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Creator Profile
- Creator Name
- David Gantz
- Date of Passing
- December 14, 2007
- Notes
- Born in 1922.
- Biography
- Gantz had an interesting career as well. We know him from his realistic work with Brown,
but most of his work is funny animal. There's a great article on him in one of the Comic
Profile issues from when he started his satirical comic strip Don Quichote (or was it called
Don Q).
Ger Apeldoorn
Gantz started out in funny-animal books for Timely. He was a friend of Al Jaffee's and Al told him to go over to Timely for work in the early 1940's. Gantz also drew teen humor strips for Timely and he told me he definitely did some super-hero work also. He's best known for the PURPLE CLAW at Toby, Elliot Caplin's company (Al Cap's brother). Eliot Caplin's daughter told me she couldn't believe any of that Toby artwork had survived.
Gantz also won an inkspot for his syndicated panel GANTZ GLANCES that ran for years in NEWSDAY in New York. But the most curious work he did was BEANBAGS, which was a scarcely seen creator-owned title. Gantz told me he owned the characters.
Doc V. - Links
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Mike Lynch's Tribute
Bail's Project Bio
Jews and the Graphic Novel by David Gantz
Journey Into Mystery 2
August 1952