l1Qq0XlOWu4ghfqCjOql9oRdCwf43kFa3KwF-G/w458-h640/4c%201255%20(Dell%201961)%20Aladdin%2033.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br />Ziprin was writing directly for Dell. In 1961-62 the split into Dell
and Gold Key was looming, as according
to the
indicias these issues were among those "Designed and Produced by Dell
Publishing"
whereas most in this portion of the <i>Four Color</i>
run were still "Designed and Produced by Western Printing and
Lithographing" although all were printed and published by Dell. Perhaps
that explains Paul S. Newman's records showing "Aladdin"; maybe Western
bought a script from him before they found they'd lost some individual
properties
to their own printers. Newman's writing is, in a word,
straightforward, whereas the page here is typical of Ziprin's more
flamboyant
style as seen in his <i>Kona.</i><br />
<br />
All the one-page inside-cover/back cover fillers in these were very
likely
written by Ziprin too. It seems to me, by the way, that some other
writer did issue #2 of <i>87th Precinct</i>.<br />
<br />
<big><b>Some Lionel Ziprin scripts in FOUR COLOR</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">1961</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">1255 </td>
<td>The Wonders of Aladdin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Feb-Apr/62</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">1301 </td>
<td>Adventures in Paradise: Circle of Fire</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Mar-May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">1308 </td>
<td>Tales of the Wizard of Oz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 85px;">Apr-Jun/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">1309 </td>
<td>87th Precinct: Blind Man's Bluff...</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-657818795716297622022-06-28T10:12:00.000-04:002022-06-28T10:12:14.640-04:00Obscure Shuster: AceJust before Joe Shuster did a <a href="http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2020/06/joe-shuster-makes-appearance.html" target="_blank">love story</a> and a filler in the same issue for Standard in 1950 he did a love story for Ace: "Romance on the Range" in <i>Western Love Trails</i> 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.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpu9p71Hl7QEOIf1RdI8ubNqRAnR-hq8j7-J00hMdjXs_fYXEYevzvLKPf0XcSfdlQpWV6aD1taYdS-XhENnSXmqH0IVjhDUtuwQutertvZ4-flgi5Do3rOai1OV5YfuqvA884d8COrFgBkJFONuaKMI9hr89pUNIdO1-LAOcW3EQEPNMo-mi3DP5/s1987/Shuster%20Western%20Love%207.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="1987" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpu9p71Hl7QEOIf1RdI8ubNqRAnR-hq8j7-J00hMdjXs_fYXEYevzvLKPf0XcSfdlQpWV6aD1taYdS-XhENnSXmqH0IVjhDUtuwQutertvZ4-flgi5Do3rOai1OV5YfuqvA884d8COrFgBkJFONuaKMI9hr89pUNIdO1-LAOcW3EQEPNMo-mi3DP5/w400-h304/Shuster%20Western%20Love%207.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-70028504210499675212022-06-06T09:06:00.000-04:002022-06-06T09:06:41.098-04:00The Fawcett Movie Adaptation Writers <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
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.<br />
<br />
Here's a page from "Code of the Silver Sage" with Rocky Lane (<i>Motion
Picture Comics</i> 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 <i>Superboy</i>
text page and taken by fandom at the time as meaning <i>Classics Illustrated</i>.<div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cY_iM4hn2BySlySf54EzkVfdnnfF7KFXqWyNKbBE3mOikMyq56EhLZ2m71rfwG_8eNbzOYwgeSvmTRgC6c37wIDewbWtS6bMCsvrT0dEGwhyjChArI7QPAIngbTKHUymdURhBgx05DPdzbJSF31rp-_r4I9PyXJVKLCzzvUzKuqRCrUAGKG7a9jo/s1850/Motion%20Picture%20102-025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Motion Picture Comics 101" border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="1341" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cY_iM4hn2BySlySf54EzkVfdnnfF7KFXqWyNKbBE3mOikMyq56EhLZ2m71rfwG_8eNbzOYwgeSvmTRgC6c37wIDewbWtS6bMCsvrT0dEGwhyjChArI7QPAIngbTKHUymdURhBgx05DPdzbJSF31rp-_r4I9PyXJVKLCzzvUzKuqRCrUAGKG7a9jo/w464-h640/Motion%20Picture%20102-025.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br />
<big><b>Writers--<br />
Fawcett movie one-shots</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1949</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Dakota Lil</td>
<td>Joe Millard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1950</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Copper Canyon</td>
<td>Millard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Destination Moon</td>
<td>Otto Binder </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Montana</td>
<td>Millard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Pioneer Marshal</td>
<td>Millard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"></td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Powder River Rustlers</td>
<td>Millard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"></td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Singing Guns</td>
<td>Millard</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<big><b><br />
<i>Fawcett Movie Comic</i></b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1950</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">7 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Gunmen of Abilene</td>
