DOUG WRIGHT’S FAMILY/NIPPER

“Nipper” began as a nameless strip inspired by Doug Wright’s chance look at a gag cartoon about a youngster in Punch magazine, and an editor’s note suggesting more cartoons about kids would be desirable. Wright, at home that night, created a throw away cartoon about a youngster. It was published, March 12 1949 as a filler in the Standard. The response, prompted the editors to request Wright to do one every other week, and then due to its popularity to once a week.

The strangest part of this cartoon was that Wright was still a bachelor. He would not marry Phyllis Sanford, till September 4, 1952, but when they did, Phyllis and their three sons all became subjects of the strips. Later in life Ken who became a police officer donated four of the strips to the Peel Regional Police department where they now reside. The new feature needed a name and so the editors, without consulting Wright came up with “Nipper”. Wright didn’t like the name but was forced to accept. This was a bad choice on the part of the editors as it turned out this was the name for a British cartoon strip. The editors chose to pay royalties on the name rather than change it.

The strip was distinguished by its vertical presentation and that it had no dialogue, which made it ideal for the Standard’s sister francophone magazine Perspectives, where it was introduced in 1959. “Fiston” as it was called also became a popular feature.

The Standard facing stiff completion from the Star Weekly in 1951 changed its format from weekly magazine to a magazine supplement called Weekend inserted into other major newspapers. “Nipper” survived this transition and reached an even larger audience.

In June 1966, Wright moved to Burlington Ontario. On 7 January 1967, “Nipper” appeared in a new and weekend supplement The Canadian, under a new name “Doug Wright’s Family”. With this periodical the strip reached its most extensive audience. “Doug Wright’s Family” ended in 1980 when Doug Wright suffered a stroke.

The strip had run as “Nipper” for seventeen years and ran as “Doug Wright’s Family” for thirteen.

MEDIUM:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content strip cartoon & Cover book front:

Doug Wright’s Family.: Illus., Dou Wright. Canadian Homes Service, 1971.

Doug Wright’s Family, v. 2. Illus., Dou Wright. The Canadian Magazine Readers Service, Oct. 1975.

Nipper 1963-1964. Car., Doug Wright. Intro., Brad MacKay. Drawn & Quarterly, 2010.

Nipper 1965-1966. Car., Doug Wright. Intro., Brad MacKay. Drawn & Quarterly, 2011.

Nipper 1967-1968. Car., Doug Wright. Intro., Brad MacKay. Drawn & Quarterly, 2012.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content strip cartoon & Cover book front:

The Collected Doug Wright. Ed., Seth (Gregory Gallant) & Brad MacKay. Drawn & Quarterly, April 2009.

PERIODICAL TEXT ANTHOLOGY:

Content strip:

Weekend,…: …: “Nipper”. Car., Doug Wright ….
3-25, 28 June 1953: 33. 7-11, 17 March 1957: 54.	9-16, 18 April 1959: 67. 9-22, 30 May 1959: 43. 10-9, 1960: 38. 12-2, 1962: 26 47, 1966: 62.	23-26, 30 June 1973: no cartoon. 28-41, 14 Oct. 1978: no cartoon. 28-43, 28 Oct. 1978: no cartoon. 29-6, 10 Feb. 1979: no cartoon. 29-33, 18 Aug. 1979: no cartoon.

Canadian Magazine, …: “Doug Wright’s Family.” Car., Doug Wright:
1979, 10 November 1979: 18.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Now and Then Times,1-1, Summer 1972: “Doug Wright.” Writ., Dave Sim: 17+.

Article newspaper:

Hamilton Spectator, 12 December 1992: “Nipper shares the Wright stuff”. Writ., Paul Wilson: B1.

GALLERY:

Canadian Magazine, 10 November 1979: 18.

DOUCETTE Julie

                                                  Comics Journal, 141, April 1991: 100.

Creator of Dirty Plotte and a number of graphic novels, she was one of the core artists at Drawn and Quarterly.

