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Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on
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's titles such as '' Weird Science'', ''
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'', and ''
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'' from its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for ''
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'', and work for
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's ''
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''. He drew a few early issues of
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's '' Daredevil'' and established the title character's distinctive red costume. Wood created and owned the long-running characters ''
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'' and ''
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''. He wrote, drew, and self-published two of the three
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s of his
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'' trilogy, about Odkin son of Odkin before his death by suicide. Much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood; some people call him Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. In addition to Wood's hundreds of comic book pages, he illustrated for books and magazines while also working in a variety of other areas – advertising;
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and product illustrations;
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;
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covers;
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; syndicated
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s; and
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, including work on
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's landmark ''
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'' set. EC publisher
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once stated, "Wally may have been our most troubled artist ... I'm not suggesting any connection, but he may have been our most brilliant". He was the inaugural inductee into the comic book industry's
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in 1989, and was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992.


Biography


Early life and career

Wallace Wood was born in
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, and he began reading and drawing comics at an early age. He was strongly influenced by the art styles of
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's ''
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'',
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's ''
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'',
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's ''
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'' and especially
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''. Recalling his childhood, Wood said that his dream at age six, about finding a magic pencil that could draw anything, foretold his future as an artist. Wood graduated from high school in 1944, signed on with the
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at the close of
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and enlisted in the
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's 11th Airborne Division in 1946. He went from training at
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,
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, to
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, where he was assigned to the island of
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. In 1947, at age 20, Wood enrolled in the
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but only lasted one term. Arriving in New York City with his brother Glenn and mother Alma (of
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descent), after his military discharge in July 1948, Wood found employment at Bickford's restaurant as a busboy. During his time off he carried his thick portfolio of drawings all over midtown Manhattan, visiting every publisher he could find. He briefly attended the Hogarth School of Art but dropped out after one semester. In 1948, he enrolled in the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (now known as the School of Visual Arts), staying less than one year (although he made a number of professional contacts which helped him later). By October, after being rejected by every company he visited, Wood met fellow artist
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in the waiting room of a small publisher. After the two shared their experiences attempting to find work, Severin invited Wood to visit his studio, the Charles William Harvey Studio, where Wood met Charlie Stern,
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(who was working for Timely/Marvel) and
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. At this studio Wood learned that Will Eisner was looking for a ''Spirit'' background artist. He immediately visited Eisner and was hired on the spot. Over the next year, Wood also became an assistant to
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, who had taken over the Milton Caniff strip ''Terry and the Pirates''. Wood cited his "first job on my own" as ''Chief '', a continuing series of strips for a 1949 political newsletter. He entered the comic book field by
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, as he recalled in 1981: "The first professional job was lettering for
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in 1948. This lasted about a year. I also started doing backgrounds, then
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. Most of it was the romance stuff. For complete pages, it was $5 a page ... Twice a week, I would ink ten pages in one day". Artists' representative Renaldo Epworth helped Wood land his early comic-book assignments, making it unclear if that connection led to Wood's lettering or to his comics-art debut, the ten-page story "The Tip Off Woman" in the
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''Women Outlaws'' No. 4 (cover-dated January 1949, on sale late 1948). Wood's next known comic-book art did not appear until Fox's ''My Confession'' No. 7 (August 1949), at which time he began working almost continuously on the company's similar ''My Experience'', ''My Secret Life'', ''My Love Story'' and ''My True Love: Thrilling Confession Stories''. His first signed work is believed to be in ''My Confession'' #8 (October 1949), with the name "Woody" half-hidden on a theater marquee. He penciled and inked two stories in that issue: "I Was Unwanted" (nine pages) and "My Tarnished Reputation" (ten pages). Wood began at EC co-penciling and co-inking with Harry Harrison the story "Too Busy For Love" (''Modern Love'' #5), and fully penciling the lead story, "I Was Just a Playtime Cowgirl", in ''Saddle Romances'' No. 11 (April 1950), inked by Harrison. and


