Wallace Wood Checklist

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Wood in the late 1970s.

The Wallace Wood Checklist: Wallace Wood A2Z. Published by TwoMorrows Publishing, 1812 Park Drive, Raleigh, NC 27605. ©2003 Bhob Stewart and Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. All rights reserved. None of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Bhob Stewart and Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. All prominent titles and characters are trademark ™ and copyright ©2003 by their respective holders. Printed in Canada. FIRST PRINTING.

Wallace Wood A2Z: The Definitive Checklist Compiled by Bhob Stewart and Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Introduction This checklist catalogs Wallace Wood’s published work, along with mentions of unpublished items. Because Wood was so prolific, worked for many companies (sometimes doing only a single job), used numerous assistants, destroyed or gave away originals, roughs and printed copies, and kept no business records, those who have attempted to compile a complete catalog of Woodwork have found it a formidable and frustrating task. (But also fun!) Sometimes an artist’s own files can answer many questions, but Wood chose to leave stacks of photostats unlabeled and often trimmed the name of a publication off his tearsheet copy, turning what could have been a simple identification into a baffling research problem. Thus, no claims are made for completeness in Wallace Wood A2Z, although it adds to information gathered for previous listings.

The earliest known Wood checklist, filling one-third of a page and listing less than 60 items, was “A Wally Wood Checklist of Comic Art and Associated Art,” compiled by Alan Wong and S. Ross Sanderson for Spa Fon 3 (June 1967). This was followed by “The Works of Wally Wood” (subtitled “The Incomplete Wallace Wood Checklist”), compiled by Lamar Blaylock for the third issue of his Comic Artist (Winter 1970). In 1979 Wood published his own Woodwork Gazette checklist, compiled by Robert Logan, Bob Barrett and Roger Hill with the help of Don Rosa, Frank Caravello and Brenda Robinson. Since Wood had little interest in any documentation of his past career, he apparently provided no more than a token input to the Gazette checklist, requesting readers to supply more information. Each new checklist lengthened and superseded earlier checklists, and additional entries turned up in Greg Theakston’s “The Wallace Wood Checklist,” filling 17 pages of his 1980 The Wallace Wood Treasury. The rise of the Internet led to hyperlinks and online databases, including the Grand Comic Book Database [www.comics.org]

and the WW checklist in Neil Riehle’s Splash Pages [www.splashpages.com].

Amid the complexity of these listings, with a single entry encyclopedically suggesting yet another overlooked entry, a minor effort has been made to note some of the many random and miscellaneous appearances of continuing Wood characters appearing in single panel drawings (such as Snorky in ads) or backgrounds (such as Toulouse la Feinstein, the bum with the odd smile, worked into several early Mad magazines). Rather than adopt a rigid format, I’ve added some notes in an informal style to clarify certain entries, and stories once attributed to Wood but now doubtful have also been included, along with several miscellaneous bibliographic items. Note that Fox Romance giants are exactly as noted below: “coverless returned comics bound under new covers.” As such, there is absolutely no guarantee that any two copies will be identical. In fact, there is every reason to expect them to be different.

Therefore, any credit for a Fox Romance giant represents an individual copy only.

Box art for Sea Hunt game, 1961. ©Lowell Toys Numerous writer/artists worked with Wood over the years as assistants, associates or Wood studio contributors, including Jack Abel, Dan Adkins (1964-1966), Steve Austin, Richard Bassford, Roger Brand (who penciled for Wood in 1967 and died in 1985 at the age of 42), Tim Battersby Brent (who died at the age of 19 by choking on his own vomit), Len Brown (who scripted for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents), Howard Chaykin (“Shattuck”), Sid

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Contributing to Wallace Wood A2Z are Check (whose work has sometimes been Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Bhob Stewart, Roger mistaken for Wood’s), Tony Coleman (an Hill, Bill Pearson, Dan Adkins, Bill Spicer, assistant for about a year during the midSteve Fiorilla, Art Spiegelman, Len Brown, 1960s), Nick Cuti (early 1970s), Leo and Joe Orlando, Paul Kirchner, Dick Voll, Greg Diane Dillon (“He gave us work inking, Theakston, Stephen Smith (who spent four etc...”), Steve Ditko, Randy Elliott (Syracuse years independently working on his own period), Larry Hama, Harry Harrison, Wayne Wood checklist before adding his input to Howard, Peter Hsu (Syracuse), Larry Ivie, Wallace Wood A2Z), A.L. Sirois, Jim Sullivan, Russ Jones, Paul Kirchner, Bob Layton, Joe Russ Jones, Bob Polio, Jonathan White, Dave Orlando, Bill Pearson, Ralph Reese, Jack Bryant and Marty Krim. Near the end of the Robinson (Syracuse), Marty Rosenthal (1949 Gazette checklist, Wood commented, “I know collaborator on Fox Comics), Joe Rubinstein, it’s not complete. In fact, Bill Pearson Augie Scotto, Syd Shores, Dom Sileo (1967remarked that he thinks it’s impossible to 68), Al Sirois (1975-78), John Stevens, Bhob make a complete checklist on me. I’ve done Stewart (1967-68), Muriel Wood (late 1970s) so many different jobs. But we can try, and Mike Zeck. Tatjana Wood penciled on right?” Right, Woody... let’s take a crack at it. some of WW’s EC jobs (see Two-Fisted Tales — Bhob 41), and she inked backgrounds on comics pages for WW, did backgrounds on WW paintings and later worked as a DC colorist.

Cover: This was Wood’s half-inked final Some assistants worked for a week or panel of his unfinished third volume of The less, some for months and some for years, Wizard King. Bill Pearson completed this but only some of these many contributions drawing, added iconic images in the backare documented in this checklist, giving a ground and colored it to create this cover lopsided chronicle. For instance, Dan Adkins art. In his Against the Grain article, Bill has kept accurate business records on every Pearson describes this self-portrait as a art job he has worked on since 1955, but “farewell without rancor from Wood.” others have not. Neither Ralph Reese nor Wayne Howard have much interest in compiling information on specific jobs they did long ago, and as a result, their extensive Wood studio contributions go unrecorded here.

Because so many people worked with Wood through the years, a detailing of these contributions might convey a false picture of Wood’s role, but don’t be misled. Until the last years of his life, the art always carried the true signature of Wood’s style. In scanning these listings, keep in mind Paul Kirchner’s 1980 remarks (in The Wallace Wood Treasury): “A lot of assistants give the impression that they did more work than they did. This has given Wood no small amount of grief.

He always has control. Some of the guys claim that they really penciled Wally’s comic pages, but Wally can make even the crudest work look good. When you see his own pencils, you can’t believe that someone could produce the kind of quality with that kind of loose penciling beneath. They look like breakdowns. When you look at the work by some of these guys you have to ask yourself, ‘Why isn’t it as good as the stuff they claim to Preliminary drawing for The Cat 1 cover, 1972. ©Marvel have done for Wally?’”

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WW=Wallace Wood nn=no number Ace McCoy (McNaught Syndicate) The syndicated daily/Sunday strip Johnny Comet, by Peter De Paolo and Frank Frazetta, began January 28, 1952, and ran until November 30, 1952 when the title was changed to Ace McCoy. It was canceled in early 1953. WW worked on three Sunday pages: Jan 4, 1953; Jan 11, 1953; Jan 18, 1953.

Aces High (EC) 1 Mar-Apr 1955 “The Outsider” (6) 2 May-Jun “Locker Nine” (6) 3 Jul-Aug “Grease Monkey” (6) 4 Sep-Oct “The Novice and the Ace” (6) 5 Nov-Dec “Ordeal” (7) Adventures of the Pussycat, The (Marvel) See Pussycat Advertising Alka-Seltzer Alka-Seltzer ad, 1967. ©WWE (“Stomachs Get Even at Night,” winner of the 1967 Art Directors Club Medal, was reprinted in B&W in Wallace Wood Portfolio) Alka-Seltzer (Storyboard for 1968 TV commercial based on above print ad) Argosy (Ad “about detectives” in wash with Adkins pencils and Wood finish) Aftate (Design of TV commercial about athlete’s foot remedy) American Airlines (“Air Travel in the Future,” line drawing reprinted in Wallace Wood Portfolio) Chemstrand Corporation (Series of creature cartoons, reprinted in Wallace Wood Portfolio) Dr Pepper (Series of three print ads) London Fog Raincoats (1968 comics ad for New York Times Sunday Magazine; WW inks and Bhob Stewart pencils from agency rough) Nectarose Wine (Storyboard for television commercial) Portage Porto-Ped Shoes (Full page headed “The Abominable Squeaks” with four wash drawings of gag cartoons showing consequences of squeaky shoes. Ran in late Sixties Playboy.

Scandinavian Airlines (“Scandinavian Airlines announces Europe’s first fully-computerized thing,” reprinted in Wallace Wood Portfolio) Valiant Records (Mid-1960s ad showing Prince Valiant-type on horse with castle background.)

WMCA Radio (Subway poster) Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood (TwoMorrows Publishing) Edited by Bhob Stewart 2003 352-page hardcover, 336-page paperback. Biography of WW by Bhob Stewart.

More than 20 contributors offer memoirs, interviews and a critical survey of WW’s career.

Includes previously unpublished art.

Al Goldstein’s Screw (Milkyway) See Screw Album of Love (Fox) 132-page “Fox Romance giant” binding together miscellaneous coverless returns of Fox romance comics 1 1949 “I Dated Disaster” 9 (reprint) Note: Since Fox Romance giants are coverless returned comics bound under new covers, there is absolutely no guarantee that any two copies will be identical. In fact, there is every reason to expect them to be different. Therefore, any credit for a Fox Romance 3

giant represents an individual copy only.

All-American Men of War (DC) 29 Jan 1956 “Battle Bridges” (inks) (8) 30 Feb “Flying Camera” (6) All-Star Comics (DC) Background work throughout by A.L. Sirois 58 Jan-Feb 1976 “All Star Super Squad” (Ric Estrada pencils) (18) 59 Mar-Apr “Brainwave Blows Up” (Estrada pencils) (18) 60 May-Jun “Vulcan: Son of Fire” (Keith Giffen pencils) (17) 61 Jul-Aug “Hellfire and Holocaust” (Giffen pencils) (17) 62 Sep-Oct “When Fall the Mighty” (Giffen pencils) (includes WW self-portrait and portrait of Sirois) (17) 63 Nov-Dec Cover (Rich Buckler pencils) “The Death of Doctor Fate” (17) 64 Jan-Feb 1977 Cover “Yesterday Begins Today!” (with Sirois layouts) (17) 65 Mar-Apr Cover (with Sirois inks) “The Master Plan of Vandal Savage” (with Sirois layouts/ pencils/inks) (17) All-True Detective Cases (Avon) 4 Aug-Sep 1954 Reprint of “Edna Murray, Kissing Bandit!” (with Sid Check) from Gangsters and Gun Molls 2 (8) All True Romance (Artful) 6 Jul 1952 “I Crashed into Heartbreak” (9) (Has been attributed to WW but is suspect) Alter Ego (Roy Thomas) v1 #10 1969 Reprints of Topps’ Krazy Little Comics “Sub-Marine Man” (1) “Blunder Woman” (1) v3 #8 Spring, 2001 Cover by WW and Adkins. Half of the issue is devoted to WW. Amazing Adventures (Ziff-Davis) 1 1950 “Winged Death on Venus” (9) Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphics) Oct 1984 article about the Marvel Pussycat magazine series. Reproduces three panels of “Pussycat” by WW and two panels of “Sally Forth.”

Amazing Stories (Ziff-Davis) Edited by Paul Fairman.

Feb 1958 “Everything’s Different Up There” by Genevieve Haugen. Eight years after contributing to a Ziff-Davis comic (Amazing Adventure), WW did an illustration for this digest-size Ziff-Davis magazine.

Amazing World of DC Comics (DC) 6 May 1975 “Deadline doom approaches as Joe Orlando and mentor Wally Wood team up to produce a single page in half the time” (1) 13 Oct 1976 “The Gnark Is Coming! The Gnark Is Coming!”

(Steve Ditko pencils, Steve Skeates script) (4) Color back cover by WW Angel and the Ape (DC) 2 Jan-Feb 1969 Cover (Bob Oksner pencils) “Most Fantastic Robbery in History” (Oksner pencils) (24) 3 Mar-Apr “Curse of the Avarice Clan” (Oksner pencils) (24) Becomes Meet Angel 4 May-Jun “Remember the Chow Mein” (Oksner pencils) (12) “Trouble on the Talk Show” (Oksner pencils) (5) “Cheapskater’s Waltz” (Oksner pencils) (6) 5 Jul-Aug “Hip-Hippie Hooray” (Oksner pencils) (5) 6 Sep-Oct “The Robbing Robot” (Oksner pencils) (12) “The Liberator” (Oksner pencils) (5) “Ape of 1,000 Disguises” (Oksner pencils) (8) 4

All-Star Comics 64 (top) and 65 (above), 1977. ©DC

7 Nov-Dec “Case of the Inside Job” (Oksner pencils) (6) “Sore Spot” (Oksner pencils) ( 1⁄ 2) “Haircut” (Oksner pencils) (1) “Seeing Isn’t Believing” (Oksner pencils) (1) “Case of the Millionaire Cat” (Oksner pencils) (6) “Nature Study” (Oksner pencils) (1) Anthro (DC) 6 Jul-Aug 1969 Cover (Howie Post pencils) “The Marriage of Anthro” (These pages were never penciled; WW and Ralph Reese inked directly on Post’s very rough pencil layouts.) (24) A-1 Comics (Magazine Enterprises) See Jet Powers Archie’s Super-Hero Digest (Fawcett) 2 Fall-Win 1979 “The Ultimate Power” (6) Artbeat (Artbeat) Astonishing Tales 1, 1970. ©Marvel “San Francisco’s Independent Arts Newspaper” v1 #6 Mar 1981 “Good Lord! It’s Coming Back!”

Kevin Crocker and Steve Campbell review EC history (“Gaines assembled a stable of house artists that has never been excelled: Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando...”) and examine the rebirth of EC, but the five pieces of EC art reproduced include no WW panels.

Art-Fantastique (Trek Publications) 2 c.1979 Various drawings (gladiator, Mongol fighter, nude space woman, couple at fountain) and Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu cover Back cover: “Spawn of Venus” splash Artforum (Artforum International) vXX #2 Feb 1982 “Vulgar Modernism,” by J. Hoberman, illustrated with pages one, five and six (the blank page) from Wood’s “3-Dimensions!” (Mad 12) Art Linkletter’s Picture Encyclopedia for Boys and Girls (Harwyn) (aka Harwyn’s Encyclopedia, aka Every-Child’s Picture Encyclopedia) 1958 Jack Kamen was the art director of this 18-volume set. Pages are numbered sequentially throughout the volumes; Wood did pages 98-102, 105, 159, 160, 261-264, 266, 268, 269, 406-408 (and possibly page 157 and part of page 53).

Astonishing Tales (Marvel) 1 Aug 1970 “Unto You Is Born: the Doomsman” (10) 2 Oct “Revolution” (10) 3 Dec “Doom Must Die” (10) 4 Feb 1971 “The Invaders!” (10) Attack (Charlton) v10, #1 Oct 1984 Full-color comic with Simon and Kirby cover. Reprints one story from Charlton’s D-Day 2 (Fall 1964): “Iwo Jima.” Reprints three from Charlton’s War and Attack 1 (Fall 1964): “One-Man Mission,” “The Prisoner In Chateau Beaujais” and “3rd Chance To Die.” Attack on Planet Mars (Avon) 1 1951 “It Roams These Hills” (partial WW with Joe Kubert and Carmine Infantino) (3) Atomic Spy Cases (Avon) 1 Mar-Apr 1950 “Devil in Petticoats” (8) (signed “Manny Stallman” but obviously Stallman with WW) Avengers (Marvel) 20 Sep 1965 “Vengeance Is Ours” (Don Heck pencils) (20) 21 Oct “The Bitter Taste of Defeat” (Heck pencils) (20) 22 Nov “The Road Back” (Heck pencils) (20) Bandes Dessinees de Mad, Les (Albin Michel/Special USA) Edited by Fershid Bharucha 1985 Reprints from Mad with “Batboy and Rubin” front cover. Advertised with Jack Davis Mad comics ad page that incorporated caricature of Wood smoking pipe through space helmet (based on WW’s own self-caricature of same concept).

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Bang! (Nuance) See Gangbang!

Barbarians and Beauties (AC) 1 1990 B&W reprint, with added gray tones of eight-page “Captain Science and the Insidious Doctor Khartoum” by Orlando and WW from Captain Science 4 with color cover adapted from the interior “Captain Science” splash.

Basically Strange (John C. Productions) 1 Nov-Dec 1982 Reprint of “The Ultimate Power” (from Archie’s Super-Hero Digest 2) (6) Best of Creepy (Grosset and Dunlap) 1971 Paperback reprint of “Overworked” (Creepy 9) (6) Best of DC, The (DC) Reprints from DC 60 May 1985 Front cover: Multiple Mouth McCardy (Plop! 13) “Wednesday’s Child” (Plop! 14) (5) “The King of the Ring” (Plop! 13) (6) Back Cover: Wood’s name in woodgrain effect 63 Aug 1985 Front cover: Roarin’ Rodney Roadrunner (Plop! 15) “The Collector” (House of Mystery 251) (8) “Love is a Dandy” (Plop! 16) (6) Back cover: WW’s name in woodgrain effect Best of The Realist (Running Press) Edited by Paul Krassner 1984 Reprint of “The Disneyland Memorial Orgy” parody poster with WW fully credited on the contents page (2) Big Apple Comix (Flo Steinberg/Big Apple Productions) Best of DC 60 (art from 1975). ©DC Sep 1975 B&W alternative comic edited by Flo Steinberg.

Cover (Stu Schwarzberg/Larry Hama/Paul Kirchner/Wood) “My Word” (WW self-parody of “My World” in Weird Science 22) “Lotsa Yox — featuring Rodger Farnsworth USAAF” (Herb Trimpe pencils) Blazing Combat (Warren) 3 Apr 1966 “The Battle of Britain” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (7) 4 Jul “ME-262!” (WW, Reese pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (7) Reprint anthology issue includes reprints of both of the above stories.

Blazing Combat (Apple Press) 1 Mar 1994 B&W reprint of stories from Warren’s Blazing Combat includes WW’s “The Battle of Britain” (7). Cover, colored by Marie Severin, is a slightly altered splash panel from “The Battle of Britain.”

Blue Bolt (Star Publications) 118 Mar-Apr 1953 “White Spirit,” a jungle adventure story (10) Bold Stories (Kirby Publishing) 144-page, digest-size publication in color Mar 1950 “The Ogre of Paris” Jul 1950 “The Ogre of Paris” Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery (Gold Key) 9 Mar 1965 “Vengeance of the Armored Arm” (12) Bradbury: An Illustrated Life (William Morrow/HarperCollins)

by Jerry Weist 2002 Hardback survey of Ray Bradbury’s career as seen in a wide variety of visual materials.

RB mentions “the fine work of Wood” on “Mars Is Heaven” and “There Will Come Soft Rains.”

Includes pages from those EC stories and “Home to Stay.”

Bridges (Michael R. Prolman) v2 #2 Oct 1982 Weekly tabloid newspaper edited by Michael R. Prolman used a reprint of “Candid Camerapix” from Trump 1 to illustrate an interview with Candid Camera producer Allen Funt (1914-1999). (2) 6

Bucky’s Christmas Caper (NEA) A daily strip, featuring Wood’s character Bucky Ruckus, syndicated for three weeks prior to Christmas 1967.

Dec 4-23, 1967 (reprinted in Mediascene 28; single strip reprinted in Wallace Wood Portfolio) Burning Romances (Fox) A 132-page Fox giant binding together miscellaneous coverless returns of Fox romance comics nn 1949 “I Broke My Mother’s Heart” (reprinted from My Love Memoirs (11) (8 2⁄ 3) Buyer’s Guide for Comic Fandom (Light) 421 December 11, 1981 Cover, “Wally Wood, In Memoriam, 1927-1981” a collage with the last page of “My Word” (Big Apple) dropped into an enlargement of the self-portrait panel at end of “My World” (Weird Science 22). Cat Yronwode column installment with WW obituary is illustrated with WW photo. “Shel Dorf and the Fantasy Makers — Wally Wood,” interview with WW in Q&A format by Dorf, illustrated with Jackie Estrada photo of WW and Wizard King characters.

Candid Tales (Kirby Publishing) 144-page, digest-size publication in color 1 Apr 1950 “The Lady Pirate” (15) (In another version, WW’s “Dr. Kilmore” substituted for “The Lady Pirate.”) nn Jun 1950 “Captain Hartless — The Outcast of the Seven Seas” WW, Harrison and possibly Orlando. (14) Cannon (Overseas Weekly) 1971-1974 131 episodes of Cannon ran in The Overseas Weekly from Jul 26, 1971 to Apr 22, 1974. Nick Cuti was a primary assistant on these strips. (See also Heroes, Inc.) Cannon (Wood) 1-4, 1976-1980. Oversize (10" x 12") magazine series, self-published by Wood, reprinting the original The Overseas Weekly comic strip pages with additional editorial material.

(See also Heroes, Inc.) Cannon (Eros) 1-8, 1991 Bill Pearson edited and produced this comic book series reprinting the original weekly comic strip pages with additional editorial material.

Cannon (Les Editions Du Fromage) 1979 French edition, edited by Fershid Bharucha, 68 pages.

Large (91⁄ 4" x 121⁄ 2") French reprints of Cannon, plus cover (several WW panels) and back cover (Snorky).

Captain Action (DC) 1 Oct-Nov 1968 “The Origin” (Gil Kane pencils) (24) 2 Dec-Jan 1969 “The Battle Begins” (Kane pencils) (23) 3 Feb-Mar “...And Evil Comes This Way” (Kane pencils) (24) 5 Jun-Jul “A Mind Divided” (Kane pencils) (24) Captain America (Marvel) 127 Jul 1970 “Who Calls Me Traitor?” (Gene Colan pencils) (20) Capt. George’s Comic World (Vast Whizzbang Organization) 18 Includes WW illustrations 21 1969 “Captain George’s Instant Poster #8” (reprint of inside front cover from Strange Worlds 5) Captain Science (Youthful) 1 Nov 1950 “The Monster God of Rogor” (7) 4 Jun 1951 Cover (with Joe Orlando) “Captain Science — The Martian Slavers” (with Orlando) (7) “Captain Science and the Insidious Doctor Khartoum” (with Orlando) (8) 5 Aug 1951 Cover (with Orlando) “Captain Science — Time Door of Throm” (with Orlando) (8) “Captain Science — Science vs. Sorcery” (with Orlando) (7)

Captain Science 4, 1951. ©Youthful

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Captain Steve Savage (Avon) First series: nn 1950 “Captain Steve Savage over Korea” (22) Chap. 1—“Action in Korea” (7) Chap. 2—“Fight With the Underground” (7) Chap. 3—“Flight From the Gestapo” (8) 1 Apr 1950 “Captain Steve Savage over Korea” (22) 12 1952 Story (6) Second series: 2 1954 Story (6) 6 1955 Reprints entire first series, unnumbered issue (22) Castle of Frankenstein (Gothic Castle) Edited by Bhob Stewart and Calvin Beck.

10 Feb 1966 Review of witzend illustrated with large “Animan” panel from witzend 1 ad sheet 11 1967 “The World of Fandom” by Mike McInerney, three-page review of witzend, illustrated with Al Williamson/Frank Frazetta/Harvey Kurtzman/Reed Crandall/Roy Krenkel/Wood art Marvel Comics Art of Wood. from witzend ad sheets; includes WW front cover for witzend 1 (3) ©Marvel 18 1972 Portrait of John Carradine illustrates “A Conversation with John Carradine” (1) 21 1973 Cartoon/illustration (reprint from 1968 Comic-Art Convention Progress Report) Cat, The (Marvel) 1 Nov 1972 “Beware the Claws of the Cat” (Marie Severin pencils) (21) Cavalcade (Skye Publishing) Jan 1965 “The Disenchanted Prince” (2) Feb “The Story of Cindi Eller” (2) Mar “Goldielocks & 3 Bares” (2) Sep 1966 Reprints eight-page “Dynamo and Return of the Iron Maiden,” from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 4 (April 1966) (Crandall/Wood) Feb 1967 “Slipping Beauty” (3) Apr “Handsel and Feetsel” (2) Jun “The Three Bares” (2) Cavalier (Dugent Publishing) 1968 Reprint of page from witzend (1) Challengers of the Unknown (DC) (All the following penciled by Jack Kirby) 4 Oct 1958 “The Wizard of Time” (6) “The Men Who Rode Across the Sun” (5) “The Sorcerer’s Secret” (7) “The Mechanical Judge” (7) 5 Dec “The Riddle of the Star Stone” (8) “The Birdman of Djiizari!” (8) “Challenge of the Super Creature!” (9) 6 Feb 1959 “Captives of the Space Creature!” (9) “The Sorceress of Forbidden Valley” (10) 7 Apr “The Beasts from Planet 9” (13) “The Isle of No Return” (12) 8 Jun Cover “The Man Who Stole the Future” (12) “The Prisoners of Robot Planet” (13) Challengers of the Unknown 7, 1959. ©DC Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Knopf)

by Roald Dahl 1984 To illustrate Dahl’s children’s classic, WW did a dozen drawings and roughs.

Apparently created as samples, these drawings remained unpublished until 2003 when they were selected for inclusion in Bhob Stewart’s Against the Grain (TwoMorrows).

Chefs-d’oeuvre de la Bande Dessinee, Les (Anthologie Planete) Edited by Jacques Sternberg, Michel Caen and Jacques Lob, this 480-page French hardback contains strips and complete stories by more than 100 comics creators.

Wood is mentioned in section headed, “Horror Comics-Le Culte du morbide.”

1967 “Surmenage” (French translation of “Overworked” from Creepy 9) (6) 8

Chicago Mirror (Jay Lynch/Mirror Publishing) Underground magazine edited by Lynch.

2 Win 1968 Spot illustration (originally intended for the unpublished second issue of Cavill) Chief Ob-stacle — The Woeful Indian (Union Party) 1949 This continuing strip of six-panel installments ran in a series of four-page newsletters, published by “The Union Party of the Village of Mount Kisco,” New York, urging voters to “vote against incompetence, extravagance, inaction.” The Union Party attributed their election victory to Chief Ob-stacle.

Childhood of Famous Americans (Bobbs-Merrill) 1959 Issued in two editions (trade and educational), this series of hardcover juveniles featured WW interior illustrations and dust jackets: George Washington Carver, Boy Scientist (an illustration from this was reprinted on the back cover of Wallace Wood Portfolio); Tom Edison, Boy Inventor; Henry Ford, Boy With Ideas.

Children of the Night (ACG) 2001 162 pages with limited 500-copy run. Remaindered copies of ACG war/horror titles (with covers removed) rebound with new covers. Mostly B&W with some color interiors featuring 30 pages of WW: Contains three war stories from Charlton’s D-Day 2 (Fall 1964): “Lone Defender,” “D-Day for the Fighting Airborne” and “The Underwater Avenger.” Reprint from Charlton’s War and Attack 1 (Fall 1964): “Death in Darkness.” Reprint from ACG’s Forbidden Worlds 3 (Nov-Dec 1951): “Skull of the Sorcerer.”