“Dirty Plotte” began as a mini comic in September 1988. It continued for fourteen issues until Drawn & Quarterly picked it up and turned it into a regular magazine Dirty Plotte, 1,January 1991. This issue contained reprints from the mini comics. It garnered her a 1991 Harvey Award for “Best New Talent”. For the first three issues Julie appears to have lived in Québec. With issue 4, September 1991 she was in New York. By issue 5, May 1992, she had moved to Seattle. By Purty Plotte.9, April 1995, she had returned to Montréal. In 1996 Oliveros and the Drawn and Quarterly artists were featured guests at the Haarlem Comics Festival in the Netherlands in Europe. With Purity Plotte, 10, December 1996 she was located in Berlin. She returned to Montréal perhaps in 1998 and about this time turned her attention to other projects, linocuts, collage and Paper Mache sculptures. In 2006 L’Oie de Craven published À l’ecole de l’amour a book of her poetry illustrated with collages. She also illustrated the cover for a Penguin version of Mary Alcott’s Little Women.

“Dirty Plotte/Purity Plotte” began as a series of short cartoon stories which slowly expanded into stories occupying all or nearly all the periodical. Ostensibly the stories are autobiographical but sometimes it is hard to determine how much was experience and how much was imaginative reaction to experience.

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content folio & Cover book front & back:

Madam Paul Affair. Drawn & Quarterly, July 2000.

Content story & Cover book front:

Lève ta jambe mon poisson est mort. Drawn & Quarterly, October 1993.

Long Relationship. Drawn & Quarterly, July 2001.

Content story & Cover dust jacket front & back:

My Most Secret Desire. Drawn & Quarterly, December 1993.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015:                                “An English Lesson”: 522-523. First appeared in Dirty Plotte, 2, 1991, then in                   Lève Ta Jambe, Mon Poisson Est Mort!, 1993.                                                                  “A Happy Ending Nightmare”: 530-532. First appeared in Dirty Plotte 3, 1991                    then in My Most Secret Desire, 1995.                                                                              “My Conscience Is Bugging Me”: 537-541. First appeared in Drawn and                           Quarterly, 1-2, and in Lève Ta Jambe, Mon Poisson Est Mort, 1993.                                “The Offering”: 533-536. First appeared in Dirty Plotte 4, 1991 then in My Most                 Secret Desire, 1995.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:                                                                                                    Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Colour cover. Black & white interior.

Content story & memoir & Cover front & back. Front only issues 6 to 8. :

Dirty Plotte…: Car., Julie Doucette. Drawn & Quarterly.
1, January, 1991. 2, March 1991	3, April 1991. 4, Sept. 1991.	5, May 1992. 6, Jan. 1993.	7, Sept. 1993. 8, Feb. 1994.

Content story & memoir & Cover front:

Purty Plotte, 9, April 1995: “A Fine School”.

Purty Plotte, 10, Dec. 1996. Includes “My New York Diary, pt 1”, & “Do You Trust Me?’

Dirty Plotte. 11, Sept. 1997. Includes “My New York Diary, pt 2”.

Purty Plotte, 12, Aug. 1998. Includes “My New York Diary, pts 3, Autumn & 4, Winter”.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:

Content folio:

Melody, 5, Apr. 1990: “No title/1989”. Kitchen Sink.

SOURCE:

Article book:

BDQ: Essays & Interviews On Quebec Comics. Ed. Andy Brown. BDang/Conundrum, 2017: “The Madame Paul Affair.” Writ., Andy Brown. First appeared in The Montreal Review of Books, Spring 2001: 132-135. A review of Doucette’s new book and its significance.

Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years …. Drawn & Quarterly, May 2015 :                              “Julie’s Sacred Plotte: an appreciation.” Writ., Deb Olin Unferth: 525-527.                        Untitled. Writ., J.C. Menu: 524.                                                                                            Untitled. Writ., Geneviève Castrée : 525-528.

Article periodical:

Comics Journal, 141, April 1991: “Julie Doucette: Secretions.” Interviewer & Transl., Andrew Dagailis. 98-105.

Article newspaper:

Globe and Mail, 9 Oct. 1999: “Comic actor.” Writ., Cathal Kelly: C20.

GALLERY:

Comics Journal, 141, April 1991: 105.

Julie plugs Chester Brown’s Yummy Fur. Dirty Plotte, 1, January 1991: Back cover.

Julie returns to Montréal. Purty Plotte, 9, April 1995: Front cover.

