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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Introduction This checklist catalogs Wallace Wood’s published work, along with mentions of unpublished items.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 Each new checklist lengthened and superseded earlier checklists, and additional entries turned up in Greg Theakston’s “The Wallace Wood Checklist,” filling 17 pages of his 1980 The Wallace Wood Treasury.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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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. (“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)
©WWE
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
“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. 20
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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
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. ŠREH
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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)
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Rocket to the Moon (Avon) 1 Dec 1951 Cover Orlando)listing of Wood’s work ever published, The(with most thorough Inside Front Cover taking more than 20 Wood experts over two decades to “Rocket to the Moon”Lists (25)in(by Orlando some Wood assist) compile! exacting detailwith Woody’s PUBLISHED
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Romantic Story (Charlton) more! Also included are listings of his UNPUBLISHED 29 Oct 1955 Reprinted from early Fox romance titles are two WW romance stories (one with WORK, and it’s profusely illustrated throughout with Rosenthal) which were probably sold to Charlton when Fox went bankrupt in 1950. WOOD ARTWORK! “My Secret Story” WW and Rosenthal (10) “My Marriage of Fear” WW (10)
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Romantic Thrills (Fox) http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=123&products_id=1346 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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