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Don Heck
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Creator Profile
- Creator Name
- Don Heck
- Notes
- Don Heck was a very talented comic book artist. He broke in briefly at Magazine Enterprises, Quality and Hillman in 1951-52 before quickly moving over to Comic Media in 1953. Heavily influenced by Milton Caniff, Heck was the defacto most important artist of the line (ahead of Pete Morisi) and their main cover artists including some of the most riviting pre-code horror covers of the era. He drew great stories and covers for HORRIFIC, WEIRD TERROR, WAR FURY, DANGER, and DEATH VALLEY. This work is fabulous and has never been reprinted so if you don't have the books you are out of luck and heavily in the dark. Pull out your Gerber and look up the covers. Look at HORRIFIC #3 and #7and WEIRD TERROR #9. He went over to Marvel's 1950's incarnation Atlas in 1954 and became one of Stan Lee's most dependable and talented freelancers. Foregoing covers (to this day I don't know why), he drew fantasy, westerns and beautiful war stories in a stylized Caniff motif also influenced by Jack Davis. He was the artist on the Torpedo Taylor feature that ran in the entire run of NAVY COMBAT and is quite possibly his best work of all time. Look at some of these stories and I "dare" you to tell me he was one of the worst artists in comics. Look at Torpedo Taylor in NAVY COMBAT #7 or "The Ace of Mig Alley" in MARINES IN BATTLE #13 (Aug/56 ). This is top of the line comics art. And boy could he draw westerns. Stan should have used him more often as exemplified by the gorgeous cover and interior art to THE KID FROM DODGE CITY #1 (July/57). Don Heck was also a sterling romance artists and Jack Kirby himself has called Don one of the best romance artists of all. He didn't do as much romance for Stan Lee as he did for National where along with his own stories he ghosted layouts for all those romance stories John Romita did. When Stan called back a small group of freelancers in June 1958 Don Heck was one of the first to return and he performed admirably in scores and scores of pre-hero fantasy stories in a style now endowed with much cross-hatching and finer delineation. The problem you probably have with Don Heck's Marvel -Age work is that he hated to change his natural style to adapt to what Stan Lee wanted, that is "Kirby dynamics". Heck was not a super-hero artist but he ended up doing a good job and his classic 1960's AVENGERS stories and X- MEN covers attest to this, as do his work on IRON MAN in TALES OF SUSPENSE. The "visual" character of Tony Stark is a Don Heck creation. All subsequent artists are drawing Heck's Tony Stark based on Errol Flynn. Heck's skills waned in the 1970's and he was further humiliated by Gary Groth and inadvertently by Harlan Ellison in Ellison's COMICS JOURNAL interview where Groth goaded Ellison into naming the worst artist in comics and somehow Don Heck was mentioned. Ellison was thinking of someone else but Groth supplied Heck's name. Ellison later apologised publicly. I don't know if Groth ever did. Heck later was the man editors at Marvel and DC went to when they needed a story done overnight. Heck, ever the professional would always deliver and then be criticized that the work looked like it was done "overnight". Heck also was saddled with terrible inkers in his later years and his best inker was always himself. According to Don himself in an interview (not sure if it's Comic Interview or some other...conducted in the 80) he says that he went to see Stan Lee and got his first job on September 1, 1954.
F-414 Werewolf Beware 5pg art
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F-467 The Red Pirate! 6pg art
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F-947 The Marshal of Mesquite Junction 6pg art
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G-654 Rookie Cop! 6pg art
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G-659 Night Rain! 6pg art
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G-432 Duel In The Pacific! 6pg art
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Most Dangerous Game! 6pg art
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H-167 The Experiment that Failed 5pg art
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H-304 The Haunted Swamp! 4pg art
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H-449 Operation Frogman! 5pg art
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H-523 The Decision Of Captain Kellner! 5pg art
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H-695 The Marauder! 4pg art
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H-943 A Coward In Town 5pg art
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J-95 When the Rustlers Ride 5pg art
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J-130 Prize Trophy! 4pg art
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J-624 Torpedoes Away! 4pg art
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J-515 The Life and Death of Spade Newman! 6pg art
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J-576 [The Last Torpedo!] 5pg art
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J-577 Trail of the Killer! 5pg art
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J-569 The Ace of Mig Alley 5pg art
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J-526 The Deep Freeze 4pg art
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K-51 Tiger of the Seas! 5pg art
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K-399 The Hex! 4pg art
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K-760 The Men in Glass! 4pg art
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K-541 Alarm in the Jungle! 4pg art
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F-941 Cut and Dried 2pg text
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G-483 Code-Cracking 2pg text
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K-714 The Hidden Enemy 5pg art
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G-625 Fish and Fight 2pg text
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K-933 Shakedown Cruise! 4pg art
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G-516 Behind Enemy Liners 2pg text
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G-931 The Dry Earth 2pg text
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H-487 The Sound of Trouble 2pg text
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G-972 The Hidden Ruins 2pg text
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K-958 Last Bullet! 4pg art
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L-279 Rustler's Secret 4pg art
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H-366 The Heat's On 2pg text
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L-233 Menace of the Humanoids! 4pg art
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L-397 Destroy The Enemy! 5pg art
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L-369 Landing Party! 4pg art
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L-650 Midnight Marauder! 4pg art
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L-356 Mine Field! 5pg art
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L-748 A Gun at His Back! 5pg art
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L-878 Watch Your Sub Die! 5pg art
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G-606 Earning His Way 2pg text
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L-946 Trail of the Ten-Toed Thing! 4pg art
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L-946 Trail of the Ten-Toed Thing! 4pg art
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M-41 The Day of the Gun Duel! 5pg art
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The Kid Straps on His Guns!
