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Mr. District Attorney Writers III--"How in Hannah?"
td {vertical-align: top; } Here are the writers that jumped out at me on a sweep through these issues. The panel from "Blueprint of a Traitor" shows how Dick Wood can be easily spotted more often than...
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More 60s Carl Pfeufer Work
td {vertical-align: top;} The art on Dell's TV tie-in Gentle Benis an interesting progression across the issues: Henry Scarpelli on #1, José Delbo on #2, Scarpelli inking Delbo on #3—and then on #4...
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Some Leo Dorfman TV Westerns
td {vertical-align: top; } Here's Day 1 of Freshman Intro to Logic illustrated again: Otto Binder is known to have written Broken Arrow; Four Color947 is an issue of Broken Arrow; therefore Otto Binder...
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Joe Kubert's Zorro, and More
td {vertical-align: top;} At Western Publishing /Dell, Joe Kubert pencilled three features from novelists: Zorro, Max Brand's Silvertip, and Ernest Haycox's Western Marshal; and one TV tie-in: Steve...
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Young Men's C.A. (You've Got Nothing to Lose)
td {vertical-align: top;} Captain America isn't mentioned on the Who's Wholist of Don Rico's work for Atlas, but the features that he did script, like Rawhide Kid and the various jungle ones, contain...
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Mort Meskin at Dell/Western
td {vertical-align: top;} Mort Meskin and Jerry Robinson collaborated on signed stories elsewhere, like The Black Terror at Standard, so Meskin's helping out Robinson at Western/Dell is not coming out...
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The Two 1950s Human Torch Writers
td {vertical-align: top;} div.center {text-align: center}For completeness' sake I've listed all the Human Torch 1950s revival stories, but most of the Hank Chapman IDs are not new; I identified him on...
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Charles Nicholas Helps Out...Someone Other Than Sal Trapani
Jon D'Agostino signed the covers of Charlton's Archie type, Freddy, and you can follow his style into the stories themselves--most of them, but not all. This tier is from the last story in Freddy 46...
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Phil Evans on the Flying A
td {vertical-align: top;} On most other features that the Who's Who lists Phil Evans as writing at Western/Dell, his scripts appear much more frequently than on Gene Autry--to the point that sheer...
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Candy to Felix to Tippy
td {vertical-align: top;} I've posted some of Jack Mendelsohn's Tippy Teen scripts at Tower recycled from his own Candy ones at Quality. A closer look at his Felix the Cat work at Dell showed me some...
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A One-Shot Wonder at Dell Penciling The Music Man
This penciler did only one comic for Dell: the Movie Classic The Music Man (January 1963). His style is rather overwhelmed under the inking, so IDing him calls for the thought experiment of unseeing...
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Joe Gill--After the Human Torch, What?
td {vertical-align: top;} This is one of the features Joe Gill wrote at Timely/Atlas after the Human Torch revival. The only story in Spy Thillersthat I can't make out as his is the backup in #4, which...
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Jack Oleck's Western Oeuvre
td {vertical-align: top;} Jack Oleck did all of one Western story for DC that I can think of, and it was a weird Western. EC had long given up on Westerns by the time he worked for them, and so far I...
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Who Are Roppe?
td {vertical-align: top;} The signature "Roppe" on the cover of Charlton's Davy Crockett #1 in 1955 is a portmanteau name like "Brangelina." In this case it's Mike Roy and Mike Peppe. The fact that...
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Mickey Klar Marks's Zany Giraffe
td {vertical-align: top;} Mickey Klar Marks donated her papers to the University of Southern Mississippi, and an inventory is online. These are not records like William Woolfolk's notebook, but rather...
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A Sound-Effect Clue
This is Jim Wilcox--most of whose work was on Dick Cole and Young King Cole for Novelty--on a non-comics piece of work, an ad for Grosset & Dunlap's Rick Brant Electronic Adventure series. This was...
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Jack Mendelsohn's Issue of Alvin
td {vertical-align: top;} I was rechecking Dell's Alvinfor Don Segall's stories when I found Jack Mendelsohn's style on #5--unexpectedly, as the Who's Who does not mention that as one of his strips....
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Some Mickey Klar Marks Comics Stories, from the Records
These are the comic book stories I could positively ID in the online listing of the Mickey Klar Marks papers in the University of Southern Mississippi's collection, having already posted her Zany...
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Jack Oleck Stories in Three Atlas Titles
td {vertical-align: top;} Writer Jack Oleck came to Atlas right around the time the Comics Code was instituted, in 1955. His output there was steady but not prolific; his average on the fantasy titles...
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A Paperback Cover Swipe -- Look Closely
Erstwhile comics artist Gray Morrow's cover for the Perry Rhodan book Fortress Atlantis (1974) reminded me of something else, and I finally realized it was the general layout of Robert Foster's cover...
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