Gaspar Saladino’s lettering work for this publisher all happened in 1966-67 with one late exception from 1991. I’ll examine the titles alphabetically except for that last one. The editor of these action-adventure-superhero titles was Joe Simon, who I’m sure would have known Gaspar’s work at DC, but I think in this case, as with Western Publishing, Saladino was brought in by the artists he worked with, like Jack Sparling on this story, who I think also brought him in at Western. This story title/character logo isn’t by Gaspar, think it’s by Joe Simon, and THE SECRET OF is type, but the rest of the lettering shows Saladino’s usual style, wide angular letters with special treatment of the first letter in each caption.

This story in the same issue has art by Bill Draut, according to the Grand Comics Database, another artist Gaspar worked with at DC Comics. Again I think the logo might be by Joe Simon.

Another story in that issue lettered by Saladino, the GCD doesn’t offer any artist credit. The title might again be by Joe Simon, it’s not by Gaspar.

The second and final issue also has several stories lettered by Saladino, this one again with Jack Sparling. MAGICMASTER is picked up from the previous issue, I’m not sure who did the story title, it might be at least inked by Gaspar.

This intro page to the Magicmaster story is almost a house ad, and has lots of fine display lettering by Saladino, though parts of the ticket are type.

This short story has art credited to Hy Eisman, and the story title is definitely by Saladino. It looks like something that would have fit right into one of DC’s science fiction anthologies.

This one-shot again begins with a character logo and lettering by Joe Simon I believe. Parts of it are type. Gaspar lettered the balloons and bottom captions as well as the rest of the story. The art is credited to Tony Tallarico, and I don’t know that Saladino worked with him anywhere else, so if Jack Sparling did bring Gaspar in, he was soon being given work by other artists too.

Saladino also lettered this two-pager, which is full of great lettering by him, including the title and character logo. The art is uncredited, it looks someone imitating DC’s Sheldon Mayer.

This one is odd and interesting. Pencils are credited to Jim Steranko. Gaspar lettered the caption at upper left from “Welcome, Dear Reader” to “The Whisperer and”, but I don’t think he did the caption at lower right, and the larger lettering is type.

Saladino lettered the main Spyman story with art by George Tuska, though the character logo and story title are probably by Joe Simon.

Gaspar’s lettering is on just two covers for Harvey, here he did the two balloons, the blurb at the bottom, and probably the small lettering in the hand image. The art is credited to Joe Simon, who did the logo.

Here Gaspar is again teamed with artist Jack Sparling under a clever logo and typeset by Joe Simon. This story ran in three chapters, each with a separate story title.

This five page story from the third and final issue has art credited to Bob Powell. I think Joe Simon did the top line and story title. These are the only stories I found lettered by Saladino.

This title ran three issues, Gaspar lettered a number of things on the second issue. For the cover he did just the two word balloons, other cover lettering is by Joe Rosen.

The intro page inside again has just a little Saladino lettering, the balloons in the lower left panel. All these books edited by Joe Simon seem to have been put together haphazardly, and none of them lasted long.

The first page of the lead story featuring Jack Quick Frost was divided into three five-page chapters. Saladino lettered just the first chapter, but not all the lettering on this page is by him, he did only the two captions across the center. Other pages are all his lettering.

This five page story had art by Gaspar’s friend Gil Kane, so I’m sure he was an easy choice for letterer. As usual, I think Joe Simon did the logo, but Saladino did the story title, and there are some fine Saladino sound effects in the first panel.

This two page origin of The 3 Rocketeers has art by Mike Sekowsky, another artist Gaspar worked with often at DC Comics, and the same team also did a five page story with the characters in this issue.

This war story is by Jack Sparling and Gaspar, who had lots of experience lettering war stories at DC, and it shows. As always, the logo is probably by Joe Simon. I like the angled balloon in the second panel.

Simon had revived this old Harvey war title and continued the original numbering, this was his final issue of four. The art here is credited to George Roussos on the GCD. Gaspar did the story title, the logo is probably by Simon.

Finally, decades later, Gaspar lettered this one issue of a four issue series based on a toy franchise over art by Gil Kane, and for the first time at Harvey, he gets a lettering credit. I like the title.

To sum up, Saladino did some lettering in two covers: UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS #2 and SPYMAN #3. Below are the details of his story lettering.

DOUBLE DARE ADVENTURES #1: 1pp, 7pp, 15pp, #2: 1pp, 17pp, 5pp

JIGSAW #1: 16pp, 2pp

MONSTER IN MY POCKET #4: 22pp

SPYMAN #1: 1pp, 20pp

THRILL-O-RAMA #2: 15pp, #3: 5pp

UNEARTHLY SPECTACULARS #2: 1pp, 5pp (of 15), 5pp, 2pp, 5pp

WARFRONT #37: 5pp, #39: 5pp

That’s a total of 154 pages. More articles in this series and others you might enjoy are on the COMICS CREATION page of my blog.