The Reno Gang Rides!
The Coward!
The Reno Gang Rides!
The Coward!
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M-121 Strap on Your Guns! 7pg art
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M-189 You're Yella, Lawman! 6pg art
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M-173 The Reno Gang Rides! 6pg art
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M-358 The Man Who Tamed a Town! 5pg art
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G-168 Gold in the Desert 2pg text
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H-58 Hidden Mountain 2pg text
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K-375 Fantastic Formula 2pg text
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J-768 Alone, Together 2pg text
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K-292 The New Chief 2pg text
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K-175 Lost & Found 2pg text
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M-529 The Lawless Town 5pg art
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M-545 Shoot or Shut Up! 5pg art
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M-516 Hounded! 5pg art
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M-544 There's Always a Faster Gun ... 4pg art
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G-438 The Silk Flag 2pg text
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H-813 The Westerner 2pg text
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M-869 Stand By for Action! 5pg art
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H-379 The Great Beast 2pg text
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O-367 Torpedo Tubes Ready! 5pg art
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T-77 I Am The Last Man On Earth! 5pg art
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I Dared To Explore the Unknown Emptiness!
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T-85 I Dared Explore the Unknown Emptiness! 5pg art
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H-366 The Heat's On 2pg text
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Adrift in Space! 4pg art
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T-134 I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder! 5pg art
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T-116 I Seek the Sea Serpent 5pg art
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T-138 When Aliens Meet! 5pg art
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T-181 When a Planet Dies! 4pg art
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The Haunted House! 4pg art
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T-252 The Creatures Who Captured Earth! 5pg art
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T-227 Rocket Ship X-200 5pg art
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T-249 My Forbidden Paintings! 5pg art
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T-290 He Made the Machines Go Mad! 4pg art
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We Are the 3 Who Vanished! 5pg art
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T-306 The Gargoyle from the Fifth Galaxy! 5pg art
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T-330 I Can See Tomorrow! 4pg art
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T-372 I Am the Man Who Will ... Destroy Your World! 5pg art
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T-391 I Was Captured by the Cyclops! 5pg art
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T-436 I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World! 5pg art
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T-410 I Was an Ugly Duckling! 5pg art
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T-448 I Was Trapped on the Ghost Ship! 5pg art
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T-488 I Know the Power of...The Genie! 5pg art
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He Waits for Us in the Glacier! 5pg art
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T-497 I Brought Zog Back To Life! 6pg art
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T-533 Is There No Man for Me? 5pg art
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T-525 If Love Be Blind! 4pg art
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T-553 I was Captured by the Mole Men! 6pg art
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T-573 It Walks By Night! 6pg art
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T-563 Mummex---King of the Mummies! 6pg art
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T-593 Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!! 6pg art
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T-593 Orogo!! The Nightmare from Outer Space!! 6pg art
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T-621 Beware the Hands of Hundu 6pg art
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T-634 I Saw Droom the Living Lizard! 7pg art
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T-627 The Return Of The Living Robot! 5pg art
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T-648 I Found Rro ... The Thing from the Bottomless Pit! 7pg art
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T-737 The Savage Stallion! 4pg art
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T-665 I Made the Hulk Live 5pg art
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T-690 I Am The Shaggy Creature 5pg art
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T-685 Only I Know When the World Will End!!! 6pg art
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T-733 I Am the Beast-Man! 5pg art
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T-800 With Gun in Hand! 5pg art
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T-740 Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!! 6pg art
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T-779 I Escaped To Another World! 5pg art
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T-759 I was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot! 6pg art
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T-759 I was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot! 6pg art
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T-804 We Were Trapped with the Silent Monster! 6pg art
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My Nightmare Has No End! 6pg art
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T-900 On the Trail of the Tombstone Kid! 5pg art
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T-859 I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest! 6pg art
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T-807 I Am the Beast-Man! 6pg art
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T-847 I Met The Thing On Midnight Island! 5pg art