Collectibly Mad (Kitchen Sink)

by Grant Geissman 1995 320-page hardcover/paperback survey of Mad and EC collectibles.

Collector’s Dream (G&T Enterprises) v1#5 Sum 1978 “A Guide to Collecting Funk Comics,” by John Wooley, mentions WW’s Avon work, illustrated with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde front cover.

Collector’s Showcase (Collectors Book Store) 1975 Art catalog reprint of page three from 1966 T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 9 (1) Colonial Survey (Gnome Press)

by Murray Leinster 1956 Jacket painting (5000 copies in print run) Comic Art Convention Program (Phil Seuling) July 2, 1971 WW mentioned in full-page ad for witzend 8 July 1, 1972 Wizard King art in full-page ad for witzend 7-10 1974 Program Book — A Roy Thomas interview is accompanied by four panels from “Sub-Marine Man” by WW.

Comic Book Artist 14, 2001. ©Jon B. Cooke

Comic Art Showcase (Quality Comic Art Productions) 1 1980 Sky Masters of the Space Force (reprints 229 daily strips) Comic Artist, The (Lamar Blaylock) 3 Win 1970 Subtitled “The Wallace Wood Story,” this tribute issue features WW characters drawn by more than 15 different artists, including Tom Sutton and Dan Adkins.

Title page (pick-up of panel portions from “Pipsqueak Papers,” “Superduperman” and “Flesh Garden”) “When Wood Worked in the Fifties,” article by Lamar Blaylock, illustrated with six panels from “Flesh Garden” (2) “The Works of Wally Wood,” checklist (6) “The Sixties,” article by Gordon Flagg Jr. on Wood’s 1960-69 art, illustrated with the six Wonderland Golden Records and the 1968 TV Guide illustration (3) “And the Pros Say...” (comments on WW by Orlando, Marie Severin, DeFuccio and Sutton) (2) Photo of Wood at convention “The Wood at Wits’ End,” article by Tony Isabella on “Animan,” “Pipsqueak Papers,” “The Rejects” and “The World of the Wizard King” (4) Comic Book Artist (TwoMorrows) 14 July 2001 Entire issue devoted to WW and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

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Comic Book Marketplace 44 Feb 1997. Wood cover and several illustrated articles about him.

Comic Book Price Guide, The (Overstreet) 9 1979 Full-color science-fiction cover showing space traveler and monster, colored by Marie Severin with simulated EC-style logo designed and lettered by Bill Spicer Ad by WW with full-color art of Wizard King characters (1) Full-color section of EC covers, including WW covers for Weird Science 9, 12 (1950), 16 and 18; Piracy 1; Valor #4; Two-Fisted Tales 33 and Shock SuspenStories 4 (11) “Good Lord! choke... gasp... It’s EC!”, by E.B. Boatner, notes Wood’s “minute detail,” citing the fact that faces are drawn on “hundreds of figures” in the splash of “EC Confidential!”

(Weird Science 21). Illustrated with a WW sf drawing, plus WW panels from “EC Confidential!”, “The Probers” (Weird Science 8), “In Gratitude...” (Shock SuspenStories 11, “Hate” (Shock SuspenStories 5, “The Assault” (Shock SuspenStories 8), “Sinking of the Titanic!” (Weird Science 6), “The Maidens Cried” (Weird Science 10), “Home to Stay” (Weird Science 13, 1952) and “Black and Blue Hawks!” (Mad 5). (34) Comics Buyer’s Guide (Krause) 1984 “American Comic Strips: A Chronological Listing” August 30, 1985 First publication of one of WW’s never-syndicated Quote ’n’ Unquote strips, written by Art Moger. (See Quote ’n’ Unquote entry.)

Comic Reader, The 197 Dec 1981 “Obituary” Single-column obituary with no Wood art states, “The day he was found he had been scheduled to be hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine. His vision was very poor and the small hotel room he was living in had three pieces of furniture and no drawing board, although he had come West under the auspices of Bang! magazine. He was cremated, his ashes spread over the ocean.”

Comics 1971 German-language trade paperback, 268 pages, published in Germany. Mentions of WW and witzend, illustrated with several WW drawings.

Comics, Anatomy of a Mass Medium (Little Brown)

by Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs 1971 While Wood was living on Long Island, he was interviewed by the authors who used several WW quotes in chapter headings (“Graphic art is stratified in a veritable caste system with comic art at the bottom, the Untouchables. Just very recently have some people begun to take interest and begun to wonder if there is some merit to this form after all...”). Illustrated with three panels from “The Mummy” (Eerie 11) and splash from “Superduperman” (Mad 4).

Comics Feature — The Fandom Zone (New Media) No date. Small reproduction of cover for T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents 1 with WW’s awards cited in a compilation of 1961-69 Alley Awards.

Comic Book Price Guide 9, 1979. ©Overstreet Comics Journal, The (Fantagraphics) 40 Jun 1978 Ad, headlined “Wood Does It Again!”, announces WW’s decision to become his own publisher and launching of Friends of Odkin (FOO) organization.

Illustrated with front covers of Cannon 1 and Sally Forth 3. For $10 membership fee, members were promised (a) an original drawing of Sally Forth, Snorky, Odkin or Nudine; (b) a membership card; (c) four issues of The Woodwork Gazette; (d) an Honorary Diploma from the Wally Wood School; (e) a 25% discount on Wood’s publications; (f) a 50% discount on original art. The Sally/Snork/Odkin/Nudine art is described as “an original drawing,” not “an original Wally Wood drawing,” and some of these drawings for members were done by Wood assistants. A year later, after gathering 800 members, Wood changed the ground rules to “$5 membership without the drawing,” commenting, “Did you ever do 100 drawings of anything?

Try 800-plus, and you’ll see why I have to quit.”

69 Dec 1981 Wood obituary, “Wally Wood Dead at 54” by J.M. Catron, illustrated with photo of WW, EC Lives! cover, Sally Forth, final panel of “My World” (Weird Science 22) and Childhood of Famous Americans book illustration. (2) “Comics Professionals Pay Tribute to Wally Wood,” by Dwight R. Decker, illustrated with T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Wizard King, Cannon and self-portrait of Wood working with Orlando. (1) “Wally Wood: ‘The Greatest Science Fiction Artist There Ever Was’,” by Dwight R. Decker and Kim Thompson, illustrated with two panels from “Denny Colt in Space” (The Spirit).

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70 Jan 1982 “There Are Good Guys and Bad Guys,” memoir by Bhob Stewart, illustrated with WW photo (1968) by Bhob, panels from “Home to Stay” (Weird Fantasy 13, 1950), “Came the Dawn” (Shock SuspenStories 9) “In Gratitude...” (Shock SuspenStories 11), Wizard King, Cannon (with Wood self-portrait), Topps’ Nasty Notes, Alka-Seltzer ad, Western stagecoach illustration, Sally Forth, Wee Hawk presentation drawing, ad sheet for et cetera (before Wood changed title to witzend), “The Battle of Britain” (Blazing Combat), “My World” (Weird Science 22), Red Riding Hood game, Wood’s Prince Valiant fill-in page, “Trial By Arms!” splash and miscellaneous illustrations from Wallace Wood Portfolio. (15) “The Big Blue Pencil” (reprint from Woodwork Gazette 1) (1) Back cover, splash from “Atom Bomb” (Two-Fisted Tales 33) with red overlay 76 Oct 1982 “Blood and Thunder,” letters commenting on Bhob Stewart’s Wood memoir (#70) from Al Olinger, Dick Voll, J.S. Daugherty, Philip M. Smith and William Stout.

197 Jul 1997 Wood cover from “Mars Is Heaven” splash (Weird Science 18). A selection of articles taken from Bhob Stewart’s Against the Grain: “A Thousand Rays In Your Belly” by Bill Mason (15), “When In Doubt, Black It Out” by Ralph Reese (2), “1977 French Interview”

by Fershid Bharucha (5).

198 Aug 1997 Against the Grain’s “Trajectories” by Paul Kirchner (5).

Comix (Bonanza)

by Les Daniels 1971 “The first story to come across in the definitive Mad style was ‘Superduperman,’ lovingly delineated by Wood,” states Daniels, who compares Elder and Wood’s strip satires and finds both “devastating.” Illustrated with “Julius Caesar!” (reprint from Mad 17), Wood self-portrait (reprint from Humbug 1), “The Curse” (reprint from Vampirella 9).

Comix International (Warren) 2 1973 “Manhunters” (6) Compleat Cannon (Fantagraphics/Eros) 2001 146 pages. Edited and designed by Bill Pearson, this oversize (101⁄ 2" x 13") trade paperback reprinted the entire run of the strip and features a comprehensive article by Jeff Gelb about spy fiction in all media.

Compleat Sally Forth (Fantagraphics/Eros) 1998 146 pages. Edited and designed by Bill Pearson, this oversize (101⁄ 2" x 13") trade paperback reprinted the entire run of the strip.

Complete Mad Checklist, The (Fred von Bernewitz) Originally commissioned by Bill Gaines for in-house use, this was “compiled and edited for the staff of Mad” by Fred von Bernewitz, who made it available for general circulation in a limited-edition mimeographed run of approximately 250 copies. Lists WW contributions in magazine, paperbacks and annuals in issues covered (#1-136). Revised editions in the early 1970s were distributed by Phil Seuling. (See Revised Mad Checklist) 1 Sep 1961 Lists Mad 1-64 (Second printing in February 1962) 2 Jul 1964 Lists Mad 65-88 3 Jul 1971 Lists Mad 89-136 Note: For full history of von Bernewitz publications, see “Bibliographics” in Squa Tront 8.

Complete Sky Masters of the Space Force, The (Pure Imagination) 2000 264 B&W pages reprint 53 Sunday pages and 773 daily newspaper strips by Jack Kirby, WW and Dick Ayers.

Completely Mad (Little Brown)

by Maria Reidelbach 1991 Oversize (10 1⁄ 4"x10 1⁄ 4") 208-page hardcover history of Mad was followed by a trade paperback edition. Includes Weird Science 12 cover and WW panels from “Bug Out” (Two-Fisted Tales 24), “Blood Brothers” (Shock SuspenStories 13). Panels by WW from 11 Mad stories and features between 1953-1961 include “How to Be Smart” (Mad 27) and “Gook” (Mad 45).

Conan (Marvel) 47 Feb 1974 “Sanctuary” (reprint from Tower of Shadows 8) (7) Confessions Illustrated (EC) 1 Jan-Feb 1956 “My Tragic Affair” (10)

Pedro 18, 1950. ©FOX

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Confessions of Love (Star) 5 Jun-Jul 1953 “I Wanted Love” (Has been attributed to Wood; WW-like art, but very doubtful) (10) Confessions of Romance (Star) 9 1954 Story Cons de Fee (Les Editions Du Fromage) Edited by Fershid Bharucha 1977, 68 pages, printed in Paris. Large (9 1⁄ 4"x12 1⁄ 2") French reprint of mostly adult material by WW includes: “Malice in Wonderland” (reprint from Screw) “Nubile Nudine” (retitling of “Pipsqueak Papers”) Other Wood fairy tales Back cover (Snorky) Cosmopolitan 1967 Illustration of girl in soda shop Crawford’s Encyclopedia of Comic Books (Jonathan David Publishers) 1978 Crawford states that Wood and Williamson “had perfected a dynamic style of realistic illustration” in an EC chapter illustrated with poorly reproduced and truncated Wood art: covers for Weird Science 9, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20; the title strip and 17 panels from “Mars is Heaven!” (Weird Science 18); two panels from “Grey Clouds of Death” (Weird Science 9); panel from “A Weighty Decision” (Weird Science 13); “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” (Weird Science 14); “Down to Earth” (Weird Science 16); “The Precious Years” (Weird Science 19); the title strip and 11 panels from “The Loathsome!” (Weird Science 20), one panel from “There Will Come Soft Rains” (Weird Fantasy 17); two pages from “If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics” (Mad 46); and four small panels from “Is a Trip to the Moon Possible?” (Mad 24).

The Avon chapter includes three panels from An Earthman on Venus.

Creepy (Warren/Harris) 9 Jun 1966 “Overworked” (Adkins pencils; WW inks) (6) 38 Mar 1971 “The Cosmic All” (8) 41 Sep 1971 “Prelude to Armageddon” (12) 75 Nov 1975 “Snow” (Buckler pencils, Paul Kirchner zip-a-tone) (7) 78 Mar 1976 “Creeps” (with John Severin, Kirchner layouts and rough pencils) (8) 87 Mar 1977 “Warmonger of Mars” (WW script, Ralph Reese art) (7) 146 Sum 1985 “To Kill a God” (reprint from Vampirella 12) (8) Crime Smashers (Trojan) 5 Jul 1951 “Ray Hale-A Noose for News” (8) 7 Nov 1951 WW cover could be a collaboration with Ken Battefield.

Crime SuspenStories (EC) 1 Oct-Nov 1950 “Death’s Double Cross” (7) 3 Feb-Mar 1951 “Faced with Horror” (6) Crypt of Terror, The (EC) 18 Jun-Jul 1950 “The Living Corpse” (A head of The Spirit, labeled “Colt,” is hidden in this story on a movie poster in the last panel on page four.) (7) Daredevil (Marvel) See also Foom 18 (Mar 1976) 5 Dec 1964 Cover (Kirby pencils) “The Mysterious Masked Matador” (20) 6 Feb 1965 Cover “Trapped by the Fellowship of Fear” (20) 7 Apr Cover “In Mortal Combat with Sub-Mariner” (20) 8 Jun Cover “The Stiltman Cometh” (20) 9 Aug Cover “That He May See” (with Bob Powell) (WW also did a rough for the splash page that carries the unused title “Knightmare!”) (20) 10 Oct Cover “While the City Sleeps” (with Powell) (20) 12

Daredevil cover rough, 1965. ©Marvel

11 Dec Cover “A Time to Unmask” (with Powell) (20) 164 May 1980 Cover Dark Mysteries (Master/Merit) 1 Jun-Jul 1951 Cover and inside cover “The Curse of the Sea Witch” (8) 2 Aug-Sep Cover “The Monster’s Ghost!” (with Orlando) (8) DC Calendar (DC) 1977 Justice Society (Sirois ink assist) DC Limited Edition (DC) 34 Feb-Mar 1975 “$5,000 Doll Caper” (Angel and the Ape story) (15) DC Special Series (DC) 11 1978 Flash Spectacular “Beyond the Super Speed Barrier,” part 1 (Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez pencils) (11) DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC) v3 #24 Aug 1982 Reprints “Sno’ Fun!” from House of Mystery 199 (9) D-Day (Charlton) 2 Fall 1964 “Lone Defender!” (5) “The Underwater Avenger” (7) “D-Day for the Fighting Airborne” (6) “Iwo Jima” (5)

DC Special Series 11, 1978. ©DC

D-Day (ACG) 1 2000 Color cover with B&W interiors, reprinting first three war stories from Charlton’s D-Day 2 (Fall 1964).

Destructor, The (Atlas/Seaboard) 1 Feb 1975 Cover (Larry Lieber pencils) “The Birth of a Hero” (Archie Goodwin script, Steve Ditko pencils, WW inks, Kirchner inking assist, Bhob Stewart coloring) (20) 2 Apr “Deathgrip!” (Ditko pencils, Kirchner inking assist) (20) Dimension Conventions (Jon Estren) March 1982 convention souvenir book features text of Joe Orlando’s eulogy as delivered at the Wood memorial service plus WW tributes by William Gaines, Al Feldstein, Nick Cuti and John Severin. Also “Wally Wood: His World,” no byline; illustrated with WW self-portrait, childhood sketches and panels from “My Word,” “Dream of Doom,” and “Prince Violate.”

Doc Weird’s Thrill Book (Pure Imagination) 2 1987 Reprints newly colored cover to Avon’s Strange Worlds 6 (Feb. 1952) by Orlando and Wood. B&W interiors reprint the nine-page “Winged Death On Venus” by WW from Amazing Adventures 1 (1950) and the seven-page “Captain Science — Science vs. Sorcery” by Orlando and WW from Captain Science 5 (Aug. 1951).

3 1988 Reprints cover (newly colored) to Avon’s Strange Worlds 5 (Nov. 1951) by Orlando and WW. B&W interiors reprint the eight-page “Captain Science — Time Door Of Throm” by Orlando and WW from Captain Science 5 (Aug 1951) and the eight-page “Opium Smugglers Of Venus” by Orlando and WW from Space Detective 1 (Jul-Aug 1951).

Dorothy Lamour — Jungle Princess (Fox) 2 Jun-Jul 1950 “Lost Safari” (9) “Vengeance of the Panther King” (8) “Bwaani Adventures” (8) 3 August “Bird-men” (8) (probably with Harrison) “Flaming Idol of the Bengi Kraal” (8) “Realm of the Pharaoh’s Daughter” (6) (probably with Check) Dr. Fu Manchu (IW) 1 1964 “Mask of Fu-Manchu” (reprints Avon story) (25)

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Dude (Dugent) v1 #5 May 1957 v1 #6 Jul Cartoon v2 #1 Sep 1957 Gag cartoon (1) Cartoon illustration for “Brubbie Desbeck Goes to Mars” by John A. Williams (1) Dynamo (Tower) 1 Aug-Sep 1966 Cover “Menace from the Moon” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (14) “Back to the Stone Age” (Crandall pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) “Dynamo Meets Amazing Andor” (Ditko pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 2 Oct-Nov Cover “The Web of S.P.I.D.E.R.” (Chic Stone pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) “S.P.I.D.E.R. Strikes at Sea” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) “The Priceless Counterfeit!” (John Giunta pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) Red Star pin-up 3 Mar 1967 Cover (Adkins pencils) “The Unseen Enemy” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 4 Jun Cover “The Maze” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) “The Secret Word Is...” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) “Once Upon a Time” (Ditko pencils, WW inks) (10) Dynamo — Man of High Camp (Tower) 1966 Paperback reprints from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents: “First Encounter” (10) “Menace of the Iron Fog” (12) “Noman Battles the Spawns of the Devil” (28) “Mentor, the Enemy Within” (35) “At the Mercy of Iron Maiden” (29) Earth Man on Venus, An (Avon) 1951 “An Earth Man on Venus” (adaptation of 1924 Ralph Milne Farley story) (26) EC Classic Reprints (East Coast Comix) 1973-76 color facsimile reprints of EC issues 2 Weird Science 15 (1952) Cover “The Martians” (8) 3 Shock SuspenStories 12 “Fall Guy” (7) 5 Weird Fantasy 13 (1952) “The End” “Home to Stay” (6) 6 Shock SuspenStories 6 Cover “Undercover” (7) 9 Two-Fisted Tales 34 “Trial By Arms” (7) 11 Weird Science 12 (1950) “Dream of Doom” (7) 12 Shock SuspenStories 2 Cover “Gee Dad... It’s a Daisy!” (7)

“The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.”

Gag cartoon for Dude, 1957. ©Dugent

EC Classics (Russ Cochran) Color reprints of EC stories, available in six-issue subscription from Russ Cochran.

2 Sep 1985 Reprints from Weird Science: Cover (#16) “Down to Earth” (#16) (8) “Plucked!” (#17) (8) “He Walked Among Us” (#13, 1952) (6) Back Cover (#17) 3 Oct 1985 Reprints from Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat: “Choose Sides!” (Frontline Combat 9) (6) “Blockade!” (Two-Fisted Tales 32) (6) 4 Dec 1985 Reprints from Shock SuspenStories: Cover (#6) “Under Cover!” (#6) (7) “Gee, Dad... It’s A Daisy!” (#2) (7) “The Guilty” (#3) (7) Back Cover (#3) 5 Feb 1986 Reprints from Weird Fantasy: “The Exile!” (#14, Jul-Aug 1952) (8) “There Will Come Soft Rains” (#17) (7) 14

EC Covers (Russ Cochran) 1978-85 Portfolios of EC covers, including Wood’s covers for Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, Weird Science-Fantasy, Incredible Science Fiction, Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat, Shock SuspenStories and Panic.

EC 3-D Classics (EC) (Stories redrawn to 3-D format) 1 Spring 1954 “V-Vampires” (Mad 3) (8) Unpublished “Spawn of Venus” (witzend 6) (8) EC Fan Addict (Tom Veilleux) 3 Mar 1970 EC/Galaxy reprints EC Fan Addict Fanzine (Roger Hill) 1 2000 Special edition (300 copies) prepared for the American Association of Comic Book Collectors banquet and EC reunion party at the San Diego Comic Con. Back cover: panel from WW’s “EC Confidential” (Weird Science 21) showing Gaines surrounded by EC artists.

EC Horror Comics of the 1950s (Nostalgia Press) Color hardcover anthology of EC stories edited by Ron Barlow and Bhob Stewart. Published

by Woody Gelman. Story selection by Bill Gaines and Bhob Stewart.

1971 Reprint in color of “Came the Dawn” (Shock SuspenStories 9) Reprint in B&W of Weird Science 16 cover EC Lives!

1972 Ron Barlow edited this 92-page program book for the 1972 EC Fan-Addict Convention.

It displays a B&W WW cover and features a reprint of “Hate” from Shock SuspenStories 5) (7).

Marie Severin full-page illustration portrait of WW (created for an EC Christmas party poster) with balloon “Best Job I Ever Did.” Also comments about WW by Elder, Evans, Feldstein, Gaines, Krenkel, Kurtzman and Marie Severin.

EC Library (Cochran) Slipcased hardback reprints (B&W stories, color covers) of EC’s New Trend titles.

Advertisement pages of the original EC comic books are replaced by annotations/articles

by John Benson, Barbara Boatner, Max Collins, Russ Cochran, Doug Menville, Mark Evanier, Bill Mason, Bill Spicer and Bhob Stewart.

1978 The Complete Weird Science (four volumes), with Cochran annotations. Print run of 4500.

1979 The Complete Tales from the Crypt (five vols.)

1980 The Complete Two-Fisted Tales (four vols.)

1981 The Complete Weird Fantasy (four vols.)

1981 The Complete Shock SuspenStories (three vols.)

1981 The Complete Weird Science, second edition. Cochran annotations replaced with Spicer/Benson/Evanier/Menville annotations.

1981 Weird Science Annotations, 20-page publication of Spicer/ Benson/Evanier/Menville annotations, supplied to purchasers of The Complete Weird Science. Contains first and last pages of “My World” and other miscellaneous Wood panels.

1982 The Complete Vault of Horror (five vols.)

1982 The Complete Weird Science-Fantasy/Incredible Science Fiction (2 vols.)

1983 The Complete Frontline Combat (three vols.)

1983 The Complete Crime SuspenStories (five vols.)

1984 The Complete Panic (two vols.)

1985 The Complete Haunt of Fear (five vols.)

1986 The Complete Mad (four vols.)

Program for 1972 EC Convention. ©WWE EC Portfolios (Cochran) EC reprints, saddle-stitched on heavy stock (111⁄ 2" x16") 1 Jun 1971 In the “Foreword,” Cochran describes the creation of “My World” and comments, “What was the magic ingredient that made ECs so special? In a word, it was love... In the story, Wood speaks of the love that I have been talking about, and that love shines from every panel.”

“My World” (reprint from Weird Science 22) (6) 2 1972 “Old Soldiers Never Die” (reprint from Two-Fisted Tales 23) (7) 3 1973 Cochran comments, “The real master of lighting at EC was Wally Wood. He used light in his panels like the Hollywood cameraman of the 1930s using rimlights to give extra dimension and snap to his close-ups.”

“Mars Is Heaven!” (reprint from Weird Science 18) (8) 4 1973 Cover: Weird Science 9 cover with 1973 recoloring by Marie Severin 5 1974 Cover: reprint of Weird Science-Fantasy 27 cover “Came the Dawn” (reprint from Shock SuspenStories 9) (7)

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6 1977 Cover: reprint of Weird Science-Fantasy 23 cover EC T-Shirts (Russ Cochran/Graphitti Designs) See T-shirts.

Eerie (Avon) 2 Aug-Sep 1951 Cover and inside front cover “The Thing from the Sea” (7) “The Stranger in Studio X” (with Orlando) (Usually attributed to Orlando and Wood, this story is mostly Rocke Mastroserio) (7) 3 Oct-Nov Cover and inside front cover “The Case of the Painted Beast!” (7) (Paul Gattuso pencils, inks possibly by Wood) 4 Dec-Jan 1952 Cover and inside front cover (both with Sid Check) 5 Feb-Mar Inside front cover (probably solo Check) 6 Apr-May Inside front cover (probably solo Check) 9 Oct-Nov 1952 “woman on cover is Wood swipe from issue 4” 16 Jun-Jul Reprint of #2 (minus the covers) 17 Aug-Sep Reprint of #3 (minus the covers) Eerie (Warren) 5 Nov 1966 “The Mummy!” (Adkins pencils; Wood wash) (1) 11 Sep 1967 “The Mummy!” (reprint from Monster World) (6) 14 Apr 1968 “The Mummy” (reprint from #5) 60 Sep 1974 “The Manhunters” (in color) (Originally written and lettered by Wood, with script/art assist by Kirchner, as “Space Search Seven,” this story was retitled and completely rewritten by Bill Dubay, who added new paste-over lettering. According to Kirchner, Wood was “furious at the presumption and displeased with the results.”) (8) 61 Nov “Killer Hawk” (with Kirchner) (12) 131 Jun 1982 Wood tribute issue with these reprints: “Battle of Britain” (7) “Killer Hawk” (12) “War of the Wizards” (8) “Overworked” (6) “Manhunters” (8) “The Cosmic All” (8) Epic Illustrated (Marvel) Apr 1982 Tribute to Wood features two 1951 Avon panels, “Spawn of Venus” splash page (witzend 6), machine illustration (Wallace Wood Portfolio), Dynamo (Heroes Inc. 2), This Is the Week to Remember... Joan of Arc, two Wizard King illustrations, Bucky Ruckus daily, Sally Forth panel, Animan panel and picture of Snorky. (7) Exhibitions Wood’s work has been exhibited in a variety of locations, including Atlanta’s Dragon*Con (Aug 29-Sept 1, 2003), the International Museum of Cartoon Art [cartoon.org/wood.htm], the School of Visual Arts, Sotheby’s (Dec 14-18, 1991) and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture, at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s downtown branch [26 Wall Street, NYC, NY], was held in the summer of 1983, curated by John Carlin and Sheena Wagstaff. The exhibit included WW’s “3-Dimensions” (Mad 12).

Falling in Love (DC) 108 Jul 1969 “The Write Time to Love” (4) Famous Cartoonists for Bubblegum Cards Compilation by Dick Voll lists WW’s trading cards for Topps.

See Topps entry below.