THE DOO DADS

This cartoon strip was created by Arch Dale. It first appeared in The Grain Grower’s Guide. In 1921, Dale took it to Chicago where it was syndicated by the Universal Feature and Specialty Co. It appeared in about 50 Canadian and U.S. newspapers and appears to have ended when Dale returned to Winnipeg in 1927.

According to The Hecklers, these characters “… were bulbous little creatures who expressed Dale’s own sense of gentle amusement at the inanities of life.” At the same time one can see the influences of Palmer Cox’s “Brownies”.

MEDIUM:

BOOK GRAPHIC:

Content stories & Cover book front &back:

The DooDads. Car., Arch Dale. Grain Growers Guide Ltd., 1975. Reprint of 1920’s book by the Country Guide.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 89.

GALLERY:

Grain Growers Guide Ltd., 1975 (Reprint): 1

DONATO Andy

                                Donato’s 1980 Political Cartoons, 3.

“Like politicians, I have no politics of my own.”                                                          The Hecklers:235.

Born 1937 in Toronto (Scarborough).

In 1955, he graduated from Danforth Technical School and began working as a layout artist at Eaton’s. In 1959, he left Eaton’s to join a small art studio. A year later decided to freelance.

In 1961 he was hired by the Telegram [Toronto] as a graphic artist in the promotions department. In 1963, he worked on the redesign of the paper and transferred to the editorial department. In 1968, he became art director for one of the Telegram’s magazine inserts. Al Beaton staff cartoonist for the Telegram encouraged him to try cartooning. As a result Donato began filling in for Beaton when the latter was on holidays.

When the Telegram ceased operations Donato and several other members of the staff helped found the Toronto Sun. There he became art director and drew two cartoons a week. In 1974, Yardley Jones then resident cartoonist of the Toronto Sun moved to the Star [Montréal] and Donato became a full time cartoonist. He won a National Newspaper Award in 1976. In 1985/1986 he served as President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

He took early retirement in 1997, but continued producing editorial cartoons as a freelancer.

As a hobby he paints landscapes and has done a number of limited edition prints.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content editorial cartoon:

The Art of Political Cartooning in Canada/1980. Ed., Steve Bradley. For., Robert LaPalme. Virgo Press, Oct. 1980: 28, 32, 119, 150, 167, 170, 201.

Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1983. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For., David Rosen. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Sept. 1983: 33, 35, 86, 103, 195.

Best Canadian Political Cartoons, 1984. Ed., N.M. Stahl. For., Robert LaPalme. McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Sept. 1984: 11, 12, 45, 66, 86, 110, 119, 121, 155.

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 15, 45.

Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux & Alan King. Writ., Charles Gordon. Ludcom Inc. 1985.

Portfoolio, The Year 86 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Charles Gordon. Ludcom Inc. 1986.

Portfoolio, The Year 87 In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Ludcom Inc. 1987.

1988 Portfoolio, The Year In Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Eden Press. 1988.

Portfoolio: 1989 in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, 1989.

Portfoolio …: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, ….
6: 1990.	7: 1991.	8: 1992.	9: 1993.

Portfoolio…: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Ken MacQueen Macmillan of Canada, ….
11: 1995.	12: 1996.

Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Jay Stone Macmillan of Canada, …
13, 1997.	15, 1999.	16, 2000.

Portfoolio 21, The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed. & Writ., Guy Badeaux . McArthur & Co, 2005.

Portfoolio …: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., & Writ., Warren Clements. McArthur & Co. ….
22: 2006.	23: 2009.	24: 2010.	25: 2011.

BOOK GRAPHIC COLLECTION:

Content editorial cartoon & Cover book front:

The Best Of Donato. Toronto Sun, 1974.

Donato’s Collection of Political Cartoons. Virgo Press, 1979.

Donato’s 1980 Political Cartoons. Toronto Sun, 1980..

Donato’s 1981 Political Cartoons. Toronto Sun, 1981..

From There To Here. Key Porter Books/Toronto Sun, 1983..

The Agony And The Exit. Grosvenor House Press Inc., 1984..

Chins And Needles. Key Porter books, 1986.

The Strife Of Brian. Key Porter books, 1987.

Gucci Blues. Key Porter books, 1988..

Son Of Meech. Key Porter books, 1990.

Duds ‘n Scuds. Key Porter books, 1991.

The Neverending Tory. Key Porter books, 1993.

BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:

Content essay & editorial cartoon:

The Little Book of Canadian Political Wisdom. Writ., Rick Broadhead. Key Porter Books Ltd., 2004.

Viva Chairman Pierre. Writ., Lubor J. Zink. Griffen Press Ltd. 1977.

ILLUSTRATOR:

DISC AUDIO 33 RPM:

Cover:

Ed Bickert & Rob McConnell. Perf., E. Bicker & R. McConnell. Innovation Records, 1984. JC0009. LP.

PRINT LIMITED EDITION:

No title, 1980, 32/100, 60cmhX45cmw.

No title, 1981, 61/101, 60cmhX45cmw.

No title, 1982, 41/100, 60cmhX45cmw.

SOURCE:

Article book:

The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 185-186, 235.

Portfoolio, The Year 85 In Canadian Caricature.1985: “Andy Donato”: 201.

Portfoolio, The Year 86 In Canadian Caricature.1986: “Andy Donato”: 198

Portfoolio 22: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 2006: “Andy Donato”: 150.

GALLERY:

                                    “Andy Donato’s “average Canadian”. The Agony and the Exit, Back cover

 A self portrait, Donato’s 1980 Political Cartoons, Front cover.

The Agony and the Exit, Front cover.

DONALDSON Daniel:

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHICANTHOLOGY:

Content interview:

Canadian Notes & Queries, 95, Spring 2016: “Charlie and Jesse Huisken Take A Walk In Toronto”: 44-47. Excerpted from a 20 metre long 18 panel work.

ILLUSTRATOR:

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC:

Content essay text:

Canadian Notes & Queries, 97, Fall 2016: “Beautiful Losers: Fifty Years Later Leonard Loses His Erection.” Writ., Anakana Schofield: 13.

Canadian Notes & Queries, 102, Summer 2018:                                                                           “Shaken & Stirred.” Writ., Andrew Pyper: 10.                                                                     “Monsters In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear. Writ., Sandra Kasturi: 17.                   “The Very Model Of Terror.” Writ., David Nickle: 21.                                                           “Indige-Genre.” Writ., Drew Hayden Taylor: 22                                                                   “Anti-Bodies.” Writ., Gemma Files: 27.                                                                               “Tomb Writer.” Writ., Michael Rowe: 50.

Canadian Notes & Queries, 103, Fall 2018: “New Myths. Old Ideas.” Writ., Andreae Callanan: 22

GALLERY:

 Canadian Notes & Queries, 102, Summer 2018: “Shaken & Stirred”: 10.

Canadian Notes & Queries, 103, Fall 2018: “New Myths. Old Ideas”: (Irving Layton) 22

 

DON SHIELD AND HIS REVERSO RAY

Ed Furness created this character. He and his wife were sitting on a bench at the Sunnyside Station (Toronto) when he speculated about a ray that would stop or reverse the forward motion of the passing train.

“Don Shields” was an anti-axis agent and the inventor of the reverso-ray which emanated from his chest and reversed the motion of any moving object. He and Saba his Hindu aid combated the axis powers principally the Japanese in east Asia. By issue 1-8, it appears that Ed was only writing the story, and it was illustrated by someone else.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content serial:

Grand Slam Comics…: “Don Shield and His Reverso-Ray.” Car., Ed Furness…. Anglo-American Publishing Co. Ltd. Black & white interior.
1-4, March 1942: 38-49. 1-5, April 1942: 23-34.	1-6, May 1942: 39-63. 1-8, July 1942: 52-63.	By issue 2-2, January 1943, Capt. Marvel Jr. Had replaced “Don Shield”.

SOURCE:

Interview:

With Ed Furness November 27, 1985.

GALLERY:

 Grand Slam Comics, 1-4, March 1942: Car., Ed Furness: 44.

Grand Slam Comics, 1-5, April 1942: Car., Ed Furness: 23.

Grand Slam Comics, 1-6, April 1942: Car., Ed Furness: 39

Cartoon stories didn’t always remain in the realm of the imagination. Here Ed made reference to the defense of Hong Kong in which Canadian soldiers participated. Hong Kong fell and the Canadians that survived were taken prisoner. For that story read the novel A Handful Of Rice by William Allister who was one of those prisoners.

