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Twistin' Time Is Here (But Who Drew It?)
Dell's one-shot The Twist(July-Sept/62), riding the coattails of the dance craze, was written by Paul C. Ignizio. That attribution comes from Martin Grams Jr.'s book on "Car 54, Where Are You"; Ignizio...
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Woolfolk Records 1952/07
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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The Western Nighthawk's First Writer
td {vertical-align: top;} When DC's anthology Western Comics gains a new cover feature with Pow-Wow Smith in #43 (Jan-Feb/1954), Julius Schwartz has become editor. As on his other books he records...
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Woolfolk Records 1952/08
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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Double Date (Cover Division) with Kathy and Vicki
When Martin Goodman started the new Atlas Comics after having sold Marvel, he wanted books as much like Marvel's as possible. You'd think that would be hard to do with Vicki, which repurposed reprints...
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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...
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An Inadvertent Ghost?
Can you recognize whose pencils lie under Al Williamson's inks here?Adventures into the Unknown 107 (Apr/59) is the third issue to carry credits on the stories' splash pages. The artist on "You Never...
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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...
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Heroes for Hire from Harvey
Some time in the future I hope to concentrate a few posts on the Harvey Thrillers, but at the moment I want to mention one story of interest. In Unearthly Spectaculars3 (March/67) the story...
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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...
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While We Wait for Doctor Strange: Marie Severin Art
The Atlas Tales website lists a good handful of text page illustrations in the late Fifties at Timely/Atlas/Marvel attributed to Marie Severin (over twenty, but at least a few of the later ones are...
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Woolfolk Records 1952/12
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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The Lighter Side of Ponytail
td {vertical-align: top;} Dell editor D.J. Arneson recalls Lee Holley producing the entirety of the comic book spinoff of his syndicated daily panel/Sunday strip Ponytail, editorial input unneeded at...
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Woolfolk Records 1953/01
td {vertical-align: top;} A William Woolfolk story bought by Fawcett is followed here by ones for DC and Orbit. That story isn't publishedby Fawcett; This Magazine Is Haunted 16 is Charlton's second...
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Unknown Aparo Art Again
Jim Aparo is in his first year of work at DC when Girls' Love Stories 142 (Apr/69) comes out. The general rule with the romance comics is anonymity, and here editor Jack Miller makes Aparo even more...
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Woolfolk Records 1953/02
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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Lee Marrs' First Comic Book Work?
When an artist is doing a licensed property, the best bet for identifying them by style is to look at the one-shot secondary characters. So, if I'm IDing correctly on these pages:Lee Marrs' comic book...
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Woolfolk Records 1953/03
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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Ray Cummings Writes Captain America
td {vertical-align: top;} Ray Cummings, once a secretary/assistant to Thomas Edison, wrote science fiction and horror for the pulp magazines, beginning with The Girl in the Golden Atom in 1919 and on...
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Woolfolk Records 1953/04
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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