Famous Gangsters (Avon) 2 Dec 1951 Cover Inside front cover (with Check) Fandom Annual Undated 156-page collection of fanzine reprints 2 “Captain George’s Instant Poster #8” (reprint of inside front cover from Strange Worlds 5) “The New Trend” by Ed Lahmann, illustrated with another artist’s crude copy of the two foreground figures from “Spawn of Mars” splash (Weird Fantasy 9)

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Fantastic Exploits (SFCA) Edited by G.B. Love with assistant editor James Van Hise

17 Reprint from Captain Science 19 B&W reprint of EC stories shot from the printed color comics) “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” (Weird Science 14) (8) “My World” (Weird Science 22) (6) Fantastic Four (Marvel) 39 Jun 1965 “A Blind Man Shall Lead Them” Jack Kirby pencils and Frank Ray (actually Frank Giacoia) inks. WW inked figures of Daredevil in story and cover. Later reprinted in Marvel’s Greatest Comics 31 (Jun 1971) and in Marvel Masterworks 21 (1992). (20) Fantastic Voyage (Gold Key) Feb 1967 “Fantastic Voyage” (Adkins pencils; Wood, Coleman inks) (30) Fantasy Illustrated (Bill Spicer) 7 Spr 1967 Front cover (signed “Adkins and Wood”) Fantome (Editions des Remparts) 114 Oct 1966 Cover Dynamo — “Aux Mains de la Dame de Fer,” French reprint of “At the Mercy of the Iron Maiden” (T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1) (10) Feature Presentations Magazine (Fox) This run went through several title changes, from Women in Love (#1-4) to A Feature Presentation (#5) to Feature Presentations Magazine (#6) to Feature Presentation Stories Magazine (numbered out of sequence as #3 and #4).

6 Jun 1950 Cover (“Moby Dick”) Fight the Enemy (Tower) 3 Mar 1967 Inside front cover (1⁄ 2) Flying Saucers (Avon) 1 1950 “The Flying Saucers—Spawn of Terror” (7) “Part 2—First Contact” (7) “Part 3—Final Objective” (7) 1952 Reprint of above plus additional Wood (23) 1953 Another reprint of above

Eerie 2, 1951. ©Avon

Foom (Marvel) 18 Mar 1976 Character sketches for Daredevil and schematic of DD’s club (5) Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion (DC) 13 Nov 1973 “The Eavesdropper” (Gil Kane pencils) (8) Forbidden Worlds (ACG) 3 Nov-Dec 1951 “Skull of the Sorcerer” (Williamson pencils inked by Williamson, Wood and Orlando with one panel inked by Frazetta) (7) Four-Bit Funnies (Jim Valentino) (See entry for Kid Stuf ’.)

From Aargh! to Zap! (Kitchen Sink, hardcover; Prentice Hall, paperback)

by Harvey Kurtzman with Michael Barrier 1991 Subtitled “Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics,” this 96-page book, in color and B&W, has a brief profile of WW by Kurtzman, along with WW art from Daredevil, L’Echo des Savanes, Mad and Trump, plus an assortment of EC pages. The front cover includes WW’s Incredible Science Fiction 33 cover. Barrier describes the creation of this Eisner Award-winning book at www.michaelbarrier.com/books.htm From Beyond the Unknown (DC) 13 Nov 1971 “Earth’s Friendly Invaders!” (Kane pencils) (reprint from Strange Adventures 154) (9) Frontier Romances (Avon) 2 Feb-Mar 1950 “The Lie That Ever Haunts Me” (7) (signed “Manny Stallman” but obvious WW assists.)

Frontline Combat (EC) 1 Jul-Aug 1951 “Unterseeboot 113” (7) 2 Sep-Oct “Gettysburg” (6) 3 Nov-Dec “Desert Fox” (7) 4 Jan-Feb 1952 “Light Brigade” (7)

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6 May-Jun “War of 1812” (7) 7 Jul-Aug “Iwo Jima” (6) 8 Sep-Oct “Caesar” (7) 9 Nov-Dec “Choose Sides” (with Jack Davis) (6) 10 Jan-Feb 1953 “A Baby” (8) 12 May-Jun “H-5!” (8) 13 Jul-Aug cover “Wolf” 14 Sep-Oct Cover “Albatross” 15 Jan 1954 Cover “Perimeter” Full Edition of the Complete EC Checklist, The (Fred von Bernewitz) July 1963 Lists all pre-Trend, New Trend, New Direction and Picto-Fiction work for EC by Wood and others. Illustration of hero battling giant is signed “Woody” but actually is a collaborative drawing with Al Williamson whose signature was deleted in publication. (This illustration is reprinted larger in Squa Tront 8). Half-page biography of Wood by Fred von Bernewitz, illustrated with mimeograph stencil tracing of Wood’s head from the EC mailing piece, “An Intimate and Informal View of the Entertaining Comic Group Hard at Work”

by John Severin. Expanded from The Complete EC Checklist (1956).

Frontline Combat 14, 1953. ©WMG

Funniest Cartoons, Gags, Jokes, The (Jalart House Inc.) Edited by Bill Pearson Nov 1972 Reprints three-page story, “The Rejects,” which first appeared in witzend 4 (1968) Galaxy Science Fiction (Galaxy Publishing) Wood began illustrating for Galaxy seven years after editor H.L. Gold launched the magazine (October, 1950), and he continued to illustrate during the 1961-69 editorship of Frederik Pohl. v14 #5 Sep 1957 “The Pod in the Barrier” (Theodore Sturgeon) (3) #6 Oct Cover “Wolfbane” part I (Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth) (3) v15 #1 Nov “Wolfbane” part II (Pohl and Kornbluth) (3) #2 Dec “Payload” (Raymond E. Danks) (3) #4 Feb 1958 “The Rule of the Door” (Lloyd Biggle) (3) “Bread Overhead” (Fritz Leiber) (3) #5 Mar “Spare the Rod” (Biggle) (3) #6 Apr “The Sitters” (Clifford D. Simak) (3) “First Man” (Clyde Grown) (3) v16 #1 May “The Iron Chancellor” (Robert Silverberg) (3) #2 Jun “Mars by Moonlight” (Paul Flehr, pseudonym for Pohl) (3) “The Gentlest Unpeople” (Pohl) (3) #3 Jul “Innocent at Large” (Poul and Karen Anderson) (3) #4 Aug Cover “Seven Deadly Virtues” (Pohl as Flehr) (3) #5 Sep “Lastborn” (Isaac Asimov) (3) “The Stroke of the Sun” (Arthur C. Clarke) (1) “Personnel Problem” (1) “Thing of Beauty” (Damon Knight) (3) #6 Oct “Time Filler” part I (Robert Sheckley) (3) “Wizards of Pung’s Corners” (Pohl) (3) “Lisbon Cubed” (William Tenn) (3) v17 #1 Nov “Birds of a Feather” (Silverberg) (3) “Time Killer” part II (Sheckley) (3) #2 Dec “Ullward’s Retreat” (Jack Vance) (3) “Time Killer” part III (Sheckley) (3) #3 Feb 1959 Cover (illustrating “Installment Plan”) “The Pod in the Barrier” by Theodore Sturgeon “Installment Plan” (Simak) (3) from Galaxy, September 1957. ©Galaxy “I Plinglot, Who You?” (Pohl) (3) 18

“Insidekick” (J.F. Bone) (3) “Time Killer” part IV (3) #4 Apr Cover “Full House Beats Togetherness” “Security Plan” (Joseph Farrell) (1) “Kingslayer” (J.T. McIntosh) (3) “The Man in the Mailbag” (Gordon R. Dickson) (3) #5 Jun “Whatever Counts” (Pohl) (4) #6 Aug Cover “1 Down, 1 Up” “No Life of Their Own” (Simak) (3) “License to Steal” (Louis Newman) (2) “Lex” (W.T. Haggert) (2) “The Waging of the Peace” (Pohl) (3) v18 #1 Oct Cover “Someone to Watch Over Me” #2 Dec “War Game” (Philip K. Dick) (1) “The Snowmen” (Pohl) (As originally rendered by Wood, the female figure was semi-nude; it was altered for publication) (1) “Blacksword” (Andrew J. Offutt, who comments in the letter column of Woodwork Gazette 3: “The first story I ever sold was ‘Blacksword.’ It was published in Galaxy, April 1959. ©Galaxy the Dec. 1959 Galaxy, which was very alive then.

Another big thrill, honestly, was to see it come out with three illustrations by a guy whose work I’d admired in previous magazines and comics: Wallace Wood. The originals of these Wallace Woods are framed on my office wall... The weird aspect of Sally Forth is that it’s not only superbly drawn, the grammar’s shockingly good. Graphic artists are not supposed to be able to write, Wood! The damn thing’s genuinely funny. And you can quote me.” We just did.) (3) At this stage in the Galaxy run, Wood was nominated for “Best Professional Artist” Hugo Awards (the Science Fiction Achievement Awards of the World Science Fiction Society) in both 1959 and 1960. #3 Feb 1960 “The Nuse Man” (Margaret Saint Clair) (2) “Crying Jag” (Simak) (3) #4 Apr “Success Story” (Jack Finney) (3) “The Airy Servitor” (1) “Don’t Look Now” (Leonard Rubin) (3) #5 Jun “The Good Neighbors” (1) “The Dope On Mars” (2) #6 Aug “Sordman the Protector” (2) v19 #1 Oct “Beach Scene” (Marshall King) (1) “The Stentorii Luggage” (Neal Barrett Jr.) (3) #2 Dec “Round-and-Round Trip” (2) #5 Jun 1961 “The Weirdest World” (3) (R.A. Lafferty) v20 #2 Dec “Oh Rats” (1) v21 #2 Dec 1962 “The Creature from Clevelands Depths” (3) #5 Jun 1963 “Here Gather the Stars” part I (5) #6 Aug “The Great Nebraska Sea” (Allan Danzig) (4) “Here Gather the Stars” part II (4) v22 #1 Oct “On the Gen Planet” (1) v24 #1 Oct 1965 “The Age of the Pussyfoot” part I (Pohl) (3) #2 Dec “The Age of the Pussyfoot” part II (Pohl) (Adkins pencils; Wood, Coleman inks) (2) #3 Feb 1966 “The Age of the Pussyfoot” part III (Pohl) (2) “The Primitives” (Frank Herbert) (3) v25 #6 Aug 1967 “Travellers Guide to Megahouston” (3) Galaxy preliminary, late 1950s.

Galaxy Science Fiction Novels (Galaxy) ©Galaxy This companion series to Galaxy Science Fiction was published irregularly between 1950 and 1957 in a digest-size format for the first 31 titles. It switched to a paperback format for the next four titles.

The series was taken over by Beacon Books in 1959.

30 1952 Double Jeopardy (Fletcher Pratt) Cover 31 1953 Shambleau (C.L. Moore) Cover 32 1958 Address Centauri (F.L. Wallace) Cover 33 1958 Mission of Gravity (Hal Clement) Cover 34 1958 Twice in Time (Manly Wade Wellman) Cover. On the front of this book, the author’s name was mistakenly spelled as “Manley.”

35 1958 The Forever Machine (Mark Clifton and Frank Riley) Cover 19

“The Iron Chancellor” by Robert Silverberg from Galaxy, May 1958. ©Galaxy

(above and right) “Thing Of Beauty”

by Damon Knight from Galaxy, September 1958. ©Galaxy

“Installment Plan” by Clifford D. Simak from Galaxy, February 1959. ©Galaxy 20

Gangbang! (Nuance) (aka Bang!)

1 1980 Cover Inside front cover: one panel from each story “Sally Forth” (with Kirchner) (15) “Lil an’ Abner” (with Kirchner) (6) “So White and the Six Dorks” (extensive Kirchner pencils and inks) (10) “The Farmer’s Daughter” (with Kirchner) (10) “Perry and the Pirates” (with Kirchner) (6) Inside back cover: house ad with Sally Forth Back cover 2 1981 Front Cover (“Sally Forth in X-rated movie”) “Prince Violate” (9) “Sally Forth” (12) “Stuporman Meets Blunder Woman” (5) “Flasher Gordon” (7) “The Sexual Revolution” (Two panels are reworkings of panels from “My Word” in Big Apple) (5) “Starzan” (6) Inside back cover (single-panel gag cartoon) (1) Back cover (pick-up, with added color, of second panel from “Sally Forth” interior story) 3 1981 Cover “Malice in Blunderland” (24) “Wood’s Women” (miscellaneous drawings) (5) “Flesh F*cker” (meets women’s lib) (3) “The Blizzard of Ooze” (12) Gangsters and Gun Molls (Avon) 1 Sep-Oct 1951 Cover Inside front cover (1) 2 Nov-Dec “Edna Murray, the Kissing Bandit” (with Check) (8) Gent (Dugent) Aug 1957 Gag cartoons, including one in full color (3) Jun 1957 Illustration for article “Museum Feet” by Robert Benchley Ghost Manor (Charlton) (Second series) 8 Nov. 1972 “Bridal Night” (signed “Wood” but appears to be someone like Jack Abel on pencils) (7) 57 Story Ghosts (DC) 2 Nov-Dec 1971 “Mission Supernatural” (6) Girl’s Love Stories (DC) 143 May 1969 “Love Today — Cry Tomorrow” (10) 150 Apr 1970 “Wallflower” (10)

Panel from Ghosts 2, 1971. ©DC

Golden Trashery of Mad, A (Crown) 1960 Mad reprints in hardcover with Sid Caesar intro “How to Make America’s Kids Science Conscious” “Spot That Plug” “The Truth about ‘Before’ and ‘After’ Ads” “The Mad Horror Primer” “Report to Russia” “Testing Civilians for Space Flight” “Coast-to-Coast for $16.75” “A Best Seller Hits the Commercial Trail” “Bitter Homes and Garden” “Mad Goes to an Alfred Hatchplot Movie” Good Girls (Bill Pearson) (aka witzend 13) 1985 Drawing signed “Pearson and Wood” (penciled by Bill Pearson) (1) “Whistler slugging his mother” (1) “Girl pointing the pistol” (1) 21

Preliminary Screw cover sketches (2) Proposed witzend cover (2) Other miscellaneous sketches (1) Gosh Wow! (Robert Schoenfeld) 1 Spr 1968 Cover (with Adkins) Graphic Fantasy (Dale Broadhurst Features) 2 Aug 1971 Poster insert (reprint of Incredible Science Fiction 33 cover) Graphic Illusions (Robert Gustaveson) 1 Sum 1971 Ink drawing (same as “one of the strangest drawings Wood has ever done” in Wallace Wood Treasury) Graphic Story Magazine (Bill Spicer) (Retitling from Fantasy Illustrated) 15 Sum 1973 “GSM Interview: Harry Harrison” contains extensive commentary on WW, illustrated with a dozen Harrison/Wood pages and covers Back cover (Sample page by Harrison/Wood for “My Second-Hand Proposal,” inked by Wood for Graphic Story Magazine 23 years after it was penciled. This page uses the same copy but a totally different drawing from the first page of “My Second-Hand Proposal,” published in My True Love 67 (November 1949).

Great Balls of Fire! (Grosset & Dunlap)

by Harry Harrison 1977 This “Illustrated History of Sex in Science Fiction” has an amusing chapter by Harrison on the comics publishers he and Wood dealt with during the 1950s. The Wood/Hama/ Kirchner/Schwatzberg Big Apple Comix cover is reproduced in color.

Great Comic Book Artists, The (St. Martin’s) Jun 1986 Wood is one of 60 artists covered by Ron Goulart, who calls him “the comics field equivalent of jazz musicians like Bix Biederbecke and Charlie Parker” in a one-page essay illustrated with a page from The Outer Space Spirit.

Green Lantern (DC) 69 Jun 1970 “If Earth Fails the Test... It Means War!” (Gil Kane pencils) (24) Gunfighter (EC) 13 Jan-Feb I 950 “Terror On the Trail” (with Harry Harrison) (7) 14 Mar-Apr “The Dead Man’s Trail” (with Harrison) (8) Hairbrush Illustration for back of hairbrush and/or packaging Hall of Fame Featuring the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (JC/Archie) 1 May 1983 “First Encounter” Reprints 16-page intro story from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 1 Back cover reprints page one from “At the Mercy of the Iron Maiden” in T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 1 3 Dec Haunt of Fear (EC) 15 May-Jun 1950 “The Mad Magician” (with Harrison) (7) 16 Jul-Aug “Horror-A-Head” (with Harrison) (7) 4 Nov-Dec “The Man from the Grave” (7) 5 Jan-Feb 1951 “Horror in the Freak Tent” (7) 6 Mar-Apr “So They Finally Pinned You Down” (7) Hawk and Dove (DC) 6 Jun-Jul 1969 “Judgment in a Small Dark Place” (Gil Kane pencils) (23) Heavy Metal (HM Communications) v5 #10 Jan 1982 “Mars Attacks! Death and Bubble Gum from Above,” by Lou Stathis, mentions that the “great Wally Wood apparently did some preliminary work” on Topps Mars Attacks! card series (1964). Illustrated with seven Mars Attacks! illustrations in color plus 14 B&W card backs. (3) 22

Green Lantern 69, 1970. ©DC

11 Feb “Editorial,” by Heavy Metal art director John Workman, is a WW tribute, illustrated with a Workman montage of seven WW characters being inked by WW (the self-portrait in the last panel of “My World,” Weird Science 22). (1) Hercules Unbound (DC) Background inks throughout run by Sirois 1 Oct-Nov 1975 “Hercules Unbound” (José Luis Garcia-Lopez pencils) (18) 2 Dec-Jan 1976 “Unleash the Hounds of Hell” (Garcia-Lopez pencils) (18) 3 Feb-Mar “Within the Pit Below” (Garcia-Lopez pencils) (18) 4 Apr-May “This Savage Strength” (Garcia-Lopez pencils) (17) 5 Jun-Jul “Bloody Showdown” (Garcia-Lopez pencils) (17) 6 Aug-Sep “Even a God May Die” (Garcia-Lopez pencils) (17) 7 Oct-Nov Cover (Buckler pencils) “To Slay a Legend!” (Walt Simonson pencils) (17) 8 Dec-Jan 1977 Cover (Buckler pencils) “Games” (Simonson pencils) (17) 9 Feb-Mar “Finale” (Simonson) (17) Heritage (Doug Murray) 1b 1972 Back cover (Flash Gordon parody) Heroes, Inc. (Wood/CPL) (Armed Forces/CPL Gang Publications) 1 1969 Cover “Cannon” (Ditko pencils) (12) “The Misfits” (with Reese) (10) “Dragonella” (co-scripted with Ron Whyte) (5) 2 1976 Robert Layton, publisher; Bill Pearson, assistant editor; paste-ups and other assists by Sirois) Cover (colored by Marie Severin) Inside front cover (Dynamo) “The Misfits” (7) “Cannon” (Ditko pencils) (14) Animan back cover (colored by Marie Severin)

Unused Heroes Inc. 2 cover, 1969. ©WWE

History of the Hugo, Nebula and International Fantasy Awards, A (De Vore/Misfit Press) 1978 Compiled by Donald Franson and Howard De Vore, this 112-page softcover lists and indexes WW’s two Hugo nominations in 1959 and 1960 (and also lists the nominations/ awards received by WW’s favorite fantasy/sf author, Jack Vance) History of Underground Comics, A (Straight Arrow)

by Mark James Estren 1974 Several pages re influence of Wood/EC on underground cartoonists, illustrated with poorly reproduced panel from “The Living Corpse” (Crypt of Terror 18), the surreal dream in panel four, page three.

Hoohah! (Ron Parker) Jun 1984 104-page reprint volume, edited by Ron Parker, with selections from Parker’s 1955-58 publication Hoohah! Includes “Return to EC,” by Larry Ivie, who describes meeting Wood in the corridor outside the EC offices. Other scattered mentions of WW throughout.

Hoot Gibson Western (Fox) 3 (1) Sep 1950 “The Ghost of Willow Creek” (6) 5 May-Jun Story Hoot Gibson Western Round-Up (Fox) Remaindered Fox comics bound together minus the original covers. WW art with paste-overs of Hoot Gibson heads by another artist.

Horror House (AC) Undated, c. 1990s. Reprints WW cover from Avon’s Eerie 3, but altered and touched up.

B&W interior with added gray tones includes the seven-page “Case of the Painted Beast” (Paul Gattuso pencils, inks possibly by Wood).

Horror of Party Beach (Warren) 1964 One-shot fumetti photo-story adaptation of Del Tenney’s 1964 feature film, released by 20th Century Fox. Layouts and adaptation by Russ Jones with WW lettering throughout.

Michael Weldon’s The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film (1983) comments, “Billed as ‘the first horror monster musical,’ it’s a cool classic that was also turned into a photo comic book.”

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Although WW does not appear in the movie, he does appear in this magazine’s story, wearing glasses and a tie, portraying a newscaster. These photos by Russ Jones were used to bridge gaps between sequences of stills.

House of Mystery (DC) 180 May-Jun 1969 “Comes a Warrior” (with Gil Kane) (10) “His Name is... Kane!” (with Kane) (7) 183 Nov-Dec “Secret of the Whale’s Vengeance” (with Jerry Grandenetti) (12) 184 Jan-Feb 1970 “The Eyes of the Basilisk!” (with Kane) (10) 185 Mar-Apr “Voice from the Dead...!” (3) 187 Jul-Aug “Appointment Beyond the Grave” (with Wayne Howard) (3) 189 Nov-Dec “Eyes of the Cat” (with Grandenetti) (12) 199 Jan-Feb 1972 “Sno’ Fun!” (9) 251 Mar-Apr 1977 “The Collector” (Sirois layouts/pencils/ink assist plus Wonder Warthog parody by Sirois) (8) House of Secrets (DC) 91 Apr-May 1971 “The Eagle’s Talon” (Grandenetti pencils) (7) 96 Feb-Mar 1972 “The Monster” (6) Humbug (Humbug Publishing) Wood is listed on masthead under “Contributors” 1 Aug 1957 Self-portrait plus panels illustrating “Discovery Explains Atom Fusion” (1) Hustler (Hustler Magazine Inc.) 1977 “Spaced-Out Sally,” a half-page review of Sally Forth 1, with Wood described as “one of the world’s leading cartoonists for two decades.” Features front/back cover art for Sally Forth 1.

If (Digest Productions/Galaxy) Quinn Publishing began the digest-size If March, 1952, edited in succession by Paul Fairman, James Quinn and Damon Knight. Wood became an If illustrator in 1959 when the title was acquired by Digest Productions as a Galaxy Science Fiction companion magazine, edited by Galaxy’s founding editor H.L. Gold, and he continued as an illustrator during If ’s Hugowinning period (1966-68) when Frederik Pohl was the editor. v9 #3 Jul (Volume/number, correct here, is incorrectly given on contents page as “Vol. 8, No. 6.”)

“Growing Season” (F.L. Wallace) (1) #4 Sep “Summer Guests” (James H. Schmitz) (1) “Homecoming” (Gordon R. Dickson) (1) (At this point in the If run, WW was nominated for “Best Professional Artist” Hugo Awards in both 1959 and 1960.) #6 Jan 1960 “The Good Seed” (2) “The Divers” (1) “The Last Leap” (1) v10 #1 Mar “Gleaners” (Simak) (1) “Gravy Train” (1) #2 May “A Tourist Named Death” (Christopher Anvil) (1) “A Pride of Islands” (C.C. MacApp) (1) “Matchmaker” (1) #4 Sep “Kangaroo Court” (Daniel F. Galouye) (1) “Parallel Beans” (1) “To Choke an Ocean” (1) #5 Nov “Superjoemulloy” (Scott F. Grenville) (1) “The Quality of Mercy” (Daniel Keyes) (1) v11 #3 Jul 1961 “Planet with No Nightmare” (1) “The Bem Called Windigo” (1) v15 #9 Sep 1965 “Under Two Moons” (Pohl) (3) v16 #4 Apr 1966 Cover (WW painted cover mistakenly credited to Gray Morrow on contents page.)

“Earthblood,” part I (3) #5 May “Earthblood,” part II (3) #6 Jun “Earthblood,” part III (4) #7 Jul “Earthblood,” part IV (3) v17 #8 Aug 1967 “The Winged Helmet” (4) #11 Nov “Dreamhouse” (3) v18 #11 Nov 1968 “The Perfect Secretary” (3) #12 Dec “The Starman of Pritchard’s Creek” (4) Unused House of Secrets cover, early 1970s. ©DC

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Illustrated History of Superhero Comics of the Silver Age (Taylor)

by Mike Benton 1991 230-page hardback (9"x11"). Costumed character on cover reads T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 12. Two more cover reproductions inside.

Incredible Science Fiction (EC) 30 Jul-Aug 1955 “Clean Start” (8) 31 Sep-Oct “You Rocket” (7) 32 Nov-Dec “Has Been” (7) 33 Jan-Feb 1956 Cover “Big Moment” (7) Inside Crime (Fox) 3 Jul 1950 “The Shanghai Chicken” (10) Iron Man Special (Marvel) 1 Aug 1970 Reprint of “What Price Victory” from Tales of Suspense 71 (12) Isis (DC) 1 Oct-Nov 1976 “Scarab—The Man Who Would Destroy!”

(Estrada pencils; Sirois backgrounds) Incredible Science Fiction 33, 1956. ©WMG International Book of Comics, The (Crescent/Crown)

by Denis Gifford 1984 260-page hardback (9"x13") published in England. Gifford describes Wood as “an excellent artist in true comic book tradition,” describes several WW stories (“Iwo Jima,” Frontline Combat) and books (Flying Saucers) and reproduces the Weird Science-Fantasy 23.

Color covers from Space Detective 1 and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Internet Sites and Pages All About Comix [bio] www.allaboutcomix.com/artist-woodwally.html Bhob’s Fusebox: Wood [art/info] forums.delphiforums.com/bhob2/messages/?msg=206.1 Bill Pearson: witzend [back issues/portfolios] www.witzend13.com Comic Art Gallery [bio] www.comic-art.com/bios-1/wood0001.htm Disneyland Memorial Orgy [poster] www.illegal-art.org/print/popups/orgy.html Grand Comic Book Database [lists/covers] Search for WW at www.comics.org International Museum of Cartoon Art [art/bio] cartoon.org/wood.htm Jim Seiler’s Photos [Eight photos of WW] www.tvparty.com/comics/woodPIC.html John Hitchcock’s Wally Wood Letters [18 WW letters] www.tvparty.com/comics/wood.html Lambiek Comicopedia [bio] www.lambiek.net/wood.htm Marquis de Sade Coloring Book, The [art] members.xoom.virgilio.it/epulone/woodsade Splash Pages [attractive design by Neil Riehle; checklist/art] www.splashpages.com TwoMorrows Publishing [books] www.twomorrows.com/books/index.html Vadeboncoeur [illustrated bio] www.bpib.com/illustrat/wood.htm Vanguard [books] www.creativemix.com/wallywood Wally Wood Gallery [much art] www.psychosaurus.com/plain/woodindex.html Wood Scholarship Fund [School of Visual Arts] www.comicartville.com/woodfund.htm wood-l [mailing list/discussion group] groups.yahoo.com/group/wood-l Jet Powers (Magazine Enterprises) 4 (A-1 Comics #38) 1951 Space Ace in “Death in Deep Space” (with Williamson) (7) Jesse James Gang’s Prison Break (Avon) 5 Nov 1951 Inside front cover (1) Jiggs and Maggie (Standard) 16 Apr-May 1952 Text illustrations Johnny Comet (McNaught Syndicate) (See Ace McCoy) Journal of Education British publication for educators Jan 1956 “Satirising the Comics,” article by children’s author E.W. Hildrick analyzing “Superduperman” and other early Mad by Wood. Hildrick later wrote A Close Look at Comics and Magazines (Faber & Faber, 1966).

