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Trapani and Company on Flying Saucers
td {vertical-align: top;} Sal Trapani had a signed story in each issue of Dell's Flying Saucers(#5 reprinted #1). Who ghosted the pencils for him? I'd say two artists we're familiar with.I believe I...
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George Roussos Inks DR. STRANGE But Not Dr. Strange
George Roussos is credited in the Grand Comics Database with anonymously inking the Dr. Strange story "The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo" in Strange Tales 114 (Nov/63). The comment suggests that...
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Stanley and His Monster under Joe Orlando
td {vertical-align: top;} Stanley and His Monsterwas only one issue old (having displaced The Fox and the Crow in their own title after a couple of years as a front-of the-book "back-up" feature) when...
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Spyman
td {vertical-align: top;} How much Jim Steranko contributed to the published stories of the characters he created for the Harvey Thrillers begs two questions: how many scripts did he submit and how...
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Carl Memling Suspense Stories
td {vertical-align: top;} A feature of Charlton's Lawbreakers Suspense Stories and its retitling, Strange Suspense Stories, for awhile was the contest where readers provided a solution to an unfinished...
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Working Backwards from the Who's Who--Sam Citron
The Who's Who credits Sam Citron with Girls' Love Stories 1968 at DC. It gives him stories at Gold Key around the same time in Ripley's Believe It or Not and The Twilight Zone. On the Grand Comics...
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Norm DiPluhm: D. J. Arneson
td {vertical-align: top;} After the nom de plume "Norm DiPluhm" at Charlton was attributed by fans to Steve Skeates, he spent years explaining that it wasn't him.Rip Jagger's recent post on his blog...
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Suuuuper Realism (Comparatively) on Ricky Nelson
Pete Alvarado strayed over from animated-style comics (I associate him best with Andy Panda and Charlie Chicken among the many, many features he did) to pencil, and for all I know ink, the first issue...
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Sub-Mariner Artist Draws David Bruce Banner's Lookalike
If at first you don't succeed in identifying an artist on a comic book, keep on looking at other comics, and maybe when you go back to that first one you'll have run across some clue and a light bulb...
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A Curt Swan Crime Story with a Tiny Difference
Curt Swan was a mainstay at DC for some four decades. Along with his superhero and war strips for them in the early Fifties, Curt Swan worked on the company's Gangbusters and other crime features.But...
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A Ghost for John Severin
On my posts about Sal Trapani's ghost pencillers, I figured he knew most of them from their working together at Charlton. I suspected the same sort of thing applied with John Severin's finding a ghost...
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3 Villains of Doom's Stories Adapted
td {vertical-align: top; } In the 1966 novel Batman vs. 3 Villains of Doom the Penguin, the Joker, and Catwoman vie for the Academy Award of crime, a golden machine gun: the Tommy. DC in the person of...
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The Bernstein Black Rider
td {vertical-align: top} Some of Robert Bernstein's scripts for the costumed Western hero Black Rider at Timely/Atlas are credited—artist Jay Scott Pike added Bernstein's name when he signed his art....
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Future Man to Karzz to Jorzz
Three Otto Binder pieces bear some resemblances. The later ones certainly weren't rewrites, but when Binder sat down to write anew, evidently he was inspired by his earlier work. The resemblance of the...
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No "Created by Bob Kane" Credit Here
Here's a book based on a comic strip by Bob Kane before Batman. The Gottfredson-influenced "Peter Pupp" appeared in the early Jumbo Comics in the 1937-39, supplied by the Eisner-Iger Syndicate.The...
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A "New" Writer at Atlas
For about half a year there was a Camelot-like moment in 1953 in which writers as well as artist were routinely credited at a comic book company. Trojan gave the credits on the inside-front-page tables...
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Candy and Jonesy and Go-Go and Animal
td {vertical-align: top;} When Jack Mendelsohn reused old scripts as a writer for Tippy Teen and her friends Go-Go and Animal at Tower, he reused his own from Quality in the Fifties—not only for Candy...
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A Scooter Artist from the Madhouse
td {vertical-align: top;} Teen humor again, but this time to ID an artist on Swing with Scooter not previously known to have worked at DC.Gus Lemoine first signed his name on Fitzgerald's 1976-77 Fast...
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Morrow Swiped, or First Draft?
Presented for your consideration, two cover paintings: Marvel's Monsters Unleashed 1 (dated only 1973—but June, to work backwards from the second quarterly issue's given month/year), signed by Gray...
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Mary Carey's Disney Movie Adaptations
td {vertical-align: top;} Mary Carey's only credit in the comics themselves was on the Golden Press adaptation of the 1981 movie Clash of the Titans. The Who's Whoattributed a handful of 1970s Disney...
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