<td>Binder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">8 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">King of the Bull Whip</td>
<td>Leo Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Feb/51<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">9 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Old Frontier</td>
<td>Dorfman </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Apr/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">10 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Missourians</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">May/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">11 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Thundering Trail</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">12 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Rustlers on Horseback</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">13 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Warpath</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">14 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Last Oupost</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Feb/52</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">15 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Man from Planet X</td>
<td>Binder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Apr/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">16 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Ten Tall Men</td>
<td>Dorfman </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">17 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Rose of Cimarron</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Aug/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">18 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Brigand</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">19 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Carbine Williams</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">20 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Ivanhoe</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<big><b><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
Motion Picture</span><i> Comics</i></b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1950</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">101 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Vanishing Westerner</td>
<td>Millard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Jan/51</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">102 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Code of the Silver Sage</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">103 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Covered Wagon Raid<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">May/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">104 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Vigilante Hideout</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">July/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">105 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Red Badge of Courage<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">106 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Texas Rangers<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">107 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Frisco Tornado<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Jan/52 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">108 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Mask of the Avenger<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">109 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Rough Riders of Durango<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">May/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">110 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">When Worlds Collide<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">July/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">111 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Vanishing Outpost<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Sep/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">112 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Brave Warrior<br />
</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">113 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Walk East on Beacon</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Jan/53 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">114 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Cripple Creek</td>
<td>Dorfman</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-81913589523683128602022-05-23T10:43:00.002-04:002022-05-23T10:43:53.534-04:00Bunny Backups <title>Bunny_Ball_Fantasy</title>
<style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
In the Bunny Ball Fantasy Theater backups in Harvey's <i>Bunny</i>,
Howie Post
has been IDed on the Sooper Hippie stories, but Hy Eisman, the Bunny artist, has been
attributed the art for the first Fruitman stories and the Yvoorg Nam
one. He doesn't start on Fruitman until issue 9. He may be inked by
Henry Scarpelli on some, and Scarpelli may do complete art again toward
the end of the run. (I see him with Eisman in varying degrees on the
Bunny stories too.)<br />
<br />
The inking on these three Post stories in particular stumps me--it