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Journey into Mystery (Atlas) (First series) 39 Oct 1956 “The Executioner” (4) 51 Mar 1959 “The Creature in the Volcano” (with Kirby) (5) Journey into Unknown Worlds (Atlas) 51 Nov 1956 “He Was Nobody” (4) Judy Canova (Fox) (Formerly My Experience) 23 (no. 1) May 1950 Cover 24 (no. 2) Jul Story 3 Sep 1950 Cover Story (with Orlando) Jungle Jim (Charlton) 22 Feb 1969 Cover (with Steve Ditko) is a slightly altered panel from page five of “The Wizard of Dark Mountain” “The Wizard of Dark Mountain” (WW inks; Ditko pencils; Bhob Stewart script and layouts) (7) “The Witch Doctor of Borges Island” (WW inks; Roger Brand pencils; Bhob script and layouts) (7) “The Golden Goddess of Thalthor” (WW inks; Tom Palmer Judy Canova 24 (#2), 1950. ©Fox pencils; Bhob script and layouts) (7) 23 Apr 1969 Cover Contains no WW interior art. The story “Black Blossoms of Death” began in the Wood Studio with script and layouts by Bhob Stewart, edited by WW with Bill Yoshida lettering.

Those materials were passed on to Charlton, but only the script was retained for the published story, illustrated by Pat Boyette with totally new layouts and lettering. (8) 27 Dec Cover (with Ditko) is an altered panel from page five of “Winged Fury” “Reptile God of Lost Island” (with Ditko) (8) “The Beast Man and the Man Beast” (with Ditko) (7) “Winged Fury” (with Ditko) (6) Jungle Jim (King) 5 Dec 1967 Cover Jungle Jim (Avalon) 1 1998 Color cover, B&W reprints of Charlton’s Jungle Jim 22 (Feb 1969).

Jungle Jo (Fox) 1 1950 Story Jungle Stories (Fiction House) v5 #8 Spring 1953 Illustration for “Gorilla! Gorilla!” by Anson Slaughter Kid Stuf’ (Jim Valentino) (aka Four-Bit Funnies 4) May 1979 Letter from Wood

Wizard King promotional painting, 1978. ©WWE

King of the World, The (Les Editions du Triton) 1978 English-language trade paperback version of the color French edition of The Wizard King, produced by Fershid Bharucha, printed by Intergrafica (Milan, Italy) and distributed by Sea Gate. Coloring by Tatjana Wood.

Front cover (Odkin atop Earthman) Title page (duplicates portion or Chapter Two splash) “Shadows with Eyes” (with Paul Kirchner) (12) “Mirror of Memory” (with Kirchner) (11) “Lord Vandall’s Decision” (with Kirchner) (10) “The Laughing Dead” (with Kirchner) (11) Back cover (duplicates Odkin figure from page one, panel two) There are several changes from The Wizard King: Chapter headings substitute “The King of the World” for “The Wizard King.” Deleted from page one of “The Laughing Dead” is the Imni adage, “Run when you can... When you can’t run, fight. But do them both with all your might.” On page 32, panel two, the line, “The bread bag! It’s gone!” is replaced with unprofessional hand-lettering and words reduced to “My bread bag!” In panel six, same page, the same crude lettering substitutes “Oh, my good” for the original “Oh, my God!” 26

“King” Kirby Portfolio, A (Communications Unlimited) See Kirby Unleashed Kirby Unleashed (Communications Unlimited) (aka A “King” Kirby Portfolio). Oversize publication includes notes by Steve Sherman/Mark Evanier and the Jun 1971 Surf Hunter (sample strip never syndicated), penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by WW. Also reprint of first week of Sky Masters of the Space Force.

Kooky Spooky Cigarettes Wood assisted on Joe Orlando’s mid-1960s job to write, design and illustrate ten packages for candy cigarettes.

With a horror-humor theme, familiar names of cigarettes were parodied.

Panel from a Sky Masters daily, 1959.

Kull and the Barbarians (Marvel) B&W magazine 1 May 1975 Origin reprint of “A King Comes Riding!” (from Kull the Conqueror 1) (20) Kull the Conqueror (Marvel) 1 Jun 1971 “A King Comes Riding!” (with Ross Andru) (20) Laff Magazine 1965 “The Marquis de Sade Coloring Book” (6) L’Echo des Savanes (EDF/Albin Michell) 11 Reprints “My Word” (3) 12 Reprints “Dragonella” (5) 15 Reprints Sally Forth (14) Introduction by Jean Pierre Dionnet 16 Cover and Sally Forth (10) (See also entry for T-shirts.)

17 Reprints Sally Forth (17) and “Les super kozmi-komiques exploits du dessinateur rate” WW art/script from an idea by Ron Whyte (5) 18 Reprints Sally Forth (11) 19 Reprints This Is the Week to Remember… Joan of Arc and Sally Forth (15) 20 “Cons de fee: Belle au poids gonflant” (3) Snow White plus three small sketches on editorial pages 21 “Nubile Nudine” (3) 22 “Nubile Nudine” (4) 23 “Nubile Nudine” (5) 24 “Malice au pays des merveilles” (excerpt from “Malice in Blunderland) (4) 25 “Malice au pays des merveilles” (excerpt from “Malice in Blunderland) (4) 26 “Malice au pays des merveilles” (excerpt from “Malice in Blunderland) (4) 27 “Malice au pays des merveilles” (excerpt from “Malice in Blunderland”) (4) 28 “Cons de fee: Le prince desenchant” (3) 30 Cover and Sally Forth reprint Life Story (Fawcett) v3 #13 Apr 1950 “Dead End For Love” (9) (probably inks only) Limited Collectors’ Edition (DC) 23 1974 Reprint from House of Mystery 34 Feb 1975 “$5,000 Doll Caper” (reprint from Angel and the Ape) (15) Long Island Magazine (Newsday) Early 1970s centerfold Los Angeles Times Nov 23, 1981 Obituary, “Gut-Level Characters Made Him Famous,” by Dana Kennedy, summarizes Wood’s career and ends, “Wood had just recently relocated on the West Coast after a lifetime in New York when he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 54, and died Nov. 2, but his death was not publicly reported until last week.” Illustrated with Alka-Seltzer print ad and uncredited photo captioned, “Wallace Wood at work.”

Love Problems (Fox) A 132-page Fox giant binding together miscellaneous coverless returns of Fox romance covers nn 1949 (reprints “Decision with Danger” minus page one from My Experience 19 (with Martin Rosenthal) 27

Love Stories (Fox/Star) (See under Top Love Stories) 6 1950 Story 8 Story Love Thrills (Fox) A 132-page Fox giant binding together miscellaneous coverless returns of Fox romance comics nn 1950 Story (reprints “My Second-Hand Proposal” minus page one from My True Love 67) (9) “Lies, Lies” (reprinted from My Past 9) Luminous Monster Stickers (L.I.L.) 1979 One of these padded stickers, “Mechelus,” is not by Wood but is pirated (redrawn with some changes) from the round armless creature in Wood’s Chemstrand ad series.

“Mechelus” has an added third eye, webbed feet and hands, and no antennae.

Lunacon 1971 Lunacon logo Progress Report Cover Mad (EC) 1 Oct-Nov 1952 “Blobs” (7) 2 Dec-Jan 1953 “Gookum” (6) 3 Feb-Mar “V-Vampires” (6) 4 Apr-May “Superduperman” (8) 5 Jun-Jul “Black and Blue Hawks” (7) 6 Aug-Sep “Teddy and the Pirates” (8) 7 Oct-Nov “Smilin’ Melvin” (7) 8 Dec-Jan 1954 “Bat Boy and Rubin” (7) 9 Feb-Mar “Little Orphan Melvin” (8) 10 Apr “G.I. Schmoe” (8) 11 May “Flesh Garden” (8) 12 Jun “3-Dimensions” (6) 13 Jul “Prince Violent” (8) 14 Aug “Movie... Ads” (7) 15 Sep “Wild 1⁄ 2” (8) 16 Oct “Wreck of the Hesperus” (7) 17 Nov “Julius Caesar” (7) 18 Dec “Stalag 18” (7) 19 Jan 1955 “The Cane Mutiny” (6) 20 Feb “Sound Effects” (7) 21 Mar “Under the Water Front” (6) 23 May “Gopo Gossum” (6) “Believe It or Don’t” (3) 24 Jun “Gluggle” (1) “Is a Trip to the Moon Possible?” (10) 25 Sep “The Jack E. Gliston Story” (5) “Anyone for Wrist Slashing?” (4) “They Built Their House Single Handed” (4) “The Blackboard Jumble” (4) 26 Nov Cover “The Conquest of Tillie’s Lookout” (5) “The Prodigious” (5) “At Home with Lovelei Latour” (2) 27 Spr 1956 “How to Be Smart” (7) “Uninterrupted Melody” (4) “Ulysses” (5) 28 Sum Cover “He Rose Tattooed” (2) “Talk” (5) 29 Oct Cover “Ethel Gasoline” (1) “The New Expandable Severolet” (1) “Free Fall Ferris” (3) “Convention Forecasts” (2) 30 Dec “Old Comic Strip Characters’ Homes” (2) 28

“Sound Effects,” Mad 20, 1955. ©WMG

Mad 29, 1956. ©WMG

“Walt Dizzy Presents Dizzyland” (6) 31 Feb 1957 “The New Marilyn Marone” (2) “What’s All This Jazz About Jazz?” (6) “Don Giovanni” (4) 32 Apr Back Cover “Nansy” (2) “It’s Gonna Be a Mad Mad Year” (2) “Making a Paper Eucalyptus Tree” (4) “Movies Are Longer Than Ever” (2) “The Night People Vs. Creeping Meatballism” (4) 33 Jun “Foreign Movies/American Movies” (5) “Strangely Believe It” (2) 34 Aug Inside front cover “Wedding Album” (3) “Baseball Is Ruining Our Children” (3) “The Two Chinese Fellows Who Go to an American Restaurant” (4) 35 Oct “If Comic Book Characters Answered Those Little Ads” (3) “How to Crop a Photo” (3) “Sin Doll Ella” (4) 36 Dec “TV Movies with Built in Commercials” (4) “Mad Visits Corny Island” (2) “Home Movies” (2) “The Story of the 12 Bottles” (2) 37 Feb 1958 “Secret Sport Talk” (1) “Strangely Believe It” (3) “Report to Russia” (4) 38 Apr “Strangely Believe It” (2) “Nobody Has Any Fun at Party” (3) “Bitter Homes and Gardens” (5) 39 Jun “How to Make American Kids Science Conscious” (4) “Party Games” (4) 40 Aug “Eccchh, Teen-Age Son of a Thing” (4) As evident in the Mad Style Guide, “Strangely Believe It” (1) Sergio Aragonés and other Mad “Pravda” (4) artists created variations on the “Coast to Coast for $16.75” (3) magazine’s logo. Wood’s 41 Oct “Pet Telephone System” (1) approach is missing from the “Rare Old Magazines” (5) Mad Style Guide yet survives in “The New, Improved, Rotten Circus” (with Clarke) (3) this logo rough. ©WMG “One Day’s Advice Columns” (2) “Strangely Believe It” (1) “National Osographic Magazine” (5) 42 Nov “I’m Five” (3) “Strangely Believe It” (1) “Credits for the Common Man” (4) “Scenes We Never Got to See” (4) 43 Dec “The End of Comics” (4) “Advertising Photos” (3) “The New Baby” (2) “The Bathtub Admiral” (1) 44 Jan 1959 “The Coming Attractions” (4) “Junior Editions” (2) “Alfred E. Neuman’s Family Tree” (3) 45 Mar “Worsts of 1958” (2) “If Comic Strip Artists Drew Political Cartoons” (2) “Gook” (7) 46 Apr “Authentic Sounds in Stereo” (2) “The Hip Persuaders” (3) “If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics” (4) 47 Jun “The Professor Lectures on Space” (4) “The Greatest Missile Ever Built” (2) “First Aid Handbook” (5) 48 Jul “Comic Strip Heroes Taken from Real Life” (4) (top and above) Two panels from Mad. “How a Television Script Is Born” (4) ©WMG 49 Sep “The Mad Horror Primer” (4) “A Best Seller Hits the Commercial Trail” (4) “Vic Tinny Gyms” (5) 29

50 Oct “Stop That Plug” (3) “The Mad Time Capsule” (1) “Blue Confessions” (3) 51 Dec “Advertising Slogans” (3) “Testing Civilians for Space Flight” (4) 52 Jan 1960 “The Truth About Before and After Ads” (4) “The Mad 1960 Calendar” (4) “The Night Before Christmas” (4) 53 Mar “New Movie Monsters from Madison Avenue” (3) “Mad Goes to an Alfred Hatchplot Movie” (4) 54 Apr “Around the World with U.S. Television” (6) 55 Jun “Mad Madison Avenue Primer” (3) “The Jackie Talented Story” (4) 56 Jul “The Mad Comic Opera” (6) 57 Sep “If Magazines Carried Comic Strips” (4) Art from Mad 62. ©WMG “Mad Goes to a Gangster Movie Preview” (4) 58 Oct “Mad’s 1960 Political Alphabet Book” (4) 59 Dec “The Parent from the Ages 21 to 60” (9) 60 Jan 1961 “The Mad Shakespeare Primer” (3) 61 Mar “Guest Shots” (2) 62 Apr “How to Make Dull Reading Matter Interesting” (4) “Tomorrow’s Parents” (3) 63 Jun “Adult TV Cartoons” (3) 64 Jul “Bedtime Stories... As Told by Job-Conscious Fathers” (4) 65 Sep “TV Programs Aimed at Late, Late Audiences” (4) 66 Oct “Comedy Albums by Musical Artists” (5) 67 Dec “Open Office Week” (4) 68 Jan 1962 “The Comic Strip Characters Christmas Party” (2) “What Do You Do for a Living, Daddy?” (5) 69 Mar “If Babies Could Take Parent Pictures” (5) 70 Apr “Museum of Madison Avenue” (4) 71 Jun “Gambling” (6) “The Big Bad Wall” (1) 72 Jul “If Comic Strip Characters Were As Old As Their Strips” (4) “A Mad Look at the Eating Habits of Animals” (2) 73 Sep “What If Products Only Worked Under Demonstration Conditions” (4) 74 Oct “TV Ads—We’d Like to See” (2) “The Mad Celebrity Primer” (3) 75 Dec “Celebrities’ Home Movies” (4) 76 Jan 1963 “Seeing Isn’t Always Believing” (4) 77 Mar “Comic Strip Cartoonists Interpret the Age-Old Riddle—Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?” (3) 78 Apr “The Mad College Primer” (3) “The Emergency” (1) 79 May “TV’s Effect on Children” (3) “Mad’s Discount Center Owner of the Year” (5) 80 Jul “Mutiny on the Bouncy” (6) 81 Sep “If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People” (4) 82 Oct “Comicland Magazine” (6) 83 Dec “The Labor Union Manual” (6) 84 Jan 1964 “Trademarks Resulting from Future Mergers” (2) 85 Mar “Future Educational Comic Pamphlets” (4) 86 Apr “When This Trend Toward Understanding Gets out of Hand” (4) 90 Oct “An Incident at a Red Light” (1) 143 Jun 1971 “Altar Ego” (2) Mad 1979 Wood’s early Mad work is reprinted in this oversize (101⁄ 2"x 10 1⁄ 2") paperback, a Japanese-language history of Mad with superb printing and graphic design.

Packaged in clever double-front flap dust jacket.

Mad about the Fifties (Little Brown) 1997 288-page trade paperback compiled by Grant Geissman.

Best of the 1950s Mad, with the first half of the book devoted to the comic book years, featuring “Superduperman” and other stories in color.

Mad about the Sixties (Little Brown) 1996 288-page trade paperback compiled by Grant Geissman.

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Mad Annuals (EC) Wood’s contributions to Mad are reprinted in various Mad annuals, including The Worst from Mad series (which began in 1958), the More Trash from Mad series (which began in 1958) and the Mad Follies series (which began in 1963). Some feature special color inserts by WW: 1 1958 The Worst from Mad (insert: “Mad Record Labels”) 2 1961 The Worst from Mad (insert: “Sunday Comic Section We’d Like to See,” includes these WW strip parodies: “Blondey,” “Li’l Abneh,” “Mary Worthless,” “Prince Violent,” “Believe It or Don’t” and “Pogum.”)

Mad for Keeps (Crown) 1958 Mad reprints in hardback with Ernie Kovacs intro.

“He Rose Tattooed” “Is a Trip to the Moon Possible?”

“Sound Effects” (color) “How to Be Smart” “Talk” Mad Forever (Crown) 1959 Mad reprints in hardback with Steve Allen intro.

“The End of Comics” “Free Fall Ferris” “Baseball Is Ruining Our Children” “Mad Record Labels” (color) “The New Marilyn Marone” “Wedding Album” “Scenes We Never Got to See” “The Potrzebie System” “If Comic Strip Artists Drew Editorial Cartoons” “Don Giovanni” “One Day’s Advice Columns” “Bet Telephone System” “Foreign Movies” Mad 8 splash page, 1954. ©WMG Mad Paperbacks (Ballantine/Signet/iBooks) Wood’s contributions to Mad are reprinted in various Mad paperbacks, including: 1954 The Mad Reader (Ballantine 93) 1955 The Mad Reader (Ballantine 490K) Mad Strikes Back (Ballantine 106 and 491K) Inside Mad (Ballantine 124) 1956 Utterly Mad (Ballantine 178) 1958 The Brothers Mad (Ballantine) 1959 The Bedside Mad (Signet S1647) Son of Mad (Signet S1701) 1960 The Organization Mad (Signet S1795) Like, Mad (Signet S1838) 1961 The Ides of Mad (Signet S1914) 1964 The Self-Made Mad (Signet D2561 and P3716) 1965 The Mad Sampler (Signet D2627 and P3495) It’s a World, World, World Mad (Signet D2764 and P3720) 1966 Raving Mad (Signet D2864 and P3490) Boiling Mad (Signet D3006 and iP3523) 1967 The Questionable Mad (Signet D3158 and P3719) 2002 50th Anniversary facsimile reprints of first five Mad paperbacks (ibooks) with Grant Geissman intros.

Mad World of William M. Gaines, The (Lyle Stuart/Bantam)

by Frank Jacobs. Features different picture sections in Stuart hardcover and Bantam paperback.

1973 Several references to WW throughout, including fact that “he liked to sneak the unexpected into his panels, such as making an arch-criminal look like Pope Pius XII and a victimized hero resemble Stalin.” Jacobs points out that Wood ignored Hugh Hefner’s request for exclusivity on Trump: “As for Wally Wood, he didn’t want to be owned by anyone, so for a month he worked for both outfits. Hefner, Kurtzman and Chester came to Wood’s apartment with an ultimatum. ‘Either you’re with us or against us,’ Hefner said. Wood said he’d sleep on it. The next morning he told Hefner he was sticking with Mad.” Jacobs also reports that WW’s strip “Bringing up Bonnie Prince Charlie” from “Comic Strip Heroes Taken from Real Life” (Mad 48) was reprinted in a London tabloid under the headline, “A Stupid Insult,” and adds, “After the sequence was reprinted in a Mad paperback, it was necessary to rip out, by hand, the offending page in 25,000 copies before the book could be distributed in Great Britain.”

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March of Crime (Fox) (formerly My Love Affair) 7 July 1950 “Trigger-Men by Trade” (10) Mars Attacks Portfolio of Roughs (Darkstar) Some roughs by WW are included in this limited edition (1200) “featuring the art of Wally Wood.”

Mars Attacks: The Unpublished Version (Rosem Enterprises) 1984 13 full-color “altered versions of the famous Mars Attacks gum cards,” never published until 1984 but originally intended to replace several cards in the 1962 series painted by Norman Saunders from Bob Powell layouts/pencil art. The earliest initial layout roughs for the series were conceptualized by Wood prior to the Powell layouts that were used.

M.A.R.S. Patrol (Gold Key) (formerly Total War) 3 Sep 1966 “Breakthrough” (32) Martin Kane, Private Eye (Fox) (formerly My Secret Affair 1-3 with Wood) This was a radio-TV tie-in with actor William Gargan featured on the front cover. The radio series starring Gargan began on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1949, and the 1949 TV series, also starring Gargan, had a five-year run (with Lee Tracy, Lloyd Nolan and Mark Stevens also portraying Kane).

4 (#1) Jun 1950 Cover “Legs Diamond” (8) (inks over Martin Rosenthal) “The Killer Punch” (inks) (8) 2 Aug 1950 “Hard Luck Killer” (5) Marvel Comics Art of Wally Wood , The (Thumbtack Books) 1982 A WW self-portrait (splash of “Flight into Fear”) is featured on the cover of this 62-page hardcover reprinting six WW stories from various Marvel titles.

“Flight Into Fear!” (Tower of Shadows 5) (7) “The Ghost-Beast!” (7) “Sanctuary!” (Tower of Shadows 8) (7) “Of Swords and Sorcery!” (Tower of Shadows 7) (7) “Unto You Is Born...The Doomsman!” Astonishing Tales 1 (19) “Doom Must Die” Astonishing Tales 3 (11) Marvel Masterworks (Marvel) 17 1991 hardcover Reprints Daredevil 5-11 21 1992 hardcover Reprints Fantastic Four 39 Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil (Barnes and Noble) Apr 2003 paperback Reprints Daredevil 5-11 Marvel Spotlight (Marvel) 1 Nov 1971 “Red Wolf” (with Syd Shores pencils) (19) Martin Kane 4 (#1), 1950.

Marvel Tales (Atlas) ©Fox 152 Nov 1956 “When the Bubble Burst!” (inks and lettering only) (with Orlando) Marvel’s Greatest Comics (Marvel) 31 Jun 1971. Reprints from Fantastic Four 39 (Jun 1965) the story “A Blind Man Shall Lead Them” with Jack Kirby pencils and Frank Ray (actually Frank Giacoia) inks. WW inked figures of Daredevil in story and cover. (20) Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, The (Avon) 1951 Cover Inside front cover “Dr. Fu Manchu” (reprinted in Dr. Fu Manchu) (25) Masters of Comic Book Art 1978 Wood is one of ten artists designated a master in P.R. Garriock’s paperback.

Masters of Imagination: The Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame (Taylor) 1994 176-page hardcover about WW and other key figures. The WW tribute/biography features reprints (in color) of the splash page to “My World,” page five of “My Second Hand Proposal,” splash page to “The Ogre of Paris,” a misattributed cover for Colossal Features 32

Magazine 3 (which is not by WW), splash page from “An Earth Man on Venus,” panel from The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, splash to “Came the Dawn,” the cover to Frontline Combat 14, splash to “Flesh Garden!” and the splash panels from “Bat Boy and Rubin” and “Prince Violent.” Also: a cartoon from Gent, a page from Daredevil 7 and covers for Dynamo 3 and Heroes Inc. 1. In B&W: self-caricature of WW smoking through the space helmet and a page from The Wizard King.

Master’s Series: Wally Wood War (ACG) 1 1995 Color comic reprints two stories from Charlton’s War and Attack 1 (Fall, 1964).

“One-Man Mission” (5) “The Prisoner In Chateau Beaujais” (5) Mechanix Illustrated (Fawcett) v53 #1 Jan 1957 “You’ll Own ‘Slaves’ by 1965” by Otto Binder (1) Mediascene (Supergraphics) Edited by Jim Steranko. Numerous back issues have illustrated ads for WW’s publications and books.

10 May-Jun 1974 (“Science Fictional” special) Cover (reprint of Mission of Gravity) Editorial (paragraph on Heroes Inc. 1) Ad (cover of Heroes Inc. 1) “EC Revisited,” no byline; illustrated with WW covers for Weird Science (2) 28 reprint of “Bucky’s Christmas Caper” (Title change to Mediascene Preview and then to Mediascene Prevue) v2 #7 Apr-May 1982 “In Memoriam: Wallace Wood,” by Jim Steranko illustrated with WW photo by Gilbert Ortiz Meet Angel (DC) 7 Nov-Dec 1969 “Case of the Inside Job” (6) “Sorespot” (1) “Haircut” (1) “Seeing Isn’t Believing” (1) “Nature Study” (1) “Case of the Millionaire Cat” (6) Men of Honor (ACG) 2001 162 pages. The Charlton War Collection: Remaindered copies of ACG war comic titles (with covers removed) were rebound with new covers in a limited 500-copy run. B&W interior includes 32 pages of WW art: Reprints from Charlton’s D-Day 2 (Fall 1964): “Lone Defender,” “D-Day for the Fighting Airborne” and “The Underwater Avenger.” Reprint from Charlton’s War and Attack 1 (Fall 1964): “Death in Darkness.”

Strange Worlds 4, 1951. ©Avon

Men of Mystery (in Space Comics) (AC) 2000 Reprints from Avon, Fawcett, Lev Gleason and Ziff-Davis by various artists. Mostly B&W with added gray tones but special color insert section reprints ten-page “Weapon Out of Time” (newly colored) by WW/Orlando from Avon’s Strange Worlds 2 (April 1951), the seven-page “The Invasion From The Abyss” (newly colored) by WW/Williamson/ Frazetta/ Krenkel/Orlando from Avon’s Strange Worlds 3 (Jun 1951) and the eight-page B&W “Kenton of The Star Patrol — The Alien Raiders” by WW/Orlando from Avon’s Strange Worlds 3 (Jun 1951).

Military News (Armed Forces) Jun 1968 A 16-page tabloid with no indicia or other publishing information, this was the forerunner to the 1969 Heroes Inc. 1 comic book. Both carry house ads for Armed Forces Diamond Sales (1126 Broadway, Oakland California 94607). Wood wrote about this tabloid in “The Evolution of Sally” (Sally Forth 1, 1976): “It all started in 1968, when I was asked to do a complete comic section for a proposed tabloid newspaper for servicemen, four pages of full-color, service-oriented humor strips... There was a high-flying low-life named ‘Wild Bill Yonder,’ a couple of others that for some reason escape my memory... (such an embarrassment) and one that I felt, and still feel, had a great name for comic heroine...

Sally Forth.” In 12 unnumbered pages, WW’s four-page color section is interrupted by two pages of photos (“Gulf of Tonkin”) and news stories (“Does Red Rifle Top the M-16?”).

