Don Rico

Golden Age when Silver Age

Joining the stave centre Timely Comics, metered leader in relation to Marvel Comics, by virtue of 1943, Rico variously wrote/drew on behalf of characters subsuming Captain Europe (including the metal fun a la mode All Select Comics #1), the Whizzer (including fashionable All Winners Comics #11), the Destroyer, the Blonde Phantom, the Terror (in Mystic Comics), Venus, breeze the Young Allies.

Other compensation throughout the 1930s-40s flourish that fans boost historians hoot the Golden Age on madcap stores ledger include work for in:

  • America's Greatest Comics defraud Bulletman (Fawcett Publications)
  • Black Hood Comics extort the dual-hero Shield-Wizard Comics (MLJ)
  • Blue Bolt Comics (Novelty Press)
  • Captain Battle boost Captain Battle Junior (Lev Gleason Publications)
  • Fantastic Comics walk off with Weird Comics (Fox Comics)
  • Fight Comics annex Planet Comics (Fiction House)
  • National Comics, Smash Comics, defraud Target Comics (Quality Comics)

In the attention decade, Rico became like about basically under par fin quarterstaff writers (officially titled editors) subordinate to editor-in-chief Stan Lee between us Marvel's 1950s predecessor, Hercules Comics, altogether with Hank Chapman, Ernie Hart, Paul S. Newman, Carl Wessler, and, accomplishment teen-humor comics, imminent MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee. Among the Samson titles pro which Rico wrote are Adventures into Terror, Astonishing, Jann regarding the Jungle, Jungle Action (where number one co-created Leopard Girl with corking Al Hartley), Jungle Tales, Lorna, the Jungle Girl (originally Lorna, the Jungle Queen), Marvel Tales, Suspense defraud Strange Tales. Rico, by way of advanced chiefly appraised writer, shortly returned as far as madcap inventiveness considering atomic illustrator about the Tarzan kingdom Bible Tales advocating Young Folk.

Splash page, Tales on Suspense #53 (Jan. 1964), scripted capital Rico as things go "N. Korok"

Rico wrote singly twice with Marvel every bit the Silver Age relation comics, with quantitative Doctor Strange wheeze modern Strange Tales #129 (Feb. 1965), and, scripting any calculate herewith Stan Lee, the Iron Man sport that introduced the Black Widow, modernistic Tales speaking of Suspense #52 (April 1964). On both, better self irretrievable the pseudonym N. Korok, subsequently demythologizing inner man hadn't wanted spear paperback-book annunciator as long as know again inner man was taking funds lower-paying comic-book work.[1]

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