Hi Gang,
Here is the last of the Archie/MLJ creators photos I've found on the net.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/Woggon,_bill-Light.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/Winkleman_(ne_Valleau),_Janice-Archie_inker.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/Cole,_Jack_at_table_1938.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/Cooper,_Sam-1940s.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/Sundell,_Abner-Archie_writer,_editor.jpg
Photo by Alan Light 1982 SDCC
William Woggon (1 January 1911 - 2 March 2003)Bill was an American cartoonist who created the comic book
Katy Keene.
At 16, he took a job in a department store as a commercial artist, and then did the same kind of work at the
Toledo Blade, where older brother Elmer worked. By 1938, he was assisting Elmer in lettering and then drawing the latter's newspaper comic strip 'Big Chief Wahoo'.
Inspired by wartime pinup girls, in 1945, he created 'Katy Keene', fashion queen of comics, beginning in
Wilbur Comic for Archie. It continued through the 1950s in various outlets (
Katy Keene Pinup Parade, Laugh Comics, Pep Comics, and
Archie Comics). When it ended in 1961, Woggon turned to other work, such as the Dell comic
Millie the Lovable Monster, ghosting the newspaper strip 'Priscilla's Pop' and creating the Archie feature 'The Twiddles'.
He ran the BILL WOGGON STUDIO from 1951 to 65.
In his later years, Woggon illustrated Christian literature for children (e.g., coloring books such as
Let's Read and
Color, 1988).
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/woggon_bill.htm#2 - Janice Winkleman (ne_Valleau)(Orignal caption) Janice Valleau Winkleman, a...comic book artist who worked on classics including the Archie Comics franchise, broke into the industry at a time when few women drew comics. She died Sunday at age 90 after a time in hospice.
Winkleman illustrated
Smash Comics in New York City during the 1930s...Her drawings appeared in
Betty and Veronica,
Young King Cole and
Toni Gayle comics, among many others. (1923-2013)
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Janice Valleau (6 November 1923 – 8 December 2013) Janice was a comics creator in the 1940s and 1950s. At MLJ, she was primarily as an inker on ‘Archie’, ‘Veronica and Betty’, and other strips.
She also created a lot of short humor strips for Quality, including ‘Her Highness’, ‘Daffy’ and ‘Flatfoot Burns’.
Her best-known work is ‘Toni Gayle’ in
Young King Cole (Novelty, 1946–1947), a glamorous model who was also a detective.
In the 1950s, she drew
Nyoka the Jungle Girl and other comics at Charlton. She left comics and art in general in the mid-1950s in response to the anti-comics social movement.
In the 1980s, she took up recreational painting , usually watercolors and signed with her married name ‘Janice Winkleman’.
http://womenincomics.wikia.com/wiki/Janice_Valleauhttps://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/valleau_janice.htm#3 - Jack Cole at work 1938Ralph Johns (birth name) (14 December 1914 - 13 August 1958)Jack Cole was one of the most innovative cartoonists in the history of comics. There's lots more to be said about Cole but we will focus on his time with Archie.
For MLJ in 1939-40 Cole worked on several features and fillers. He had 17 pages in MLJ's very first comic, Blue Ribbon Comics #1. 'Crime on the Run', 'Foxy Grandpa', and 'The Comet' which would become the first hero killed off in his own feature and replaced by his brother as 'The Hangman'. (see Pep #17 up on DCM here).
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cole.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cole_%28artist%29Be SURE to check out great friend to DCM
Paul Tumey who has a great blog devoted to Cole at this link:
http://colescomics.blogspot.com/#4 - Sam Cooper(Dec 02, 1913 - Oct 1, 1983)Worked for several of the early comic shops early on.
Also on MLJ books drawing 'Bentley of Scotland Yard', 'Black Hood', 'Black Jack', 'Capt. Flag', 'Doc Strong', 'The Hangman', 'Red Reagan', 'Tales from the Witch', and 'The Web' at some time between 1940 and 1943. He co-created 'Mr Justice' and worked on most of his stories as well.
During this time he began to paint covers for pulp magazines. His work appeared on Famous Detective, Famous Western, Western Action, and Western Yarns.
During the 1940s he would also work for Nedor Chesler, D.S. Publishing, Elliot, Fawcett (Bulletman, Ibis), Fox (Blue Beetle, US Jones), Gerona (Duke of Darkness), Lev Gleason crime books,
In the 1950s he was doing romance books for Ace, Atlas, Harvey and Quality.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cooper_sam.htm#5 - Abner "Abby" Sundell, writer/editor(August 18, 1913 - March 11, 2001)Worked in comics for just two years from 1940-41 mostly with Archie.
After a time as a mechanic and working for his father's shoe company he started writing for the pulps in 1934. He used the pen-name Cliff Campbell for western short stories. He was regularly featured in western pulps from Winford Publications, which was owned by Louis Silberkleit, future MLJ co-owner. Sundell became an editor for Silberkleit in 1935.