DOMINION JACK

“Dominion Jack” is another in a long line of “Jacks” and “Johnnys” that go back to “Jack Canuck” who first appeared just after Confederation. See JACK CANUCK, CANADA JACK, JOHNNY CANUCK, MONTY AND JOHNNY and CANADA JACQUES.

This character who was created by Jack Briglio and Ronald Salas in 2013, bears a number of similarities to his predecessor “Canada Jack”. The name for “Canada” before it was shortened was “The Dominion of Canada”. Like “Canada Jack”, “Dominion Jack” is closely linked with youth. “Canada Jack” was the leader of a fictional “Canada Jack Club” whose members aided him in capturing spies and criminals. This club was reflected in an actual “Canada Jack Club” in which our hero admonished his youthful members to support the war effort through various projects. “Dominion Jack” has a daughter “Jess” who like him has the power to tap into other individual’s talents in order to enhance their own abilities.

The first story, which is told largely from “Jess’s” viewpoint principally involves interaction between father and daughter as he tries to teach her responsible use of their mutual talent. She in turn argues for more recognizable costumes and hates the name “Dominion Girl” which has been given to her “. In the end they learn to operate as a team to defeat “Kid Control” who it turns out has a mother called “Takeover” a villain “Dominion Jack” has fought before. The conclusion also brings new costumes for both of them and a new name “Mash-up” for Jess.

The second story reflects the changing nature of Canada. Whereas “Canada Jack’s” ancestry is British, a flashback reveals that “Dominion Jack’s” grandfather was during World War Two an Italian resistance fighter called “Il Partigiano”. The story emphasizes it is more important to save lives than to defeat villains.

MEDIUM:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story:

True Patriot: All New Canadian Comic Book Adventures. Ed., J. Torres. True Patriot Comics, 2013:

“Dominion Jack in ‘My Way’.” Writ., Jack Briglio. Illus., Ronald Salas. Let., Ed Brisson. 7-26.

Content story & Cover book front:

True Patriot: Heroes Of The Great White North. Ed., J. Torres. True Patriot Comics, 2014: “Dominion Jack in ‘Difference’.” Writ., Jack Briglio. Illus., Ronald Salas. Let., Howard Wong: 105-112.

GALLERY:

True Patriot: Heroes Of The Great White North. 2014:Illus., Ron Salas: 17.

DOMINION ILLUSTRATED NEWS

This magazine which ran from 1885 to 1895, was started by Georges Edward Desbarats when he reestablished his publishing business after going bankrupt. This publication continued the tradition of the Canadian Illustrated News, which Desbarats had lost in 1874 during his bankruptcy and which had ceased publication in 1883.

 

DOLIGAN Tim

Born 1966 in Scarborough, Ontario.

Graduated with a B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B. Ed. from York University. In 1992, he began teaching and in 1998 was teaching high school in Ajax Ontario.

In 1992 he began freelancing cartoons and illustrations for various community newspapers for which he received one Canadian Community Newspaper Award and four Ontario Community Newspaper Awards. By 1998 he was published in 40 newspapers across Canada, the Gazette [Montréal], the Toronto Sun and several Metroland newspapers. In 2002, he began providing and editorial cartoon for Rogers high speed internet. By 2008 his editorial cartoons were confined to the Sun Media as well he was doing sports cartoons for the Sun Media’s fanfare page.

WORK:

CARTOONIST:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content editorial; cartoon:

Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 46.

Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Jay Stone Macmillan of Canada, …
	14, 1998.	15, 1999.	16, 2000.	17, 2001.

Portfoolio 18: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux. Writ., Scott Feschuk. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2002.

Portfoolio …. The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed. & Writ., Guy Badeaux . McArthur & Co. …
19, 2003.	20, 2004.	21, 2005.

Portfoolio …: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., & Writ., Warren Clements. McArthur & Co. ….
22: 2006.	23: 2009.	24: 2010.	25: 2011.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Portfoolio 14: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 1998: “Tim Doligan”: 146.

Portfoolio 15: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 1999: “Tim Doligan.: 148.

Portfoolio 18: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 2002: “Tim Doligan”: 150

Portfoolio 23: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 2009: “Tim Doligan”: 161.

GALLERY:

Expositor [Brantford], 7 Sept. 1996: A10.