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T-837 I Found The Hidden World! 5pg art
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T-934 The Man Called Kincaid! 5pg art
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T-909 There Is a Brain Behind the Fangs! 5pg art
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The Fantastic Menace of Mento the Mighty 6pg art
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The Thing In Human Form! 5pg art
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The Thing In Human Form! 5pg art
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T-927 I Was Trapped by the Mole Men! 6pg art
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H-366 The Heat's On 2pg text
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T-916 The Thing on the Moon 5pg art
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T-964 The Demon In The Dungeon! 6pg art
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T-952 I Dared Enter the Forbidden World! 6pg art
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T-1000 I Found the Lair of ... the Lizard Men 6pg art
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The Things from Dimension X! 6pg art
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V-27 My Touch Means... Doom! 6pg art
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V-34 Return of the Gunfighter! 5pg art
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V-43 When Bull Braddock Strikes! 5pg art
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V-84 Kragoo! 5pg art
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V-56 Moomboo! 5pg art
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V-37 I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room! 5pg art
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V-90 Gunduel in Boulder Bluff! 5pg art
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V-91 The Fastest Gun Alive! 5pg art
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V-59 Fangs of the Monster 5pg art
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V-105 Nightmare! 5pg art
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V-123 The Black Clock! 5pg art
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V-108 The Menace of Shandu! 5pg art
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V-156 There is Something Strange About Mister Jones! 5pg art
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V-156 There is Something Strange About Mister Jones! 5pg art
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V-139 The Thing with Red Eyes 5pg art
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V-161 The Man from Mars! 5pg art
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V-152 The Man of My Dreams! 5pg art
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V-180 The Mysterious Mr. P! 5pg art
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V-175 Slap Leather, Lawman! 4pg art
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V-217 The Coming Of Maaboo! 5pg art
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V-194 Open Wider, Please 5pg art
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V-241 The Hawkers Ride Again! 5pg art
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V-230 Sally's Sweetheart 6pg art
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V-197 When a Man's Afraid! 5pg art
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V-238 The Macabre Mirror! 5pg art
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V-284 Less Than Human 5pg art
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V-284 Less Than Human 5pg art
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V-303 I Stand In Sally's Shadow! 7pg art
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V-300 Punishment! 5pg art
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V-286 The Love Story of Wendy Blaine! 6pg art
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V-248 The Badman! 5pg art
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V-325 The Watchers! 5pg art
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Only One Is Human! 5pg art
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V-330 Something Missing!! 5pg art
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V-346 Menace from Mars! 5pg art
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V-353 The Gypsy's Revenge! 5pg art
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V-379 Forever is a Long Long Time! 5pg art
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V-422 An Older Man! 6pg art
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V-366 The Inhuman! 5pg art
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V-399 Something Lurks In The Fog! 5pg art
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V-383 The Mask of Morgumm! 5pg art
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T-472 He Waits for Us In the Glacier! 5pg art
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T-436 I Saw the Serpent that Saved the World! 5pg art
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T-740 Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!! 6pg art
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H-366 The Heat's On 2pg text
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V-431 Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall... 6pg art
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V-431 Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall... 6pg art
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V-513 To the Last Man! 6pg art
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V-460 Mind Over Matter! 5pg art
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V-455 Somewhere Sits a Lama 5pg art
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Never Trust A Martian! 6pg art
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V-495 When Aliens Walk the Earth! 5pg art
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V-551 The Toledo Kid! 5pg art
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V-588 The 13th Floor 5pg art
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V-596 The Man Who Played Dead! 6pg art
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V-556 The Cave of Shaggdorr! 5pg art
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V-616 The Thing In The Locked Room! 5pg art
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V-679 The Montana Kid! 5pg art
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I Spent a Night in a Haunted House! 5pg art
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V-630 Beware the Future Man! 5pg art