doesn't look like his own as seen on Anthro, for instance--so as far as
inking goes, I'll venture only that Scarpelli inked himself here.<div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK1BN6BhkDLq3BKq1TApVV-Ryjn38lFoa4Xca-kDf6zeUGBMGPmpRRW1i8q8qLlvvOPQtZJB0tHqSafLRf2HcHmFqs5-D_6m2sav2M1_K1NSRpUjTgYV-uC0ESYVz5MrJ7U4KgF3wQ_fhQwdGl5oJJR0usOLS5v53l_EfMD-kW18Jb_qoiOo9NNbYn/s1711/Bunny%20%23008%20p60.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bunny 8 Fruitman" border="0" data-original-height="1711" data-original-width="1139" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK1BN6BhkDLq3BKq1TApVV-Ryjn38lFoa4Xca-kDf6zeUGBMGPmpRRW1i8q8qLlvvOPQtZJB0tHqSafLRf2HcHmFqs5-D_6m2sav2M1_K1NSRpUjTgYV-uC0ESYVz5MrJ7U4KgF3wQ_fhQwdGl5oJJR0usOLS5v53l_EfMD-kW18Jb_qoiOo9NNbYn/w426-h640/Bunny%20%23008%20p60.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />
<big><b>Bunny Ball Fantasy Theater Pencillers in early <i>Bunny</i></b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/67</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">3 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Fruitman</td>
<td>Warren Kremer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/68</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">4 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Yvoorg Nam</td>
<td>Howie Post</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">5 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Flower People [SOOPER
HIPPIE]</td>
<td>Post </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Feb/69</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">7 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Love Beads [SOOPER HIPPIE]</td>
<td>Post</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Apr/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">8 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">The Great Feast [FRUITMAN]</td>
<td>Henry Scarpelli full art</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">9 </td>
<td style="width: 250px;">Shmasty and McGee
[FRUITMAN]</td>
<td>Hy Eisman</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-49692706641349578422022-04-25T22:35:00.001-04:002022-04-25T22:35:42.853-04:00Robert Bernstein Writes Desperado <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
This is a way of dipping my toe in the water on Robert Bernstein's
scripts for Lev Gleason; he was a major writer for them mostly after
Dick
Wood (their tenures overlapped in 1946-47) and alongside Carl Wessler and others. There may well be more Bernstein stories here that didn't jump out at
me if he didn't use his typical exclamations.<br />
<br />
<i>Desperado</i> not surprisingly is spun off <i>Crime
Does Not Pay</i> as an anthology of nothing but Wild West
crime stories after <i>CDNP</i>
ran them every so often. With #9 <i>Desperado </i>became
the Western masked hero book <i>Black Diamond Western</i>.<br />
<br />
In lieu of <i>CDNP's</i> Mr. Crime, the lead story of most
issues of <i>Desperado</i> was narrated by an object--a
gallows, a coin, a boot--long before that became a staple of the DC war
books. Here a gun is narrating "Joe Slade" in #1.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyyziqnNzMN774znaajPGCjDFIxb_zzRIZUgBStZCTUb-3S8Uq6bCfFXP4A90AZ2WCQgU154qq8NHsoWIs89IBemj87_Lwrr7dL_VkQCrriXswpZnDXwcpajIcPrar2J7o5HqCEQpNXq3DK_Ksl2_GDvBy9G-R7KnTzn4O8sTDz_I1JYNdH83Txhi/s1713/Desperado%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1713" data-original-width="1142" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyyziqnNzMN774znaajPGCjDFIxb_zzRIZUgBStZCTUb-3S8Uq6bCfFXP4A90AZ2WCQgU154qq8NHsoWIs89IBemj87_Lwrr7dL_VkQCrriXswpZnDXwcpajIcPrar2J7o5HqCEQpNXq3DK_Ksl2_GDvBy9G-R7KnTzn4O8sTDz_I1JYNdH83Txhi/w426-h640/Desperado%201.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><big><b><i>Desperado</i> Anthology Stories<br />
Written by Robert
Bernstein</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">June/48</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">1 </td>
<td>Joe Slade</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Sam Bass, the Cross Eyed
Dead Shot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">2 </td>
<td>Teton Jackson</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">3 </td>
<td>The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
and Its Leader "Kid" Curry</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Crazy Sam Brown</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Johnny Ringo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">4 </td>
<td>"Doc" Holliday</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Wes Hardin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">5 </td>
<td>King Hunter, the Self-Proclaimed King</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Clay Cottrell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>"Rattlesnake Jake" Fallon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Bat Slater</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">6 </td>
<td>Joe Bowler</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Sheriff Ted Tucker</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Burly Will Grady and His Band of Ruthless Rustlers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Jan/49 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">7 </td>