1950s

Working from a Manhattan studio at West 64th Street and Columbus Avenue, Wood began to attract attention in 1950 with his science-fiction artwork for EC and
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, some in collaboration with
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. During this period, he drew in a wide variety of subjects and genres, including adventure, romance, war and horror; message stories (for EC's ''
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''); and eventually
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humor for writer/editor
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in '' Mad'' including a satire of the
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's publisher DC filed against Captain Marvel's publisher Fawcett called " Superduperman!" battling Captain Marbles. Wood was instrumental in convincing EC publisher
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to start a line of science fiction comics, '' Weird Science'' and ''
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'' (later combined under the single title ''
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''). Wood penciled and inked several dozen EC science fiction stories. Wood also had frequent entries in ''
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'' and ''
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'', as well as the later EC titles ''
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'', and '' Aces High''. Working over scripts and pencil breakdowns by
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, the 25-year-old Wood drew two months of
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's Sunday-supplement newspaper comic book ''The Spirit'', on the 1952 story arc "The Spirit in Outer Space". Eisner, Wood recalled, paid him "about $30 a week for lettering and backgrounds on ''The Spirit''. Sometimes he paid $40 when I did the drawings, too". Feiffer, in 2010, recalled Wood's studio, "which was at that time in the very slummy
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It was a cartoonist and science-fiction writers' ghetto – just a huge room where the walls were knocked down, dark, smelly, roach-infested, and all these cartoonists and writers bent over their tables. One was cience-fiction writer Harry Harrison." Between 1957 and 1967, Wood produced both covers and interiors for more than 60 issues of the science-fiction digest ''
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'', illustrating such authors as
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, Philip K. Dick,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. He painted six covers for ''Galaxy Science Fiction Novels'' between 1952 and 1958. His gag cartoons appeared in the
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''Dude'', ''Gent'' and ''Nugget''. He inked the first eight months of the 1958–1961 syndicated comic strip '' Sky Masters of the Space Force'', penciled by
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. Wood expanded into book illustrations, including for the picture-cover editions (though not the dust-jacket editions) of titles in the 1959 Aladdin Books reissues of Bobbs Merrill's 1947 "Childhood of Famous Americans" series.


Silver Age and Bronze Age

Wood additionally did art and stories for comic-book companies large and small – from
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(and its 1950s iteration Atlas Comics), DC (including ''
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'' and
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's ''
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''), and
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'', '' 1984''), to such smaller firms as Avon (''Eerie'', '' Strange Worlds''), Charlton (''War and Attack'', ''Jungle Jim''),
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''), Gold Key Comics, Gold Key (''M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War'', ''Fantastic Voyage''), Harvey Comics, Harvey (''Unearthly Spectaculars''), King Comics (''Jungle Jim''), Atlas/Seaboard Comics, Atlas/Seaboard (''The Destructor''), Youthful Comics (''Capt. Science'') and the toy company Wham-O (''Wham-O Giant Comics''). In 1965, Wood, Len Brown, and possibly Larry Ivie created ''
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'' for Tower Comics. He wrote and drew the 1967 syndicated Newspaper Enterprise Association#NEA Christmas strip, Christmas comic strip ''Bucky's Christmas Caper''. During the 1960s, Wood did many
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and humor products for
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Chewing Gum, including concept roughs for Topps' famed 1962 ''
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'' cards prior to the final art by Bob Powell (comics), Bob Powell and Norman Saunders. For Marvel during the Silver Age of Comic Books, Wood's work as penciler-inker of '' Daredevil'' #5–8 and inker over Bob Powell of issues #9-11 established the title character's distinctive red costume (in issue #7). Wood and Stan Lee introduced the Stilt-Man in ''Daredevil'' #8 (June 1965). When Daredevil guest-starred in ''Fantastic Four'' #39–40, Wood inked that character, over Jack Kirby pencils, on the covers and throughout the interior. Wood penciled and inked the first four 10-page installments of the company's "Doctor Doom, Dr. Doom" feature in ''Astonishing Tales'' #1–4 (Aug. 1970-Feb. 1971), and both wrote and drew anthological horror/suspense tales in ''Tower of Shadows'' #5–8 (May–Nov. 1970), as well as sporadic other work. In circles concerned with copyright and intellectual property issues, Wood is known as the artist of the unsigned
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The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster, which first appeared in Paul Krassner's magazine ''The Realist''. The poster depicts a number of copyrighted Disney characters in various unsavory activities (including sex acts and drug use), with huge dollar signs radiating from Cinderella's Castle. Wood himself, as late as 1981, when asked who did that drawing, said only, "I'd rather not say anything about that! It was the most pirated drawing in history! Everyone was printing copies of that. I understand some people got busted for selling it. I always thought Disney stuff was pretty sexy ... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White, etc." Disney took no legal action against either Krassner or ''The Realist'' but did sue a publisher of a "blacklight" version of the poster, who used the image without Krassner's permission. The case was settled out of court. At DC Comics, he and Jim Shooter launched the ''Captain Action'' comic book series in 1968. The following year, Wood briefly served as inker of the ''Superboy (comic book), Superboy'' series. Discovering from Roy Thomas that Jack Kirby had returned to DC in 1970, Wood called editor
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in an attempt to get the assignment to ink Kirby's new work, but that role was already filled by Vince Colletta. That same year, Wood was a ghost artist for an episode of ''
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''. Wood worked on various series for DC between 1975 and 1977, producing several covers for ''Plop!'' and inking the pencil artwork of Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby on ''Stalker (comics), Stalker'' and ''The Sandman (DC Comics)#Garrett Sanford, Sandman'' respectively. He worked on the ''Hercules (DC Comics), Hercules Unbound'' series as well, providing inks for José Luis García-López and Walt Simonson. Wood penciled and inked ''All Star Comics'' and contributed to the creation of Power Girl by exaggerating the size of her breasts. Active with the 1970s Academy of Comic Book Arts, Wood contributed to several editions of the annual ''Academy of Comic Book Arts#ACBA Sketchbook, ACBA Sketchbook''. In one of his final assignments, Wood returned to a character he helped define, inking Frank Miller (comics), Frank Miller's cover of ''Daredevil'' #164 (May 1980). His last known mainstream credit was inking ''Wonder Woman'' #269 (July 1980). Over several decades, numerous artists worked at the Wood Studio. Associates and assistants included Dan Adkins, Richard Bassford, Howard Chaykin, Tony Coleman, Nick Cuti, Leo and Diane Dillon, Larry Hama, Russ Jones, Wayne Howard, Paul Kirchner, Joe Orlando, Bill Pearson (American writer), Bill Pearson, Al Sirois, Ralph Reese, Bhob Stewart, Tatjana Wood, and Mike Zeck.