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The Man Who Couldn't Grow Old! 5pg art
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V-671 The Girl In The Black Hood! 5pg art
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The Voice of Fate! 5pg art
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V-774 A Hiding Place for Hondo! 5pg art
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The Next Galaxy 5pg art
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H-366 The Heat's On! 2pg text
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V-767 The One Who Isn't Human 5pg art
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V-767 The One Who Isn't Human 5pg art
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Dance You Fool 5pg art
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The Man in the Glass Cage! 5pg art
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The Secret of the Mirage 5pg art
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The Secret of the Mirage 5pg art
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The Nevada Jailbirds! 6pg art
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V-813 Beware the Uboongi! 5pg art
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V-852 The Coming Of The Giants! 5pg art
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V-852 The Coming Of The Giants! 5pg art
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I Must Enter The Tomb Of Tut-Am-Tut! 6pg art
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V-976 Who Murdered Morgan? 5pg art
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No One Will Ever Know 5pg art
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Incident in the Rain! 5pg art
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V-933 Meet Mr. Meek! The Most Dangerous Man In The World! 13pg art
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We Can't All Be Human! 7pg art
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The Rustlers of Red Gap! 5pg art
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Creator Checklist
Don Heck
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I Found the Lair of ... the Lizard Men
Journey Into Mystery 64
Journey Into Mystery
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Battlefront 29
March 1955
pencils signed
F-552 | 6pg
Navy Combat 2
August 1955
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G-245 | 6pg
Battlefront 36
October 1955
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G-578 | 6pg
Jann of the Jungle 8
November 1955
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Navy Combat 4
December 1955
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G-839 | 6pg
Frontier Western 3
June 1956
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J-341 | 6pg
Battleground 14
November 1956
pencils signed
K-438 | 4pg
Navy Action (2nd - Jan 57) 15
January 1957
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K-933 | 4pg
Caught 4
February 1957
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L-186 | 5pg
Caught 5
April 1957
pencils and inks unsigned
L-656 | 5pg
Navy Action (2nd - Jan 57) 16
April 1957
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L-369 | 4pg
Marines in Battle 17
April 1957
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L-356 | 5pg
The Kid from Dodge City 1
July 1957
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The Kid from Dodge City 1
July 1957
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M-121 | 7pg
The Kid from Dodge City 1
July 1957
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M-189 | 6pg
The Kid from Dodge City 1
July 1957
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M-173 | 6pg
Western Trails 2
July 1957
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M-358 | 5pg
Strange Worlds 1
December 1958
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T-77 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 1
January 1959
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Tales of Suspense 1
January 1959
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T-85 | 5pg
Strange Worlds 2
February 1959
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T-134 | 5pg
Strange Tales 67
February 1959
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T-116 | 5pg
Battle 63
April 1959
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O-355 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 3
May 1959
pencils and inks unsigned
Strange Worlds 5
August 1959
pencils attributed
Tales of Suspense 6
November 1959
pencils and inks unsigned
T-391 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 7
January 1960
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T-488 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 8
March 1960
pencils and inks unsigned
T-573 | 6pg
Tales of Suspense 9
May 1960
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T-627 | 5pg
Wyatt Earp 29
June 1960
pencils and inks unsigned
T-737 | 4pg
Strange Tales 75
June 1960
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T-665 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 10
July 1960
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T-690 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 11
September 1960
pencils and inks unsigned
T-779 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 12
November 1960
pencils and inks unsigned
T-847 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 13
January 1961
pencils and inks unsigned
T-964 | 6pg
Tales of Suspense 15
March 1961
pencils and inks unsigned
V-56 | 5pg
Gunsmoke Western 63
March 1961
pencils and inks unsigned
V-90 | 5pg
Gunsmoke Western 63
March 1961
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V-91 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 19
July 1961
pencils unsigned
V-217 | 5pg
Tales to Astonish 21
July 1961
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V-194 | 5pg
Kid Colt Outlaw 99
July 1961
pencils and inks unsigned
V-197 | 5pg
Teen-age Romance 83
September 1961
pencils signed
V-303 | 7pg
Tales of Suspense 22
October 1961
pencils unsigned
Tales to Astonish 25
November 1961
pencils and inks unsigned
V-353 | 5pg
Journey Into Mystery 74
November 1961
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V-379 | 5pg
Tales of Suspense 24
December 1961
pencils and inks unsigned
V-399 | 5pg
Gunsmoke Western 69
March 1962
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V-551 | 5pg
Journey Into Mystery 80
May 1962
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Journey Into Mystery 82
July 1962
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Tales to Astonish 34
August 1962
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Tales of Suspense 38
February 1963
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