Who Created the Comic Books?

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 Jou...

Two captions from "The Last of Mister Grimm" in Strange Tales #48 signal Jack Oleck's style: his version of Had-I-but-kn...

I would think that the Gunsmoke Kid was meant to be an ongoing series like the Kid from Dodge City and the Kid from Texas. Those two ha...

In an interview where Joe Gill was describing how he wrote at such a sustained pace, his example was not any one of the many Charlton...

Writer Jack Oleck came to Atlas right around the time the Comics Code was instituted, in 1955. His output there was steady but not prolific...

Jack Oleck did all of one Western story for DC that I can think of, and it was a weird Western. EC had long given up on Westerns by the tim...

It's easier to find an artist by their work on one-shot secondary characters than on established ones. Thus you don't want to ID...

I chose a DC romance comic's run edited by Joe Orlando because he used one writer I can recognize at a glance paging through the com...

Jack Oleck didn't actually sell the same story to five different companies. He sold the same setup and twist ending, though, in th...

As I was skimming the Fifties Charlton titles for Carl Memling stories, I had Dick Wood's handful jump out at me, since his interjectio...