<td>One Man Against Two Armies</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>"Buckskin" Frank Combs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>[WESTERN
WHODUNNIT?]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Feb/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">8 </td>
<td>Cesar Leporello and the Phony Diamond of the Rio Grande</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Fools' Gold</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Blind Man's Bluff</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-15895776307609060232022-03-29T11:01:00.000-04:002022-03-29T11:01:32.643-04:00Mix-and-Match SwipeGutenberg Montiero's cover painting for <i>Creepy</i> 24 (Dec/68) swipes two earlier paintings.<br /><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_To1ORO1qZ-rlbwr_1JPGLNPqy9N_jjzmnnQylxNJvdNac2Crv3ziO89ICF-Ick-wcg4FHlh5QBClwGDm4Drh2vn6DiDnU-ebxyn_U-80x272prqEHuBbGAWwucjbzgJrkLsl6FodhWSfg0EqVLT_Imitr0rIg9HARWyPy-eLkSulzikOw1QZuyms/s1090/Masters,%20Black%20Mask,%20Creepy%2024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Masters of Horror pb, Black Mask Sept 46, Creepy 24" border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="725" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_To1ORO1qZ-rlbwr_1JPGLNPqy9N_jjzmnnQylxNJvdNac2Crv3ziO89ICF-Ick-wcg4FHlh5QBClwGDm4Drh2vn6DiDnU-ebxyn_U-80x272prqEHuBbGAWwucjbzgJrkLsl6FodhWSfg0EqVLT_Imitr0rIg9HARWyPy-eLkSulzikOw1QZuyms/w426-h640/Masters,%20Black%20Mask,%20Creepy%2024.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />An unknown artist painted the cover for the Berkley paperback <i>Masters of Horror</i> (1967); Rafael De Soto painted the one for the pulp magazine <i>Black Mask</i> (Sept/46).Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-79216118431345611862022-03-01T10:08:00.000-05:002022-03-01T10:08:23.456-05:00Artist of the First (or Second) Modern Graphic Novel1950's <i>Mansion of Evil</i> from Fawcett Gold Medal Books is credited only to the scripter, Joseph Millard. The artist is Bud Thompson. The tiers below, from the story "Guilty of Murder" in the final issue of Fawcett's <i>Captain Marvel Jr.</i>--#119, June 1953--show some of the same silhouetted or partially silhouetted figures as in <i>Mansion of Evil</i>.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmRIJeTZGy4znsf97sTIoqgPoa-3Idn1M0V5rinUwlESYvZnk2A9lkveJlo685zq9nRTtj1XWy-CZwHD2cZOhpRffL-GLAlzvzQeBw_3fF9vrbQO459fQhjhijxZ6aIg2fJME-lP9sHlMK4gkHX1_jqr34QA2HacFfxeVA6VrrEkNGCeuovPv2VQ6j=s1730" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mansion of Evil, CMJ 119" border="0" data-original-height="1730" data-original-width="992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmRIJeTZGy4znsf97sTIoqgPoa-3Idn1M0V5rinUwlESYvZnk2A9lkveJlo685zq9nRTtj1XWy-CZwHD2cZOhpRffL-GLAlzvzQeBw_3fF9vrbQO459fQhjhijxZ6aIg2fJME-lP9sHlMK4gkHX1_jqr34QA2HacFfxeVA6VrrEkNGCeuovPv2VQ6j=w366-h640" width="366" /></a></div><br />The previous guess on the <i>Mansion of Evil</i> art is George Evans--but only on two of the eleven chapters, when the style is the same throughout.</div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-45903016463535389072022-02-21T11:17:00.002-05:002022-07-21T11:27:02.982-04:00Auteurs of the Graphic Novel <style>td {vertical-align: top;}
</style>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGIFPZwMNXjWdMiENVl2RnZF04DXp2Gple-eHlD8wIbJ_01bZHKae5oLUg3_JBBtMGA4AFC7IMXgeBEequidnxQf7dlcBuBIEQuCEziqfg8hevX9wAVQ2MzLTntp7dfRd8QYOqdcDUtYrwOSO3fcC_6C15kaUGVmqD0lE6f82iyHYHUPzkQFc3hkmY=s1283" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Uncle Pogo So-So Stories, Theb Flintstones on the Rocks, Don Martin Steps Out" border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="1283" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGIFPZwMNXjWdMiENVl2RnZF04DXp2Gple-eHlD8wIbJ_01bZHKae5oLUg3_JBBtMGA4AFC7IMXgeBEequidnxQf7dlcBuBIEQuCEziqfg8hevX9wAVQ2MzLTntp7dfRd8QYOqdcDUtYrwOSO3fcC_6C15kaUGVmqD0lE6f82iyHYHUPzkQFc3hkmY=w400-h203" width="400" /></a></div><br />Nowadays every issue of a comic book is a temporarily embarrassed
graphic novel.<br />
<br />
My definition of graphic novel: A book using original comics material
in narrative. The important word here is book, so length isn't a
criterion--"novel" encompasses collections (like <i>A Contract
with God</i>,
by the way). A magazine isn't a book,
so <i>His Name Is Savage</i>, for instance, doesn't meet
the definition. And if it isn't limited to original material,
the floodgates open for an appalling number of titles from comic strips
and comic books. Note that these three Pogo books are the
original-material ones among, otherwise, collections. I say "in
narrative" to omit single-page gags of the
"talking in pictures" sort, although fumetti would otherwise fit--for
instance, in the 70s, Richard J. Anobile's Fotonovels. (And so if we
were including magazines, Charlton's 1963 full-length <i>Black
Zoo</i> would predate the 1968 <i>His Name Is
Savage</i> anyway.)<br />
<br />
<i>Mansion of Evil</i> and <i>It Rhymes with Lust</i>
are each dated just 1950, so which one is the first modern graphic
novel is a question--but it's one or the other.<br />
<br />
I'm pushing the definition of "original" with <i>Passionella</i>,
but one of
the four stores is original and the others have been revised and
redrawn for the book. I dithered over the six 1962 Tintin books form
Golden Press--they are new American translations--and decided not to