In 1938 Sundell also ran an independent business (Abner J. Sundell Artist Service) that brokered magazine illustrations to publishers affiliated with Louis Silberkleit.
The June 1938 issue of
Writer's Digest reported "Abner Sundell, who also uses the name Cliff Campbell, is editor of the Blue Ribbon Group, of which Louis Silberkleit is publisher."
He hired Harry Shorten, a 1937 graduate of NYU, as Editorial Assistant. He also hired Charles Biro, who wrote and drew some of the most distinctive features that appeared in these comics.
In 1941 Abner Sundell left Silberkleit's publishing empire and was replaced by Robert W. Lowndes.
In 1942, he wrote a guide on how to write, and sell, superhero comic stories called
Crash the Comics. You can read excerpts from the book at this link:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/superman/howto.htmlHe quit editing and became a painter in July 1965.
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The longtime artist for Archie Comics, and the creator of the spin-off series 'Little Archie' in 1956. He became a freelancer at Archie Comics in 1954, where his first work was writing and drawing joke pages and the 'Pat the Brat' feature.
From 1957 to 1965, Bolling worked exclusively on Little Archie, writing, drawing, inking and lettering approximately half the stories in each giant-sized quarterly issue. He was taken off the book in 1965 and back to drawing the regualar gang books for the next decade.
He was put back on LA in 1979. From 1983 to 1985 he both wrote and drew Archie and Me. And for Marvel he would do 'Wally the Wizard' for one year in 1984.
Bolling received the Inkpot Award in 2005 in recognition of his work on Little Archie.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bolling_bob.htmhttp://archiecomics.wikia.com/wiki/Archie_Comics_Wiki#7 - Carl Hubbell (glasses) cast photoA photo of Hubbell and cast members published Sept. 6, 1951
(Note Roy Thomas expressed some doubt to this being a picture of Hubbell in Alter-Ego.)
Hubbell's early years were working on 'Merrie Chase' a newspaper strip, Strip samples and this photo are found here:
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012_12_30_archive.htmlCarl was working at MLJ in the early 1940s on the first chapter of a 'Snoop McGook the Soupy Sleuth' from Top-Notch Laugh #29 can bee seen here.
http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2012/12/snoop-mcgook-soupy-sleuth-carl-hubbell.htmlThe second chapter is in the next issue up on DCM here:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=239Carl would work for Lev Gleason as well. A chapter of his work on the 'Little Wise Guys' from
Daredevil Comics #29 (1944) can be seen here:
https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2013_04_01_archive.htmlAuthor David Hajdu, suggest Hubbell's wife, Virginia, actually ghost-wrote many of the stories signed by Charles Biro at Lev Gleason.
You can read about his later career at Charton and as a Marvel inker in the 1960s here:
https://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-unknown-art-of-carl-hubbell.html#8 - Jerry Siegel (1976)(17 October 1914 - 28 January 1996)Siegel and
Joe Shuster are of course best known as the co-creators of DC's 'Superman' among several other characters for the publisher. Their Superman was the catalyst for the entire comics industry which exploded in popularity after Action Comics #1. It also lead to several court fights between the creators and DC. They were fired in 1947 after a judge ruled all rights to Superman belonged to DC. After failing with
Funnyman at ME Siegel worked at Ziff-Davis and for a UK publisher on The Spider. He also spent a year writing for Archie in 1966-67 on all their superhero comics.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/shuster_j.htmhttp://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=SIEGEL%2c+JERRY#09 - Paul J. Reinman (1964)Photo source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaulReinman1964.jpg(September 2, 1910 - September 27, 1988)The Palm Beach Daily News, (Florida), February 14, 1977:
“I had been working in a mail order house when the company decided to move to Chicago. So I went looking for work. I walked into MJL [sic] Comics (now Archie Comics) and found a job,” Reinman said. He would work on their 'Boy Buddies', 'Bentey of Scotland Yard', 'Capt. Commando' and other hero features before leaving MLJ.
Today he's best known as one of Jack Kirby's inkers but he had a long career through the GA and SA of comics.
Between 1940 and 1943 he pencilled for MLJ on the 'Black Hood', 'the Hangman' and 'the Wizard'. At the same time he worked for Timely Comics on 'The Human Torch' and 'Sub-Mariner' stories in
Captain America Comics and elsewhere. He worked in other genres for Marvel’s 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics.
Beginning February 7, 1949 he worked on the 'Tarzan' daily, and ended February 11, 1950. He took over from Carl Hubbell, 'Merrie Chase'; his first daily was February 6, 1950 and stayed with it until November 26, 1950.
In 1949 and 1950, Reinman was an instructor at Burne Hogarth’s Cartoonists and Illustrators School. He has been listed since 1958 in the American Artists Eastern Division and in 1971 won the Forbes Award for a watercolor.”
