Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (sometimes written DuBois) (August 24, 1899 – October 20, 1993) was an American writer of

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stories and

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, as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. Du Bois wrote ''

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'' for

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and

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from 1946 until 1971, and wrote over 3,000 comics stories over his career. An avid

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, Du Bois had a true affinity for writing stories with natural settings. His forte was in

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, as well as jungle comics and animal reality comics. He created many original second features for

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(e.g., "Captain Venture: Beneath the Sea", "Leopard Girl", "Two Against the Jungle", etc.), but most of his work for the company was in writing stories with licensed characters.

Comic strips and comic books

Among the various genres for which he wrote comic book scripts, most were of the outdoor adventure variety, particularly Westerns, including

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Comics (for which he wrote "Little Beaver" text pages, ''The Fighting Yanks''

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feature, and, particularly, the "Kyotee Kids" Western series, 31 scripts, the first being sent to his editor 12/23/1946, the last being sent 3/19/1949, that ran from about issue #43 ending with #72; Du Bois had previously been one of the ghostwriters for the ''

'' newspaper comic strip drawn by

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. Before its format change to all-new Red Ryder material, ''Red Ryder Comics'' featured ''Red Ryder'' newspaper strip reprints. He also wrote stories for ''

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Comics'', ''

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Comics'' (1944-1956, 1959-1960, all of the first run in the ''

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Comics'' series, and, under its own numbering, ''Roy Rogers Comics'' #1 through about #108, and approximately #134 through #143),

Zane Grey Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontie ...

's ''

King of the Royal Mounted ''King of the Royal Mounted'' is an American comics series which debuted February 17, 1935 by Stephen Slesinger, based on popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed as ''Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted''. The series' protagonist ...

'' (Du Bois had previously been one of the ghost-writers for the ''King of the Royal Mounted'' newspaper comic strip drawn by illustrator

Jim Gary Jim Gary (March 17, 1939 – January 14, 2006) was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. These sculptures were typically finished with automobile paint altho ...

), ''

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ''Challenge of the Yukon'' is an American radio adventure series that began on Detroit's WXYZ and is an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on January 3, 1939. The title changed from ''Challenge of the Yukon'' to ''Se ...

'',

Bat Masterson Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921) was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to ...

(adapting ''Bat Masterson'' (TV series)), '' Tales of Wells Fargo'' / ''Man from Wells Fargo'', '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'', '' The Rebel'', '' Bonanza'' and ''

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'' ''Sundance''. Gaylord Du Bois also wrote comic book script adaptations of Zane Grey's western novels for the Dell Four Color Series' "Zane Grey's" issues, which achieved its own numbering with #27 as "Zane Grey's Stories of the West." Du Bois wrote the first issue. In total, he wrote 31 of the series' 39 issues. Du Bois excelled writing animals: he wrote the entire run of ''The Lone Ranger's Famous Horse Hi-Yo Silver'', the entire run of ''

National Velvet ''National Velvet'' is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935. It was illustrated by Laurian Jones, Bagnold's daughter, who was born in 1921. Plot summary ''National Velvet'' is the story of a 14-year-old girl named ...

'' under both the Dell and Gold Key imprints, the first 9 issues of ''Roy Rogers' Trigger'', the first 2 issues of '' Lassie'' the 4th issue, and issues #45-63, plus nine Lassie issues of ''

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'', the last issue of Gene Autry's Champion, as well as the animal adventure back-up features ''Bullet'' the dog, ''Lotor'' the raccoon, ''Yukon King'' the dog, ''Grey Wolf'', ''Blaze'' the horse, ''et al.''. He also adapted ''

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'' for ''

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'' #729. Du Bois created several American Indian features: "

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" ran as a back-up feature in Dell's ''

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'' #11-#145 (1949-1962). It had first begun in ''

The Funnies ''The Funnies'' was the name of two American publications from Dell Publishing (Dell Comics), the first of these a seminal 1920s precursor of comic books, and the second a standard 1930s comic book. ''The Funnies'' (1929–1930) In 1929, George ...

'', and then appeared in

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, both in 1942. Since Du Bois's pre-1943 Account Books were lost in a house fire, we can only guess that he created Young Hawk. ''

Turok Turok is a fictional character who first appeared in American comic books published by Western Publishing through licensee Dell Comics. He first appeared in ''Four Color Comics'' #596 (October/November 1954). After a second ''Four Color'' appear ...

