The Sensation Character Find of 1953--Slinky Stinky

Here's a character-centric update to my transcriptions in this blog's early days of William Woolfolk's records notebook. (The original material is in plain text; bold represents my additions.) For years I couldn't find these stories—I couldn't even find mention of the character online in 2012. That particular long national nightmare is over...

As far as I know, it wasn't until a scan of Fawcett's Funny Animals 83 (by Narfstar and darkmark) was released into the wild that the name Slinky Stinky got onto the Grand Comics Database. I've only just gotten around to looking at the scan.

Although I suspected he was related by the fact that Mr. Pooch was mentioned, Freddy Feline, I now can see, was never in the GCD at all. But the Slinky Stinky story title in FA 82, as now reported, matches up handily with Woolfolk's storyline description.

Woolfolk wrote the entirety of the Slinky Stinky canon, as #83 was the last Fawcett issue.

Written by William Woolfolk in March 1953

9 pg	Freddy Feline	wants Pooch's swimming pool
	as Slinky Stinky	"The Stolen Swimming Pool" Funny Animals 82, Oct/53

In May 1953

9 pg	Slinky Stinky	poses as hare in a hare hunt
		"Safe—by a Hare!" FA 83, Jan/54
9 pg	Slinky Stinky	tries to collect on Mr. Pooch's insurance
		"Mr. Pooch's Policy" FA 83, Jan/54

Woolfolk Records 1953/04

DC and Orbit are the companies buying the scripts.

The "$100,000 on Clark Kent's Head" syndicated strip sequence ends at eight weeks.

My transcriptions of William Woolfolk's records, to the end of his career in comic books, continue with May 1953 in this post. He began his records with September 1944 after a few years of writing comics; he didn't describe any story further than the feature name through December 1944. I began blogging these transcriptions with January 1945's, when he began putting in descriptions. But a list of the strips he was writing is better than nothing (and I can find the publication of one or two through number of pages or his style), so those four months of 1944 will be my posts when I return to this subject.

April 1953 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

6 pg	Superman syndicate	2nd week
		Superman strip, May 25-30/53
10	I Put a Price on Love	girl who takes men for all she can get
		"I Put a Price on Love" Love Journal 21, Nov/53
6	Battle of the Alamo	only the flag survives to tell the story
		"Ghosts of the Alamo" All-American Men of War 7, Oct-Nov/53
6	Superman syndicate	3rd week
		Superman strip, June 1-6/53
12	Superboy	coronation of Lana Lang
		"The Coronation of Lana Lang" Adventure 192, Sept/53
6	Superman syndicate	4th week
		Superman strip, June 8-13/53
6	Farmers Can't Fight	farmer vs. Hessians in the Revolutionary War
		"Pitchfork Army" Star Spangled War Stories 14, Nov/53
6	Superman syndicate	5th week
		Superman strip, June 15-20/53
6	Superman syndicate	6th week
		Superman strip, June 22-27/53
8	Fighting Heart	gal loves a prizefighter
10		"Fighting Heart" Love Diary 37, Oct/53
12	Superman syndicate	7th & 8th weeks
		Superman strip, June 29-July 4, 6-11/53

Woolfolk Records 1953/03

Orbit and DC, buyers. And: in 1952-53, William Woolfolk has noted the publishers alongside the stories; the Freddy Feline is sold to Fawcett. Pooch is mentioned in the May '53-written Slinky Stinky stories, Woolfolk's last for the company. When I posted that month's records out of order, I guessed from Woolfolk's "F" code that Fawcett was the publisher, but hadn't seen these previous years to confirm the same code on, for instance, Captain Marvel Jr. stories. The company bought these funny animal scripts but I don't find them published. UPDATE: And in fact Freddy Feline was turned into Slinky Stinky for that character's debut story.

I can't read the handwriting about a "Mickey J____ character" and can't guess the cultural reference, but the Love Diary 36 story "Easy to Love" is about a girl who works as a housemaid for the man she falls in love with.

It isn't completely out of left field, but a syndicated Superman strip sequence is a change of pace. Technically this was published by the syndicate, but DC bought the scripts from Woolfolk. Six tiers, a week's dailies, are paid as six pages (or three times as many panels), and in fact at a slightly higher rate. He continues writing the sequence next month. UPDATE: SangorShop supplied the strips' publication dates.