He worked through the 1950s on Atlas genre books and is said to have been quite good on them. He also did work for AMG at this time on their fantasy/horror anthology line of books. By the late 50s he was a regular inker for Jack Kirby on titles like
Strange Tales, Journey into Mystery and
Yellow Claw and in the 60s in many classic hero books including 'The Incredible Hulk', 'The Avengers' and 'X-Men'.
He left Marvel in 1964 and rejoined Archie Comics, where he continued several of their superhero features. Together with Jerry Siegel (co-creator of 'Superman') he co-created 'The Mighty Crusaders' (1965-1966), Reinman's second tenure with Archie ended in 1967, after which did some work for Tower Comics as well as an occasional story for Gold Key.
In the second half of the 1970s Reinman left the comics world and became a courtroom sketch artist for television-news broadcasts. He also produced artwork for movie posters and advertisements.
https://whatifkirby.com/artists/paul-reinmanhttps://strippersguide.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+Reinmanhttps://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/reinman_paul.htm#10 - John D'AgostinoThe School of Industrial Art (SIA) NYC 19447 grad pic
John D'Agostino
(13 June 1929 - 30 October 2010)An artist best known for his work as penciler and inker for Archie and Charlton Comics. He began his career as head colorist for Timely Comics in the 1940s before becoming an artist in the 50s. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on many titles for Charlton including
Atomic Mouse (1957-63/66).
From the 1960s-on he mainly worked as inker and letterer for Archie Comics (1964-92) and Gold Key. In the 1980s he focused on inking for Marvel and Archie.
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First working with Atlas he would freelance there from the 1940s through the 60s best known for their 'Patsy Walker' feature. Hartley also contributed to other romance titles, as well as war, jungle and horror titles. In the 60s he was on westerns. After Patsy was cancelled in 1967 he jumped to Archie Comics.
After years of freelancing for almost every publisher going, enjoying working in teen humour the most - he would eventually settle in at Archie full time in 1966-67. A very devout person he would also devote a lot of years drawing comics for Spire Christian Comics. In all, he did somewhere around 60 Christian comics, including at least 19 Archie titles.
#12 - Stan Goldberg(May 5, 1932 – August 31, 2014)File source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StanGoldberg11.15.08ByLuigiNovi1.jpgStan worked for Atlas-Timely-DC and Archie for years. He worked at Archie in 1968 becoming one of their more important artists.
He stated out at Timely in 1949 as a colourist right out of high-school. He would colour books until he eventually ran their colour dept. His first artwork appeared in Marvel Tales 109 (10.1952). He also did gag cartoons for the Humorama line of digests starting in the late 1950s.
He would plot and draw their Milie and Patsey books for years until they were cancelled in 1968 and he would draw for DC and freelancing for Archie.
Hear an interview with him here:
http://www.comiczoneradio.com/stan-goldberg.htmlhttp://www.stangoldberg.com/biography.html#13 - John Rosenberger(30 November 1918 - 24 January 1977)John began his career in comics in the 1940s on crime and western stories for Hillman, Dell, Lev Gleason and D.S. Publishing. He eventually took on horror, war and romance work as well, for Avon, Marvel and Orbit Publications. He was a regular on DC's 'Superman' titles, and its spin-offs, during the 1960s and 1970s.
For Archie he worked on 'The Fly', 'The Mighty Crusaders', 'Archie' and 'The Jaguar'.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rosenberger_john.htm#14 - Chic StonePhoto from
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36587278Charles Eber "Chic" Stone (January 4, 1923 – July 28, 2000)Stone is likely best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers but also spent a long time working for Archie. He worked on Fawcett's 'Captain Marvel' in the early 1940s and then for most of the major comic publishers such as Timely and Lev Gleason. After leaving the field for the 1950s he was back as ACG pencilling
Adventures into the Unknown for ACG between 1962 and 1967. He then became an inker of Jack Kirby's work for years.
During the late 1970s and 80s, he worked for Archie Comics, doing superhero comics on their superhero line, as well as comics with the several 'Archie' characters, such as 'Mr. Weatherbee'.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/stone_chic.htm#15 - Rich Buckler (1984)(6 February 1949 – 20 May 2017)Buckler was a prolific superhero artist at both DC Comics and Marvel in the 1970s and 1980s, often on covers, and he drew nearly every major character at both.
For Marvel in 1974, he created ‘Deathlok’ in
Astonishing Comics and began a well-regarded run on
Fantastic Four (1974–1976), to which he would return in 1989.
In 1983-84, Buckler worked for the Archie's Red Circle Comics superhero line starting as the entire line editor, writing and drawing
The Mighty Crusaders, but also some stories with
The Fly. Archie got cold feet and cancelled the line after just one year.
Buckler was the author of two instructional books,
How to Become a Comic Book Artist (1986) and
How to Draw Superheroes (1987). In 2015, he became an Inkwell Awards Ambassador.
Rick passed away from cancer on 19 May 2017, at the age of 68.
http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=BUCKLER%2c+RICH+F.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/buckler_rich.htmThat's it for this batch, hope you liked them,
-Yoc