Inking assist throughout by Dom Sileo. The strips appear in the following sequence: “Sally Forth, W A.C.” (reprinted in Sally Forth 1 with three panels dropped and two cropped) (1⁄ 2) 33

“Joe’s Bar and Grill” (1⁄ 2) “Wild Bill Yonder” (co-scripted with Bhob Stewart) (1⁄ 2) “Private Keypout” (1⁄ 2) “Lt. Q. P. Dahl and the Filthy Five” (minus the second page, this was reprinted as “Lt. Q.P. Dahl” in Sally Forth 1) (2) Modern Love (EC) 5 Feb-Mar 1950 “Too Busy for Love” (Harrison/Wood) (7) 6 Apr-May 1950 “The Love That Might Have Been” (Harrison/Wood) (7) 7 Jun-Jul 1950 “They Wouldn’t Let Me Love Him” (Harrison/Wood) (8) Moon, A Girl... Romance, A (EC) 10 Nov-Dec 1949 “I Thought I Loved My Boss” (with Harrison) (7) 11 Jan-Feb 1950 “Hearts Along the Ski Trail” (with Harrison) (8) 12 Mar-Apr “No Rx For Romance” (with Harrison) (7) Monster Times, The (Monster Times Publishing) v1 #10 May 31, 1972 Reprint of EC flyer, “An Intimate and Informal View of the Entertaining Comics Group Hard at Work,” with caricature of WW drawn by John Severin.

In addition to several mentions of WW throughout, there is a small reproduction of a WW Weird Science-Fantasy cover. v1 #36 Oct 1974 “The Attack of the Bubble Gum Martians,” by Joe Kane, refers to “the anonymous artist who sketched these stomach-turning scenes” with no mention of Wood (initial layouts), Bob Powell (final layouts and pencil art) or Norman Saunders (painting).

Illustrated with 11 cards. (1) Monster World (Warren) 1 Nov 1964 “The Mummy” (Russ Jones layouts/pencils; Wood and Jones inks) (reprinted in Eerie 11) (6) Movie Comics (Gold Key) 10178-702 Feb 1967 “Fantastic Voyage” (32) (with Adkins) Munsters, The (Gold Key) 1965 This TV tie-in ran from Jan 1965 to Jan 1968. Eight or more Munsters stories, inked by Wood, were penciled by Richard Bassford and Dan Adkins.

Mural (Bourges) Mural for display of Bourges art materials in exhibition hall Murder (Renegade Press) 3 Reprints 1984’s “I Wonder Who’s Squeezing Her Now,” the story originally titled “Last Train to Laurelhurst” in finished art. (7) (See 1984 entry.)

Murderous Gangsters (Avon) 1 Jul-Aug 1951 Inside front cover (1) 2 Dec Inside front cover (1)

Panel from “The Mummy” in Monster World 1, 1964. ©Warren

Murphy’s Law (Price/Stern/Sloan) Arthur Bloch’s third edition of Murphy’s Law or Why Things Go Wrong includes “Wallace Wood’s Rule of Drawing: 1. Never draw what you can copy. 2. Never copy what you can trace. 3. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.” This was WW’s instruction to assistants, a rule generally unknown outside of the Wood Studio until Nick Cuti submitted the rule to the Bloch series. Price/Stern/Sloan continued to reprint it in books and desk calendars. In the 1985 Murphy’s Law Desk Calendar it appeared (typeset) on the page for September 10. In Wood’s original presstype motto, found in his files, the wording is “paste in” rather than “paste down.”

My Confession (Fox) (formerly Western True Crime) 7 Aug 1949 “My One Misstep” (10) 8 Oct 1949 “I Was Unwanted” (9) (“Woody” sneak on marquee, “Ecallaw Reports,” on folder, “to Krenkel” on bus, “Harrison Brothers Circus” on poster.)

“My Tarnished Reputation” (10) (probably inks over Martin Rosenthal) 9 Dec. 1949 “I Tormented Men” (probably Harrision/Wood) (9) 10 Story Obvious WW involvement, but two “sneaks” in one panel on page four (“Rock’s” and “RAM”) provide the major clue that this is Rocke A. Mastroserio at work, too. (10) 34

My Desire (Fox) 32 Dec 1949 Story My Experience (Fox) 19 Sep 1949 “Decision with Danger” (with Martin Rosenthal) (9) (“mrose” on splash panel, one character patterned after John Wayne, partial WW lettering.)

21 Jan 1950 “No Wedding Bells for Me” (9) (“ood’s” on sign, this probably with Harrison) “I Wanted Love” (10) (inks only, partial WW lettering) 22 Mar “I Dated Disaster” (9) My Life (Fox) (formerly Meet Corliss Archer) 10 Sept 1949 ”His Kisses Were Tainted” (9) (inks over Rosenthal) My Life As a Cartoonist (Byron Preiss/Minstrel/Pocket Books)

by Harvey Kurtzman with Howard Zimmerman 1988 In this autobiography, Harvey Kurtzman praises WW as “very funny” and “one of the very best cartoonists to ever draw comics,” adding: “I always felt that, inside, he was filled with tension and anger. But he could never let it out, never say what he was really feeling, and it destroyed him.” Kurtzman describes his working methods with WW and other Mad artists. Illustrations include pages from “Bat Boy and Rubin” (“one of the silliest and most popular parodies we did”) and “Superduperman.” Howard Zimmerman and Byron Preiss did extensive interviews with Kurtzman, skillfully editing the tapes into this book tracing Kurtzman’s life from his Brooklyn childhood to his rise as one of the most important and influential satirists of the 20th Century.

My Love Affair (Fox) 3 Nov 1949 “Deserted Twice” (probably with Rosenthal) (9) 4 1950 (Superior/Canadian ed) “They Called Me Wild” (could be WW inks over Ken Battefield) (10) “My Guilt” (could be WW inks over Harrison) (10) “I Was Ashamed of My Husband” (possibly WW inks) (9) 5 Mar 1950 Story “I Lied For Love” (10) 6 May Story My Love Memoirs (Fox) 9 Nov 1949 “My Secret Husband” (with Harrison) (10) (“Under/Wood” on typewriter, ”Harr/ Wood” on sign, “nosirraH” on bus bumper, “Kollar St.” “S.S. Kollar” on boat), “Bok” paintings on walls.)

11 Mar 1950 “I Broke My Mother’s Heart” (82⁄ 3) 12 May “He Promised Me Marriage” (10) (Harrison, WW and Sid Check have their names in hotel register.)

My Love Secret (Fox) (formerly Phantom Lady) 25 Aug 1949 Caricature of Wood on cover (cover art by Sid Greene, no WW inside.)

26 Oct 1949 “I Played at Love” (9) (pencils only) 28 Feb 1950 Story My Love Story (Fox) 3 Jan 1950 Story 4 Mar “I Was Headstrong” (Usually attributed to Wood, this story carries the signature “Moe Jack”) My Past Confessions (Fox) (formerly Western Thrillers) 9 Dec 1949 “Lies, Lies” (10) 11 Apr 1950 “I Was a Slave to Love” (10) My Secret Affair (Fox) 1 Dec 1949 “I Had No Right to Love” (with Harrison) (10) 2 Feb 1950 “I Loved a Weakling” (possibly WW inks) (9) 3 Apr “I Was Man Crazy” (10)

My Love Secret 25, 1949. ©Fox

My Secret Life (Fox) 23 Sep 1949 “My Secret Shame” (probably with Rosenthal) (10) 25 Jan 1950 “Quicksand Romance” (10) (Has been attributed to WW. However, these are not WW pencils, and the inks are also questionable. Nevertheless, the story does have a “feel” of WW.) 35

“I Was a Delinquent” (10) (with M. Rosenthal) 26 Mar. 1950 “His Wife Hated Me” (10) My Secret Romance (Fox) 1 Jan 1950 Story (not WW) 2 Mar “They Called Me Cheap” (10) My Secret Story (Fox) (formerly Capt. Kidd) 28 Feb 1950 “He Needed Me” (with Harrison) (10) My Story, True Romances in Pictures (Fox) 8 Nov. 1949 “My Words Condemned Me” (probably WW inks over Battefield) (10) 9 Jan 1950 “Wayward Bride” (probably with Rosenthal) (10) 10 Mar 1950 “My Mail-Order Sweetheart” (10) Mystic (Atlas) (Third series) 52 Oct 1956 “The Effigy” (4) Mystery Comics Digest (Gold Key) 2 Apr 1972 “Vengeance of the Armored Arm” Boris Karloff reprint (12) My Story, True Romances in Pictures (Fox) 9 Jan 1950 Story 10 Mar Story

Noman 2, 1967. ©Tower

My True Love (Fox) (formerly Thrilling Confession) 67 Nov 1949 “My Second Hand Proposal” (10) (See also entry for Graphic Story Magazine) National Cartoonists Society Annual Report (NCS) 1961 Front cover border design of numerous comic strip characters amid scrollwork.

(Reprinted as front cover of Woodwork Gazette 5 and as memorial page in witzend 12.)

National Screw (Rorjor) Plots/gags/backgrounds/some pencils by Sirois, who also scripted the “Jabberwocky” sequence.

1 Nov 1976 “Malice in Wonderland” part I (Kirchner coloring and ink assist) (4) 2 Dec “Malice in Wonderland” part II (Kirchner coloring and ink assist) (4) photo of Wood 3 Feb 1977 “Malice in Wonderland” part III (Kirchner coloring and ink assist) (4) 4 Mar “Malice In Wonderland” part IV (Kirchner coloring and ink assist) (4) 6 Story Naughty Knotty Woody (Eros) 1998 (Eros Graphic Album 38). Bill Pearson edited and designed this 100-page trade paperback collecting all three of the previously released Eros Comix with WW stories (Horny Toads, Pipsqueak Papers and Malice in Wonderland, edited by Fershid Bharucha).

Bonus adult material from various sources includes “Strange Symphonies,” “Brave Nude World,” saucy strips, sketchbook pages, layout roughs and previously unpublished WW artwork from his files.

Nightmare (Skywald) 1 Dec 1970 “Thing from the Sea” (reprint from Avon’s Eerie 2) (7) 1984 (Warren) 1 Jun 1978 “Quick Cut” (6) 2 Aug “One Night Down on the Funny Farm” (6) 5 Feb 1979 “I Wonder Who’s Squeezing Her Now?” (Wood/Cuti script, Ernie Cólon pencils, originally titled “Last Train to Laurelhurst” in finished art) (7) Noman (Tower) 1 Nov 1966 Cover (Adkins pencils, WW inks) 2 Mar 1967 Cover (Adkins pencils, WW inks) 36

Nostalgic Mad, The (EC) A series of Mad comics reprints bound inside Mad magazine annuals 2 “Sound Effects” (Reprinted from Mad 20) (7) “Bat Boy and Rubin” (From Mad 7) (7) 5 “Stalag 18” (Mad 18) 6 “Flesh Garden” (Mad 11) (8) 7 “Prince Violent” (Mad 13) (8) 8 “V-Vampires” (Mad 3) (6) Nothing in Moderation: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs (Drake Publishers)

by David Walley 1975 This book clarifies the link between Ernie Kovacs and Mad. It includes several pages of Mad reprints, along with the information that Kovacs’ TV gagwriter Mike Marmer was the co-author with Kovacs on “Strangely Believe It!” “Kovacs read Mad while the boys in the office, those usual gang of idiots Wallace Wood, Kelly Freas, Will Elder and Jack Davis watched the morning show for ideas.”

“Strangely Believe It!” (Reprint from Mad 38) (1) “Strangely Believe It!” (Reprint from Mad 38, features a cameo appearance by Toulouse la Feinstein, the rumpled guy with a string tie and a curious smile who was drawn several times

by WW as a continuing character in the early Mad magazine.) (1) Nugget (Dugent) Nov 1957 Foldout maps show the USA four times—as seen by students from Harvard, UCLA, Smith and Texas Tech Feb 1958 Calendar Pull-Out (3) Oct 1958 Gag cartoon Feb 1963 Gag cartoon NyCon 3 Program & Memory Book (NyCon Committee) Program book for the 25th World Science Fiction Convention contains an extremely poor repro, with detailed line work lost, of “The Bristly Blue Mill-Muncher” (Chemstrand ad) pasted into an ad promoting Heidelberg for a World Science Fiction Convention site in 1970.

Odkin, Son of Odkin (Wood) 1981 Volume Two in The World of the Wizard King series, published as a limited edition hardcover, was created with assistants Peter Hsu, Randy Elliott and Jack Robinson.

Dust jacket Endpapers (map) “Tabletop Land” (21) “Odkin’s Death” (8) “...And Resurrection” (15) Illustration for Nugget, 1958. ©Dugent 1981 Volume Three in The World of the Wizard King series, begun in 1980-81, was never completed. On the existing pages, some inked panels were interspersed amid many blank panels.

Official Underground and Newave Comic Price Guide, The (Boatner Norton) Compiled by Jay Kennedy Sum 1982 Indexes Big Apple, Cannon, Gang Bang and other titles with WW contributions “Rat Roots,” Joe Schenkman quotes Wood: “If I had it all to do over again, I’d cut off my hands.”

Ophemera (Bhob Stewart) 1977 Photo of Wood in 1968 by Bhob “Cannon” (11) Original Science Fiction Stories, The (Columbia Publications) Edited by Robert A.W. Lowndes, this digest-size companion to Science Fiction Quarterly and Future had a 38-issue run from 1953 to 1960. v10 #2 May 1959 “There’s No Place Like Space” (Robert Silverberg) (2) 37

Our Army at War (DC) 249 Sep 1972 “Wing Man” (7) Our Fighting Forces (DC) 10 Apr-May 1956 “Three Doors to War!” (6) Outer Space Spirit: 1952 (Kitchen Sink) 1983 Edited by Denis Kitchen, this 87-page book was published in simultaneous hardback and paperback with a triple byline on the title page (Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, Wallace Wood) and a double byline (Will Eisner, Wally Wood) on the front cover. Front cover, designed by Peter Poplaski, montages several WW Spirit drawings: a spaceship from “Return to the Moon,” a moon from “Heat on the Moon” and a Spirit head from “Mission... the Moon” Endpapers: multiples of head of Dutch from “The Man in the Moon” splash Frontispiece: enlargement of page two, panel five from “Outer Space,” repeated at end of book Title page: panel six from page six of “Mission... the Moon” “Foreword”: Pete Hamill summarizes WW’s career. Last panel of “My World” (Weird Science 22) (2) “Introduction”: Cat Yronwode details the “union of Wally Wood’s ultra-sleek, science-fiction art, Jules Feiffer’s existential-humanist stories, and Will Eisner’s film noir detective hero.”

Illustrated with Outer Space series, comparison of the 2/22/42 Spirit splash and a swipe of that page by the 15-year-old Wood, WW’s “preliminary sketch and doodle pad” warm-up for Outer Space, comparison of panel four, page seven of “A DP on the Moon” with the same panel before alteration, panel from Weird Science 11, panel from “Old Comic Strip Characters’ Home” (Mad 30) (11) “Reminiscence”: Eisner remembers how he “called in Wally Wood,” began the Outer Space series and faced resistance from “syndicate sales people.” “He, Jules and I worked very well together. But in the end I was back inking the figures as well as penciling, and Wally was back doing backgrounds.” (1) “Outer Space” (reprinted from July 27, 1952) with original Eisner intro note: “I want to personally thank Jules Feiffer and Wally Wood for their joining with me to expand this feature into new and uncharted areas... Will Eisner.” (7) “Mission... the Moon” (Aug 3, 1952) (7) “A DP on the Moon” (Aug 10, 1952) (7) “Heat on the Moon” (Aug 17, 1952) Partial WW with heavy Eisner assist. (7) “Rescue” (Aug 24, 1952) All WW, except for Eisner paste-over art on page three, last panel. (7) “The Last Man” (Aug 31, 1952) (4) Our Army At War 249 , 1972. ©DC “The Man in the Moon” (Sept 7, 1952) (4) “Return from the Moon” (Sept 28, 1952) (4) Back cover: montage of figure from panel eight, page five of “Outer Space” with panels two and three from page two of “Mission... the Moon” Outlaws of the Wild West (Avon) 1 1952 Back Cover Overseas Weekly, The (Kroesen/Armed Services) See entries for Cannon, Sally Forth, Military News, Heroes Inc. and Shattuck.

Oz (Oz Publications) British magazine with psychedelic page designs 12 no month Reprints “The Disneyland Memorial Orgy” poster from The Realist (1) Panels (John Benson) Edited by John Benson 1 Sum 1979 “Art & Commerce,” and “oral reminiscence” by Will Eisner, has a rundown of Eisner assistants from 1946-52 with the comment, “Then there was Wally Wood at the end...”

2 Spr 1981 “Is War Hell?” by Benson examines Harvey Kurtzman’s attitudes towards war in Two-Fisted Tales, noting that “Atom Bomb” (Two-Fisted Tales 33) has “Wally Wood’s finest illustrations” and is “a superior artistic statement that is extremely moving.”

“Hungnam” (Two-Fisted Tales 26) is described as “a superbly illustrated Wood story.” Single panel illustrations from both stories.

Pageant Magazine (Digest) May 1964 “The Philosopher from Dogpatch” (six-page article on Al Capp with heading of four panels by WW) 38

Panic (EC) 1 Feb-Mar 1954 Caricature of WW by Bill Elder 2 Apr-May “African Scream!” (8) 3 Jun-Jul “The Quite-A-Man” (7) 4 Aug-Sep “Hindu” (8) 5 Oct-Nov “You Too Can Hook a Zillion” (7) 6 Dec-Jan 1955 “Executive Seat” (7) 7 Feb-Mar “Them Were Those” (7) 8 Apr-May “Gone with the Widow” (7) 9 Jun-Jul “Bo Bummel” (7) 11 Oct-Nov “20,000 Leaks Under the Sea” (7) 12 Dec-Jan 1956 “ ’S a Tragic Air Command” (7) Pedro (Fox) 18 (#1) Jun 1950 Stories and cover. “Wood” signature is hidden in the grass on this cover.

2 Aug Story (2) Peter & Penelope Poof Have a Party (Recording Industries Corporation) 1964 Record sleeve art for “party record” (32 figures in party scene) Peter Max Magazine (Peter-Lee Inc.) 1 1970 “Mister Mouse Meets Peter Max” (6) Peter Max Superposter Book 1971 “Mister Mouse Meets Peter Max” (printed same size as in Peter Max Magazine, but it is part of a giant fold-out at back of book.)

The Phantom (King) 18 Sep 1966 “Flash Gordon & the Space Pirates” (4) Piracy (EC) 1 Oct-Nov 1954 Cover “The Mutineers” (8) 2 Dec-Jan 1955 “A Fitting End” (6)

©WWE

Planet Stories (Love Romances Publishing) Edited by Jack O’Sullivan during the period WW illustrated, the pulp Planet Stories had a 71-issue run from Winter 1939 to Summer 1955. The magazine may have influenced WW during the early Forties; Wood’s files of his early drawings contain a six-panel story fragment with an alien creature obviously taken from A. Leydenfrost’s cover for the Spring 1942 Planet Stories, suggesting that Wood’s copy of this creature may have been done when he was 15 years old. Ten years later, that same Leydenfrost alien turned up redrawn by Maurice Whitman into the cover of Planet Comics 67. v5 #10 Jan 1953 “War Drums of Mercury Lost” (John W. Jakes) (1) v6 #2 Sep “Un-Reconstructed Woman” (Hayden Howard) (1) v6 #7 Sum 1954 “Color Blind” (Charles A. Stearn) (1) Playboy (HMH Publishing) v4 #12 Dec 1956 Cartoon (1) Feb 1963 Cartoon (1) (Reprinted in Wallace Wood Treasury) Plop! (DC) Cover concepts for Plop! were created by Wood with Kirchner 13 Jun 1975 Cover “Multiple Mouth McCardy” 14 Jul “Wednesday’s Child” (with Kirchner) (5) 15 Aug Cover “Roarin’ Rodney Roadrunner” 16 Sep Cover “Twin Kiss” “Love Is a Dandy” (with Kirchner and Ditko) (6) 18 Nov-Dec “Plopular Poetry (A,B,C)” (1) (with Kirchner) 19 Jan-Feb 1976 Cover “Smokin’ Sanford” “Plopular Poetry (D,E,F)” (with Kirchner) (1) 20 Mar-Apr “Plopular Poetry (G,H,I)” (with Kirchner) (1) 21 May-Jun “Famous Four Eyes ‘Bo’ Garth” (with Kirchner) (1) “Plopular Poetry (J,K,L)” (with Kirchner) (1) 22 Jul-Aug “Plopular Poetry (M,N,O)” (with Kirchner) (1) 23 Sep-Oct “The King of the Ring” (with Kirchner and Sirois,

Illustrator Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) painted the cover for the Spring 1942 issue of Planet Stories (top), and the teenage Wally Wood copied that alien’s head into an unfinished page (center). Leydenfrost’s creature was resuscitated a decade later

by Maurice Whitman for Planet Comics 67 (bottom).

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plus script collaboration with Sirois) (6) “Plopular Poetry (P,Q,R)” (with Kirchner) (1) 24 Nov-Dec “Plopular Poetry (S,T,U)” (with Kirchner) (1) Pogo: The Okefenokee Star (Swamp Yankee Studios) Edited by Bill Crouch, this publication was later reprinted in book form. v1 #4 Oct 1979 “Mad Goes Pogo,” no byline, illustrated with six-page “Gopo Gossum!” (Mad 23), Pogo parody from “The End of Comics” (Mad 43), Wizard King panel, uncredited photo of Wood, two Cannon panels, Sally Forth panel. Contains comment: “Wally did once ask Kelly if he needed any help on the artwork, but Kelly responded that the art was the easy part compared to the writing and nobody could help him on that.” Five Pogo panels in which Kelly had a conversation about Wood: Howland: “This boy’s got two sets... cc and ll!” Albert: “Ever hear of Wally Wood? Double u, a, double l, y, double u, double o, d.” (13) Police Line-up (Realistic/Avon) 1 Aug 1951 Cover (partial: “Mug Shots” strip) Inside front cover (with Check) Police Trap (Super Comics, Inc.) 18 1964 Reprints pages 2-10 of story titled “The Shanghai Chicken” from Inside Crime 3 (July 1950) Popular Romance (Standard) 10 Dec 1950 “Love Problems—S.M. of Milwaukee” (not the same as “Love Problems” in Thrilling Romances) (2) 13 Jun 1951 “Watch Your Manners” (probably Wood — only pencils if so) (1⁄ 2) Popular Teen-Agers (Star) 15 Jan 1953 “I Was Starved for Love” (10) Portfolios 1965 Wallace Wood Portfolio (16) 1968 Historic Ages (17"x14") (Originally created in 1962-63 as This Is the Week to Remember... syndicated strip for the McNaught Syndicate. Copy by Russ Jones. See separate entry under This Is the Week to Remember...)

“Cleopatra” “Joan of Arc” “Concord” “Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers” 1973 Street Enterprises Benefit Portfolio “Wizard King Sketches” 1973 ACBA Sketchbook 1975 ACBA Sketchbook 1976 ACBA Portfolio (Wizard King illustration) 1977 ACBA Portfolio (illustration) 1977 Weird Sex Fantasy (with Mike Zeck and Sirois) “Freeball” “Venus Fly Trap” “Eternal Triangle” “Tyrant” “Messiah” “Perils of the Princess” “Fantasy Flight” “Anatomy Lesson” “Frontier” “Strip Poker” Smokin’ Sanford from PLOP! 19 cover, 1976. ©DC “Horizon” 1978 National Cartoonists Society Portfolio (set A) “Idyll” (signed and numbered from 1500) 2002 Fancy Animals. 2002. 12 B&W plates (81⁄ 2"x11") penciled by Bill Pearson, inked by WW. Limited to 500 copies, in illustrated envelope.

2002 Human Beans. 12 B&W plates (81⁄ 2"x11") penciled by Pearson, inked by WW. Limited to 500 copies, in illustrated envelope.

2002 Naked Aliens. 12 B&W plates (81⁄ 2"x11") penciled by Pearson, inked by WW. Adult content. Limited to 500 copies, in illustrated envelope.

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thus became, as Wood phrased it, “the most pirated drawing in history.” In one pirated version, the horizontal format was cut apart and changed to a vertical format (16"x22") combining WW with non-Wood drawings, balloons and poorly lettered dialogue. Another version added day-glo colors.

1977 “Adam and Eve” (color, 14"x141⁄ 2") 1978 “Dweller in the Dungeon” painting, published by Richard Pryor as limited edition print.

1980 “MEEF” poster, signed/numbered limited edition (500) is a WW/Jack Robinson collaboration showing Odkin and dragon.

2000 (Vanguard) “Adam and Eve” print (limited, signed by Bill Pearson and David Spurlock, who also did the coloring.)

2003 (Vanguard) “Shambleau” giclee print from original oil painting to the Galaxy Novel digest of the same name.

The Pow Show (Bill Crouch) See entry for Wallace Wood Sketchbook Prince Valiant (King) 11/5/70 Sunday newspaper strip Prison Break!

1 Sep 1951 Cover and inside front cover 2 Nov Cover 3 Apr 1952 “Death Comes Laughing” (4) (signed and by Sid Check, this story has been mistakenly attributed to Wood.)

Progress Report (John Benson) Digest-size booklets promoting 1968 International Convention of Comic Art at NYC’s Statler Hilton (July 4-7, 1968) 1 Apr 1968 Wizard King illustration and “Pipsqueak Papers” panel in ad for witzend 4 2 no month Characters from “The Misfits,” Wizard King and “Pipsqueak Papers” in full-page ad for witzend 4 Puritan 3 Spr 1979 “Wizard of Ooz” (with Sirois) (3)

Prince Valiant 11/5/70 Sunday. ©KFS

Pussycat (Marvel) 1 Oct 1968 “A Merry Mixed-up Miss” (5) Qua Brot (Kyle Hailey) 1 Mar 1986 Portfolio of Galaxy illustrations and Wood roughs Quote ’n’ Unquote (aka Unquote) This was a never-syndicated set of samples, written by Art Moger and illustrated by Wood in the late 1950s for a planned series of unrelated single-panel gag cartoons arranged in a strip format. According to Moger, four strips may have been drawn. Only two are known to exist.

Of these two, one was published in The Comics Buyer’s Guide (August 30, 1985).

Realist, The (Realist Association) Edited by Paul Krassner from 1958 to 1974, The Realist had several contributors who were among “the usual gang of idiots” at Mad — Wood, Krassner, John Putnam, Robert Margolin, Henry Morgan, Jean Sheperd and Larry Siegel.

74 May 1967 “The Disneyland Memorial Orgy,” a centerspread apparently illustrating an article describing Krassner’s trip to Disneyland: “The Cynic Route from Crazy SANE to Loving Haight-or, Walt Disney Is Alive in Disneyland,” by Krassner. Numerous pirated (and sometimes altered) versions of this illustration were circulated.

Coupon advertising the above illustration in larger poster form: “$1 for Wally Wood’s enlarged Disneyland Orgy” “Donald Duck Eats Daisies,” a paragraph in Krassner’s “Editorial Giggies,” begins: “The first freelance article I ever sold was to Mad magazine a dozen years ago. It was illustrated by Wally Wood, who is also known to science fiction and comic book fans. Now Wally has completed the cycle with his after-Disney orgy in the centerfold of this issue.”

Some believed the unsigned Disney parody poster was done by Wood anonymously, but it was not, as this Krassner note makes clear. Krassner continued with plug for Wood’s witzend.

(During 1966-67 Wood contacted a number of magazines and offered to exchange work for promotion to witzend.)

Record Album Covers See Wonderland Golden Records and Peter and Penelope Poof Have A Party.