Maclean’s Magazine, 21 July 2003: 14.

Expositor [Brantford], 7 April 2016: A4.

DOC STEARNE/MR MONSTER

Created by Fred Kelly for Bell Features, this character likely began life in WOW Comics 26. In its early episodes “Doc Stearne” has 3 protagonists, “Doc Stearne” himself along with “Professor Edwin Gale” and his daughter “Gloria Gale” whom “Doc Stearne” is continuously rescuing.

While tracking down a strange radio wave that caused individuals to commit suicide, they discover a lost world in Canada’s far north that is accessible only through an extinct volcano. . Due to hot springs it is a semi-tropical world and is home to several races. They encounter first the villainous “Brain Men” then, “Gloria” is kidnapped by a race of prehistoric giants called the “Gorots” from whom “Doc Stearne” rescues her.  Then in issue 29, they encounter the “Norviks”  who are descendants of ancient Vikings who discovered the land centuries earlier. With issue 30, WOW Comics, ceases publication and the subterranean adventures of “Doc. Stearne” and company come to an abrupt end .

When we see the serial again in Triumph Comics,31 it has been totally revised. The mysterious subterranean world has disappeared. “Doc Jim Stearne”, he now has a first name, is a psychiatrist at a hospital. The traumatization of a young woman and his encounter with a dead woman reincarnated causes him to dedicate his life to searching out and destroying the various monsters of our world. As a joke he is given the name “Mr. Monster” by his medial associates and he designs a costume of light chain mail for protection. Here again the story abruptly stops as Triumph Comics,31 becomes the last issue published.

The serial reappears in Super Duper 3. published by F. E. Howard Publications. Doc. Stearne/Mr. Monster has completely morphed into a costumed vigilante type character. “Gloria” remerges as his assistant and is still being rescued. Super Duper ceased publication with this issue and the serial ended.

That is till 40 years later in the late 1980’s when U.S. cartoonist Michael T. Gilbert came across it and decided to revive and renovate. The result was a different storyline which lasted longer than the original.

MEDIUM:

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:                                                                                                  Created by Michael T. Gilbert & Associates:

Mr. Monster, 2-1, Feb. 1988 to 2-7 Apr. 1990 plus 2-8, no date. Dark Horse Comics

Doc Stearne … Mr. Monster Attacks, 1 of 3 to 3 of 3. Gilbert Studios/Tundra Publishing

Doc Stearne … Mr. Monster, 1, Jan. 1985 to 10, June 1987. Eclipse Comics.

Doc Stearne … Mr. Monster and Airboy, 1, August 1987. Eclipse Comics.

Doc Stearne … Mr. Monster vs. Godzilla. 1998. Eclipse Comics.

Mr. Monster’s Girl Friday … Kelly. 1, Jan. 2000 to 3, May 2000. Image Comics Group.

PERIODICAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content serial:                                                                                                                  Triumph and WOW Comics published by Bell Features & Publishing..

WOW Comics, … no date: “Doc. Stern.”: … Car., Fred Kelly. Black & white.
27: “Programs of Death”: 12-17.	28: 31-36.	29: 38-43.

Super Duper Comics, 3, May/June 1947: “Doc Stern as Mr. Monster.” Car., Fred Kelly. 1-8. F.E. Howard Publications. Colour.

PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:

Content story graphic:

Taddle Creek, XIX-1, 36, Winter 2015-2016: “Doc. Stern As Mr. Monster.” Reprinted from Triumph Comics 31. Bell Features 1946.

SOURCE:

Article periodical:

Amazing Heroes, 77, 15 August 1985: “A Monster You Say ….” Writ., Eric Yarber: 23-30.

GALLERY:

The evolution of “Doc Stern” to “Mr. Monster”.

 WOW Comics, 27: Car., Fred Kelly:12.

 WOW Comics, 29: Car Fred Kelly: 42.

 Taddle Creek, XIX-1, 36, Winter 2015-2016: Reprinted from Triumph Comics 31.

 Taddle Creek, XIX-1, 36, Winter 2015-2016: Reprinted from Triumph Comics 31.

 Super Duper Comics, 3, May/June 1947: Car., Fred Kelly. 1

Mr. Monster, 1, February 1988: Front cover. Illus., Michael T. Gilbert.