March 1953 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

6 pg	That's How I Am	athletic girl loves a lifeguard
		"Not the Right Type" Love Diary 36, Sept/53
10	Superman	Superman becomes pet of space men
		"A Doghouse for Superman" Superman 84, Aug-Sept/53
6	Command Performance	an actor who hates to play Nazis
		"Command Performance" Star Spangled War Stories 13, Sept/53
10	Superboy	makes a 4th dimension movie in the future
		"The Movie Star of Tomorrow" Superboy 27, Aug-Sept/53
9	Freddy Feline	wants Pooch's swimming pool
	as Slinky Stinky	"The Stolen Swimming Pool" Funny Animals 82, Oct/53
7	Flight into Passion	can a girl go too far and keep her man?
		"Flight into Passion" L Diary 36, Sept/53
6	Battle Decision	detective after crook—in the Army
		"Battle Detective" SSWS 13, Sept/53
7	Treacherous Love	girl works for a Mickey J____ character
10		"Easy to Love" L Diary 36, Sept/53
12	Batman	the invisible Batman
		"The Invisible Batman" Detective 199, Nov/53
6	Superman syndicate	$100,000 on Clark Kent's head
		Superman strip,  May 18 to May 23/53
6	Killer Tanks!	a man who is deathly afraid of the German tanks
		"Killer Tank" Our Army at War 14, Dec/53

Woolfolk Records 1953/02

Back to just Orbit and DC as publishers here.

With "Song of My Heart" paid at a rate lower than for regular writing, I believe that William Woolfolk is revising one of his own stories, but if so, the title has already been revised from one we've seen earlier.

Woolfolk's sole western for DC has been known, like the war stories, from the Julius Schwartz payment records.

February 1953 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

7 pg	revision of Song of My Heart	"Song of My Heart" Love Journal 19, June/53
9	Too Many Sweethearts	girl at an Army post
		"Too Many Sweethearts" L Journal 20, Sept/53
12	Superman	caravan of doom
		"The Covered Wagon of Doom" Action 184, Sept/53
3	S.O.S. for Love	a fat girl's problem
		[untitled SOSFL] L Journal 19, June/53
6	Trigger Twins	one twin is mysteriously missing
		"Legend of a Lawman" All-Star Western 72, Aug-Sept/53

Woolfolk Records 1953/01

A William Woolfolk story bought by Fawcett is followed here by ones for DC and Orbit. That story isn't published by Fawcett; This Magazine Is Haunted 16 is Charlton's second issue after buying the rights to the title and inventory.

And Woolfolk returns to Archie Publications after writing Black Hood and so forth in the early-to-mid Forties; but with a try at the company's by-now flagship character he scores another rare rejection and moves on.

January 1953 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

5 pg	The Evil Ministers	political leaders who are really demons
		"The Evil Ministers" This Magazine Is Haunted 16, Mar/54
6	Operation Tall Tales	a tall tale teller who does heroic deeds and can't prove it
8		"Operation: Tall Tales" All-American Men of War 6, Aug-Sept/53
12	Superman	the new Krypton
		"The Return of Planet Krypton" Action 182, July/53
4	Archie	the burglar alarm [reject]
7	The Girl That I Marry	bachelor tells why he couldn't marry
		"The Girl That I Marry" Love Diary 35, June/53
6	Flying Blind	a blind pilot has to take in a jet fighter
		"Flying Blind" Our Army at War 12, July/53
12	Superman	the perfect plot to kill Superman
		"The Perfect Plot to Kill Superman" Action 183, Aug/53
3	Prescription for Happiness	girl learns she doesn't love soldier
		[untitled PFH] L Diary 35, June/53
12	Superboy	Clark Kent's double lives in his home
		"The Two Clark Kents" Adventure 191, Aug/53
6	Fighting Man	doctor who wants to see real combat
		"Soldier without Armor" OAAW 14, Sept/53

Woolfolk Records 1952/12

Another month, like last, of only five stories entered in the records book; for the only time, a single publisher: DC.

The authorship of William Woolfolk's war stories is already known, from Julius Schwartz's pay records for the books he and Robert Kanigher each edited.

