This is the big one that I’ve been working toward for a year and a half, combining data from dozens of posts about the work of my favorite letterer, which can be found on the COMICS CREATION and LOGO LINKS pages of this blog. If you have any questions about his work for particular titles […]

Walt Disney Productions had been licensing their properties to comic book publishers for many years, Western Publishing for decades, then Gladstone starting in 1985, but from 1990 to 1992, Disney decided to publish their own comics. They brought in comics veteran Len Wein as editor-in-chief, and Len was soon hiring many creators he’d known from […]

This article covers four publishers for which Gaspar Saladino did a small amount of lettering work. Artist Howard Bender worked for several years in the Marvel Comics production department and several more at DC Comics, where we worked together. In 1988 he and writer Craig Boldman created MR. FIXITT for Apple Comics (unrelated to the […]

Art genius Neal Adams burst onto the comics scene in the late 1960s at DC Comics, creating a new dynamic and hyper-realistic style of covers and story art that readers and fans loved. He also did fine work for Marvel Comics, and was an important part of the turnaround at DC in the 1970s, helping […]

As I explained in Part 1, this company is referred to as Atlas/Seaboard to set it apart from the Atlas Comics name used by Marvel in the 1950s. It was a large but short-lived line from former Marvel publisher Martin Goodman, with all titles having a 1975 cover date, and none later than October of […]