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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.