December 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

12 pg	Batman	city without guns
		"City without Guns" Detective 196, Aug/53
10	Superboy	Superboy's manager
		"Superboy Hired a Manager" Superboy 26, June-July/53
6	The Milk Run	"Pappy" of an air squadron in World War II
		"Ghost Ace" Our Army at War 13, Aug/53
10	Superman	Clark Kent goes to prison
		"Clark Kent—Convict" Superman 83, July-Aug/53
6	Drummer Boy	boy drummer at Waterloo
		"Drummer of Waterloo" OAAW 14, Sept/53

Woolfolk Records 1952/11

Stories for Orbit and DC; and William Woolfolk's final story of three for Standard.

There seems to be almost no production time for the Unsolved Crimes, but there it is. Only one of the two pages had to be drawn and lettered, at least—the second was text that merely had to be typeset. Wanted was cancelled before #54, for which "Date with Danger" (noted as an Orbit buy) must have been intended.

November 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

2 pg	Unsolved Crimes	murder of a spinster
		"Murder for Aunt Martha" Wanted 52, Feb/53
12	Superman	the super telethon
		"The Super Telethon" Action 180, May/53
10	Superman	Lois Lane becomes a WAC
		"Lois Lane Joins the WACS" Superman 82, May-June/53
6	Date with Danger	mystery of a vanishing corpse
		[unpublished]
7	The Evil Cornucopia	a cornucopia owned by a demon
		"The Evil Cornucopia" Advs into Darkness 10, June/53

Woolfolk Records 1952/10

Fawcett, Orbit, DC; one final story for Hillman, after writing Sky Wolf some years ago; and a new publisher for William Woolfolk: Standard (I had no idea he'd worked for them).

UPDATE: I couldn't identify the Superman story; darkmark has supplied the citation. The reason I missed it: I had misidentified an earlier script as "Super Manor"—going by the cover, it seems to me now; I IDed most of these in a batch almost two years ago.

Woolfolk has evidently been told there are no more Captain Marvel Jr. stories needed, but this month sees the last Captain Marvel-related story he writes, as Fawcett's reign of comic book publishing nears its end.

"Murderous Cargo" is an instance where, instead of changing a title, Orbit changes a character name: real-life Lucky Luciano becomes fictional Louie Lusto in the published story.

October 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

6 pg	Captain Marvel	thief from the past
		"CM and the Thief from the Past" CM Advs 147, Aug/53
2	Prescription for Happiness	girl loves a gambler
		[untitled PFH]  Love Diary 33, Feb/53
12	Superman	town that didn't want Super
		"Super Manor" Action 179, Apr/53
5	Frogman	his majesty, frogboy
		"Frogman in Purple" Frogman 10, Apr/53
10	Killer Guns	supplier of guns to the underworld
		"For Hire . . . Guns for Killers" Wanted 53, Apr/53
7	The Mirror Man	a man in a mirror
		"The Man in the Mirror" Out of the Shadows 8, Apr/53
5	Nothing Can Save Her	doctor loves a vampire
		"Nothing Can Save Her" Advs into Darkness 9, Apr/53
1	Wanted script	"Raymond Wilt" Wanted 53, Apr/53
12	Batman	underworld bank
		"The Underworld Bank" Detective 194, Apr/53
7	Moll	story of a girl who falls for a gangster
		"Moll!" Love Journal 18, Apr/53
7	Murderous Cargo	Lucky Luciano wants to get back to the U.S.A.
		"Murderous Cargo" Wanted 53, Apr/53

Woolfolk Records 1952/09

From William Woolfolk's notebook recording script sales; I've added publication data in bold.

Fawcett and Orbit are his only two publishers again this month. He hasn't been told yet that Captain Marvel Jr.'s book is being cancelled.

September 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

5 pg	The Death Fish	an enchanted marlin who hunts fishermen
		"Death Fish" This Magazine Is Haunted 14, Dec/53
10	Bill Battle	flag of a fighter
		"Death Warrant" Bill Battle 4, Apr/53
10	Captain Marvel Jr.	country of giant rats
	as Captain Marvel	"The World of Giant Rats" CM Advs 145, June/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	the vampire burglar
	as Captain Marvel	"CM and the Vampire Burglar" CM Advs 147, Aug/53
7	Too Smart Killer	murderer who traps himself—too clever
		"The Too Smart Killer" Wanted 53, Apr/53
5	Man Who Lost His Head	a witch's curse does it
		"The Man Who Lost His Head" TMIH 13, Oct/53
6	Mother Knows Best	girl loves radical, has a prim mother
		"Don't Change Our Love" Love Diary 35, June/53
10	Captain Marvel Jr.	inventions that fail
		[unpublished]

Woolfolk Records 1952/08

Fawcett and Orbit buy from William Woolfolk in August. Bill Battle is another try at a new direction for Fawcett, a Korean War Army sergeant. But the end is near for the company's comics line. Note the Captain Marvel Junior stories being turned into Captain Marvel ones after Junior's title finishes with 119.