, Son of Stone'' was created by Du Bois, originally as a Young Hawk one-shot, but Young Hawk and Little Buck were renamed to be Turok and Andar. (Du Bois wrote the first 8 issues.) He also created the American Indian feature ''The Chief'', the first issue of which debuted in ''

'' #290, August, 1950. It assumed its own numbering with #2, April, 1951. The title changed to ''

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'' with #3, August, 1951. Gaylord Du Bois wrote all or nearly all the stories for the first four issues. (His stock of remaining scripts were used in at least three later issues (#12,13, and one other), but they mostly appeared in "Indian Chief" issues of ''

''.) In ''Hi-Yo Silver'', the recurring human character is Keenay, an American Indian. Du Bois's early comic-book -writing career included many cartoon characters, including ''

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'', '' Andy Panda'', ''

Our Gang ''Our Gang'' (also known as ''The Little Rascals'' or ''Hal Roach's Rascals'') is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by film producer Hal Roach, also the ...

'', ''

Tom and Jerry ''Tom and Jerry'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series c ...

'' and ''

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''. Additionally he wrote scripts for '' Dell Junior Treasury'' (2,3,4,5,6,8), ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Walt Scott's Little People'', ''

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'', ''

Jungle Jim Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began on January 7, 1934, as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle J ...

'', ''

Space Family Robinson ''Space Family Robinson'' was an original science-fiction comic-book series published by Gold Key Comics. It predates the ''Lost in Space'' television series. Both are loosely based on the 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss and similarly named movi ...

'' (which spawned ''

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'' TV show) (Gaylord Du Bois became the sole writer of ''Space Family Robinson'' once he began chronicling the Robinsons' adventures with ''Peril on Planet Four'' in issue #8. He had already begun the ''Captain Venture'' second feature beginning with ''Situation Survival'' in issue #6.) Du Bois also chronicled the adventures of his own creations, e.g. ''

, Son of Stone'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Gaylord Du Bois wrote script adaptations to comic book form of motion pictures, for the Dell ''

'' Series "Movie Classics" issues. His movie adaptations included: ''

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'' (Disney-Movie) (Four Color #413, 1952), ''

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'' (Four Color #672, 1956), '' The Animal World'' (Four Color #713, 1956), ''

Around the World in Eighty Days ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employe ...

'' (Four Color #784, 1957), ''

The Story of Mankind ''The Story of Mankind'' is a book written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon. It was published in 1921. In 1922, it was awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children ...

'' (Four Color #851, 1958), '' Seventh Voyage of Sinbad'' (Four Color #944, 1958), '' Last Train from Gun Hill'' (Four Color #1012, 1959), ''

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'' (Four Color #1048, 1959), ''

Solomon and Sheba ''Solomon and Sheba'' is a 1959 American epic historical romance film directed by King Vidor, shot in Technirama (color by Technicolor), and distributed by United Artists. The film dramatizes events described in The Bible—the tenth chapter of ...

'' (Four Color #1070, 1959), ''

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'' (Four Color #1139, 1960), ''

The Story of Ruth ''The Story of Ruth'' is a 1960 American historical romance film directed by Henry Koster, shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay, written by Norman Corwin, is an adaptation of the biblical Book o ...

'' (Four Color #1144, 1960), ''

North to Alaska ''North to Alaska'' is a 1960 comedic Western/Northern film directed by Henry Hathaway and John Wayne (uncredited). The picture stars Wayne along with Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, and Capucine. The script is based on the 1939 play ' ...

'' (Four Color #1155, 1960), '' Master of the World'' (Four Color #1157, 1961), ''

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'' (Four Color #1176, 1962), ''

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'' (Four Color #1194, 1961); and ''

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'' (Gold Key #10156-509, 1965). Additionally, he wrote adaptations to comic book form of the TV series

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' ''

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'', and Lowell Thomas' ''High Adventure''. He also wrote many one-shot comics, including the ''

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'' comics

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, Moses and the Ten Commandments, and The Treasury of Dogs that won him the

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Award in 1956. A devout

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, Du Bois co-authored ''Biblical Cartoons from Daily Life!'' with Phil Saint in 1981. Du Bois came out of retirement to co-create and write the Christian comic character Bukki in ''Aida-Zee'' #1, published in 1990, and in ''Christian Comics & Games Magazine'' #0 in 1995, both by The Nate Butler Studio. The latter magazine was noted for containing ''"the last completed comic-book script of Gaylord DuBois, one of the most prolific comics writers of all time."''

