The Night Watcher-Bill Everett-1956

This one's a lot of fun in a TWILIGHT ZONE kind of way and beautifully drawn by the great Bill Everett. You can find more by Everett in the book AMAZING MYSTERIES, orderable elsewhere on this page.

Millie the Model-Stan Goldberg-1963

Here we have an interesting story featuring Marvel's Millie the Model in between her transition from Archie-style art to her serious mid-sixties soap opera art-style. Bothe the original (following in the steps of Dan DeCarlo) and the later style were provided y Stan Goldberg, who also handled this in-between work and would still be there when the strip re-embraced its Riverdale  roots in the early seventies!

Landor, Maker of Monsters-Bob Powell-1939

Congrats to Craig Yoe for winning a Ghastly Award for BOB POWELL'S TERROR. Order the book elsewhere on this page! Here's some very early Powell work not included in the book!

Little Scouts-Don Gunn-1953

LITTLE SCOUTS was created by Roland Coe for THE SATURSAY EVENING POST and TOONOPEDIA says he also did the Dell comics.

GCD, however, says LITTLE SCOUTS here is by artist Don Gunn who  had been a Disney animator but ended up doing funny animal comic books out of the Chad Grothkopf shop (the folks who brought you Hoppy the Marvel Bunny). Eventually he moved off on his own.  He did quite a bit of Disney comics and is credited with being the first comics artist to draw Chip and Dale.

The Strangers-Ernie Bache-1966

An odd but well-drawn little filler from Erie Bache, a longtime fixture at Charlton Comics. From LAMBIEK: Ernest Bache, who also used the penname Lee Bachelor, attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and the High School of Industrial Arts in New York City. He worked in advertising for several years and did his first comic book work for Quality Comics and Rural Home in the 1940s. He also worked on syndicated strips like 'Dean Marshall' and 'Perry Mason' before becoming the assistant of Dick Ayers at Timely/Atlas.

 ghost and western titles.

The Silicon Monsters of Galaxy X-Jim McLaughlin-1952

Some nicely drawn space opera sci-fi from Jim McLaughlin, an artist whose comics career seems to have spanned the fifties but nothing beyond.

Measles-Bill MacLean-1953

Beginning in 1944, Bill MacLean's newspaper strip DOUBLE TROUBLE about toddler twins ran for nearly a  decade before ending in 1953. Measles was the dog from that strip and this Dell strip was from a FOUR-COLOR issue in '53 that may have been a test as to whether or not the strip might continue in comic books. Or perhaps it was just a typical Dell tie-in to cash in on a newspaper strip. Either way, the whole issue is pretty funny and GCD says it's actually by MacLean.