"The World's Mightiest Circus" seems to be on Otto Binder's records as well as Woolfolk's, judging by his credit for the story in the GCD, but his records were assembled with Jerry Bails after the fact, in the Sixties; his and Jerry Siegel's likewise duplicate each other on some later Superman stories.

"Cult of Blood" was written under the title "Cult of Death" back in April and published under this third name. Woolfolk was paid a lower rate for the rewrite, but that and the original payment added up to quite a bit more than the usual.

August 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

10 pg	Bill Battle	meets Iron Pants Crowley—a general as tough as he is
		"The Biggest Brass There Is" Master 133, Apr/53
10	Payment in Blood!	story of a gangster's moll
		"Payment in Blood!" Wanted 52, Feb/53
10	Phantom of Disaster	man who sees phantom before disaster strikes
		"Phantom of Disaster" This Magazine Is Haunted 10, Apr/53
5	Captain Marvel Jr.	the too lazy genii
		"CMJ and the Lazy Genie" CMJ 118, Apr/53
6	rewrite Cult of Blood	8 pg "Cult of Killers" Wanted 52, Feb/53
5	Captain Marvel Jr.	4th dimensional elephant
		"CMJ and the Fourth Dimensional Elephant" CMJ 119, June/53
7	Captain Marvel Jr.	the superstitious regiment
		"CMJ and the Regiment That Was Afraid to Fight" CMJ 119, June/53
6	Hot Silk!	silk hijackers
		"Hot Silk" Wanted 52, Feb/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	world's greatest circus
	as Captain Marvel	"CM and the World's Mightiest Circus" CM Advs 146, July/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	meets the spider man
	as Captain Marvel	"CM Fights the Unholy Spider" CM Advs 146, July/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	return of the first people
	as Captain Marvel	"CM Battles Sivana and the First People" CM Advs 146, July/53

Woolfolk Records 1952/07

Fawcett and Orbit stories—and a story for DC. William Woolfolk is known, from Julius Schwartz's records of the scripts bought in his and Robert Kanigher's office, to have written a Wonder Woman story in 1948. The DC stories attributed to Woolfolk on the GCD between that story and these (October will start a steady supply of scripts to the publisher) were misidentified (by me) some years ago. When I finish posting the Woolfolk records, I hope to take a new look at those stories and see who might have written them; I trust it will turn out to be a single writer.

By virtue of this, her second story, Vampira is the final continuing villain Woolfolk creates in comic books.

The undersized genii story seems to be the same as next month's too-lazy genii, entered twice, although recorded as paid both times; it's published under a title closer to the second entry's description. This happens in Woolfolk's final writing months with the Superman story about impossible headlines entered twice (in March and May 1954).

Prescription for Happiness, like S.O.S. for Love, is a department with no story individually titled. This one has to fit this issue, as there were only two 2-page Prescriptions hereabouts, and when Woolfolk writes the next one he describes it.

UPDATE: I had misidentified this Superman story as "Super Manor," Action 179. When darkmark IDed the story written in October 1952 as that one, I went back to find which story fit this description better.

July 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

12 pg	Superman	Super goes money mad
		"Muscles for Money" Action 176, Jan/53
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	beast of the battlefield
		"CMJ and Vampira's Beast of the Battlefield" Marvel Family 85, July/53
10	The Rain, the Deadly Rain	vengeance of a rain god
		"The Rain, the Deadly Rain" Strange Stories from Another World 5, Feb/53
10	Man Who Defeated Death	chessmaster vs. Death
7		"The Man Who Defeated Death" Beware! Terror Tales 7, May/53
3	S.O.S. for Love	[untitled SOSFL] Love Journal
10	The Fleshless Ones	skeletons from below the earth
		"The Fleshless Ones" Worlds of Fear 10, June/53
2	Prescription for Happiness	[untitled PFH] Love Diary 32, Dec/52
10	Horror at the Lighthouse	sea monster that eats humans
		"Horror at the Lighthouse" BTT 6, Mar/53
7	Love Me As I Am	girl wins guy just being herself
		"Love Me As I Am" L Journal 17, Feb/53
7	The Butcher	gangster kills gal friend & boss
		"The Butcher" Wanted 51, Dec/52
5	Captain Marvel Jr.	the undersized genii
		[duplicate entry?]