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Rough for The Return of Conan hardcover (left), and (below) the final art, 1957. ©REH

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Red Circle Sorcery (Archie) 10 Dec 1974 “Demon Rider” (5) The Return of Conan (Gnome Press)

by Bjorn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp 1957 Hardcover jacket illustration (5000 print run) Revealing Love Stories (Fox) 132-page Fox giant binding together coverless returns of Fox comics.

1950 Stories Revised Mad Checklist (Fred von Bernewitz) Lists Wood art in Mad magazines, annuals and paperbacks.

(See also entry for The Complete Mad Checklist) 1 Lists contents of Mad 1-88 and annuals 2 Indexes writers, artists and stories of Mad 24-88 and lists contents of paperbacks and hardbacks up to 1963 Ridiculously Expensive Mad, The (World Publishing) 1969 Mad reprints in hardcover “Superduperman” (color) (Mad 4) “If Comic Strip Characters Were As Old As Their Strips” (Mad 72) “Bat Boy and Rubin” (color) (Mad 8) “Open Office Week” (Mad 67) “A Best Seller Hits the Commercial Trail” (Mad 49) “If Comic Strip Characters Behaved Like Ordinary People” (Mad 81) Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter (DC) Sirois assist throughout; some Wayne Howard figure work.

4 Oct-Nov 1975 “Time to Be a Whirlwind” (with Estrada) (Story features some hidden references, such as name of band Sirois was with on page 17 and license plate with name of New Haven fan club: “Fred”) (18) 5 Dec-Jan “The Arena of No Escape” (with Estrada) (18) 6 Feb-Mar 1976 “The Island of No Escape” (with Estrada) (18) 7 Apr “Command: Slay the Dragon” (with Estrada) (18) 8 May “To Slay the Dragon!” (with Estrada) (17) 11 Aug “When Strike the Samauri” (with Estrada) (17)

Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter 7, 1976. ©DC

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not (Gold Key) 1 Jun 1965 “The Ghost Ship” (4) Rocket’s Blast Comics Collector (SFCA/New Media) (aka Rocket’s Blast Comicollector) 54 Cover “Me Tarzan. You in Trouble!” (Ape-man battles jets) 56 Cover “King of the Hill” (Daredevil throws Dynamo off a skyscraper) 152 1982 5 panels of Wood Spirit art accompany “Intelligent Life on Earth,” by Robert Strauss, comparing Eisner’s Life on Another Planet with Wood’s “Outer Space” series for The Spirit.

Rocket to the Moon (Avon) 1 Dec 1951 Cover (with Orlando) Inside Front Cover “Rocket to the Moon” (25) (by Orlando with some Wood assist) Roi du Monde, Le (Les Editions Du Triton) 1978 Exact duplicate of American King of the World (color version of The Wizard King, Volume One) in French.

Romantic Story (Charlton) 29 Oct 1955 Reprinted from early Fox romance titles are two WW romance stories (one with Rosenthal) which were probably sold to Charlton when Fox went bankrupt in 1950.

“My Secret Story” WW and Rosenthal (10) “My Marriage of Fear” WW (10) Romantic Thrills (Fox) nn 1950 “I Was a Slave to Love” (reprinted from My Past) (10) “He Promised Me Marriage” (reprinted from My Love Memoirs 12) (10)

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Rubber Stamps (Crouch) 1980 Marketed by Bill Crouch, this rubber stamp line featured Snorky and at least three other Wood characters.

Sabu, Elephant Boy (Fox) 30 #1 Jun 1950 “The Tiger Queen” (8) “The Slave Princess” (8) “Kraal of the Leopard Men” (9) (Unlikely to be by WW, although it has been attributed to him.)

2 Aug Story Saddle Romances (EC) 10 Jan-Feb 1950 “The Heart Robber” (with Harrison) (7) 11 Mar-Apr “I Was Just a Playtime Cowgirl” (with Harrison) (8) Saint, The (Avon) 7 Mar-Apr 1951 Inside front cover Reprints Famous Gangsters 2 10 Sep-Oct 1951 Inside front cover (1) Sally Forth (Overseas Weekly) The strip began Jun 1968 as “Sally Forth, W.A.C.” (see Military News entry), and the Sally Forth character Lt. Q.P. Dahl was introduced in that same tabloid issue in his own strip, “Lt. Q.P. Dahl and the Filthy Five.” Then, as Wood wrote in “The Evolution of Sally” (Sally Forth 1), “The next step was putting them all together in a story called “The Co-ed Commandos” for... Heroes, Inc. The issue was never printed, and finally I utilized the story as the first three pages of a strip in The Overseas Weekly, and called the strip... “Sally Forth.”” It ran in The Overseas Weekly from 7/26/71 to 4/22/74.

1968 “Sally Forth, W.A.C.” (partial reprint in Sally Forth , Book One) (1⁄ 2) “Lt. Q.P. Dahl and the Filthy Five” (Book One, partial reprint) (2) 1971-74 1-13 “The Co-ed Commandos Meet Captain Meno” (One & Two) (13) 14-24 “Flashy Gorgonzola and the Planet Mungo” (Two) (11) 25-40 “Microslavian Adventures” (Three) (16) 41-46 “Monster Mayhem” (witzend 10) (6) 47-52 “Gorilla My Dreams” (Four) (6) 53-65 “Starzan of the Jungle” (Four) (13) 66-80 “Revolting Revolutionists” (Three) (15) 81-92 “Feminists Liberation Blue” (Four) (12) 93-120 “Boobarella” (One) (28) 121-131 “Superbman” (Two) (11) Sally (Forlaget Holme) 1976 European black-and-white, 8 1⁄ 2" x 11" newsprint magazine serializing Sally Forth plus non-Wood stories.

1 Cover and interior “Sally” installment 2 Cover and interior “Sally” 3 Cover and interior “Sally” 4 Cover and interior “Sally” 5 Cover and interior “Sally” 6 Cover and inside front cover sketch of Sally Forth “Sally” (8) 7 Cover “Sally” (10) Ad for Sally #8 (1⁄ 2) 8 Cover “Sally” (10) Centerspread (reprint of “The Disneyland Memorial Orgy” from The Realist) (2) Saddle Romances 11, 1950. ©WMG Sally Forth (Wood) Oversize (10"x12") magazine series, self-published

by WW, reprinting the original weekly comic strip pages, with additional editorial material. See entry above for contents of these collections.

1 1976 (Back cover collage and front cover backgrounds by Sirois) (34) 2 1977 (plus interview with Snorky by Bill Pearson and photo) (34) 3 1978 (plus interview with Sally by Pearson) (34) 4 1978 (34) 44

Sally Forth (Eros) 1993-95 Comic book series reprinting the original weekly comic strip pages with additional editorial material Sally Forth (Les Editions Hors Collection) 1 2000 60-page reprint (81⁄ 2"x11") in French of the first half of Fantagraphics’ The Compleat Sally Forth.

2 2001 60-page reprint (81⁄ 2"x11") in French of the second half of Fantagraphics The Compleat Sally Forth.

Sally Forth (Les Editions Du Fromage) Fershid Bharucha edited French reprints of Sally Forth in a large format (91⁄ 4"x121⁄ 2").

1976 Cover (several WW panels), Sally Forth reprints and back cover (Snorky) (68) 1978 Cover (several WW panels), Sally Forth reprints and back cover (Snorky) (72) Sally Forth During the 1970s, there were at least eight unauthorized issues of Sally Forth with covers and reprints of Sally Forth and various European adult comics in a Scandinavian language.

(8"x10") 36 pages each.

Sandman, The (DC) 6 Dec-Jan 1976 “The Plot to Destroy Washington!” (Kirby pencils; WW inks plus some Sirois in his first assignment as a WW assistant) (18) Screw (Milkyway) 405 12/6/76 Cover “Carnal Catch” 418 3/7/77 Cover “Super Recreation” 7* 2/27/78 Cover “Paradise Pondered” 476 4/17/78 Cover “Locomotive Plunder” 19* 6/12/78 Cover “Office Efficiency” 21* 7/10/78 Cover “Treading Incentive” 491 7/31/78 Cover “More Fun on a Pablo” *Appeared as Al Goldstein’s Screw Secret Love (Fox giant) nn 1949 “My Secret Husband” (10) (reprint from My Love Memoirs 9)

Sandman 6, 1976. ©DC

Secret Love Stories (Fox giant) nn 1949 “Deserted Twice” (reprinted from My Love Affair 3) (9) Note: The two entries above could be for the same Fox giant. The word “Stories” is covered by art on the cover but is quite clear on the spine. This also demonstrates the varied contents of said Giants.

Sensational Police Cases (Avon Giant) nn 1952 Reprint of “Death Comes Laughing” by Sid Check from Prison Break 3.

Sex in the Comics (Chelsea House)

by Maurice Horn 1985 Several paragraphs on WW, illustrated with panels from Cannon, “Malice in Wonderland” (Screw), “The Curse” (Vampirella 9), and Sally Forth.

Shantih (Shantih) “A Quarterly of International Writings,” edited by John S. Friedman and Irving Gottesman, with contributions by William Burroughs, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlingetti, Kenneth Rexroth and others. v2 #2 Sum 1972 “His World,” an account by Bhob Stewart of a 1972 visit to Wood’s Valley Stream Studio, illustrated with nine panels from “Plucked” (Weird Science 17).

Shadows 1 Feb 1972 French publication with WW checklist reproduces page one of EC’s 3-D “Spawn of Venus” Shattuck (Overseas Weekly) In addition to Cannon and Sally Forth, the short-run Shattuck was also serialized in The Overseas Weekly (1974). Created by Wood for Syd Shores (who declined), the Western strip involved work by Wood, Jack Abel, Howard Chaykin, Nick Cuti and Dave Cockrum. The episode for 11/4/74 is signed “Cockrum & Abel.”

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Shock SuspenStories (EC) 2 Apr-May 1952 Cover “Gee Dad... It’s a Daisy” (7) 3 Jun-Jul Cover “The Guilty” (7) 4 Aug-Sep Cover “Confession” (7) 5 Oct-Nov Cover “Hate” (7) 6 Dec-Jan 1953 Cover “Undercover” (7) 7 Feb-Mar Cover “The Bribe” 8 Apr-May “The Assault” (7) 9 Jun-Jul ”Came the Dawn” (7) 10 Aug-Sep “...So Shall Ye Reap” 11 Oct-Nov “In Gratitude” (7) 12 Dec-Jan 1954 “Fall Guy” (7) 13 Feb-Mar “Blood Brother” (7) 14 Apr-May Cover “The Whipping” (7) 15 Jun-Jul “The Confidant” (7) Shrouded Planet, The (Gnome Press)

by Robert Randall 1957 Two-color dustjacket art for this hardback sf novel.

Shock SuspenStories 14, 1954. ©WMG

Sky Masters of the Space Force (George Matthew Adams Syndicate) Syndicated for 18 months, beginning September 8, 1958, Sky Masters (aka Sky Masters of the Space Force) was drawn by Jack Kirby, inked by Wood and scripted by the brothers Dick and Dave Wood (no relation). It ran in more than 325 newspapers, including the Miami Herald, the Long Island Sunday Press and the Detroit News. The Sunday strip began February 8, 1959.

Sky Masters of the Space Force (Pure Imagination) Edited with an introduction by Greg Theakston.

1991 Collects Jack Kirby/WW Sky Masters strips into a saddle-stitched format (81⁄ 4"x10 3⁄ 4") with four B&W dailies per page. Eight-page color section of Sunday strips. Also includes WW logo roughs plus a strip sequence (November 4-9, 1958) showing outline inks by WW before he began to spot blacks and add shadows.

Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics, A (Smithsonian/Abrams) Edited by Michael Barrier and Martin Williams 1981 “Superduperman” (reprint in color from Mad 4) Space Detective (Avon) 1 Jul 1951 Cover and inside front cover “Bandits of the Starways!” (8) “The Opium Smugglers of Venus!” (7) “Trail to the Asteroid Hideout!” (7) 2 Nov Cover and inside front cover Space Detective (IW) 8 Cover (reprints cover of Avon’s Space Detective 1) Spacemen Yearbook (Warren) 1965 Cover (with Russ Jones) Spa Fon (Rich Hauser/Fantasy Inc.) 3 Jun 1967 Wood checklist fills one-third of page 5 Sep 1969 Bill Gaines interview with comments on Wood Special USA (Albin Michel) Wood reprints, including: 14/15 Jun 1985 “Le Gnark Arrive!” (Reprint of “The Gnark is Coming” from Amazing World of DC) (4) Spirit, The (Will Eisner) 7/20/52 “Denny Colt in Outer Space” (8) 46

Spacemen Yearbook, 1965. ©Warren

7/27/52 (8) 8/3/52 (8) 8/10/52 (8) 8/17/52 (8) Spirit, The (Kitchen Sink) Magazine edited by Will Eisner and Denis Kitchen.

Reprint of “Outer Space” series: 20 1979 Chapter One 21 1979 Chapter Three 22 Dec 1979 “Eisner Vault,” an Eisner/Kitchen one-page collaboration, explaining the “editorial mistake” of out-of-sequence chapters, has Eisner dialogue about Wood (“Was that Wally Wood or Feiffer...”) and shows Eisner accidentally standing on Wood art.

Chapter Two 23 Feb 1980 Chapter Four 85 Nov 1991 “Marry The Spirit” (one panel by WW) “Outer Space” (7) 86 Dec 1991 “Mission The Moon” (7) “A DP On The Moon” (7) “Heat On The Moon” (7) (with Eisner assist) “Rescue” (4) (with Eisner panel) “The Last Man” (4) 87 Jan 1992 “The Man In The Moon” (4) “Return From The Moon” (4)

“Mission... The Moon” from The Spirit, 1952. ©Will Eisner

Spook Detective Cases (Star) 22 Jan 1953 “The Sensitive Killer — Six Feet Under” (8) Strips By his own count, Wood worked on nine syndicated strips, either as a ghost, in collaboration or on his own: Bucky’s Christmas Caper (Wood) (See separate entry) Dark Shadows (Ken Bald) Flash Gordon (Dan Barry) Johnny Comet/Ace McCoy (Frank Frazetta) (See Ace McCoy entry) Prince Valiant (Hal Foster) (See separate entry) Robin Malone (Bob Lubbers) Sky Masters (Wood/Jack Kirby) (See separate entry) Spirit, The (Will Eisner) (See entries for Spirit strip, Spirit magazine and The Outer Space Spirit) Terry and the Pirates (George Wunder) This Is the Week to Remember... (See separate entry) Squa Tront (Jerry Weist/John Benson) Issues 1-4 edited by Weist; issues 5 and after edited by Benson.

2 Sep 1968 Reprint of Weird Science 9 cover 3 1969 “EC Science Fiction,” by Weist, also covers Wood Avon stories, illustrated with covers for Captain Science 4 and 5, Space Detective 2 and Strange Worlds 5 5 1974 “3-D: Many Levels” Pencil splash of “Spawn of Venus” (1) Street scene (not visible in finish) (1) Two-Panel Step-By-Step Build-up (2) 8 1978 “Barbarian Struggle” (1963) (ink drawing with Williamson) (1) “1972 EC Con/Transcripts” (seven photos) Cover “Good Lord! It’s Alive!” (reprint of EC Lives! cover) Bucky Ruckus illustrations 9 1983 Inside front cover (reprint from Planet Stories) Caricature of Wood for 1955 EC Christmas party Wood self-portrait (with Tatjana) for EC staff thank-you poster to Bill Gaines “Early Wood,” portfolio of childhood drawings by the “kid cartoonist” “The EC Writers,” by John Benson, lists WW’s scripts for EC “Cover Ideas from the Wood File,” three color roughs for Fox’s Star Presentation plus five in B&W WW self-portrait with his mother in background “In Memoriam, Wallace Wood” by John Benson 47

Color cover rough for Frontline Combat Science fiction drawing in pencil and ink Pencil art for page two of “Dark Side of the Moon,” Weird Fantasy 15 1950 “A Rogue’s Gallery” two WW self-portraits Jungle Stories (Spring 1953) illustration Back cover caricature in color of WW Stalker (DC) Sirois background assist throughout, plus some Wayne Howard work on figures.

1 Jun-Jul 1975 Cover (Ditko pencils; Kirchner ink assist) “Quest for a Stolen Soul” (Ditko pencils; Kirchner ink assist) (18) 2 Aug-Sep Cover (Ditko pencils; Kirchner ink assist) “Darkling Death at World’s End Sea” (Ditko pencils; Kirchner ink assist) (18) 3 Oct-Nov Cover (Ditko) “The Freezing Flame of the Burning Isle” (Ditko pencils; Kirchner ink assist) (18) 4 Dec-Jan1976 Cover (with Ditko) “Invade the Inferno” Ditko pencils; Kirchner ink assist) (18) Star Presentation, A (Fox) 3 May 1950 Cover and inside front cover “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (with Harrison) (25) “The Repulsive Dwarf” (with Harrison) (3) Startling Terror Tales (Star) 10 1952 Reprints above Star Presentation 3 Stop! (Stop! Publications) Edited by J.D. King 1 Mar-Apr “Wally Wood, R.I.P.” by Dale Ashmun, obituary tribute citing WW’s early Mad comics work, illustrated with panel from “Superduperman” Strange Adventures (DC) 154 Jul 1963 “Earth’s Friendly Invaders!” (with Gil Kane) (9) Strange Planets (IW) 1958-64 1 Reprint of EC’s Incredible Science Fiction 30 (“Clean Start”) (8) 9 1962 Reprints “Kenton of the Star Patrol” from Strange Worlds 10 Reprint of Space Detective 1 (22) 11 1963 Reprints An Earthman on Venus 12 1964 Reprint of Rocket to the Moon (25) Strange Tales (Marvel) 134 Jul 1965 “The Challenge of... the Watcher!” (with Powell) (12) Strange Worlds (Avon) 2 Apr 1951 “The Weapon Out of Time!” (10) 3 Jun Inside front cover “Kenton of the Star Patrol” (8) “The Invasion from the Abyss” (with Frazetta, Krenkel, Williamson) (7) 4 Sep Cover plus inside front cover Kenton of the Star Patrol in “The Vampires of the Void” (with Orlando) (8) “The Lost Kingdom of Athala” (7) 5 Nov Cover (with Orlando) and inside front cover Kenton of the Star Patrol in “Sirens of Space” (with Orlando) (8) 6 Jul 1952 Cover (with Orlando) 20 Reprint of cover for With the U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines 1 Super Adventures (Marv Wolfman) 2 1966 Interview with WW by Wolfman Superboy (DC) 152 Dec 1968 Story 153 Jan 1969 “Challenge of the Cosmic Invaders” (with Bob Brown) (21) 48

Strange Worlds 5, 1951. ©Avon

“The Superboy Legend” (with Brown) (2) 154 Mar “Blackout for Superboy!” (with Brown) (23) 155 Apr “Revolt of the Teen-Age Robots” (with Brown) (23) 157 Jun “Get Lost Superboy... Who Needs You?” (with Brown) (23) 158 Jul “Superboy’s Darkest Secret!” (with Brown) (23) 159 Sep “The Day It Rained Superboys!” (with Brown) (23) 160 Oct “I Chose Eternal Exile!” (with Brown) (23) 161 Dec “Strange Death of Superboy” (23) “Superboy Legends” (with Brown) (2) Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Tempo/Grosset & Dunlap) Paperback reprint, cut and reassembled to pb format, of “Superboy’s Darkest Secret!”

(Superboy 158) (64) Super DC Giant (DC) S-25 1970 Reprints Challengers of the Unknown Super-Team Family (DC) 1 Oct-Nov 1975 “Stepping Stones for a Giant Killer” (reprint from Teen Titans 19) 3 Feb-Mar 1976 Flash and Hawkman in “Combat with the Super Gorilla Grodd” “Gorilla My Dreams” (with Sirois backgrounds) “Six and Seven Apes” “Planned It for the Apes” (with Estrada) Super-Villain Team-Up (Marvel) 15 1978 “The Invaders” (with George Tuska and Mike Esposito; reprint from Astonishing Tales 4 and 5) (18) Surf Hunter Never syndicated, the 1958 Surf Hunter was an undersea adventure strip penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by WW. Single strips from these samples were published in Kirby Unleashed (1971), and Jack Kirby Collector 16 and 34.

Sweetheart Diary (Fawcett) 4 Aug 1950 “When You Are Gone” (10) Sweethearts (Charlton) 119 1960 Story

Super-Team Family 3, 1976. ©DC

Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index (Comics Access) Compiled by Dave Strickler 1995 Ambitious and near-comprehensive 219-page index by USC reference librarian Strickler lists Wood in artists section and Sky Masters in title section. Strickler created this book after he “realized that no substantive index of comic strips and characters existed” equal to the “exhaustive indexes available in other areas of the humanities.” In addition to WW, the book lists strips that influenced WW, such as Roy Crane’s Captain Easy. Strickler continues to gather data for future editions. Available from: Comics Access. 1071 Main Street, Box X-9, Cambria, California 93428.

Tales from the Crypt (EC) 21 Dec-Jan 1951 “Terror Ride” (7) 24 Jun-Jul “Scared to Death” (7) 25 Aug-Sep “Judy, You’re Not Yourself” (7) 26 Oct-Nov Cover 27 Dec-Jan 1952 Cover Tales from the Edge (Vanguard) 1 1993 “Encounter” (2) plus biography page Tales of Suspense (Marvel) 71 Nov 1965 Cover (Kirby pencils;Wood inks) “What Price Victory?” (12) (Heck pencils) Tales of Terror (EC) Coverless returns (of Vault of Horror, The Crypt of Terror, Tales from the Crypt, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories and Weird Fantasy) were bound together randomly, producing many variant copies of these EC annuals.

Weird Science-Fantasy 27, 1955. ©WMG

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1 1951 2 1952 2 1953 Tales of Terror: The EC Companion (Fantagraphics)

by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman 2002 296-page hardcover of art, articles and interviews along with much EC bibliographic data expanded from von Bernewitz’ original The Complete EC Checklist (1956) and subsequent editions.

Teen Titans 19, 1969. ©DC

Tales of the Incredible (Ballantine) EC stories in mass-market paperbacks (sideways format) Mar 1965 Contents page spot illustration: foreground spaceship from next-to-last panel of “Plucked!” (Weird Science 17) “Spawn of Mars” (reprint from Weird Fantasy 9) (24) “Plucked!” (reprint from Weird Science 17) (24) “The Precious Years” (reprint from Weird Science 19) (27) Teenage Love (Fox) 1950 Stories (Giant contains four remaindered Fox comics) Teen Titans (DC) 19 Feb 1969 “Stepping Stones for a Giant Killer!” (Gil Kane pencils) (23) Third Rail (Ken Feduniewicz) 1 Jun 1981 Cover (collaborative drawing by Williamson and Wood, “Buster Crabbe fights for his life against the Woodysaurus”) “4ourword” Feduniewicz discusses the ad for first witzend in Castle of Frankenstein 11 “Williamson Conquers the Universe!” Williamson talks about WW in interview This Is Suspense! (Charlton) 23 1955 Reprints Star Presentation 3 This Is the Week to Remember... (McNaught Syndicate) 1962-63 Title has an ellipsis. Sunday strip panels, illustrated by WW, were planned to depict a variety of events and characters relating to specific weeks in history: Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers, Cleopatra, Concord, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannibal, Joan of Arc, the Monitor and the Merrimac. Scripts, coloring and at least one layout were by Russ Jones, who based this project on his own comic strip which ran in Connecticut newspapers in 1959-60. At New Haven’s Koppel Color, Russ Jones supervised a color proof of his own “Battle of Bull Run,” which McNaught sent out along with promotional copy about the forthcoming Wood strip. McNaught editor Charles McAdams was initially enthusiastic. Wood was given a hefty advance by McNaught for the development of six strips to be used by the syndicate’s salesmen, but Wood suffered from continual headaches during this time. McNaught expected to see the six strip samples within two months. However, as many more months passed, only a handful of strips were delivered (with more Koppel color proofs). Since McNaught already had deadline problems with Don Sherwood’s Dan Flagg, they saw a similar situation shaping up with Wood and dropped the project. Four of the strips were later published as the Historic Ages portfolio by Alan Barbour. (See Portfolios.)

Thorn of Rosehill, The (Fordham University) 1 Spring 1955 Cover Interior drawing Three Dimensional EC Classics (EC) 1 Spr 1954 “V-Vampires” (Wood’s story from Mad 3, redrawn into 3-D with four levels of depth. Hal Morgan and Dan Symmes, in Amazing 3-D, describe this as “a Mad-style story

by WW about a voluptuous vampire — the only woman in all of 3-D who rated an extra plane for her bust.”)

Three Dimensional Science Fiction (EC, unpublished) 1954 “Spawn of Venus,” originally drawn by Al Feldstein for Weird Science 6, was redrawn by WW as a 3-D story with six levels of depth, but EC’s planned 3-D sf book went unpublished when the 3-D fad faded. The story was retrieved from the EC storage vault by Bhob Stewart 50

in 1968 for 2-D publication in witzend 6. An article about this story, “3-D: Many Levels” by John Benson (Squa Tront 5), includes WW’s pencil drawing for the splash page.

Three Rocketeers (Harvey) 2 “Miracles Inc.” (5) “Earthman” (10) Thrilling Romances (Standard) 12 Mar 1951 “Love Problems—D.S of Atlantic City” (not the same “Love Problems” in Popular Romance) (2) Thrilling Science Fiction (Paragon) 1 1998 B&W interior with added gray tones reprints the seven-page “Captain Science — The Martian Slavers” by Orlando and WW from Captain Science 4 (Jun 1951).

Thrilling Wonder Tales (AC) nn Spring 1991 Color cover of a previously published WW Galaxy interior line drawing.

B&W interiors with gray tones added include the eight-page “Kenton of The Star Patrol — Sirens of Space” by Orlando and WW, reprinted from Strange Worlds 5 (Nov 1951).

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (Tower) T.H.U.N.D.E.R. is an acronym for The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves.

Some scripts by Len Brown. Early concept/idea sketches by Richard Bassford.