Publisher

In 1966, Wood launched the independent magazine ''witzend'' (originally to be titled ''et cetera'', a name which had to be withdrawn when Wood was told another magazine had already used this) one of the first alternative comics, a decade before Mike Friedrich's ''Star Reach'' or Flo Steinberg's ''Big Apple Comix'' for which Wood drew the cover and contributed a story. Wood offered his fellow professionals the opportunity to contribute illustrations and graphic stories that detoured from the usual conventions of the comics industry. After the fourth issue, Wood turned ''witzend'' over to Bill Pearson (American writer), Bill Pearson, who continued as editor and publisher through the 1970s and into the 1980s. Wood additionally collected his feature ''Sally Forth (Wally Wood), Sally Forth'', published in the U.S. servicemen's periodicals ''Military News'' and ''Overseas Weekly'' in 1968–1974, in a series of four oversize (10"x12") magazines. Pearson, in 1993–95, reformatted the strips into a series of comics published by Eros Comix, an imprint of Fantagraphics Books, which in 1998 collected the entire run into a single 160-page volume. In 1969, Wood created another independent comic, ''Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon'', intended for his "Sally Forth" military readership as indicated in the ads and indicia. Artists Steve Ditko and Ralph Reese and writer Ron Whyte are credited with primary writer-artist Wood on three features: "Cannon", "The Misfits", and "Dragonella". A second magazine-format issue was published in 1976 by Wood and CPL Gang Publications. Larry Hama, one of Wood's assistants, said, "I did script about three ''Sally Forth'' stories and a few of the ''Cannons. I wrote the main ''Sally Forth'' story in the first reprint book, which is actually dedicated to me, mostly because I lent Woody the money to publish it". In 1980 and 1981, Wood did two issues of a completely pornographic comic book, titled ''Gang Bang''. It featured two sexually explicit ''Sally Forth'' stories, and sexually explicit versions of Disney's ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', titled ''So White and the Six Dorks''; ''Terry and the Pirates (comic strip), Terry and The Pirates'', titled ''Perry and the Privates''; ''
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'', titled ''Prince Violate''; ''
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'' and ''Wonder Woman'', titled ''Stuporman Meets Blunder Woman''; ''
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'', titled ''Flasher Gordon''; and ''Tarzan'' titled ''Starzan''. A third volume, published in 1983, contained three more sexually explicit parodies of ''Alice in Wonderland'', titled ''Malice in Blunderland''; a second Flash Gordon sendup titled ''Flesh Fucker Meets Women's Lib!''; and ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wizard of Oz'', titled ''The Blizzard of Ooze''.