Woolfolk Records 1952/06

Mostly Fawcett stories (and half of those for the horror anthologies), with two stories written for Quality and one for Orbit this month.

William Woolfolk's final Doll Man stories; his and Fawcett's final Ibis. The Ibis story Charlton published later in Danger and Adventure 22 must have been done new, not taken out of Fawcett inventory.

The Wanted 51 cover identifies "Holiday of Horror" as a Mausoleum of Weird Crimes installment, but the splash page doesn't.

June 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk
 

6 pg	Captain Marvel Jr.	Vampira & her gorilla
		"CMJ Battles Vampira, Queen of Terror" CMJ 116, Dec/52
7	Captain Marvel Jr.	hammer of hell
		"CMJ and the Hammer of Hate" CMJ 118, Apr/53
10	Doll Man	Radioactive Man
		"Radioactive Man" DM 44, Feb/53
5	The Lonely One	man keeps a corpse for company
		"The Lonely One" Beware! Terror Tales 5, Jan/53
5	The Ghoul of Eldritch Manor	man looking for a ghoul—which is himself
		"The Ghoul at Eldritch Manor" BTT 5, Jan/53
5	Dracula's Daughter	a Hollywood vampire queen—meets a real vampire
		"Vampire's Daughter" Strange Stories from Another World 5, Feb/53
6	Ibis	guardians of the tomb
		"Ibis and the Guardians of the Tomb" Whiz 155, June/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	guilty of murder
		"Guilty of Murder" CMJ 119, June/53
10	Doll Man	meets Metal Face
		"The Man with the Iron Face" DM 45, Apr/53
10	They Are Watching You	rodents are going to take over the world
		"They Are Watching You" Worlds of Fear 9, Apr/53
9	Holiday of Horror	case history of a drug addict
8		"Holiday of Horror" Wanted 51, Dec/52

Woolfolk Records 1952/05

William Woolfolk entered the comic book scripts he sold in a notebook that, much later, Donna Woolfolk let Marc Svensson scan (thanks to both of them!). These May 1952 entries sold to Fawcett, Quality, and Orbit.

This month's are Woolfolk's final Blackhawk stories.

May 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

8 pg	Captain Marvel Jr.	Robin Hood days
		"In the Days of Robin Hood" CMJ 118, Apr/53
7	Blackhawk	Guerrilla meeets Blackhawk
		"Guerrilla—the Unknown Hero" BH 61, Feb/53
10	Man Who Broke the Black Hand	"The Man Who Broke the Black Hand" Underworld Crime 7, Sep/53
7	Blackhawk	terror of the Crimson Hoods
		"Terror of the Crimson Hoods" BH 60, Jan/53
10	Killer from the Grave	a dead gangster who comes back from lime pit
	Mausoleum of Weird Crimes	"Make Way for Murder" Wanted 50, Oct/52
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	werewolf of London
		"CMJ and the Werewolf of London" CMJ 117, Feb/53
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	mad Mongol monster
		"CMJ Battles the Mad Mongol Monster" CMJ 115, Nov/52
6	Ibis	the thing from the deep
		"Ibis and the Man-Eater from the Deep" Whiz 154, Apr/53
7	Lady—or the Tigress?	a woman who is both
		"Lady or the Tigress?" This Magazine Is Haunted 9, Feb/53
6	Devil's Mask	if evil, face changes to that of the mask
		"Devil's Mask" TMIH 9, Feb/53
7	Forbidden to Love	modern Romeo & Juliet
		Love Journal

Woolfolk Records 1952/04

Fawcett, Orbit, and Quality.

By "editorial work," I would think Woolfolk means rewriting. "My Cruel Lover" is not a title recorded in earlier months, but other editorial work has been paid at $12.50 a page, and this, like a later Wanted revision that I can recognize as a Woolfolk to begin with (in fact "Cult of Killers"), is paid at $10.