1 Nov 1965 Cover “First Encounter” (4) “Menace of the Iron Fog” (12) “At the Mercy of Iron Maiden” (Adkins pencils) (10) 2 Jan 1966 Cover “Dynamo Battles Dynavac” (Adkins, Bassford pencils) (13) “D-Day for Dynamo” (Adkins pencils; WW, Tony Coleman lnks) (13) 3 Mar Cover (Adkins pencils) “Dynamo Battles the Subterraneans” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins, Coleman inks) (10) Dynamo pin-up (Adkins pencils) Noman pin-up (Adkins pencils) “Dynamo and the Menace of the Red Dragon” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins, Coleman inks) (10) “Noman faces The Threat of the Amazing Vibraman” (John Giunta pencils; WW, Coleman, Adkins inks) (10) Thunderbelt pin-up (Adkins pencils) “Dynamo vs. Menthor” (Adkins pencils; WW, Coleman inks) (10) 4 Apr Cover (Crandall and WW) “Master of Evolution” (Adkins pencils) (12) “Noman in Action” (Adkins pencils) (1) “Origin of Thunder” pin-up (Adkins pencils) (1) “Return of the Iron Maiden” (Crandall pencils, WW, Adkins inks) (10) “The Great Hypno” (Giunta pencils, WW, Adkins inks) (11) 5 Jun Cover (Adkins pencils) Lightning pin-up (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins inks) “Double for Dynamo” (Adkins pencils; WW, Adkins, Coleman inks) (14) “Dynamo and the Golem” (Crandall pencils; WW, Coleman, Adkins inks) “Noman in the Caverns of Demo” (Gil Kane pencils; WW, Coleman inks) 6 Jul Cover (Adkins pencils) T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 1, 1965. ©Tower “Dynamo and the Sinister Agents of the Red Star” (Adkins pencils) (14) “Thunder vs. Demo” (Giunta pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 7 Aug Cover (Adkins pencils) “Wanted for Treason” (Adkins pencils) (10) “A Matter of Life and Death” (Adkins script/layouts; Ditko pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) Iron Maiden pin-up (WW and Reese) 8 Sep Cover (Adkins pencils) “Thunder in the Dark” (WW, Reese pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) “Final Encounter” (Adkins pencils; WW inks) (11) Overlord pin-up (WW and Reese) 51

9 Oct Cover “Corporal Dynamo, USA” (Giunta pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 10 Nov Cover (WW and Williamson) “Operation Armageddon” (WW, Reese pencils; WW inks) (10) 11 Mar 1967 Cover (Adkins pencils) “The Death of Dynamo” (Adkins pencils) (10) 12 Apr Cover “Strength Is Not Enough” (Ditko pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 13 Jun Cover (Adkins pencils) “A Bullet for Dynamo” (Adkins pencils) (10) 14 Jul “Return Engagement” (Wood layouts; Ditko pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 15 Sep “Collision Course” (WW, Reese pencils; WW inks) (10) “Hail to the Chief” (Giunta pencils; WW, Adkins inks) (10) 16 Oct Cover “A Slight Case of Combat Fatigue” (Adkins pencils) (10) 17 Dec “Return of the Hyena” (WW, Reese pencils and inks) (10) 18 Sep 1968 “Noman in Action” (reprint from #4) (1) “A Matter of Life and Death” (reprint from #7) (10) 19 Nov “Half an Hour of Power!” (WW, Reese pencils and inks) (10) T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 10, 1966.

20 Nov 1969 “Dynamo and The Return of the Iron Maiden” (reprint ©Tower from #4) (10) ”Noman faces The Threat of the Amazing Vibraman” (reprint from #3) (10) ”Dynamo and The Menace of the Red Dragon” (reprint from #3) (10) T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 1968. Eight 64-page issues in Italian.

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archive (DC) Full-color hardcover reprints with B&W art restoration by Rick Keene plus biographies of all artist-writers.

1 2003 Collects T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents issues 1-4.

2 2003 Collects T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents issues 5-7 plus Dynamo 1.

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Dynamo Statue (Carbonaro) 2002 Sculpted by William Paquet, this hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain statue stands 91⁄ 8” tall. Limited run of 1500. www.thunderagents.com/DStatue.html Tomorrow Midnight (Ballantine)

by Ray Bradbury, with introduction by Bradbury Jun 1966 “There Will Come Soft Rains...” (reprint from Weird Fantasy 17, Jan-Feb 1953) (22) “Mars is Heaven” (reprint from Weird Science 18) (25) Top Love Stories (Star) 6 1951 Story 8 Aug. 1952 “He Fought For Me” (quite likely WW but not strong work) (9) 12 Apr. 1953 “I Tormented Men!” (Wood and probably Harrison) (reprint from Fox’s My Confession 9) (9) 17 May 1954 “In a Hurry for Love” (not a Fox reprint and, although Wood-like, this is not WW) (10) Topps (Topps Chewing Gum, Inc.) Some years approximate. WW did numerous freelance jobs for Topps during the 1960s. Topps’ Product Development Department staffers who also worked on these humor and novelty products: Len Brown, Woody Gelman, Stan Hart, Larry Riley, Art Spiegelman, Bhob Stewart, Rick Varesi. Gelman was the department head. Ex-Fleischer animator Riley devised working models (Flying Things, Pop-Ups, Funny Doors) and later was a key animator on Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat (1972). Award-winning ex-Navy cartoonist Varesi made the mock-ups used in test marketing and drew rough comps of products for in-house use. Emmy-winning TV writer Hart also scripted Mad’s movie parodies for years.

1961 Crazy Cards (“Strangely Believe It”-type gags with set-up on one side and payoff on the other; all Wood; front: color; back: two-color of black/blue; American Card Catalog #R708-7) (66) 1962 Foldees (metamorphic cards fold into different gags and characters; American Card Catalog #R708-8) (44) 1962 Mars Attacks (Wood did layouts during early planning stages, but assignment for final layouts/pencils went to Bob Powell. Final paintings by Norman Saunders.) (55) 1964 Ugly Stickers (pencils by WW and Basil Wolverton; some repeated in Make Your Own Name Stickers) 1965 Nutty Newspaper (This product was never marketed, but a single prototype was printed 52

for in-house use and testing. The humorous newspaper included WW’s parody strips of Nancy and Dick Tracy (taken from Mad).

1966 Mini-Stickers and Nutty Tickets (backs) 1966 Blockheads (full-head, box-shaped, cardboard masks) 1967 Flying Things (Larry Riley design of die-cut wing/body/tail, imprinted with Wood art on “Flying Bathtub” and others, could be assembled to make gliders. Newspapers ran syndicated photo of painter Larry Rivers admiring Flying Things and calling the series a work of art.

1967 Insult Postcards (pencils with Reese; Art Spiegelman roughs with Bhob; front: color on illustration of such gags as “Come Alive! You’re in the Monster Generation!”; back: two-color postcard design with areas for stamp/address.) (32) 1967 Krazy Little Comics (Roy Thomas scripted this series of 16 booklets satirizing Marvel/DC characters.)

1967 Wanted Posters (Gagwriters included Stan Hart and Woody Gelman. Other posters in this series of 24 were illustrated by Jack Davis.)

1968 Travel Posters (10"x18"; ink assist by Dom Sileo; some layouts and pencils by Bhob) (24) 1968 Nasty Notes (“Comic valentine”-type rhymes; successively larger illustrations revealed as paper is unfolded; gags by Len Brown, Hart, Spiegelman; layout/design by Spiegelman and Bhob; some Bhob pencils; ink assist by Sileo) (32) 1968: Funny Doors (gags by Spiegelman and Bhob; ink assist by Sileo) 1968: Laugh-In (gags by Gelman, Larry Riley, Bhob) 1968: Batty Bookcovers (at least one), Pop-Ups, Jiggly Buttons 1971 Ugly Buttons (full-color buttons) 1976 Wanted Poster Stickers 1980 Wanted Posters (reprint of the 1967 series on white paper) Also: Stupid Scratch-Offs, Wise Ties, Phoney Records (possibly some art for this set), Pop Guns, Comic Book Foldees (some), Captain Nice (wrapper art), Dopey Books (possibly with Ralph Reese), Gum Berries Lids, Groovy Stick-Ons (possibly worked on this set), Put-On Stickers (possibly worked on this set), Mini-Toons (possibly worked on this set), Valentine Foldees (some).

1989 Catalog of Topps art auction, held in the gymnasium of Hunter College in 1989, may contain WW art.

Total War (Gold Key) Title changed to M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War with #3 1 Jul 1965 “Target: America” (30) 2 Oct “Sneak Attack” (Adkins pencils, WW inks) (16) “Breakthrough” (Adkins pencils, WW inks) (16) Totally Mad (Broderbund/Learning Company) CD-ROM set of 20,000 pages from 500 issues of Mad. With some gaps, the seven-disc boxed set (for Windows only) features every issue from 1952 to 1998.

Tower of Shadows (Marvel) 5 May-Jun 1970 “Flight into Fear” (features WW self-portrait) (7) 6 Jul-Aug “The Ghost Beast!” (7) 7 Sep-Oct “Of Swords and Sorcery!” (7) 8 Nov-Dec “Sanctuary!” (7) True Crime Comics (Magazine Village) v2 #1 Aug-Sep 1949 “Punishment through the Ages (1) “The March of Crime Department” (2) True Sweetheart Secrets (Fawcett) 2 July 1950 “Love’s Rapture” (11) True Tales of Romance (Fawcett) 4 Jul 1950 “Tears for a Memory” (ten pages only; inks only) True-to-Life Romances (Star) 15 1952 Story 16 Mar 1953 “Unlucky Love” (9) 20 Jan 1954 “I Couldn’t Love” (with Harrison) (10) 21 Apr “My Love Lie” (with Harrison) (10)

Total War 1, 1965. ©Gold Key

Trump (HMH Publishing Co.) Edited by Harvey Kurtzman for Hugh Hefner’s HMH Company.

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1 Jan 1957 Photo of Wood “Hansel and Gretel” (3) “Elvis Pretzel” (1) “Candid Camerapix” (2) Trumpet (Tom Reamy) 10 1969 Contents page illustration is B&W watercolor or ink wash drawing of nude woman hugging her knees (1) T-shirts EC T-shirts (Graphitti Designs/Cochran) 1 Nov 1985 WW cover from Weird Science 16 screen-printed in full color by Bob Chapman’s Graphitti Designs [www.graphittidesigns.com]. Marketed by Russ Cochran, this launched a series of T-shirts with images taken from EC comics. There are many other variations of EC T-shirts, including those worn by staff members at the 1972 EC convention, licensed images taken from the Mad Style Guide (edited by Bhob Stewart for Mad in 1994) and assorted parodies (such as the colorful Trails We Have Crept T-shirt worn by hikers).

1993 Soul Asylum T-shirt The rock band Soul Asylum produced a promotional T-shirt by licensed contract with the Wood Estate in 1993. Manufactured in unknown but substantial numbers in the thousands, this black T-shirt featured a design with a full-color image of the bird with its head between its legs, catching its own egg in its mouth, with the logo L’Asylum de Soul above it. The art was formatted to resemble the cover of the French magazine L’Echo des Savanes because this was where Soul Asylum members had first seen this WW drawing (many years after it was published as the cover of L’Echo des Savanes 16). The original sketch of the bird catching its own egg, titled “Mother” by WW, dates from c. 1967, and it was later turned into finished art for a panel in Flo Steinberg’s Big Apple Comix (1975).

TV Guide (Triangle) 782 March 23, 1968 Illustration in full color shows funny animals fleeing from animated superheroes.

Twilight Zone (Gold Key) 1 Nov 1962 “Voyage to Nowhere” (Crandall pencils) (11) Two-Fisted Annual (EC) Coverless returns (of Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat) were bound together, producing many variant copies of these EC annuals.

1 1952 2 1953 Two-Fisted Tales (EC) 18 Nov-Dec 1950 “Revolution” (6) 19 Jan-Feb 1951 “Brutal Captain Bull” (7) 20 Mar-Apr “Devils in Baggy Pants” (7) 21 May-Jun “The Murmansk Run” (6) 22 Jul-Aug “Massacre at Agincourt” (6) 23 Sep-Oct “Old Soldiers Never Die” (7) 25 Jan-Feb 1952 “Bunker Hill” (7) 24 Nov-Dec “Bug Out” (7) 26 Mar-Apr 1952 “Hungnam” (7) 27 May-Jun “Custer’s Last Stand” (7) 28 Jul-Aug “Pell’s Point” (7) 30 Nov-Dec “Knight’s” (7) 31 Jan-Feb 1953 “Blockade” (6) 32 Mar-Apr Cover “Hannibal” (6) 33 May-Jun Cover “Atom Bomb” (7) 34 Jul-Aug “Trial by Arms” (7) 35 Sep-Oct “New Orleans” (7) 41 Feb-Mar 1955 “Carl Akeley” (some pencils by Tatjana Wood) (6) Undersea Agent (Tower) 6 Mar 1967 Cover 54

Two-Fisted Tales 34, 1953. ©WMG

TV Guide 782, March 23, 1968. ©WWE

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Undersea City (Gnome Press)

by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson 1958 Cover painting by WW. 2000 copies of a 5000-copy run were remaindered.

Unearthly Spectaculars (Harvey) 2 Dec 1966 “Miracles, Inc.” (5) “Earthman” (10) “Clawfang” (script only) Unexpected, The (DC) 122 Jan 1971 “To Die a Dozen Deaths!” (with Grandenetti) (8) 137 Jul 1972 “Trial by Torment” (with Grandenetti) (8) 138 Aug “Strange Secret of the Hua-shun Idol” (9) Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction (Marvel) B&W graphic story magazine edited by Roy Thomas.

1 Jan 1974 “Savage World” (reprint from witzend #1) (8) U.S. Paratroops (Avon) See entry With the U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines.

U.S. Paratroops (IW) 1964 Cover (reprint of cover for With the U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines)

Unearthly Spectaculars 2, 1966. ©Harvey

Valor (EC) 1 Mar-Apr 1955 Cover “The Return of King Arthur” (7) 2 May-Jun “The King’s Service” (7) 4 Sep-Oct Cover 5 Nov-Dec Cover “Dangerous Animal” (7) Vampirella (Warren) 9 Jan 1971 Cover “The Curse” (8) 10 Mar “War of the Wizards” (8) 11 May Single panel from “The Curse” in letter column 12 ‘To Kill a God” (cited by Nick Cuti as WW’s answer for readers who claimed “the old stuff was better”) (8) 1972 Annual Reprint of “The Curse” (8) 19 Sep 1972 Cover (small reduction of #9 cover) Reprint of “To Kill a God” (8) 27 1973 “War of the Wizards” reprint (8) Vanguard Cutting Edge (Vanguard) 1994 card set has two WW cards featuring “Radian” and “Encounter.”

Vault of Horror (EC) 12 Apr-May 1950 “The Werewolf Legend” (with Harrison) (7) 13 Jun-Jul “The Curse of Harkley Heath” (with Harrison) (7) 14 Aug-Sep “Werewolf” (with Harrison) (7)

Valor 4, 1955. ©WMG

Vic Torry & His Flying Saucer (ACG) 1 2002 B&W reprint of Avon’s Flying Saucers (1950) with color WW cover taken from first chapter splash panel of Flying Saucers.

Volume Two (Jim Valentino) Sep 1981 Letter from Wood Wallace Wood Portfolio (Wood) 1968 A self-promotional book, created for distribution to art directors, displaying 23 WW illustrations, including comics (“Pipsqueak Papers,” “The Battle of Britain!”), book illustration (Bobbs-Merrill), advertising art (Scandinavian Airlines, Chemstrand, American Airlines, 56

Alka-Seltzer), toys and games (Red Riding Hood, Sea Hunt), comic strips (Bucky’s Christmas Caper) and magazine illustrations (Mad, Galaxy, witzend).

Wallace Wood Sketchbook, The (Crouch) Edited and published by Bill Crouch 1 Apr 1980 Limited edition (1500) with all art actual size Cover (sketch) Front endpaper (sketches) 1977 photo of WW by Mike Zeck Title page (drawing includes Weegie and Dimentius) Bill Pearson introduction, illustrated with monster sketch Early work by teenage Wood (8) Sketches (29) “Lazy Layouts” (24 different panel arrangements for use as a guide to varying layouts) (3) Sketches (3) Inside back cover Back Cover 2 1981 Limited edition (1500), edited by Crouch and Bill Pearson. All art actual size except for back cover and double-page circus spread.

Cover (“The Pow Show” is only title on cover) Inside front cover: Frankenstein sketch “Hamlet” sketch 1977 photo of WW with crossbow (by Mike Zeck) Unused Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu Title page: 3 small sketches cover sketch, 1951. ©WWE Text intro by Nicola Cuti, dated Feb. 1981 Section of large ink drawings and pencil cover sketches, including Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu, Noman and Round-Up (12) Section of teenage drawings on doubletone paper (7) Centerspread: Circus sketch for “The New, Improved Rotten Circus” (Mad 41) (2) Section of teenage doubletone drawings (4) Section of c. 1946 pencil strips (“Private Life” and “Wacky and the WAC!”), gag cartoon and poem (“Storm!”) (3) Section of ink/pencil/wash sketches for Mad, Galaxy, Trump and other publications (16) Inside back cover: Ink sketches of animal heads Back cover: pencil drawing for sf illustration (also published in Qua Brot and inked by Dave Stevens for cover of World of Wood 2) Wallace Wood’s Odkin Pendants (Robinson) 1979 Odkin, “immortalized in Britannia pewter,” on one-inch tall pendant with 19-inch hypo-allergenic, stainless steel chain and slide bar clasp, marketed for $7.50 by Jack Robinson with this ad line: “We don’t promise anything, but some people claim these pendants have magic powers!”

Wallace Wood Treasury, The (Pure Imagination) 1980 Edited by Greg Theakston, this 48-page softcover was the fourth in Theakston’s Treasury series.

Front cover: reprint, with new coloring, from Strange World’s 5 Inside front: “Payload” illustration from December 1957 Galaxy Title page: last panel of “My World” (Weird Science 22) “Introduction” by Theakston, illustrated with Wood/Williamson drawing from The Full Edition of the Complete EC Checklist “Wood, Wally” by Theakston, illustrated with “circa 1939” WW pencil drawing and self-portrait from last panel from “Flight into Fear” (Tower of Shadows #5) (1) “Sample page, circa 1948-49” (1) Orlando interview, illustrated with Space Detective 2 cover, Wood portrait of Orlando and Wood working on same page, and splash from “My Second-Hand Proposal” (My True Love 62) (2) Ralph Reese interview, illustrated with Dynamo 2 cover, and Topps card (2) Dan Adkins interview with panel from “Overworked” (Creepy 9) and Dynamo from Gosh Wow 1 (2) Paul Kirchner interview, illustrated with “one of the strangest drawings Wood has ever done,” 1976 ACBA Portfolio art from Wizard King and 19 panels from Wood’s “lazy layouts” categorizing different types of panel designs (3) Portfolio section: Mechanix Illustrated illustration, inside front covers from Police Line-Up #1, Strange Worlds 3 and 5, Space Detective 1 and 2, Murderous Gangsters 1 and With the U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines, single page Flash Gordon parody, Rocket’s Blast Comicollector 54 cover, six unused Topps card monster drawings, Portage Shoes ad, gag cartoon, 57

“Blackboard Jumble” (Mad 25), Fantasy Illustrated 4 cover with Adkins “The Wallace Wood Checklist,” compiled by Theakston, and illustrated with “The Battle of Britain” (Blazing Combat 3) splash, 1968 Comic Art Convention Progress Report drawing, Dynamo 1 and 4 covers, Flying Saucers part two opening page, Chemstrand characters, page one of “Sound Effects!” (Mad 20), The Mask of Dr. Fu Manchu inside front cover, An Earthman on Venus inside front cover, Rocket to the Moon front cover, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 10 front cover, Rocket’s Blast Comicollector 56 front cover, “Cindy Eller” (Cavalcade Feb. 1956), EC Lives! front cover, TV Guide illustration, cover for Galaxy (Feb 1959) and “Prince Valiant” tryout page (11/15/70) (18) “My World” (Weird Science 22) (6) Inside back cover: Mission of Gravity paperback Back cover: color rough for Spaceman Annual Wally Wood Sings (Wood) 1978 This planned record album of country and western songs was announced (with a rough of the planned record jacket) in Sally Forth 3. At least four songs were taped, and these are mainly duets with Muriel Wood. Both played guitars. In 1980 the Wally Wood Sings cassette was announced for sale in Woodwork Gazette 5.

Wally Wood Sketchbook (Vanguard) 2000 Compiled by J. David Spurlock and Bill Pearson, with introduction by Bruce Timm, this 112-page book was published as both a hardcover (with dust jacket and gold-foil embossed leatherette cover) and a trade paperback on glossy paper stock. A second edition trade paperback, published the following year, featured a different cover and was printed on heavier, uncoated paper because the national distributor thought the first edition was too thin. In addition to sketches and layout roughs, the book has an essay by Jim Steranko, a recollection by Len Brown and interviews with Wood, Al Williamson and Joe Orlando.

War (A-Plus) 1 1991 Reprints “Lone Defender” from Charlton’s D-Day 2 (Fall 1964) and uses the story’s splash for the cover.

War and Attack (Charlton) 1 Fall 1964 “Death in Darkness (5) “One-Man Mission” (5) “The Prisoner in Chateau Beaujais” (5) “3rd Chance to Die” (10) Warfront (Harvey) Two stories in this series (“The Douglas Balder story,” “The V-3 Story”) were scripted and penciled by Adkins with Wood/Adkins inks.

37 Sep 1966 (Wood drew a fully finished cover for this comic which, for reasons unknown, went unused.)

“The V-3” (2) “The Lone Tiger” (10) “Dollar Bill Cash” (5) (“Cash” is a self-portrait of WW) 38 Dec 1966 “Beyond Courage” (2) “The Lone Tiger” (Splash has a blow-up of the hero

by WW from issue #37) 39 Feb 1967 “The Trap” (3) Warren Presents (Warren) 1 Jan 1979 “Ring of the Warlords” issue, reprinting: “The Curse” (Vampirella 9) (8) “Prelude to Armageddon” (Creepy 41) (12) 3 Aug 1979 “Alien Invasion” issue, reprinting: “Manhunters” (Eerie 60) (8) Warfront 37, 1966. ©Harvey Weddings and Babies (Morris Engel) 1958 Wood did storyboards for this 35mm feature-length dramatic film, written, produced and directed by Morris Engel (The Little Fugitive, Lovers and Lollipops), about a lower Manhattan commercial photographer who makes a living photographing weddings and babies. Time called it “one of the most exciting feature films the U.S. has produced in a decade,” but it has been rarely seen because Engel was not pleased with distribution deals on his earlier films and became his own distributor. Viveca Lindfors and John Myhers head the cast. According to documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock, Weddings and Babies “is the first theatrical motion picture to make use of a fully mobile, synchronous sound-and-picture system,” giving the film a naturalistic quality. Bold, cleanly inked party decoration signs used in one scene are not recognizable as Wood’s work but could possibly be by him.

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Weird Fantasy (EC) (formerly A Moon, A Girl... Romance) 13 May-Jun 1950 “Only Time Will Tell” (with Harrison) (7) 14 Jul-Aug “The Black Arts” (7) 15 Sep-Oct “Dark Side of the Mob” (6) 16 Nov-Dec “A Trip to a Star” (7) 17 Jan-Feb 1951 “Deadlock” (6) 6 Mar-Apr “Rescued” 7 May-Jun “Breakdown” (7) 8 Jul-Aug “The Enemies of the Colony” (7) 9 Sep-Oct “Spawn of Mars” (8) 10 Nov-Dec “The Secret of Saturn’s Rings” (8) 11 Jan-Feb 1952 “The Two Century Journey” (8) “The Tenth at Noon” (6) 12 Mar-Apr “The Project... Survival” (8) “The Die Is Cast” (6) 13 May-Jun “The End” (8) “Home to Stay” (6) 14 Jul-Aug “The Exile” (8) 17 Jan-Feb 1953 “There Will Come Soft Rains...” (7) Weird Mystery Tales (DC) 23 Oct 1975 “Fair Exchange” (8) Weird Science (EC) (formerly Saddle Romance) 12 May-Jun 1950 “Dream of Doom” (7) 13 Jul-Aug “The Meteor Monster” (with Harrison) (7) 5 Jan-Feb 1951 “Return” (7) 6 Mar-Apr “Sinking of the Titanic” (6) 7 May-Jun “The Aliens” (7) 8 Jul-Aug “The Probers” (7) 9 Sep-Oct Cover “The Grey Cloud of Death” (8) “The Invaders” (6) 10 Nov-Dec Cover “The Maiden’s Cried” (8) “Transformation Completed” (6) “The Planetoid” (with Orlando) 11 Jan-Feb 1952 “The Conquerors of the Moon” (8) 12 Mar-Apr Cover “A Gobl Is a Knog’s Best Friend” (8) “The Android” (6) 13 May-Jun Cover “A Weighty Decision” (8) “He Walked Among Us” (6) 14 Jul-Aug Cover “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” (8) 15 Sep-Oct Cover “The Martians” (8) 16 Nov-Dec Cover “Down to Earth” (8) (Len Brown clipped this cover, pasted it on cardboard and used it as a prototype to propose the Mars Attacks! card series to Topps. The image of mothership, aliens and kids behind rocks is so evocative of the closing scene in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind that one might speculate if WW also inspired Spielberg.)

17 Jan-Feb 1953 Cover “Plucked” (8) 18 Mar-Apr Cover “Mars Is Heaven” (8) 19 May-Jun Cover “The Precious Years” (8) 20 Jul-Aug Cover “E.C. Confidential” (8) 22 Nov-Dec Cover “My World” (6)

Weird Science 10, 1951. ©WMG

Weird Science 12, 1952. ©WMG

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Weird Science-Fantasy (EC) (formerly Weird Science and Weird Fantasy) 23 Spring 1954 Cover “The Children” (8) 24 Summer “...For Posterity” (8) 25 Fall “Flying Saucer Report” (8) 26 Winter “B.O.A. Comet Jet Liner Case” (2) “The Eastern Airlines Case” (2) “The United Airlines Idaho Case” (1) “The Gorman Fargo N.D Case” (3) “Was This the Answer” (1) “The Mantel Godman Case” (1) “The Dec. 27th, 1949 Release” (1) “The ’52 Hamilton A.F.B. Case” (1) “Recent Developments” (3) 27 Jan-Feb 1955 Cover “Adaptability” (with Roy Krenkel) (7) 28 Mar-Apr “The Inferiors” (with Krenkel) (8) 29 May-Jun “The Chosen One” (with Krenkel) (7) Weird Science-Fantasy (EC) Coverless returns (of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy) were bound together, producing many variant copies of these EC annuals.

1 1952 2 1953 Weird Woodwork (Pirate Parrot) 1981 This 16-page two-color booklet (4"x 5") is a “A Pirate Parrot Limited Edition” of 300 copies.

Previously unpublished WW childhood drawings, and some WW reprints, including two self-portraits.

Western Crime Busters (Trojan) 6 Aug-Sep 1951 “Fighting Bob Dale, Sheriff of Canyon County” (8) 7 Oct-Nov “Gunsmoke Gold Strike” (8) 9 Feb-Mar 1952 “Tex Gordon” (8) “Wilma West” (7) 10 Apr-May “Lariat Lucy—Flaming Justice” (8)

Places Wood Lived After Wood left his West 74th Street apartment in Manhattan in the late 1960s, he set up a tworoom studio a block away on the same street.

Moving from there to Long Island, he began a peripatetic existence, doing his artwork from a variety of New York and Connecticut locations, as revealed by the postmarks and return addresses on envelopes he mailed during the 1970s and 1980s.

1971: 998 East Broadway Woodmere, NY 1972: 95 Woodruff Avenue Brooklyn, NY

1980-81: 214 Daywood Drive B-ville, NY [Baldwinsville, in the Syracuse metro area]

1973-74: 500 West End Avenue New York, NY

1981: 4184 Longbranch Liverpool, NY [part of the Syracuse metro area]

1975-76: 6 Hilton Drive West Haven, CT

1981: 249 West 29th Street New York, NY

1976-78: Box 44 Derby, CT

After staying in Manhattan at Gilbert Ortiz’ place on West 29th Street in the spring of 1981, Wood moved to California, spending the last months of his life in Los Angeles.

