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The Model for Doc Played Flash Gordon
This is either a huge coincidence or a very esoteric in-joke on the part of cover artist Gray Morrow. I know which one I go with.
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Blackhawk Writers 1956
td {vertical-align: top;} This will echo the lists for Quality's Exploits of Daniel Boone and Robin Hood Tales in 1956. Joe Millard had been writing for Quality for some time; Robert Bernstein was...
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Carmine Infantino Starts Off in Comics with Cap
I don't think anything earlier has been found: Carmine Infantino hit the ground running in comic books with a handful of stories on a major character, Captain America, in 1943.From Cap 27, note the...
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Carl Memling at Charlton--Who Knew?
td {vertical-align: top;}I was looking for Carl Memling scripts at Timely/Atlas in the Fifties, where he's known to have written for the horror anthologies (I haven't found any of his there yet); but...
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Joe Shuster's Charlton Ghost
td {vertical-align: top;} Bill Molno was a Charlton mainstay for a decade or more on the anthology books; I see his occasional series entries mostly on the Westerns. Unless I've missed earlier stories,...
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Blackhawk Backups 1956
td {vertical-align: top;} For their final year publishing comic books, Quality dropped the Chop-Chop reprints in Blackhawk as of #95 and instituted a series of aviation backup stories; "Rescue from the...
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The Ghost in Operation Bikini
"Operation Bikini," a 1963 AIP movie with Frankie Avalon, might sound like a Beach Party movie, but it came out before the first of that series; it was a World War II frogmen story. Until 1946 and the...
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More Charlton Crime from Carl Memling
td {vertical-align: top;} You'd imagine that Charlton's Racket Squad in Action would be the least objectionable of the crime comics, its subject matter being swindles rather than injuries to the eye or...
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An Unheralded Sixties Marvel Artist
td {vertical-align: top;} There are a number of comics at companies like Dell and Tower in the Sixties where Joe Giella shares the inking with Frank Giacoia—most noticeably over Mike Sekowsky's...
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Dick Wood at Charlton, 1956
td {vertical-align: top;} Dick Wood was credited for scripts at Charlton, but that was in 1969. He had a run of Phantom stories just after the company took over the title from King Comics. Those may...
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Not the Two-Gun KId
td {vertical-align: top;} At Quality, Chuck Winter had a four-issue run in Buccaneers, as I posted here. He had twice that in Crack Western on Two-Gun Lil.On the first four stories I'm taking the Grand...
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Second Try on a Trapani Ghost
td {vertical-align: top;} Artist- and writer-spotting is more an art than a science, but the more it can be treated like a science, the better. If more and better evidence leads to a different...
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Trapani and Friends at ACG
td {vertical-align: top;} Sal Trapani and his ghost pencillers come aboard for ACG's final two years of operation. Bill Ely is his sole ghost there for nine stories as of the 1967-dated issues. Ely's...
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The Golden Age Batman Artist You Never Heard Of
td {vertical-align: top;} When asked if he drew a number of the Batman stories listed below, Bob Kane said "Yes." He didn't explain why the creator of Batman, using this temporary new style, would be...
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The Superman Artist You've Heard Of--Believe Me
"If There Were No Superman" in World's Finest 38 (Jan-Feb/49) seems to have been a stumper as far as IDing the penciller goes. His final World's Finest Boy Commandos, as it happens, was in the previous...
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Dorothy Woolfolk's Early Entries in Love Diary
td {vertical-align: top;} Since some of Dorothy Woolfolk's Love Diaryscripts (in #17-19) were noted in William Woolfolk's records because he'd supplied the plots, I was able to get a handle on her...
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Superman Writer Woolfolk. But Probably Not the One You Expected.
td {vertical-align: top;} A quarter of a century ago I IDed a number of William Woolfolk's Superman stories. His records later showed, however, that I'd mistakenly attributed too many stories to...
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Mary Marvel's Final Artist at Fawcett
td {vertical-align: top;} In 1948 Mary Marvel loses her strip in Wow Comics to Tom Mix and even has her own book retitled and taken over by another screen cowboy, Monte Hale. She remains a member of...
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The Legion Artist You've Heard Of. "Who Was It?""Same Guy!"
Win Mortimer took over as regular artist on the Legion of Super-Heroes in late 1968. Naturally, if you didn't take a good look, you'd assume he's the penciller of "Lament for a Legionnaire" in...
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Arneson, Not Segall
The misattributions to Don Segall on the GCD for these books, coalescing as far as anyone can tell out of thin air, originated decades earlier with me, back around the time I misidentified some...
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