Books

Du Bois wrote ''

'' (the first novel adapting the popular radio character), 35 Big Little Books, five Little Blue Books, at least eight boys adventure novels and several other ghost written novels and biographies. The Little Blue Books penned by Du Bois in the late 1920s include #997 ''Simple Recipes for Home Cooking'', #1105 ''Pocket Dictionary Spanish-English English Spanish'', #1109 ''Spanish Self Taught'', #1207 ''French Self Taught'', #1222 ''Easy Readings in Spanish'', and an article in #1270. Little Blue Books Indexed by Author, Corvallis Oregon, 2006. Big Little Books included

Tailspin Tommy ''Tailspin Tommy'' was an air adventure comic strip about a youthful pilot, "Tailspin" Tommy Tomkins (sometimes spelled Tompkins). Originally illustrated by Hal Forrest and initially distributed by John Neville Wheeler's Bell Syndicate and the ...

(under the name

Hal Forrest Hal Forrest (Philadelphia, July 22, 1895 - 1959) was an American comic strip artist best known for his work on ''Tailspin Tommy''. Biography When he was 16, he drew a comic strip, ''Percy the Boy Scout'', for the ''Philadelphia Telegraph'', and ...

, the cartoonist who originally co-created the character),

Tom Mix Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He w ...

Pilot Pete Peter Christian Weber Jr. (born August 4, 1991) is an American television personality and an airline pilot. Weber placed third on The Bachelorette (season 15), season 15 of ''The Bachelorette (American TV series), The Bachelorette,'' and was later ...

Buck Jones Buck Jones (born Charles Frederick Gebhart; December 12, 1891 – November 30, 1942) was an American actor, known for his work in many popular Western movies. In his early film appearances, he was credited as Charles Jones. Early life, milita ...

Clyde Beatty Clyde Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) was a famed animal trainer, zoo owner, and circus mogul. He joined Howe's Great London Circus in 1921 as a cage boy and spent the next four decades rising to fame as one of the most famous circ ...

and many others under his own name and using pen name

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. Adventure novels included the '' Don Winslow of the Navy'' series ghostwritten for Frank V Martinek, based on Martinek's

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, Barry Blake,

The Lone Rider ''The Lone Rider'' is a 1930 American western film directed by Louis King and starring Buck Jones, Vera Reynolds and Harry Woods. It was remade twice by Columbia first as '' The Man Trailer'' (1934) and then ''The Thundering West'' (1939).Pitts p ...

, and The

Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in ...

. A series of books co-written with

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includes Hurricane Kids on the Lost Island; Rex, King of the Deep; and Stratosphere Jim.Du Bois, Gaylord; Glenn, Morris: A Walk Around Whallons Bay New York, Eyrie Publications, 1984 Du Bois wrote several adaptations of well known titles such as ''

Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and '' Tom Sawyer, ...

'', ''

Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884). He is 12 ...

'', '' Little Women'', ''

Kidnapped Kidnapped may refer to: * subject to the crime of kidnapping Literature * ''Kidnapped'' (novel), an 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson * ''Kidnapped'' (comics), a 2007 graphic novel adaptation of R. L. Stevenson's novel by Alan Grant and Ca ...

'' for his editor at Western Publishing; and ''

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'', a series of historical word sketches, with color illustrations. Two Golden Press adaptations appeared in ''1960: Kidnapped'', based on the novel by

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(Golden Press. 1960. 58 pages). A Golden Reading Adventure. #378. ''Nomads of the North''. Based on the book by

James Oliver Curwood James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best selle ...

. Story adapted from the 1961 Walt Disney film ''

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North ''Nikki: Wild Dog of the North'' is a 1961 adventure film directed by Jack Couffer and Don Haldane. The plot, based on the novel ''Nomads of the North'' by James Oliver Curwood, centers around the adventures of a malamute dog named Nikki. Plo ...

'' (Golden Press. 1960. 60 pages. # 379:100).

Poetry

DuBois published several books of his spiritual poems and biographical material in the 1980s: * ''Walk Among the Poems of Gaylord Du Bois'' (1982, Eyrie Publications) * ''The Shining Path: Highlights of a Christian Pilgrimage'' (1983) — Christian poems * ''Reflections on the Eyrie'' (1984) — poems * ''A Walk Around Whallons Bay, New York With Gaylord Du Bois'' (1984, Eyrie Publications) — letters from Du Bois to friend Glenn Morris (the editor) who arranged the correspondence into a narrative form presenting Du Bois' memories and recollections of people, places and events in the Whallons Bay area where he grew up.

References

External links

Gaylord McIlvaine DuBois

Gaylord DuBois (blog by his granddaughter)
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