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5 unusual facts about Wally Wood


Bill Yoshida

He also freelanced on a variety of comic book stories, lettering many pages for Wally Wood and others.

Jerry DeFuccio

For Frontline Combat he wrote "War Dance!" and "Belts n' Celts" (both illustrated by Severin) and "Wolf!" (illustrated by Wally Wood).

Menahga, Minnesota

The writer-illustrator Wallace Wood, best known as one of the original five Mad cartoonists, was born in Menahga on June 17, 1927.

Wood's childhood in Menahga was documented by Bhob Stewart in the illustrated biography, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003).

Steven Hughes

Inspired by EC comics such as Tales from the Crypt, and especially EC artist Wally Wood, Hughes began as an artist for various titles from Aircel.


Howard Post

In the late 1960s, as Howie Post, he created, wrote and drew the prehistoric-teen comic book Anthro for DC Comics, which ran six issues (Aug. 1968 - Aug. 1969) after debuting in Showcase , with the last issue in the series inked by Wally Wood and Ralph Reese.

Ken Landgraf

Growing up Ken admired the work of such luminary comic book artists as Reed Crandall, Russ Heath, Sam Glanzman, Jim Steranko, and Wally Wood, among others.

Star Publications

Notable creators who contributed to Star Publications titles included Nina Albright, Tex Blaisdell, Frank Frazetta, Milt Hammer, Alvin Hollingsworth, Joe Kubert, Pat Masulli, and Wally Wood.


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The five-page "Dragonella" credited "Script by Ron Whyte and W. Wood", with art by Wood, and noted "Copyright Wally Wood 1969", is a humorous adventure of a fairy-tale baby abandoned in the woods and raised into nubile young womanhood by kindly dragons "of the ancient and noble family Isaurus".

"The Misfits", a 10-page story written and penciled by Wood, inked by Ralph Reese and credited "W. Wood and R. Reese" and "Copyright Wally Wood 1969", follows Mystra, a nubile young artificial human with telepathic abilities; Shag, a boyish blue extraterrestrial stranded on Earth; and Glomb, a human infant mutated by American scientists into a gray, simpleminded giant created to explore the planet Jupiter.