April 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

6 pg	Captain Marvel Jr.	the great vacuum
		"CMJ and the Great Vacuum" CMJ 118, Apr/53
8	The Brute I Loved	society gal and steel worker
		"The Brute I Loved" Love Diary 34, Apr/53
7	Doll Man	emerald eye of evil
		"The Emerald Eye of Evil" DM 43, Dec/52
7	Doll Man	Satan's sculptor
		"Satan's Sculptor" DM 43, Dec/52
7	editorial work on "My Cruel Lover"	"My Cruel Lover" L Diary 30, Aug/52
10	Plastic Man	a stairway into madness
		"The Stairway to Madness" PM 39, Jan/53
7	Captain Marvel Jr.	becomes funniest looking boy in world
		"CMJ Becomes the Funniest Looking Boy in the World" CMJ 117, Feb/53
10	Ghost Riders in the Sky	dead sheriff & deputies track down a killer
		"Phantom Riders in the Sky" Strange Stories from Another World 4, Dec/52
6	Ibis	things in the fog
		"The Things in the Fog" Whiz 153, Jan/53
10	Cult of Death	true crime of religious cults
8		"Cult of Killers" Wanted 52, Feb/53
7	Ken Shannon	blood on the ruby necklace
		"Necklace of Blood" KS 9, Feb/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	the microscopic space ship
		"CMJ and the Lost Space Ship" CMJ 117, Feb/53
7	Blackhawk	vampire men
		"Vampire Men of Kunwalo" BH 60, Jan/53

Woolfolk Records 1952/03

Stories for Orbit, Quality, and Fawcett.

Finally a discernible reason for a title change: a non-William Woolfolk story published in Wanted 44, Jan/52, was already titled "Death Row."

S.O.S. for Love, again, is a continuing department with no individual story titles. (UPDATE: darkmark confirmed the following reasoning that had made me leave LJ 15, which I haven't seen, as merely a guess when I posted.) This one isn't in the same issue, Love Journal 16, as this month's story "Shameful Love"; 16's concerns a mother, but one who high-pressures her daughter's dates about marriage. The LJ 16 letters page identifies the previous issue's S.O.S. as from a man.

March 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

3 pg	S.O.S. for Love	mother wants to live with son
		[untitled SOSFL] Love Journal 15, Aug/52
9	Ken Shannon	the curse of the clawed killer
		"Case of the Clawed Killer" Police 121, Nov/52
10	Death Row	5 men in death row
9		"5 Doors to Death" Wanted 51, Dec/52
2	Under Cover Club pages	"Under Cover Club" Wanted
1	Wanted criminal	Wanted
10	Monsters of the Mind	man pursued by monsters of which he is one
		"Monsters of the Mind" Strange Stories from Another World 4, Dec/52
7	Plastic Man	the hounds of horror
		"The Hounds of Horror" PM 39, Jan/53
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	curse of the fire demon
		"CMJ and the Curse of the Fire Demon" CMJ 115, Nov/52
6	Ibis	an undertaker makes a zombie
		"Ibis and the Undertaker's Revenge" Whiz 152, Dec/52
10	Shameful Love	girl who falls for an alcoholic
		"Shameful Love" L Journal 16, Nov/52
10	Doll Man	the thing that killed
		"The Thing that Killed" DM 43, Dec/52
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	scientist from the future
		"CMJ and the Scientist from the Future" CMJ 116, Dec/52
7	Dog That Cried Murder	a killer who is haunted by a dead dog
	Mausoleum of Weird Crimes	"The Dog That Cried Murder" Wanted 49, Sept/52
7	Captain Marvel Jr.	space voters
		"CMJ and the Space Voters" CMJ 116, Dec/52
7	Coin of Killers	coin that brings death to owners
6		"Coin of Killers" Wanted 50, Oct/52
10	Ken Shannon	mansion of mangled men
		"Mansion of Mangled Men" KS 8, Dec/52

Woolfolk Records 1952/02

Fawcett, Orbit, and Quality: buyers of the scripts this month.

S.O.S. for Love is a continuing department with no individual story titles.
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William Woolfolk used the concept of a riverman battling a construction project a few years earlier in Plastic Man 12 (July/48), but this Ibis story is otherwise entirely new; the two rivermen have very different origins.

UPDATE: darkmark found the first two Love Journal stories here.

