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Leo Dorfman's Four-Color Classics
td {vertical-align: top;} Now that I've seen all the Four-Color movie issues, I believe this is close to a full listing of Leo Dorfman's scripts on them--a handful out of the grand total of over a...
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Jetta by Dan DeCarlo--But Not Exclusively
td {vertical-align: top;} Dan DeCarlo started out Standard's Jettabut did not do the entire three-issue run. "What a Specimen" is indisputably DeCarlo--down to the dog--but "Pardon My Power (the bottom...
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Gunsmoke Western's Antede-Lee-vian Kid Colt Writer
td {vertical-align: top;} In an interview where Joe Gill was describing how he wrote at such a sustained pace, his example was not any one of the many Charlton characters but Kid Colt at Timely/Atlas....
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The Artist on Gold Key's Wally
td {vertical-align: top;} I had no idea who did the art on Gold Key's teen title Wally(#1, Dec/62–#4, Sep/63). I wondered if I'd seen it on a syndicated strip like Penny, but that one didn't match...
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Oleck and Davis: The Gunsmoke Kid #1 That Never Was
td {vertical-align: top;} I would think that the Gunsmoke Kid was meant to be an ongoing series like the Kid from Dodge City and the Kid from Texas. Those two had their own 1957 titles that lasted all...
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Morrow After Kirby
Having looked through the Perry Rhodan covers earlier, I didn't make this connection until I was rereading Fantastic Four from the beginning. This Jack Kirby panel is from FF 66 (Sept/67), the first...
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Spy Fighter Written by (Mostly) Robert Bernstein
td {vertical-align: top;} Clark Mason, Spy Fighter is a feature at Atlas written, all but two stories, by Robert Bernstein, including the origin in issue 1, "The Snake of Saigon," as seen here (art by...
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A Go-Go Signature Check
td {vertical-align: top;} For issue #2 of Charlton's mod humor comic Go-Go, the Grand Comics Database gives the writer of the Rotting Stmups and Return to Peculiar Place stories as "Craig Tennis? [as...
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From the Burt Frohman Collection
td {vertical-align: top;} As a writer Burt Frohman (he was an artist earlier) kept records by filing away his comic-book scripts with copies of the issues they were published in. The Who's Who lists...
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Coming On Like Police
This Gangbusterspenciller is familiar enough, but the inker isn't anyone I've seen on the title.And for good reason. "The Cop They Couldn't Lick" isn't from DC's Gangbustersat all but from Quality's...
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The Pre-Lee K.C. Big Three
td {vertical-align: top;} A month or so ago darkmark asked if I could put a name to the Kid Colt writer who used "I'll cut ya ta doll-rags" in a handful of stories--it's in the Kid's first appearance,...
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Joe Shuster Makes an Appearance
td {vertical-align: top;} After Joe Shuster's last work on Superman and Superboy in 1946, his next comic book appearance that I was aware of was the first Invisible Boy story published by St. John in...
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Kid Colt: The Rest of the Stories
td {vertical-align: top;} In his 1947 tome Secrets Behind the Comics Stan Lee shows the script layout in use at Timely--panel descriptions down the left-hand side of the page, captions/dialogue down...
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Paul Gustavson Flits By on Plastic Man
td {vertical-align: top;} The best place to look in order to identify an artist on a series story is not in the continuing characters, who are expected to be on-model, but with one-time walk-ons. An...
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Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy and Mr. Bozo
td {vertical-align: top;} Both of Dell's titles from Larry Harmon cartoons, after the first issues, are done by the same so far unidentified writer and artist on all the comics stories, including...
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Rawhide Kid and Wyatt Earp and a Couple of Writers
td {vertical-align: top;} Here are two Atlas western hero writer's lists--taking up not too much space since there's only one writer on each before Stan Lee takes over (and in fact his Rawhide Kid is...
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Open the Door Six Times, Then Two More
td {vertical-align: top;} In my skimming the 1950s DC funny animal titles, a couple of stories with reused scripts jumped out at me, because the originals were so distinctive--they were part of a comic...
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Inspiration Before the Giant Turtle Man
Mort Weisinger's reuse of cover images from the Standard pulps, where he had been an editor in the 1940s, has been pointed out often, but I don't know if this one has been. The iconic such swipe is...
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8 or 9 Carl Memling Stories on Cowboy Western
td {vertical-align: top;} This was going to be merely a writer's list post, and yet what should appear but another refry--a script reused with new art. This one may hold a record--the refry appeared a...
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Molno on Dell's Superheroes
td {vertical-align: top;}I'd IDed Bill Ely ghosting pencils for Sal Trapani on Dell's Superheroes#1-2, and my best guess at the time at #3-4 was Bill Fraccio. In his blog, though, Lee Hartsfeld was...
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