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A Trapani Ghost on the Ghost Who Walks, and Writers
td {vertical-align: top;} "The Secret of the Golden Ransom" in Charlton's first issue of The Phantom--#30--may or may not have been a ghosting job as far as the editors knew, but it certainly ended up...
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Another Hidden Penciller
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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A Crossover in Prose and an Homage Cover
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.The Perry...
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A Mysterious Script
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...
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Jack Oleck in Marvel Tales and Journey into Mystery
td {vertical-align: top;} 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 Journey into Mystery: Monty could still think,...
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A Harvey Gh-gh-ghost on Bunny
Bunny_Lemoinetd {vertical-align: top;} The only attribution at the moment for the art on Harvey's Sixties teen-type title Bunnyis Hy Eisman. His sneak signature is in a number of early stories in the...
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Dick Wood and Mr. Crime
td {vertical-align: top;} Dick Wood was credited for any number of stories in Crime Does Not Payat Lev Gleason, but by no means all. This is a list of his anonymous ones that I've found. There are...
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Auteurs of the Graphic Novel
td {vertical-align: top;} Nowadays every issue of a comic book is a temporarily embarrassed graphic novel.My definition of graphic novel: A book using original comics material in narrative. The...
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Artist of the First (or Second) Modern Graphic Novel
1950's Mansion of Evil 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...
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Mix-and-Match Swipe
Gutenberg Montiero's cover painting for Creepy 24 (Dec/68) swipes two earlier paintings.An unknown artist painted the cover for the Berkley paperback Masters of Horror (1967); Rafael De Soto painted...
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Robert Bernstein Writes Desperado
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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Bunny Backups
Bunny_Ball_Fantasytd {vertical-align: top;} In the Bunny Ball Fantasy Theater backups in Harvey's Bunny, Howie Post has been IDed on the Sooper Hippie stories, but Hy Eisman, the Bunny artist, has been...
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The Fawcett Movie Adaptation Writers
td {vertical-align: top;} 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.Here's a...
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Obscure Shuster: Ace
Just before Joe Shuster did a love story and a filler in the same issue for Standard in 1950 he did a love story for Ace: "Romance on the Range" in Western Love Trails 7, November 1949. The title...
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Dell Tie-ins by "The Mystic of the Lower East Side"
td {vertical-align: top;} 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 Kona Monarch of Monster...
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When Is a Self-Swipe Not a Swipe?
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...
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Robert Bernstein Starts Out on Crime Does Not Pay
td {vertical-align: top;} Flipping through Crime Does Not Pay, 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...
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Sal Trapani Credit Where Due: Nature Boy
td {vertical-align: top;} 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....
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Ken Fitch Writes Tony Gay
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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Robert Bernstein Continues on Crime Does Not Pay
td {vertical-align: top;} Here's Robert Bernstein's next couple of years writing for Crime Does Not Pay for Lev Gleason. I hadn't convinced myself of his writing the Who Dunnit? story in #70 when I did...
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Andru & Esposito? (I've Burned Myself on IDing Them Earlier)
I let myself see Ross Andru and Mike Esposito on Dell's Monkees#1 but at least after "Lee" and Mark Evanier correctly suggested Mo Marcus, that led me to more Marcus IDs elsewhere. If anyone has a...
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CDNP: More Bernstein, a Little More Wessler
td {vertical-align: top;} As of 1950 Carl Wessler's personal records are complete enough to name most of his scripts for Crime Does Not Payat Lev Gleason, so stories are noted as his on the Grand...
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Angel and the Ape Writers--Including Henry Boltinoff
td {vertical-align: top;} One point makes it easy to tell E. Nelson Bridwell's scripting on DC's Angel and the Ape. Most of the other writers' ape-speak by Sam Simeon is gibberish, but Bridwell's,...
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Bernstein's Last Run on Crime Does Not Pay (and Bonus Artists)
td {vertical-align: top;} Finishing up Robert Bernstein's scripts for Crime Does Not Pay; the title ended with #147. (It went under the Comics Code with #143.)But first: while going over the last...
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Swan/Burnley on Tommy Tomorrow?
The Who's Who's 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,...
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