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George Wildman on Sick--and Felix?
George Wildman, Charlton's editor for most of the Seventies, was the company's main Popeye artist, and continued with the strip late in the decade when the book was returned to Western Publishing (Gold...
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Don Segall and Two Colonels
td {vertical-align: top;} Now that I've gotten the miscredits to Don Segall straightened out, here are some Dell comedy TV tie-ins and one movie adaptation definitely written by him. As acknowledged in...
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Thank You, Thing: More Memling
td {vertical-align: top;} The Thingis Charlton's first horror book. They shortly pick up This Magazine Is Haunted from Fawcett, but after that their weird-story titles fall under the Comics Code and...
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Four More Cap Stories by Mort Leav
td {vertical-align: top;} Mort Leav's final Captain America story (found so far), "Double Identity" in All Winners1 Volume 2 (Aug/48), is very obviously not by one of the usual artists. That's the one...
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The Pete Riss Superman Stories
td {vertical-align: top;} I posted the text earlier about Pete Riss actually drawing the Superman stories that have been attributed to Sam Citron for so long—here are the lists of his work on the...
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Jack Oleck Dips His Toe in the Charlton Waters
td {vertical-align: top;} As I was skimming the Fifties Charlton titles for Carl Memling stories, I had Dick Wood's handful jump out at me, since his interjections are so distinctive. Another writer...
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Dèjá Vu for Millie the Model
td {vertical-align: top;} 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-plagiarizations. Scripts are reused, if...
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This Is Not the Wood Brother You're Looking For
td {vertical-align: top;} Big Townwas DC's tie-in to the radio/TV show about crusading newspaper editor Steve Wilson. When Julius Schwartz took over editing from Jack Schiff in the process of putting...
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Swamped by Colletta
If you want all your pencillers' work homogenized into near indistinguishability, you could hire Vince Colletta to ink them. In proto-Marvel's Love Romances, My Own Romance, and Teen-Age Romance in...
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Jack Oleck's Five-Way Revision
td {vertical-align: top;} Jack Oleck didn't actually sell the same story to five different companies. He sold the same setup and twist ending, though, in these five scripts. A rocket captain is too old...
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Who Expected This Artist Here?
td {vertical-align: top;} Two stories among the Dick Giordano/Vince Colletta ones at early-Sixties Timely-Atlas-Marvel have probably passed as Giordano's pencil work because like his they whisper...
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Would You Believe Alan Riefe?
td {vertical-align: top;} 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...
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Joe Orlando's Girls' Love Stories' Creators
td {vertical-align: top;} I chose a DC romance comic's run edited by Joe Orlando because he used one writer I can recognize at a glance paging through the comics: Jack Oleck. Another writer surprised...
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She Knows What Evil Lurks
I couldn't say who painted the Private Detective Stories May 1941 cover. Three artists at Trojan around this time that I can name are H. J. Ward, Harry Parkhurst, and Allen Anderson.The cover of the...
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Girls' Love Story Corrections from Joe Orlando's Records
td {vertical-align: top;} Shortly after my posting on the Joe Orlando-edited issues of Girl's Love Stories, Robin Snyder emailed me:Dear Martin,Here is a mystery to ponder as you look over these...
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Who Wasn't the Artist on Rang-A-Tang?
The Rang-A-Tang the Wonder Dog story in MLJ's Blue Ribbon Comics 1 (Nov/39) is bylined "By Norman Danberg." In a number of the comics of the time, it can be difficult to tell if the artist or the...
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"Mary Poppin Fink"--Artist
"Yesterday's Monster" in Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories v2 #1 (October/67), from which comes the first page above, is credited to Mary Poppin Fink. (I can't help wondering if the story's writer,...
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Space Adventures--Carl Memling and More
td {vertical-align: top;} Below are listed the stories in Charlton's Space Adventures that I attribute to Carl Memling from the writing style. While looking over the run, I came across some other items...
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Carl Pfeufer's DC Romance
td {vertical-align: top;} One artist on a couple of romance stories at DC I felt I should be able to put a name to. It wasn't until I checked the Who's Who that the coin dropped and I got the name:...
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A Quality Writer Comes to DC
td {vertical-align: top;} When DC buys Blackhawk from Quality they take over publication without a pause; Quality's final issue, 107, is cover-dated December, 1956. Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera become...
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