February 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

8 pg	Captain Marvel Jr.	train that left the Earth
		"CMJ and the Train That Traveled through Space" CMJ 114, Oct/52
3	S.O.S. for Love	a girl whose guy hugs the limelight
		[untitled SOSFL] Love Journal 14, June/52
6	Ibis	the weeds that could think
		"Ibis and the Menace of the Horror Weeds" Whiz 150, Oct/52
5	Second-Best Love	girl forced to date friend of the family
		"Second Best Love" L Journal 15, Aug/52
6	Ibis	the amazing riverman
		"Ibis Battles the Amazing Riverman" Whiz 151, Nov/52
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	city in the maelstrom
		"CMJ and the City in the Maelstrom" CMJ 119, June/53
7	Blackhawk.	last stand on Suicide Island
		"Last Stand on Suicide Island" BH 58, Nov/52
10	Love Vampire	crippled sister who steals man from heroine
		"Love Vampire" L Journal 15, Aug/52
7	editorial work on story for Ray Hermann
7	Doll Man	diary of a dead man
		"Diary of Death" DM 41, Oct/52
8	editorial work for Ray Hermann
7	Doll Man	the spectre in steel
		"The Spectre in Steel" DM 41, Oct/52
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	1000 eyed idol of doom—whose eyes are flying saucers
7		"CMJ and the Thousand Eyed Idol of Doom" CMJ 115, Nov/52
7	Hot Rod Killers	only nurses get murdered
		"Hot-Rod Killers" Wanted 49, Sept/52
7	Dead Man's Revenge	a man caught by corpse of man he killed
	Mausoleum of Weird Crimes	"Eyes of Vengeance" Wanted 49, Sept/52

Woolfolk Records 1952/01

Scripts sold to Quality, Fawcett, Orbit.

William Woolfolk's editorial work for Orbit's Ray Hermann paid at the same page rate as writing. At this point he starts identifying each story's purchaser by a code letter; in my post about May 1953 I thought "R" for Orbit stood for romance, but now that I've seen him writing crime for her as well, I'd say it stands for "Ray." Her company went under a number of corporate names, of course, and I've been using just Orbit during this period for clarity's sake.

I haven't found the Ken Shannon "disappearing girl" story.

January 1952 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

7 pg	Doll Man	Darrel Dane's bodyguard
		"Darrel Dane's Bodyguard" DM 41, Aug/52
6	Ibis	magician in the mirror
		"The Magician in the Mirror" Whiz 149, Sept/52
7	Captain Marvel Jr.	world's mightiest shadow
		"CMJ and the World's Mightiest Shadow" CMJ 113, Sept/52
7	Blackhawk.	the mammoth bombs
		"The Horror Bomb" BH 55, Aug/52
10	Man with Nine Lives	the story of gangster who survived 10 assassination attempts
		"The Man with Nine Lives" Wanted 48, July/52
10	Puncture-Proof Assassin	Jack Legs Diamond, the bulletproof informer
		"The Puncture-Proof Assassin" Down with Crime 6, Sept/52
9	Ken Shannon	case of the absent corpse
		"Case of the Absent Corpse" Police 118, Aug/52
10	Case for the Morgue	are men like Dillinger heroes?
		"Case for the Morgue" DWC 6, Sept/52
10	A Heart Like Stone	girl who is too, too frank
7		"A Heart Like Stone" Love Diary 32, Dec/52
7	Ken Shannon	a girl who disappears without a single trace
		[unpublished?]
7	Blackhawk	the terrible termite tanks
		"The Terrible Termite Tanks" BH 57, Oct/52
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	the moving mountain
		"CMJ and the Moving Mountain" CMJ 113, Sept/52
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	Cap'n Smollett's treasure
		"CMJ and Captain Smollet's Treasure" CMJ 113, Sept/52
10	Shannon's Girl	she belongs to man everyone fears
6		"Shannon's Girl" L Diary 29, Jul/52
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	wise men persecuted because they can predict storms etc.
		"CMJ and the Ruler of the Earth" CMJ 114, Oct/52
7	editorial work on story for Ray Hermann
7	Captain Marvel Jr.	Sir Edgewise in King Arthur's court
		"Sir Edgewise in King Arthur's Court" CMJ 114, Oct/52

Woolfolk Update 8

More updates to the publication data added to William Woolfolk's script-selling records—the data in bold is what he didn't enter as he recorded the writing and payment months before the stories were published. (With iffy Internet access at the moment, I'm posting here before I update the original posts themselves.)

