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Would You Believe Alan Riefe?

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Get Smart 5 Quilt While Ahead
I had no idea Alan Riefe wrote for Dell, but the style on Get Smart#3-7 seemed familiar to me what with sound effects like Ker-blammo; finally the penny dropped when it reminded me of Riefe's run on Jerry Lewis at DC and I compared lists.

Riefe goes on to write for paperbacks in the Seventies, some under his own name, some under pseudonyms, and some under house names, on detective and Western series. One earlier comics-related credit is as sole writer on one of those magazines adding funny speech balloons to news and Hollywood photos, 1964-65's three-issue Talking Pictures.

Issues 1-4 are full-length stories. "Quilt While Ahead" is a pun on "Quit While Ahead"; the latter is not the actual title. Dick Giordano is ghosting the pencils on Get Smart 1; Sal Trapani takes the sole signature in the run on that issue (two times if you count #8's reprint). Tony Tallarico does no work on Get Smart.

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June/66#1 The Hairless Hound Caperw: ?  p: Dick Giordano
  i: Sal Trapani
Sept/    #2 The Dumb Bunnyw: ?  p: Steve Ditko
  i: Trapani
Nov/    #3 The Nuclear Gumball Caperw: Alan Riefe  p: Ditko
  i: Trapani
Jan/67#4 The Great Baseball Caperw: Riefe  a: Henry Scarpelli
Mar/    #5 The Great Fly Caperw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
Quilt While Aheadw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
The Double Purpose Porpoise Caperw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
Apr/    #6 The Kookie Kanine Kaperw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
The Captured Copter Caperw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
The Screwball Scooter Caperw: Riefe  a Scarpelli
Aug/    #7 The 4000 Year Old Man Kaperw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
The Airborne Bathysphere Caperw: Riefe  a: Scarpelli
The Infiltration Caperw: Riefe  a Scarpelli

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