include them. Belmont's <i>High Camp Superheroes</i> and <i>My
Son the Teenager</i> I left off
too, as the new material in them was prepared for the comics and by
luck came out in the paperbacks first.<br />
<br />
Can you think of any I'm missing through 1970? UPDATE--2 days later--The Monkees occurred to me when I happened to be thinking of the more usual TV tie-in comics and novels. FURTHER UPDATE: OtherEric in his comment contributed <i>The Pogo Poop Book</i>.<br />
<br />
<i><b>1940s-60s American Graphic Novels</b></i><br />
abbreviations: mass market paperbacks, hardcovers, trade paperbacks<br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1950 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Mansion
of Evil </td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Fawcett</td>
<td>pb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;"> It Rhymes with
Lust</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">St. John </td>
<td>digest</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1953 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Uncle Pogo So-So Stories</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">S&S</td>
<td>hc, tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1954 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">The Pogo Stepmother Goose</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">S&S </td>
<td>tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1955 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">The Pogo Peek-a-Book</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">S&S</td>
<td>hc, tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1959 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Passionella and Other
Stories</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">McGraw-Hill </td>
<td>tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle
Book</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Ballantine </td>
<td>pb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1960 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">The Flintstones on the
Rocks</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Dell </td>
<td>small tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Huck and Yogi Jamboree</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Dell </td>
<td>small tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1962 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Don Martin Steps Out</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Signet </td>
<td>pb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;"> [and many more
MAD originals]</td>
<td style="width: 80px;"> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1966 </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Christopher Lee's Treasury
of Terror</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Pyramid </td>
<td>pb</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 215px;">Dracula</td>
<td style="width: 100px;"> Ballantine</td>
<td>pb<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 215px;">The Monkees</td>
<td style="width: 100px;"> Popular Library</td>
<td>pb<br />
</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">The Great Society Comic
Book</td>
<td style="width: 100px;"> Parallax</td>
<td>small tp </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Bobman and Teddy</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Parallax </td>
<td>small tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 200px;">Kosher Comics</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">Parallax </td>
<td>small tp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 215px;">The Pogo Poop Book</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">S&S</td>
<td>tp </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">1967 </td>
<td style="width: 215px;">The Man from M.O.T.H.E.R.</td>
<td style="width: 100px;"> Parallax</td>
<td>smaller tp </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-75160462192638680142022-01-22T13:54:00.000-05:002022-01-22T13:54:15.059-05:00Dick Wood and Mr. Crime <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2D4HGnaCQ7yeWO7bT65zYTwzQMNWgzThD9Y9Wlc7srhzkRI-Z09QKOxvpR_shlZzLyDwA8xre7NwfQw--gLMij8V7vTIt9b0iZ08LxzqVWf8jbFNyOd1Yjh4pdS3S4YJ-2sT9FsqzPaxBG2jTo-aR0h8tP49WEI2n_2BMkz4J_WMiwvMxfyrAXJKq=s1456" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="CDNP 35 'Suffering Hannah,' 'Ho, folks'" border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1456" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2D4HGnaCQ7yeWO7bT65zYTwzQMNWgzThD9Y9Wlc7srhzkRI-Z09QKOxvpR_shlZzLyDwA8xre7NwfQw--gLMij8V7vTIt9b0iZ08LxzqVWf8jbFNyOd1Yjh4pdS3S4YJ-2sT9FsqzPaxBG2jTo-aR0h8tP49WEI2n_2BMkz4J_WMiwvMxfyrAXJKq=w400-h383" width="400" /></a></div><br />Dick Wood was credited for any number of stories in <i>Crime
Does Not Pay</i>
at Lev Gleason, but by no means all. This is a list of his anonymous
ones that I've found. There
are <i>CDNP</i>
issues missing here that haven't been scanned yet. Scarce due to
Forties paper
drives? Fifties comic book burnings?<br />
<br />
Dick Wood is recognizable by expressions like "Suffering Hannah," and
in <i>Crime Does Not Pay</i>
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.<br />
<br />
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."<br />
<br />
<big><b>Dick
Wood scripts without byline<br />
in CRIME DOES NOT PAY<br />