The Tom Mix wasn't "The Tale of the Lonesome Cowboy" in TM 9, as I'd thought from the description—it's this one.

All the other stories were tracked down by darkmark, and most of them in the last couple of weeks. I'm still not sure how the "barker" I read in Woolfolk's handwriting fits the Golden Arrow elephant story that I haven't seen yet.

The storiues were published by Fawcett, Orbit, and Lev Gleason. This page from "The Gang War Murders" shows Lev Gleason's Deep Dimension 3D substitute ("No glasses needed—Full four colors"), which looks not so much like the 3D movies of the time as the later Cinerascope or Cinerama screen seen from the perspective of  lying on one's side across the theatre seats.

April 1945

5 pg	Golden Arrow	elephant barker [?]
		"Two Men on an Elephant" GA 3, Win/45

February 1948

8	Tom Mix	desert rat's story
		"Bullets Can't Spell" Real Western Hero 71, Oct/48

August 1948

9	Monte Hale	man who hated Indians
		"The Man Who Hated Indians" MH Western 35, Apr/49

March 1951

7	Monte Hale	killer's faith in his guns
		"The Killer's Faith" Western Hero 109, Dec/51

October 1953

3	Prescription for Happiness	guy wonders if his gal is nagging him
		[untitled PFH] Love Diary 43, May/54

December 1953

6	The Man I Couldn't Trust	girl thinks her fiance is faithless
		"The Man I Couldn't Trust" L Journal 24, May/54
8	The Gun Runners	man who sells guns to gangland
		"The Gang War Murders" Crime and Punishment 68, July/54

April 1954

9	Bright Lights Gang	man organizes crime on Broadway
		"Crime Town" Crime and Punishment 70, Dec/54

Woolfolk Records 1951/12

With a small number of scripts written this month, William Woolfolk still sells to the usual three publishers: Fawcett, Orbit, and Quality.

This month and next, some crime stories go to Fawcett as well as Orbit; the former pays $10 a page, the latter $12.50.

UPDATE: darkmark found the Sex Was My Weapon story--under a different title, even pre-code.

December 1951 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

10 pg	No Jail Can Hold Me	escape artist
		"No Jail Can Hold Me" Down with Crime 5, July/52
7	Mad Dog Killer	trigger happy gunman
		"Trigger Happy" Wanted 47, May/52
7	Doll Man	battles the beast man
		"The Beast Man" DM 41, Aug/52
10	The Big Pay-Off	doctor forced to harbor his fugitive brother
		"Waiting for Death" Suspense Detective 3, Oct/52
10	Sex Was My Weapon	gal who uses sex to get man she wants
		"I Was Careless with My Kisses" Love Journal 14, June/52

Woolfolk Records 1951/11

Fawcett, Quality, and Orbit publish these stories.

William Woolfolk branches out into another genre: standalone horror stories—not that his hero stories haven't contained the horror elements the times have called for.

Although the first Blackhawk story this month is rejected by Quality, Woolfolk quickly turns it around, reworking it a couple of weeks later into an Ibis story for Fawcett.

November 1951 Comic Book Scripts by William Woolfolk

10 pg	Blackhawk	swarm of horrors [reject]
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	menace of the miser
		"The Menace of the Miser" CMJ 111, July/52
8	Captain Marvel Jr.	back to the days of the Romans
		"Battle in the Roman Arena" CMJ 112, Aug/52
7	Ken Shannon	the man from nowhere
		"The Man from Nowhere" KS 5, June/52
7	Ken Shannon	doctor of death
		"Doctor of Death" KS 5, June/52
10	The Enforcer	the story of Nitti, chief torpedo for Capone
		"The Enforcer" Wanted 47, May/52
10	Trail of the Serpent!	a serpent queen who destroys men
		"The Serpent Queen" Unknown World 1, June/52
6	Ibis	the locust god
		"The Swarm of Horrors" Whiz 148, Aug/52
6	Blackhawk	golden mummy of doom
		"The Golden Mummy" BH 53, June/52
10	Horror-Go-Round	a merry go round of monsters
		"Horror-Go-Round" Strange Stories from Another World 2, Aug/52
6	Captain Marvel Jr.	the encroaching dimension
		"CMJ and Sivana Jr.'s New Dimension" CMJ 112, Aug/52