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Beck & Costanza Bring Mickey Marks to Canada
td {vertical-align: top;} In the inventory of comic book writer Mickey Klar Marks' papers at the University of Southern Mississippi there are stories noted as sold to "Bech and Cortaza" and "Bill and...
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The Man of Brandon
These pulp/paperback hero swipes are not trying to hide; I'd call them out-and-out homages. The New Ebook Library didn't last more than a few months in 2019; it folded due to lack of sales. The Rex...
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Molno's Other Dell Heroes--and This Time a Writer
td {vertical-align: top;} Continuing on from my ID a few posts ago of Bill Molno as one of Sal Trapani's ghost pencillers on Dell's Super Heroes, here he is on two issues of Hogan's Heroes. This time I...
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Almost Comics--But Not Quite
td {vertical-align: top;} A Golden All-Star Book from Western (as a Golden Press imprint) is a storybook--prose and illustrations. Online sellers have mistaken it for a comic book--not only is it comic...
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Weisbecker and Riss at the Movies
Note the distinctive long, square faces in Fawcett's adaptation of the movie "The Missourians."Somewhere along the line, Clem Weisbecker and Bob Butts have had some work conflated at early Fifties...
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Two Who Drew Lance O'Casey and One Who Didn't
td {vertical-align: top;} After a 49-issue absence from Whiz Comics Lance O'Casey returns with #103 and art by Louis Cazeneuve, recognizable from his work on Boy Commandos, Seven Soldiers of Victory,...
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Strange Tales by Jack Oleck
Two captions from "The Last of Mister Grimm" in Strange Tales #48 signal Jack Oleck's style: his version of Had-I-but-known, But he didn't think of that, at first! and one supplementing the...
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Clem's Cap
td {vertical-align: top;} Clem Weisbecker's handful of stories on Captain America are important because, of course, Captain America, and because they're a link between his earlier work at MLJ and later...
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Disc Jockeying Times Three, Not Two
A while ago I listed some of the teenager scripts that Jack Mendelsohn reworked at Tower from ones he’d written at Quality a decade earlier. One such pair was "Disc Jockeying" in CANDY 49 (July/54) and...
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Weisbecker Sports and War at Fawcett
td {vertical-align: top;} On these Clem Weisbecker pencil jobs at Fawcett, my impression is that Sheldon Moldoff inked most of the true-life baseball stories--in Jackie Robinsonand Baseball Heroes....
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A Trapani Ghost on the Ghost Who Walks, and Writers
td {vertical-align: top;} "The Secret of the Golden Ransom" in Charlton's first issue of The Phantom--#30--may or may not have been a ghosting job as far as the editors knew, but it certainly ended up...
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Another Hidden Penciller
td {vertical-align: top;} Click it to see the double page at a better size. This is another case of a rather overpowering inker hiding the penciller's style is "I Want to Be Free--to Live, to Love" in...
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A Crossover in Prose and an Homage Cover
Having posted on the American Perry Rhodan book series for some swipes in the covers, I'm turning to the original digest series in German prose and another such series begun decades later.The Perry...
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A Mysterious Script
Writer Burt Frohman kept records by filing away his comic-book scripts with copies of the issues they were published in; when the Frohman collection was sold off, the scripts were included with the...
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Jack Oleck in Marvel Tales and Journey into Mystery
td {vertical-align: top;} Jack Oleck's writing style is recognizable in the Had-He-But-Known phrasing on the first page of his first story for Atlas's Journey into Mystery: Monty could still think,...
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A Harvey Gh-gh-ghost on Bunny
Bunny_Lemoinetd {vertical-align: top;} The only attribution at the moment for the art on Harvey's Sixties teen-type title Bunnyis Hy Eisman. His sneak signature is in a number of early stories in the...
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Dick Wood and Mr. Crime
td {vertical-align: top;} Dick Wood was credited for any number of stories in Crime Does Not Payat Lev Gleason, but by no means all. This is a list of his anonymous ones that I've found. There are...
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Auteurs of the Graphic Novel
td {vertical-align: top;} Nowadays every issue of a comic book is a temporarily embarrassed graphic novel.My definition of graphic novel: A book using original comics material in narrative. The...
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Artist of the First (or Second) Modern Graphic Novel
1950's Mansion of Evil from Fawcett Gold Medal Books is credited only to the scripter, Joseph Millard. The artist is Bud Thompson. The tiers below, from the story "Guilty of Murder" in the final issue...
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Mix-and-Match Swipe
Gutenberg Montiero's cover painting for Creepy 24 (Dec/68) swipes two earlier paintings.An unknown artist painted the cover for the Berkley paperback Masters of Horror (1967); Rafael De Soto painted...
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