"Panels That Always Work"

Wood struggled to be as efficient as possible in the often low-paying comics industry. Over time he created a series of layout techniques sketched on pieces of paper which he taped up near his drawing table. These "visual notes," collected on three pages, reminded Wood (and select assistants he showed the pages to) of various layouts and compositional techniques to keep his pages dynamic and interesting. (In the same vein, Wood also taped up another note to himself: "Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.")Hama, quoted in Johnson, Joel
"Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition,"
Joel Johnson's blog, August 18, 2006

In 1980, Wood's original, three-page, 24-panel (not 22) version of "Panels" was published with the proper copyright notice in ''The Wallace Wood Sketchbook'' (Crouch/Wood 1980).Wallace Wood Sketchbook (Crouch, 1980)

Around 1981, Wood's ex-assistant Larry Hama, by then an editor at Marvel Comics, pasted up photocopies of Wood's copyrighted drawings on a single page, which Hama titled "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work!!" (It was subtitled, "Or some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page!") Hama left out two of the original 24 panels as his photocopies were too faint to make out some of the lightest sketches. Hama distributed Wood's "elegantly simple primer to basic storytelling"McDonald, Heidi
"Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition"
''The Beat'', August 21, 2006
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to artists in the Marvel bullpen, who in turn passed them on to their friends and associates.Johnson. Eventually, "22 Panels" made the rounds of just about every cartoonist or aspiring comic book artist in the industry and achieved its own iconic status. Wood's "Panels That Always Work" is copyright Wallace Wood Properties, LLC as listed by the United States Copyright Office which assigned the work Registration Number VA0001814764.


Homages and tributes to "22 Panels"

In 1986, Tom Christopher, who had been given a copy by Larry Hama at the DC office in 1978 light-boxed the pages, incorporating a non-linear dialogue, and asked Par Holman to ink it. Holman inked and lettered the piece, and the completed art was distributed through Clay Geerdes' Comics World Co-Op, whose members produced mini- and digest-sized comics. In 2006, writer/artist Joel Johnson bought the Larry Hama paste-up of photocopies at auction and made it available for wide distribution on the Internet. In 2010 Anne Lukeman of Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions produced a short film adapting the "22 Panels That Always Work" into a ''film noir''-style experimental piece called ''22 Frames That Always Work''. Artist Rafael Kayanan created a revised version of "22 Panels" that used actual art from published Wood comics to illustrate each frame. In 2006, cartoonist and publisher Cheese Hasselberger created "Cheese's 22 Panels That Never Work," featuring bizarre situations and generally poor storytelling techniques. In 2012, Michael Avon Oeming created a ''Powers (comics), Powers''-themed update/homage to "22 Panels," making it available for distribution. In July 2012, Cerebus TV producer Max Southall brought together materials and released a documentary that featured Dave Sim's homage to Wallace Wood and a focus on his 22 Panels, including a tribute that features a creation using the motif of one of them, depicting Daredevil and Wood himself, in Wallace Wood style – and the Wallace Wood Estate's official print of the panels.


Personal life and final years

Wood was married three times. His first marriage was to artist Tatjana Wood, who later did extensive work as a comic-book colorist. Their marriage ended in the late 1960s. His second marriage, to Marilyn Silver, also ended in divorce. For much of his adult life, Wood had chronic, unexplainable headaches. In the 1970s, following bouts with alcoholism, Wood had kidney failure. A stroke in 1978 caused a loss of Visual perception, vision in one eye. Faced with declining health and career prospects, he shot and killed himself in Los Angeles on November 2, 1981. Toward the end of his life, an embittered Wood would say, according to one biography, "If I had it all to do over again, I'd cut off my hands." In 1972, EC Comics, EC editor
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, who worked closely with Wood during the 1950s, said:


