Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Jack Oleck's Five-Way Revision

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Jack Oleck didn't actually sell the same story to five different companies. He sold the same setup and twist ending, though, in th...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Swamped by Colletta

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If you want all your pencillers' work homogenized into near indistinguishability, you could hire Vince Colletta to ink them. In proto-Ma...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

This Is Not the Wood Brother You're Looking For

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Big Town was DC's tie-in to the radio/TV show about crusading newspaper editor Steve Wilson. When Julius Schwartz took over editing fr...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Dèjá Vu for Millie the Model

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This list is only the first wavelet in a tide of Millie the Model refries, to use the term cat yronwode came up with for Spirit self-plagia...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Jack Oleck Dips His Toe in the Charlton Waters

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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...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Pete Riss Superman Stories

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I posted the text earlier about Pete Riss actually drawing the Superman stories that have been attributed to Sam Citron for so long—here a...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Four More Cap Stories by Mort Leav

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Mort Leav's final Captain America story (found so far), "Double Identity" in All Winners 1 Volume 2 (Aug/48), is very obvi...