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Pete Riss Draws Mike Barnett and/or Mike Danger
td {vertical-align: top;} I noticed at separate times that these Fawcett stories were by Pete Riss and that the first two Mike Danger stories in Charlton's Danger and Adventure (#24 and 25) were by him...
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Dorothy Woolfolk on Love Diary #11-20--"Oh, glory!"
td {vertical-align: top;} These are the stories in Love Diary #11-20 that I'm sure are written by Dorothy Woolfolk; there are others I still have down with a question mark. All three panels here with...
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Bill Williams Draws Tippy Teen
td {vertical-align: top;} The Who's Whohas Bill Williams at Tower drawing Tippy Teen in 1965 and her boyfriend Tommy in 1968--but wait, there's more. And this is not necessarily a complete list.I found...
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Robert Bernstein Found at Toby
td {vertical-align: top;} I haven't looked at much of Toby's output, but one point similar to what I'd seen at Quality jumped out at me: "Ikkkkk" in "The White Octopus" (art by Fred Kida). From there I...
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A Yosemite Sam Artist: John Langton
td {vertical-align: top;} Gold Key's Yosemite Samstarts in 1970 as a reprint title, with Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig stories relogoed. With issue 6 new stories begin by the usual crew like writer Don R....
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Jack Mendelsohn Art and Scripts on Terrytoons Comics
td {vertical-align: top;} Above is a page from "The Corny Dream," the Gaston Le Crayon story in Mighty Mouse Fun Club Magazine #2 (Winter/57, Pines). Jack Mendelsohn previews the kid's drawing style...
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Swipes Across the Water
It's not Roy Lichtenstein, but here are examples of comic book line art being swiped into paintings—artists Mehmet Gülergün (Nachts, wenn die Toten kommen, May 27, 1980) and Özcan Eralp (Das...
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A Few Beard & Harper Stories at Gold Key
td {vertical-align: top;} Husband-and-wife team Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper were the writers on the Fox and Crow and related strips like The Hounds and the Hare, Flippity and Flop, and Tito and His...
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Sal Trapani Pencils for Himself?/Not Yet, He Ain't
td {vertical-align: top; } On Gold Key's TV tie-in The Wild, Wild West#3, here's yet other Sal Trapani ghost that I can identify. Try to unimagine the Trapani inks; apart from the poses, the faces of...
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Beard and Harper Mickey Mouse Serials
td {vertical-align: top; } I.N.D.U.C.K.S. credits "The Red Wasp Mystery" to Cecil Beard, which gave a starting point. As mentioned in the comments to my previous post on them, I think it's easier to...
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And He Drew the Blonde Phantom, Too
td {vertical-align: top;} In the Blonde Phantom's first issue at Timely (All Select11, Sid Shores pencilled the first BP story. I guess the inks (by someone I won't try to ID) made the art in the...
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The Unnoticed Lassie Artist
td {vertical-align: top; } Jerry Robinson drew Gold Key's Lassie #60-62, but he did full art on the Elephant Boy backups only.Mike Sekowsky's pencils are buried at times under Robinson's inks on the...
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A Writer Credited in the Letters Column
td {vertical-align: top;} Robert Plate is credited on the splash pages with writing over half the stories of Homer K. Beagle, Demon Detective in Novelty's Young King Cole and its retitled continuation...
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Mo Marcus Briefly Visits the House of Secrets
td {vertical-align: top; } It's easier to find an artist by their work on one-shot secondary characters than on established ones. Thus you don't want to ID the pencils here by looking at House of...
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Joe Millard's Love and Jugheads
td {vertical-align: top;} Quality put out a lot of romance stories, and on a lot of them I have no idea of the writer, but on the short-run western themed Range Romances I was able to ID writer Joe...
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More Sekowsky/Robinson
td {vertical-align: top; } There's no question that Mike Sekowsky worked on Dear Nancy Parker, Gold Key's short-lived romance title. "Going Steady," the final Nancy Parker story in #2, has long been...
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Mr. District Attorney: Eppure è Ed Dobrotka
td {vertical-align: top; } Nowadays I can't compare this artist's work to any of what he did on Superman, because on the Grand Comics Database the Jerry Siegel records at one remove of the Shuster Shop...
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Mr. District Attorney Writers--Spotlight on Phil Evans
td {vertical-align: top; } Writer Phil Evans' records (published by Robin Snyder in his History of the Comics) specify some of his stories of Mr. District Attorney and the DC title's crime back-ups,...
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The Sensation Character Find of 1953--Slinky Stinky
Slinky Stinkytd {vertical-align: top;} Here's a character-centric update to my transcriptions in this blog's early days of William Woolfolk's records notebook. (The original material is in plain text;...
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A Guess at a Madhouse Artist
td {vertical-align: top;} I believe the artist who did three pieces for Madhouse, and as far as I can see nothing else for Archie, is Don Orehek. His style changes somewhat across the years at the...
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