1978: Box 3733 Amity Station New Haven, CT

Western Gunfighters (Atlas) (First Series) 22 Nov 1956 “Rustler at Large!” (5) Wham-O Giant Comics (Wham-O) Edited by Bill McIntyre with story editor Don Peters.

1 April 1967 “Radian” (3) “Goody Bumpkin” (2) What’s Happening (Scott, Foresman and Company) 1969 Reprint of “Mars Is Heaven” (Weird Science 18) in digest-size paperback school textbook anthology that includes James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Al Jaffee and Bill Mauldin. Compiled by Detroit Public Schools region superintendent Marvin L. Greene with editor Leo Kneer. Heading and Ray Bradbury byline are replaced by presstype at top of first page. Reassembled into a vertical format of two or three panels per page.

Who’s Who of American Comic Books, The (Jerry Bails) Edited by Jerry Bails and Hames Ware 4 (T-Z) 1976 Half-page entry on Wood Page five from “Old Soldiers Never Die” (reprint from Two-Fisted Tales 23) Witchcraft (Avon) 1 Mar-Apr 1952 Inside cover Witching Hour (DC) 12 Jan 1971 “Doublecross” (Gil Kane pencils) (9) 15 Jul 1971 “Freddy Is Another Name for Fear!” (with Kane) (8) 60

With the U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines (Avon) 1 1951 Cover and inside front cover (with Sid Check) witzend (Wood/Wonderful/CPL) 1 Sum 1966 Cover (four panels) Inside front cover Editorial (centerspread), illustrated with Bucky Ruckus (2) “Animan” (with Reese) (7) “Savage World” Al Williamson story, originally drawn for Buster Crabbe Comics, went unpublished and years later was given a new script, written by WW (8) (See also entry for Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction.)

2 1967 Cover “Animan” (with Reese) (9) 3 1967 Cover “Close Friends” “Pipsqueak Papers” (3) 4 “The Rejects” “The World of the Wizard King” 5 “The World of the Wizard King” “Pipsqueak Papers” 6 1969 “The Spawn of Venus” (8) 8 1971 “The World of the Wizard King” (12 illustrations) 10 1976 Wrap-around cover “Sally Forth in Monster Mayhem” (6) 11 1978 3 Wizard King portfolios (12) 12 1982 “Lunar Tunes” (among WW’s very last stories) (12) “In Memoriam” (1) 13 1985 Several sketches (See entry for Good Girls)

With The U.S. Paratroops Behind Enemy Lines 1, 1951. ©Avon

witzend (Iscritto Al Tribunale) 1969, 84-page Italian reprint (81⁄ 2"x11") from early witzend issues (with a cover from original issue #3). witzend 1 44 pages. (81⁄ 4"x111⁄ 2") Dutch reprint from early issues of witzend (with a cover from original issue #3).

2 52 pages. (81⁄ 4"x11") Dutch reprint from early issues of witzend (with a cover of the “Animan” splash page in original issue #2). A third issue was advertised.

Wizard King, The (Wood) 1978 Limited edition hardback, some copies signed. Some background inks/ lettering by Muriel Wood.

Dust jacket Endpapers (montage) Title page (head of Odkin) “Shadows with Eyes” (with Kirchner) (12) “Mirror of Memory” (with Kirchner) (11) “Lord Vandall’s Decision” (with Kirchner) (10) “The Laughing Dead” (with Kirchner) (11) Wizard King Buttons (Armstrong) Series of four buttons, featuring Wizard King characters, from Dave Armstrong and Space Traveler Comics. Colored by First Comics Studies for The Wizard King, mid-1970s. ©WWE colorist Wendy Fiore.

Women in Love (Fox) 4 Feb 1950 “My Clay Idol” (10) Wonder Woman (DC) 195 Jul-Aug 1971 “The House That Wasn’t” (Mike Sekowsky pencils) (22) 269 Jul 1980 “Return to Paradise Island” (Jose Delbo pencils, inks with Bob Smith; WW’s last inks for DC) (17) Wonderland Golden Records (Western Publishing/AA Records Inc.) 61

Subtitled “Great Movie Adventures in Sound and Story,” this mid-1960s series of six record albums featured jacket art with process color, dialogue balloons and (in some, such as War of the Worlds) a comics look achieved through inset strip sequences. Penciled by Adkins; WW inks.

Around the World in 80 Days First Man in the Moon, The Invisible Man, The Journey to the Center of the Earth 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea War of the Worlds “Woodwork” (Crouch) Edited by Bill Crouch and Bill Pearson, distributed by Sea Gate. Title with quote marks. Reprints from witzend.

1 Nov 1980 Cover (Reprint of “Pipsqueak Papers” splash from witzend 4; colored by Pearson; color separations by Elaine Voytek) “Statement of No Policy” (from witzend 1) witzend 3 cover “The Witzend Story” by Pearson, illustrated with Bucky Ruckus drawing (from witzend 1) (2) “Pipsqueak Papers” (witzend 3) (3) “Pipsqueak Papers” chapter two (witzend 4) (3) “Pipsqueak Papers” chapter three (witzend 5) (5) “The World of the Wizard King” (witzend 4) (5) “The World of the Wizard King” chapter two (witzend 5) (5) “The World of the Wizard King” chapter three Woodwork Gazette 2, 1978. ©WWE (witzend 8) (5) Pencil/wash drawing of same character seen in ink drawing on cover of witzend 2 (1) “The Rejects” (witzend 4) (3) “Animan” (witzend 1) (7) “Animan” chapter two (witzend 2) (8) Inside back cover (witzend 4 back cover) Back cover (“Animan” chapter two splash; colored by Pearson; color separations by Elaine Voytek) “Woodwork” (Bill Crouch) 1 Nov 1980 Title has quote marks. Contents same as listing above for “Woodwork” except for addition of wraparound cover in woodgrain finish. “Limited Deluxe Edition” of 500 hand-numbered copies.

Cover (Pip and Nudine from panel four at beginning of “Pipsqueak Papers”; art added to background) Inside front cover (photo of Wood by Mike Zeck) Inside back cover (reprint of Snorky from 1966 witzend mailing pieces) Back cover (Pip, Nudine and others; variant of back cover drawing on Woodwork Gazette 3) Woodwork Gazette, The (Wood) (aka Woodwork) The “official organ of the Friends of Odkin” (FOO), edited and published by Wood.

Production assist by Sirois.

1 Jun 1978 Cover of elf princess on sunflower Inside front cover of planned Wee Hawk TV show with accompanying poem by/about Wood. In Gazette 2 Wood comments, “Page 2 was a sketch I did for Paramount, when Wizard King was going to be a TV show I called Wee Hawk. Bakshi used the name later in Wizards.

The poem I wrote when I was about 14.”

Wood letter to FOO membership. (1) Wee Hawk in “another presentation drawing for Paramount” (1) “The Big Blue Pencil,” Wood diatribe on art directors and editors. (1) “The Word from Wood,” editorial incorporating letter column from “early members.”

Illustrated with Xerox copy of early Dragonella pencil sketch. (2) Rick Stoner interview with Wood. (Wood seldom granted interviews; this is one of four known published interviews.) (1) “The World of the Wizard King,” article in which Wood explains how he created The Wizard King and the events leading to first publication, illustrated with Wizard King panel from page one “Genesis Revisited,” Wood poem illustrated with spot drawing (Andif and Tril), “part of the original version in comic form, that I was going to have an agent sell to a book publisher... as I remember, I only inked it later...” (2) 62

Back cover: “one of the drawings I did for Terrytoons” v1 #2 Section one: Cover, close-up of Odkin, reprint of The Wizard King frontispiece “The Award,” short story by Wood (1) Untitled editorial leading into letter column, illustrated with two ink drawings, plus panels deleted from Wizard King. “It was originally the middle row of panels on page 3 of The Wizard King. It was cut out by the French.”

Inside back cover of nude superheroine Back cover: Terrytoon presentation scene of “Awakening Giants” Section two: “The End,” stapled separately but included as special insert with above Woodwork Gazette. This is the original and complete 12-page story first published in an altered, rewritten form in 1984. In Gazette 1, Wood commented on Warren “cutting up the originals and otherwise defacing them, and hired some degenerate to rewrite them. And gave me credit for writing it!” Wood kept stats and used them to publish the Gazette edition. (12) v1 #3 Spring 1979 Cover (same as used on cover of French edition of Wizard King and The King of the World cover) Odkin drawing illustrating full-page ad for Odkin pendants (1) Untitled editorial, leading into letter column, illustrated with art for Aftate animated TV commercial (“my last advertising job and the biggest money I’ve ever been paid”) and a photo of a Steve Hurley sculpture based on a Wood character (seen on inside front cover of witzend 1) (5) Untitled Wood checklist, part 1 (4) Back cover drawing of little people, lizard and mushrooms v1 #4 Aug 1979 Title change from The Woodwork Gazette to Woodwork Cover, Wizard King battle scene Inside front cover, sf illustration of UFOs, nude, the Snork and assorted creatures (1) “The Word from Wood,” editorial leading into letter column, illustrated with seven drawings of various Wood characters (including Nudine, Snorky and Animan). Letter from Joe Rainone comments on other people named Wallace Wood: “I dug up some information on my old college math professor, Dr. Wallace A. Wood in academia. This second WAW (or third, counting you) is on the faculty of Kansas State College.” (4) Ad for books, pendants and original Wood art (1) Wood checklist, part 2 (8) Back cover is a partial reprint from the splash of “The Rejects” (witzend 4) showing only four of the eight Rejects: the Jovian giant Glomb, the Blue Banana, Venus and Dimentius. v1 #5 1980 Title change from Woodwork back to The Woodwork Gazette. Limited distribution (possibly 100).

Cover (Snorky and title inside border reprinted from the National Cartoonists Society 1961 Annual Report) (1) Ad with panels from Sally Forth, Cannon and Wizard King (1) “What Makes Stanley Run?” (Unillustrated fable attacking comics editors/publishers) (1) “The Word from Wood” is a sad detailing of his medical problems while also announcing a half-dozen future projects (2) Ad for “MEEF poster” (1) Ad, editorial, illustrated with Snorky, Sally, Bucky, Odkin and others.

World Encyclopedia of Comics, The (Chelsea House hardcover; Avon paperback) Edited by Maurice Horn 1976 Joe Brancatelli’s half-page entry on WW calls him “the acknowledged dean of comic book sf” and is illustrated with a panel from “Animan” (witzend 1)

Late 1950s rough, and Dave Stevens’ 1986 inks for World of World of Wood (Eclipse) Wood 2. ©WWE First four issues feature reprints in color of stories originally published in B&W in Warren Publications. Edited by Tom Yeates and Catherine Yronwode, the issues had print runs of 20,000.

Some stories feature Snorky as host, replacing the original Warren host-narrators (Uncle Creepy, Cousin Eerie, Vampirella).

1 May 1986 “In Your Hands,” editorial by Yronwode calls Wood “one of the finest comic book artists who ever picked up a pencil” and describes her middle-of-the-night visit in 1958 to the EC offices (“I just wanted to touch the building that Wood and Kurtzman entered.”)

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“The Curse” (from Vampirella 9; color credited to Steve Oliff but actually by Sam Parsons) (8) “Overworked” (from Creepy 9; color credited to Sam Parsons but actually by Steve Oliff) (6) “The Misfits” (from Heroes Inc. 2; color by Ken Feduniewicz) (10) “ME-262!” (from Blazing Combat 4; color by Sam Parsons) (7) Back cover: Mike Zeck photo of Wood 2 May 1986 Cover (WW pencil drawing, inked by Dave Stevens, is the same pencil drawing reproduced on the back cover of Wallace Wood Sketchbook II and the inside front cover of Qua Brot 1) (1) Editorial: same as issue #1 “The End” (from Woodwork Gazette 2; colored by Steve Oliff) (12) “The Cosmic All” (from Creepy 38; colored by Feduniewicz) (8) “War of the Wizards” (from Vampirella 10; colored by Michele Wrightson) (8) Back cover: Scuba diver meets alien painting (reproduced from previously screened cover of the Aug 1959 issue of Galaxy) (1) 3 Jun 1986 Cover: Wood sketch of girl on flying creature (page 34 of Wallace Wood Sketchbook) finished by Bret Blevins and Al Williamson Editorial about Wood by Nick Cuti “Prelude to Armageddon” (from Creepy 41; colored by Oliff) (12) “The Battle of Britain” (from Blazing Combat 3; colored by Feduniewicz) (7) “Manhunters” (from Eerie 60, colored by Marie Severin) (8) 4 Jun 1986 Cover: WW’s “Dweller in the Dungeon” painting, previously a limited edition print from Richard Pryor Editorial: same as issue #3 “Killer Hawk” (from Eerie 60) (12) “The Mummy” (from Monster World 1; colored by Michele Wrightson) (6) “To Kill a God” (from Vampirella 12; sepiatone) (8) “Special Thanks,” illustrated with Wizard King art Back cover: Mike Zeck photo of Wood with Snorky 5 1989 B&W reprint of Avon title

Contributor Notes

World’s Finest Comics (DC) 251 (“Wonder Woman”) (with Estrada) Worlds of Tomorrow (Galaxy Publishing) Initially edited by Frederik Pohl as a companion to Galaxy and If, this digest-size magazine had a 26-issue run from 1963 to 1971. v1 #1 Apr 1963 #2 Jun (3) #3 Aug “To the Stars” (2) #5 Dec (1) Worst from Mad, The (EC) 4 1961 Color Sunday-size comics insert (approximately 14" x 22") “Prince Violent” (strip) “Ripup’s Believe It or Don’t” (strip) “Pogum” (strip) Wulf the Barbarian (Atlas/Seaboard) 2 Apr 1975 “The Beast of Famine” X-Men (Marvel) 11 1965 Cover (inks) 14 1965 Cover (with Kirby) 34 1968 Cover and story (inks) Zoom (Le Magazine de L’Image) May/Jun 1977. Oversize (91⁄ 2" x 12 3⁄ 4") French magazine has four-page feature on Wood, published around the time he was invited to an international comics convention in France and

Bhob Stewart did pencils, layouts and scripts at the Wood Studio, later coloring Ditko/Wood’s The Destructor (Seaboard, 1975). He teamed with Bill Gaines to choose stories for The EC Horror Library of the 1950s (1971) and worked closely with Mad’s cartoonists while editing the Mad Style Guide (1994) and Gibson’s Mad greeting cards (1995). The coauthor of Scream Queens (Macmillan, 1978), he scripted for animation (Kissyfur), wrote comics for various publishers (Byron Preiss, Marvel, Warren, Charlton, Heavy Metal), edited magazines (Castle of Frankenstein), devised humor products (Topps) and introduced DC to the world of trading cards as editor of DC’s first card series (Cosmic Cards, Cosmic Teams).

His readings of fantasy stories aired on Pacifica Radio’s Midnight Chimes, and he has contributed to newspapers (Village Voice), magazines (TV Guide, Galaxy Science Fiction) and books (Bare Bones). On the Internet, his Fusebox forum [forums.delphiforums.com/bhob2] looks back at vintage newspaper comic strips.

Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. is a comic book art historian who sells rare illustrated books. He co-edited the first edition of The Who’s Who of American Comic Books, contributed to major checklists of comic book artists (including Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson) and created the popular Illustrated Books website [www.bpib.com].

Over decades, he has published such titles as Promethean Enterprises, The Movie Cowboy, George and The Vadeboncoeur Collection of Images. Jim has bought only two cars his entire life, has never paid more than $40 for a comic book and has lived with Karen Lane for over 32 years.

Thanks to Bill Alger, Roger Hill, Mike Manley, and Bill Wray for supplying additional art

COPYRIGHT ABBREVIATIONS: WWE = Wallace Wood Estate • REH = Robert E. Howard, Inc. • DC = DC Comics Marvel = Marvel Characters, Inc. • Warren = James Warren • WMG = William M. Gaines Agent • KFS = King Features Syndicat

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URGENT WARNING FOR OUR READERS! DON’T MISS YOUR FAVORITE MAGS! We are experiencing huge demand for our recent magazines. Case in point: Back Issue #88 & #89 and Alter Ego #141 are already completely SOLD OUT, with other issues about to run out.

Don’t wait for a convention or sale— order now!

BACK ISSUE #99

ALTER EGO #149

ALTER EGO #150

ALTER EGO #151

ALTER EGO #152

Showcases GIL KANE, with an incisive and free-wheeling interview conducted in the 1990s by DANIEL HERMAN for his 2001 book Gil Kane: The Art of the Comics— plus other surprise features centered around the artistic co-creator of the Silver Age Green Lantern and The Atom! Also: FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), MICHAEL T. GILBERT, and BILL SCHELLY! Green Lantern cover by KANE and GIELLA!

STAN LEE’s 95th birthday! Rare 1980s LEE interview by WILL MURRAY—GER APELDOORN on Stan’s non-Marvel writing in the 1950s—STAN LEE/ROY THOMAS e-mails of the 21st century—and more special features than you could shake Irving Forbush at! Also FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America), BILL SCHELLY, and MICHAEL T. GILBERT! Colorful Marvel multi-hero cover

by Big JOHN BUSCEMA!

Golden Age artist FRANK THOMAS (The Owl! The Eye! Dr. Hypno!) celebrated by Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt’s MICHAEL T. GILBERT! Plus the scintillating (and often offbeat) Golden & Silver Age super-heroes of Western Publishing’s DELL & GOLD KEY comics! Art by MANNING, DITKO, KANE, MARSH, GILL, SPIEGLE, SPRINGER, NORRIS, SANTOS, THORNE, et al.! Plus FCA, BILL SCHELLY, and more!

Unsung artist/writer LARRY IVIE conceived (and named!) the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, helped develop T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS, brought EC art greats to the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and more!

SANDY PLUNKETT chronicles his career, with art by FRAZETTA, CRANDALL, WOOD, KRENKEL, DOOLIN, and others!

Plus FCA, MICHAEL T. GILBERT, BILL SCHELLY, and more!

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BACK ISSUE #100

BACK ISSUE #101

BACK ISSUE #102

BACK ISSUE #103

BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES’ 25th ANNIVERSARY! Looks back at the influential cartoon series. Plus: episode guide, Harley Quinn history, DC’s Batman Adventures and Animated Universe comic books, and tribute to artist MIKE PAROBECK. Featuring KEVIN ALTIERI, RICK BURCHETT, PAUL DINI, GERARD JONES, MARTIN PASKO, DAN RIBA, TY TEMPLETON, BRUCE TIMM, and others! BRUCE TIMM cover!

100-PAGE SPECIAL featuring Bronze Age Fanzines and Fandom! Buyer’s Guide, Comic Book Price Guide, DC’s Comicmobile, Super DC Con ’76, Comic Reader, FOOM, Amazing World of DC, Charlton Bullseye, Squa Tront, & more! Featuring ALAN LIGHT, BOB OVERSTREET, SCOTT EDELMAN, BOB GREENBERGER, JACK C. HARRIS, TONY ISABELLA, DAVID ANTHONY KRAFT, BOB LAYTON, PAUL LEVITZ, MICHAEL USLAN, and others!

ROCK ’N’ ROLL COMICS! Flash Gordon star SAM J. JONES interview, KISS in comics, Marvel’s ALICE COOPER, T. Rex’s MARC BOLAN interviews STAN LEE, PAUL McCARTNEY, Charlton’s Partridge Family, David Cassidy, and Bobby Sherman comics, Marvel’s Steeltown Rockers, Monkees comics, & Comic-Con band Seduction of the Innocent.

With MAX ALLAN COLLINS, JACK KIRBY, BILL MUMY, ALAN WEISS, and others!

MERCS AND ANTIHEROES! Deadpool’s ROB LIEFELD and FABIAN NICIEZA interviewed!

Histories of Cable, Taskmaster, Deathstroke the Terminator, the Vigilante, and Wild Dog, plus… Archie meets the Punisher?? Featuring TERRY BEATTY, MAX ALLAN COLLINS, PAUL KUPPERBERG, BATTON LASH, JEPH LOEB, DAVID MICHELINIE, MARV WOLFMAN, KEITH POLLARD, and others!

Deadpool vs. Cable cover by LIEFELD!

ALL-STAR EDITORS ISSUE! Past and present editors reveal “How I Beat the Dreaded Deadline Doom”! Plus: ARCHIE GOODWIN and MARK GRUENWALD retrospectives, E. NELSON BRIDWELL interview, DIANA SCHUTZ interview, ALLAN ASHERMAN revisits DC’s ’70s editorial department, Marvel Assistant Editors’ Month, and a history of PERRY WHITE! With an unpublished 1981 Captain America cover by MIKE ZECK!

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BRICKJOURNAL #48

COMIC BOOK CREATOR #17

KIRBY COLLECTOR #71

KIRBY COLLECTOR #72

KIRBY COLLECTOR #73

THE WORLD OF LEGO MECHA! Learn the secrets and tricks of building mechs with some of the best mecha builders in the world! Interviews with BENJAMIN CHEH, KELVIN LOW, LU SIM, FREDDY TAM, DAVID LIU, and SAM CHEUNG! Plus: Minifigure customizing from JARED K. BURKS, step-by-step “You Can Build It” instructions by CHRISTOPHER DECK, BrickNerd’s DIY Fan Art, & more!

The legacy and influence of WALLACE WOOD, with a comprehensive essay about Woody’s career, extended interview with Wood assistant RALPH REESE (artist for Marvel’s horror comics, National Lampoon, and undergrounds), a long chat with cover artist HILARY BARTA (Marvel inker, Plastic Man and America’s Best artist with ALAN MOORE), plus our usual columns, features, and the humor of HEMBECK!

KIRBY: OMEGA! Looks at endings, deaths, and Anti-Life in the Kirbyverse, including poignant losses and passings from such series as NEW GODS, KAMANDI, FANTASTIC FOUR, LOSERS, THOR, DEMON and others! Plus: The 2016 Silicon Valley Comic-Con Kirby Panel, MARK EVANIER, STEVE SHERMAN & MIKE ROYER panel, WALTER SIMONSON interview, & unseen pencil art galleries! SIMONSON cover inks!

FIGHT CLUB! Jack’s most powerful fights and in-your-face action: Real-life WAR EXPERIENCES, Marvel’s KID COWBOYS, the Madbomb saga and all those negative 1970s Marvel fan letters, interview with SCOTT McCLOUD on his Kirby-inspired punchfest DESTROY!!, rare Kirby interview, 2017 WonderCon Kirby Panel, MARK EVANIER, unpublished pencil art galleries, and more! Cover inked by DEAN HASPIEL!

ONE-SHOTS! We cover Kirby’s best (and worst) short spurts on his wildest concepts: ANIMATION IDEAS, DINGBATS, JUSTICE INC., MANHUNTER, ATLAS, PRISONER, and more! Plus MARK EVANIER and our other regular panelists, rare Kirby interview, panels from the 2017 Kirby Centennial celebration, pencil art galleries, and some one-shot surprises! BIG BARDA #1 cover finishes by MIKE ROYER!

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REED CRANDALL Illustrator of the Comics

From the 1940s to the ’70s, REED CRANDALL brought a unique and masterful style to American comic art. Using an illustrator’s approach on everything he touched, Crandall gained a reputation as the “artist’s artist” through his skillful interpretations of Golden Age super-heroes DOLL MAN, THE RAY, and BLACKHAWK (his signature character); horror and sci-fi for the legendary EC COMICS line; Warren Publishing’s CREEPY, EERIE, and BLAZING COMBAT; the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS and EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS characters; and even FLASH GORDON for King Features. Comic art historian ROGER HILL has compiled a complete and extensive history of Crandall’s life and career, from his early years and major successes, through his tragic decline and passing in 1982. This FULL-COLOR HARDCOVER includes NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS, a wealth of RARE AND UNPUBLISHED ARTWORK, and over EIGHTY THOUSAND WORDS of insight into one of the true illustrators of the comics.

(256-page FULL-COLOR HARDCOVER) $49.95 • (Digital Edition) $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-60549-077-9 • SHIPS JULY 2017

It’s

GROOVY, baby!

Follow-up to Mark Voger’s smash hit MONSTER MASH!

All characters TM & © their respective owners.

From WOODSTOCK to THE BANANA SPLITS, from SGT. PEPPER to H.R. PUFNSTUF, from ALTAMONT to THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, GROOVY is a far-out trip to the era of lava lamps and love beads. This profusely illustrated HARDCOVER BOOK, in PSYCHEDELIC COLOR, features interviews with icons of grooviness such as PETER MAX, BRIAN WILSON, PETER FONDA, MELANIE, DAVID CASSIDY, members of the JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, CREAM, THE DOORS, THE COWSILLS and VANILLA FUDGE; and cast members of groovy TV shows like THE MONKEES, LAUGH-IN and THE BRADY BUNCH. GROOVY revisits the era’s ROCK FESTIVALS, MOVIES, ART—even COMICS and CARTOONS, from the 1968 ‘mod’ WONDER WOMAN to R. CRUMB. A color-saturated pop-culture history written and designed by MARK VOGER (author of the acclaimed book MONSTER MASH), GROOVY is one trip that doesn’t require dangerous chemicals!

(192-page FULL-COLOR HARDCOVER) $39.95 • ISBN: 978-1-60549-080-9 • DIGITAL EDITION: $15.95

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TwoMorrows.

The Future of Pop History.

TwoMorrows Publishing • 10407 Bedfordtown Drive • Raleigh, NC 27614 USA

Phone: 919-449-0344 E-mail: store@twomorrows.com Web: www.twomorrows.com

Wallace Wood Drew Pictures for a Living and in His Spare Time He Drew Pictures for Fun Aside from the quality of his artwork, Wally Wood has to be in the running for champion in the quantity category. Before he was out of his teens, he had produced more drawings than most artists do in a lifetime. Only a small fraction of his childhood and teenage drawings have ever been printed anywhere, and there are piles of preliminary Mad magazine drawings still in his files or in the collections of former assistants and friends. When he wanted to take a break from the comic book page he was working on, he’d doodle on anything handy at the side of his board, often the paper placed there to test the volume of ink in his brush. When he got tired sitting at the board, he’d sit in an easy chair and draw in a sketchpad. It’s doubtful a day passed that he didn’t produce something on paper, even when he was ill or on a rare vacation. That’s a statement impossible to prove, but it sure seems that way.

Every effort has been made to index all of his published artwork in this Checklist, plus every reprinting. Incidental products that have reproduced his images, authorized and unauthorized, are also listed along with descriptions of some unpublished art plus notations on offbeat items. Potrzebie bounces, and bibliographic data abounds, running the gamut from A to Z. Surely we’ve missed something, perhaps a lot, but this is the most complete list attempted until now, and we hope it helps you find those elusive items you need for your personal collections.

If you’re not collecting, just curious as a devotee, or researching for your own reasons, say no more. This is the definitive database from the Woodwork out. Crawl inside. You’ll find more than a few startling surprises. Enjoy and share. Our motto:

WOOD FOREVER!