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Retrieved on March 6, 2013 (May 2, 1922 – October 5, 1994) was an American

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artist best known for creating the 1964

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Biography

Early life and career

Wildey was born and raised in

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. He did

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military service at

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, where he began his art career as a

for the base newspaper.Quatto
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company

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in 1947. Because comic-book writer and artist credits were not routinely given during this era, the earliest confirmed Wildey works are two signed pieces in this publisher's ''Top Secret'' #9 (June 1949): a one-page house ad and the 10-page adventure story "Queen in Jeopardy", by an unknown writer.Doug Wildey
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He went on to draw primarily

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'' comics including '' Buffalo Bill'', ''Gunsmoke'' (unrelated to the later television series), and ''Indian Fighter''. He also contributed to the publishers

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and possibly others, puckishly observing that he'd worked for every publisher except EC, "the good one". In 1952, Wildey moved his family — wife Ellen and daughter Debbie — to

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. Two years later, he began a regular stint at Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of

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, where he drew dozens of

stories through 1957, primarily four- and five-page tales in such titles as ''Frontier Western''. His art also appeared in the Atlas horror-

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comics ''

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'', '' Marvel Tales'', ''

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'', '' Uncanny Tales'', and others. Historian Ken Quattro describes Wildey's most "noteworthy" Western as the 19-issue Atlas series ''

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'', "his take on the classic Western

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", in which Wildey illustrated three to four stories per issue: Much of this work was reprinted by Marvel from 1970 through 1974, exposing his work to a later generation. After an Atlas Comics retrenchment in 1957 — during which the company mixed a trove of inventory stories by Wildey and many others with new material for two to three years — Wildey freelanced on a small number of standalone anthology stories for two other publishers:

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, in the

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titles ''Alarming Tales'' #3-5 (Jan.-Sept. 1958), and '' Black Cat Mystic'' #62 (March 1958), ''Hi-School Romance'' #73 (March 1958) and ''Warfront'' #34 (Sept. 1958); and

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, in '' Tales of the Unexpected'' #33 & 35 (Nov. 1958, March 1959), '' House of Secrets'' #17 (Feb.1959), ''

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'' #28 & 32 (Nov. 1958 & June 1959), and ''

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'' #89 (Aug. 1959). He also later drew the first issue of

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''. Some of their strips were inked by

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as the deadlines of producing a daily and Sunday strip proved daunting. The strip ended in 1962. Adding credence to the latter date is Wildey spending part of 1960, possibly only a month,

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his idol

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's famed '' Steve Canyon'' comic stripQuatto
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Television animation

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newsletter, what was initially a one-week

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job in

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, working under artist

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on Cambria Productions' 1962

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'' Space Angel''.Herman, Daniel. ''Silver Age: The Second Generation of Comic Artists'' (Hermes Press, Neshannock Township,

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, 2004) p. 195. Trade paperback Wildey eventually worked on the series for "about 12 or 14 weeks", after which, he recalled in 1986, Wildey wrote and drew a presentation, using such magazines as ''

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'' "to project what would be happening 10 years hence", and devising or fancifully updating such devices as a "snowskimmer" and

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s. When Hanna-Barbera could not obtain the rights to Jack Armstrong, the studio had Wildey rework the concept. Wildey "went home and wrote ''Jonny Quest'' that night — which was not that tough." For inspiration he drew on Jackie Cooper and

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movies,

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'', and, at the behest of Hanna-Barbera, the

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movie '' Dr. No''. Hanna-Barbera refused to give him a "created by" credit, Wildey said in 1986, and he and studio "finally arrived on 'Based on an idea created by', and that was my credit." The prime-time TV animated series ''

'' debuted on

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on September 18, 1964. As comics historian Daniel Herman wrote, Wildey did not design the more cartoonishly-drawn

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pet dog, Bandit, which was designed by animator

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. Wildey went on to work on animated series including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' (1975), ''

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'' (1978), ''

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'' (1983), and '' Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos'' (1986).

Return to comics

In the mid-1960s, Wildey returned to comic books, drawing stories for the premiere issues of

' ''Thrill-O-Rama'', ''Unearthly Spectaculars'' (both Oct. 1965 series) and ''Double-Dare Adventures'' (Dec. 1965). Most significantly during this time, he collaborated with writer

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' licensed series ''

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'' when that long-running comic, which had been reprinting stories drawn by

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, began producing new work beginning with issue #179 (Sept. 1968). The duo's work appeared through issue #187 (Sept. 1969). After a hiatus from comic books, broken only by three 1971 stories for

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story "The Armored Ark" in

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'' #153 (May 1972), Wildey created the

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, the contemporary strip chronicled the adventures of an itinerant

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ian. Afterward, Wildey returned to comic books to do stories for Archie Comics' horror-humor anthology series ''Mad House'', Gold Key's ''Mystery Comics Digest'', and DC's ''

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'' and '' Sgt. Rock'', among other titles. Returning to his Western roots, he drew the feature "

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" in DC's ''

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'' #26 (Feb. 1975) and co-created with writer

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the feature "Kid Cody, Gunfighter" in

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' ''Western Action'' #1 (Feb. 1975). As both writer and artist, Wildey created his own Western feature, "Rio", that ran in

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' ''Eclipse Monthly'' #1-10 (Aug. 1983 — July 1984), and he returned to his most prominent creation that decade with a ''

'' comic-book series published by Comico. Wildey wrote and drew the stories in ''Jonny Quest'' #1 (July 1986) and ''Jonny Quest Classics'' #1-3 (May–July 1987), and provided several covers. Comico also reprinted several of his Rio stories in a June 1987 one-shot, and Wildey produced new Rio stories for

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' two-issue

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''Rio at Bay'' (July-Aug. 1992). His last original comics work was the painted art for the eight-page Western tale "The End of the Time of Leinard" by writers

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in Dark Horse's ''Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special'' (Jan. 1995).

Death

Wildey died of heart failure in

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, on October 5, 1994.Quatto
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Bibliography

In 1971, Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. published a Wildey portfolio, ''The Movie Cowboy'', consisting of 26 illustrations sized 12x18 inches. Said historian Quattro, "Wildey shifted seamlessly between pen and brush, from the finest pen strokes imaginable, to the soft nuances of wash, from the monumental close-up of a grizzled

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, to the sunny sweetness of two women waiting for a stagecoach."Quatto
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References

External links

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