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Double Date with Millie
The first tier above is the beginning of a one-page gag (in Millie the Model 32, Jan/52); the second tier comes from the top of a two-page piece ("What Makes Millie Mad?" in A Date with Millie 6,...
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Wait Fifteen Years for Johnny Craig
At one point I thought I saw some Jack Kirby pencils at ACG when he never actually had anything published there. Seeing Johnny Craig pencils there in a 1949 story might make more sense, since he...
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Pete Riss Candy
Pete Riss does a few Candy stories at Quality when there are suddenly more needed—she gets her own book in addition to her feature in Police Comics. (Riss doesn't have any Candys in Policethat I can...
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Schaffenberger Romance at DC
td {vertical-align: top;} I'm surprised Kurt Schaffenberger didn't do much more romance at DC than these stories (there are issues I haven't seen yet, so maybe there are a few). He does have a credited...
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The Final Siegel & Shuster Story
ME's Funnyman in 1948 was bylined Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; I myself can't see any Shuster work there. If he did, for instance, any layouts, they're overwhelmed by finishes that look like full art...
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The Dinosaur Island Artist on Sub-Mariner
td {vertical-align: top;} The "Dinosaur Island" artist (1946-48 at DC), Paul Cooper, works on Sub-Mariner at Timely before moving over to Batman. He has more than one inker here (possibly one of them...
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Star Spangled War Writers Before Kanigher
td {vertical-align: top;} Star Spangled War Storieswas the one DC war comic not edited by Robert Kanigher at the start, so there are no records extant for its first issues' writers and artists....
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A 70s Marvel Artist's First Stories at Timely (UPDATE: Well, One of Them)
td {vertical-align: top;} In 1948-49 as Timely started moving away from superheroes, their new crime and horror books had talky scripts and bland art; many of the artists have gone unidentified for the...
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Dr. Varsag's Experiment 2.1
The story "Dr. Varsag's Experiment" in DC's Plop!12 (May/75) loosely adapts a pulp prose story published over 30 years earlier, but not the story with precisely the same title, "Dr. Varsag's...
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Girls' Romances 101-120 Artists
td {vertical-align: top;} This is Jack Miller's first run on Girls' Romances; he returns after Barbara Friedlander edits the title. I picked this run because much of John Rosenberger's work at this...
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Binder Records: Timely--Link to Art Lortie's Transcription
Art Lortie has transcribed Otto Binder's pay records, separating them by company. The first list he's posted is Binder's work for Timely, which covered 1941-48. Like William Woolfolk, Binder gave his...
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One Springboard for Two Stories
As EC's publisher, Bill Gaines would read at home as much as he could to bring in "springboards" to story conferences with editor Al Feldstein. Generally they would take ideas, including some from...
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Swipe from the Best
"If you're going to swipe, don't be shy about it" seems to be the guiding principal here. Don't use something hidden away in the back pages of some years-ago comic!The original, the cover of DC's Boy...
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A Couple of Mickey Spillane's Comics Stories at Timely
Mickey Spillane had plenty of text pages at Timely, but not a single credited comics story. He was one of the group of writers working for Funnies, Inc. supplying strips to a number of publishers,...
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Riss on Gayle and Gayle
td {vertical-align: top;} The Who's Whocredits Pete Riss with Toni Gayle, the fashion model/amateur sleuth, at Premium. Since there are different indexers on different issues in the Grand Comics...
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Don Segall at Charlton--One Story Found
Back in antediluvian days, the only two credits superhero fans knew for Don Segall were the Creeper origin in Showcase73 (March-April/68) and the story in Inferior Five8 (May-June/68). If I'm...
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If Not Bob Oksner, Who?
Bob Oksner would have a 66-issue run on The Adventures of Jerry Lewis from 61 (Nov-Dec/60) to 126 (May-June/71) if it weren't broken up by Neal Adams' doing 101-104 in 1967—and this artist, whoever he...
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Undercover Spy Writer in the MMMS
In rereading mid-sixties Marvels, occasionally you might look over the list of Merry Marvel Marching Society members in each issue to see if there are any names you recognize with hindsight. For...
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Dick Dillin on (Who Would Have Thought?) Blackhawk
During Dick Dillin's long run across two companies in the Fifties and Sixties on Blackhawk, he had to be spelled only a couple of times. In Blackhawk 210 (July/65) under the usual inker Chuck Cuidera's...
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Double Date with Candy and Tippy
td {vertical-align: top;} Just as Stan Lee reused only his own scripts when he refried Millie the Model stories, when Jack Mendelsohn reused old scripts as a writer for Tippy Teen at Tower, he reused...
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