</b></big><br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">27 </td>
<td>The Dead-Eye Romeo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Strange Saga of
Rafael Red Lopez</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">29 </td>
<td>The True Story of
"Two-Gun" Crowley</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">30 </td>
<td>The Texas Terrors</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Crime Close-Ups</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Jan/44</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">31 </td>
<td>The True Story of Jean
Cavillac</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Million Dollar
Robbery</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">32 </td>
<td>The Man Who Loved Murder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Señorita of
Sin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Playboys of Crime</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Jan/45</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">37 </td>
<td>10 Years of Terror:
Vincent Piazzero</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Case of the Confident
Killer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Singing Slayer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">38 </td>
<td>The Meek Murderer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Murder by Night</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Wild Beasts of Paris</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">39 </td>
<td>Blonde Queen of Crime</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Case of the
Tell-Tale Watch</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Crime of Terry
Almodovar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">41 </td>
<td>The Cocksure
Counterfeiter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Who Dunnit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Jan/46</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">43 </td>
<td>Case
of the Love Sick Clown</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Doctor of Evil</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">44 </td>
<td>The True Story of "Legs"
Diamond</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Death on the Tracks</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">45 </td>
<td>The True Story of
John Dillinger</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Fire Fiend</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Crime
of the Friendly Enemy</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Sep/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">47 </td>
<td>Thug's Throne</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Horrible Halzingers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Jan/47 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">49 </td>
<td>The Case of the Voodooed
Hangars</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">50 </td>
<td>The Belmont Bandit</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-90169585630583118632022-01-03T13:14:00.000-05:002022-01-03T13:14:37.628-05:00A Harvey Gh-gh-ghost on Bunny <title>Bunny_Lemoine</title>
<style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
The
only attribution at the moment
for the art on Harvey's Sixties teen-type title <i>Bunny</i>
is Hy Eisman. His sneak signature is in a number of early stories in
the form of the license plate "Hy 27 E" on four different cars in "Dis<i>car</i>teque"
(#1), "The Ultrazaric Decodifier," "Guests from England,"
and "Poetic Justice" (#2); the "27" (Eisman's birthday) is on
photographer Elmer Snapple's door in "The
Playpen Contest"
(#1) and it continues on his door in, for instance, "The 'Zoople'
Contest"
(#2).<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH5u8-UUlH8uo_zYu-J6Wq9xQKumpFFVvk-umooBFWyXQn6ZvlTD8ExOxW4KeRu3GGGES9LyHvIdR9rmY7MlabexkYHFksWjEOXfeZkrwb23falLoy59on6zbYHWEo7RAgYa8ov8v5-MfFhRXa9E3VrJ1kQspmSJ96F3bu5eIIaeDOLByQnDgzgbmX=s2305" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bunny 1 O. O. Heaven, Playpen Contest" border="0" data-original-height="1690" data-original-width="2305" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH5u8-UUlH8uo_zYu-J6Wq9xQKumpFFVvk-umooBFWyXQn6ZvlTD8ExOxW4KeRu3GGGES9LyHvIdR9rmY7MlabexkYHFksWjEOXfeZkrwb23falLoy59on6zbYHWEo7RAgYa8ov8v5-MfFhRXa9E3VrJ1kQspmSJ96F3bu5eIIaeDOLByQnDgzgbmX=w400-h294" width="400" /></a></div><br />And since Eisman is the main artist, when there are figures (of
secondary characters) in another artist's style, I'm going to say that
artist was assisting Eisman unknown to the Harvey editors and thus a
ghost. The
artist I see is Gus Lemoine from Archie (most notably <i>Madhouse</i>).
These pages are from "O. O. Heaven" and "The Playpen Contest."<br />
<br />
Upon my first look I went along with the GCD, wondering if there were
unknown artists on a few early stories, but I think it's the
inconsistency in inking styles among different stories before one style
is settled upon with issue #3.
(Eisman himself or other inkers? I can't tell.) I'd give
the main pencilling credit on all "Bunny family" stories to Eisman.<br />
<br />
<big><b>Bunny
pencil assists by Gus Lemoine<br />
</b></big><br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Dec/66</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">1 </td>
<td>Rookie Secret Agent O.
O. Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Dis<i>car</i>teque</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Mush Meal Caper</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>Tiger Bunny</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Playpen Contest</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Apr/67</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">2 </td>
<td>The Ultrazaric Decodifier</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-7031081175068930112021-12-06T13:43:00.001-05:002021-12-06T13:43:57.449-05:00Jack Oleck in Marvel Tales and Journey into Mystery <style>td {vertical-align: top;}
</style>
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
<i>Journey into Mystery</i>:
<b>Monty could still think,
then...he could still
reason...</b><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CVc0HCC_18Q/Ya5YeBJMhAI/AAAAAAAADQI/1x-evyh8ugc53tG4WCd-xI7rG0zbsNVsACPcBGAsYHg/s1512/JIM%2B37%2BOleck.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Voice in the Night JIM 37" border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CVc0HCC_18Q/Ya5YeBJMhAI/AAAAAAAADQI/1x-evyh8ugc53tG4WCd-xI7rG0zbsNVsACPcBGAsYHg/w434-h640/JIM%2B37%2BOleck.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><br />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 <i>History of the
Comics.</i><br />
<br />
<i>Marvel Tales</i>
was cancelled with #159 in the Atlas Implosion in
1957; <i>Journey
into Mystery</i> 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.<br />
<br />
<b>Jack Oleck scripts<br />
in<i> Journey into Mystery</i></b><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Aug/56</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#37 </td>
<td>The Voice in the Night<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#40 </td>
<td>How Harry Escaped<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#41 </td>
<td>I Switched Bodies<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Jan/57</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#42 </td>
<td>Humans...Keep Out!<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Feb/
<br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#43 </td>
<td>It's Waiting for Me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Apr/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#45 </td>
<td>What Happened to Harrison</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">May/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#46 </td>
<td>Voodoo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#47 </td>
<td>Bring Back My Body</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"><br />
</td>
<td>He Sits in the Fog!</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<b>in<i>
Marvel Tales</i></b><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">July/56</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#148 </td>
<td>The Despot<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#149 </td>
<td>The Thief<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#152 </td>
<td>When Mongorr Appeared<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#153 </td>
<td>It Can't Be Done!<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"> <br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"> </td>
<td>The Last Man Alive</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Feb/57 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#155 </td>
<td>Man in a Trance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#156 </td>
<td>Forbidden...Keep Out!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Apr/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#157 </td>
<td>The Man Who Was
Replaced<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;"><br />
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;"><br />
</td>
<td>The Man Who
Changed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 60px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#159 </td>
<td>The Last Look</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-31784578838041160992021-11-17T13:13:00.004-05:002021-11-17T21:35:50.301-05:00A Mysterious Script <div class="separator">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 <a href="http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/12/stan-lee-1922-2018-timely-years.html">Timely-Atlas-Comics</a> post on Stan Lee in the Timely years (use Find twice for Frohman).</div>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).<br /><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3kAbwSeKVg/YZVFmHTikSI/AAAAAAAADO8/eTOA3VXBLcg9KwZRow-PfaP2kc-zFksJgCPcBGAsYHg/s1530/Frohman%2Bscript%252C%2BC%2526P%2B56.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A Dame Deals Death, C&P 56" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1530" height="271" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3kAbwSeKVg/YZVFmHTikSI/AAAAAAAADO8/eTOA3VXBLcg9KwZRow-PfaP2kc-zFksJgCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h271/Frohman%2Bscript%252C%2BC%2526P%2B56.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
<b>Burt
Frohman
Script Seen Online</b><br />
<br />
<i>Crime and Punishment</i>--Lev
Gleason<br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/52</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">#56 </td>
<td>A Dame Deals Death</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-73437266269591981842021-10-22T08:44:00.000-04:002021-10-22T08:44:42.896-04:00A Crossover in Prose and an Homage Cover<p>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.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Zn_2soJGn4/YXFgGihYQVI/AAAAAAAADNI/W0udAXJyyMElK9RjKUpmR1QOQYXIxZwnwCPcBGAsYHg/s954/Stardust-Crossover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Perry Rhodan #1 and Maddrax Homage" border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="954" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Zn_2soJGn4/YXFgGihYQVI/AAAAAAAADNI/W0udAXJyyMElK9RjKUpmR1QOQYXIxZwnwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h284/Stardust-Crossover.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The <i>Perry Rhodan</i> #1 (Sept 8, 1961) cover is by Johnny Bruck and the <i>Maddrax</i> #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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <i>PR</i>, "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. </p><p>"Crossover" was written by Oliver Fröhlich, and the first two Perry Rhodans by, respectively, K. H. Scheer and Clark Darlton. <i>Perry Rhodan</i> is at issue #3140, having been published weekly all this time.</p><p><br /></p>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-32979026952357052412021-09-29T11:47:00.002-04:002021-09-29T14:32:44.736-04:00Another Hidden Penciller <style>td {vertical-align: top;} </style>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGf5McAR2Ag/YVSB1RB6yoI/AAAAAAAADL4/1SCHtFQuqhsgPSD_Z-1ckkMDpGrIP-tEQCPcBGAsYHg/s2461/Falling%2B122.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Falling in Love 122" border="0" data-original-height="1761" data-original-width="2461" height="286" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGf5McAR2Ag/YVSB1RB6yoI/AAAAAAAADL4/1SCHtFQuqhsgPSD_Z-1ckkMDpGrIP-tEQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h286/Falling%2B122.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />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 <i>Falling in
