Talk:Howard Purcell

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Scottandrewhutchins in topic Young Avenger

Young Avenger edit

"For rival Timely Comics, the 1940s forerunner of Marvel Comics, Purcell drew the only appearance of the superhero the Young Avenger, in U.S.A. Comics #1 (Aug. 1941), under the pseudonym Michael Robard.[1]"

I removed this based on Vassallo's introduction to Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age U.S.A. Comics vol. 1, in which he says that Michael Robard was a pseudonym of Mike Roy, not Howard Purcell, whose work on this story he says is a conjecture from Jerry Bails's Who's Who in American Comics that still managed to make it to the table of contents page of that same volume.--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 18:46, 11 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ USA Comics #1 at the Grand Comics Database, citing historian Michael J. Vassallo