Love</i> 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.<br /><div>
<span><a name='more'></a></span>I'd already <a href="http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2015/08/schaffenberger-romance-at-dc.html" target="_blank">posted</a> on a couple of Kurt Schaffenberger
romance stories at DC. The Colletta inks on "Just Too Shy" may be
what's led people astray on
the penciller, but the GCD doesn't recognize even him there;
it gives "?" as the inker. It suggests "Jay Scott Pike?" on pencils,
which it has on at least one Werner Roth/Colletta story.<br />
<br />
<big><b>More
Kurt
Schaffenberger<br />
pencils on DC romance:<br />
<br />
<i>Falling in Love</i></b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Apr/71 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">122 </td>
<td style="width: 230px;">I
Want to Be Free--to Live,
to Love</td>
<td>i: Tony
deZuñiga</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<big><b><i>Girl's
Love Stories</i></b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Sept/72</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 35px;">173 </td>
<td style="width: 230px;">Just
Too Shy</td>
<td>i: Vince Colletta</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969619411845920903.post-18745420341251445762021-09-06T21:05:00.000-04:002021-09-06T21:05:35.283-04:00A Trapani Ghost on the Ghost Who Walks, and Writers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bhw3mITjyNA/YTa1CoG2MCI/AAAAAAAADKA/RyXlJJrg_A4G3FTmlUhAymz7ylAcfhWGwCPcBGAsYHg/s1766/Phantom%2B30.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="'What the!!?!?!?'" border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bhw3mITjyNA/YTa1CoG2MCI/AAAAAAAADKA/RyXlJJrg_A4G3FTmlUhAymz7ylAcfhWGwCPcBGAsYHg/w434-h640/Phantom%2B30.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><div><br /></div>
<style>td {vertical-align: top;}
</style>
"The Secret of the Golden Ransom" in Charlton's first issue of
<i>The
Phantom</i>--#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.<br />
<br />
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 <i>UFO Flying Saucers</i>
at Gold Key.<br />
<br />
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. <i>The
Comic Reader</i> 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. <i>TCR</i>
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 <i>TCR</i>?
Gold Key editor Bill Harris.<br />
<br />
For your perusal: panels from the Claw story in <i>Daredevil
Comics</i> 22 (Feb/46, Lev Gleason), "Interplanetary Olympics" in <i>Jigsaw</i>
2 (Dec/66, Harvey), and "The Terror Tiger" in <i>Phantom</i>
21, all with the use of "Kazar" for "Huzzah"--like "Great
suffering Hannah" elsewhere, a sign of Dick Wood's scripting.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EtH587NfWMo/YTa2WK9kwrI/AAAAAAAADKU/-8ttGNBjblM07wzAuzua9s0OEbbacN1ugCPcBGAsYHg/s750/Kazar%2BDD22%2BJigsaw%2BPhan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="'Kazar!'" border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="701" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EtH587NfWMo/YTa2WK9kwrI/AAAAAAAADKU/-8ttGNBjblM07wzAuzua9s0OEbbacN1ugCPcBGAsYHg/w374-h400/Kazar%2BDD22%2BJigsaw%2BPhan.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><br /><div>
I suppose most of the stories not listed here through #30 are indeed by
Bill Harris.<br />
<br />
<big><b>Some
<i>Phantom</i>
writers<br />
Gold Key/King/Charlton</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Apr/65</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">11 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">Blind
Man's Bluff</td>
<td>Dick Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">June/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">12 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Beast of Bengali</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">13 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Phantom Chronicles</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/66</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">19 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Astronaut and the Pirates</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Masked Emissary</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Jan/67 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">20 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Adventures of the Girl Phantom</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Invisible Demon</td>
<td>Jerry Siegel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">21 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Terror Tiger</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">22 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Secret of Magic Mountain</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">23 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">Delilah</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Aug/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">24 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Riddle of the Witch</td>
<td>Pat Fortunato</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Oct/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">26 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Pearl Raiders</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">27 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Story of Hero</td>
<td>Gary Poole</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Dec/
</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">28 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">Diana's
Deadly Tour</td>
<td>Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Feb/69 </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">30 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Secret of the Golden Ransom</td>
<td>Fortunato</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;"> </td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;"> </td>
<td style="width: 240px;"><br />
</td>
<td>p: José Delbo
i: Sal
Trapani</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<big><b><br />
in <i>Mandrake
the Magician</i><br />
King
</b></big><br />
<br />
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Nov/66</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">2 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Pirate Raiders</td>
<td> Wood</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 50px;">Mar/67</td>
<td style="text-align: right; width: 30px;">4 </td>
<td style="width: 240px;">The
Girl Phantom</td>
<td> Wood</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div></div>Martin OHearnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756078371130519063noreply@blogger.com3