Biographies, criticism, collections

''Wally's World: The Brilliant Life & Tragic Death of Wally Wood, the World's 2nd Best Comic Book Artist'' by Steve Starger & J. David Spurlock, is a comprehensive biography. It was published in 2006 by Vanguard Productions (publisher), Vanguard, which also publishes collections of Wood's comic book work, including ''Wally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction'', ''Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime & Horror'', ''Wally Wood: Dare-Devil Aces'', ''Wally Wood: Jungle Adventures'', ''Wally Wood: Torrid Tales of Romance'', new editions of ''
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'' books, and the ''Wally Wood Sketchbook''. In 2017 and 2018, Fantagraphics Books published ''The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood'', a set of two hardcover books (, ), mainly compiled by his former assistant Bhob Stewart over a 30-year period. It is a revised, expanded, and uncensored version of his previous Wood book ''Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood'' (TwoMorrows Publishing, TwoMorrows, 2003). It features personal recollections of Wood's friends, colleagues, and assistants, including
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, Al Williamson, Paul Krassner, Trina Robbins, Larry Hama, and Paul Levitz; previously unpublished artwork and photographs; and a detailed examination of his life and career. It was Stewart's last publishing project, but he did not live to see it in print.


Awards

*National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Division awards, 1957, 1959, and 1965. *Alley Award, Best Pencil Artist, 1965Jerry Bails, Bails, Jerry, and Hames Ware
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''Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999''. Accessed April 5, 2011
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* Alley Award, Best Inking Work, 1966 *Former prizes of the Angoulême International Comics Festival#Award for best foreign artist, Best Foreign Cartoonist Award, Angoulême International Comics Festival, 1978 *
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, 1989 *The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, 1992 * The Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award, 2011.YouTube – J. David Spurlock – Heroes Convention 2011 – Posthumous acceptance on behalf of Wally Wood
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Bibliography


DC Comics

* ''Men of War (comics), All-American Men of War'' #29–30 (1956) * ''All Star Comics'' #58–63 (inker); #64–65 (plotter/artist) (1976–1977) * ''Amazing World of DC Comics'' #13 (inker) (1976) * ''Angel and the Ape'' #2–6 (inker) (1969) * ''Anthro (comics), Anthro'' #6 (inker) (1969) * ''Captain Action'' #1 (artists) #2–3, 5 (inker) (1968–1969) * ''
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'' #2–8 (inker) (1958–1959) * ''DC 100 Page Super Spectacular'' #5 (inker) (1971) * ''DC Special Series'' #11 (The Flash (Barry Allen), Flash) (inker) (1978) * ''Falling in Love'' #108 (1969) * ''Ghosts (comics), Ghosts'' #2 (inker) (1971) * ''Girls' Love Stories'' #143, 150 (1969–1970) * ''Green Lantern (comic book), Green Lantern'' #69 (inker) (1969) * ''Hercules (DC Comics), Hercules Unbound'' #1–8 (inker) (1975–1976) * ''
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'' #180, 183–184, 189 (inker); #199, 251 (artist) (1969–1977) * ''House of Secrets (DC Comics), House of Secrets'' #91, 96 (1971–1972) * ''Isis (DC Comics), Isis'' #1 (inker) (1976) * ''Limited Collectors' Edition'' #C-34 (inker) (1975) * ''Meet Angel'' #7 (inker) (1969) * ''Our Army at War'' #249 (writer/artist) (1972) * ''Our Fighting Forces'' #10 (1956) * ''Plop!'' #14 (artist); #16 (inker); #23 (writer/artists) (1975–1976) * ''Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter'' #4–8 (inker) (1975–1976) * ''Sandman (DC Comics)#Garrett Sanford, Sandman'' #6 (inker) (1975) * ''Showcase (comics), Showcase'' #12 (Challengers of the Unknown) (inker) (1958) * ''Stalker (comics), Stalker'' #1–4 (inker) (1975) * ''Strange Adventures'' #154 (inker) (1963) * ''Super-Team Family'' #1, 3 (The Flash and Hawkman (Katar Hol), Hawkman team-up) (inker) (1976) * ''Superboy (comic book), Superboy'' #153–155, 157–161 (inker) (1969) * ''Swing with Scooter'' #30–31, 33 (inker) (1970–1971) * ''Teen Titans'' #19 (inker) (1969) * ''The Unexpected (1968 comic book), The Unexpected'' #122, 137 (inker); #138 (artist) (1970–1972) * ''Weird Mystery Tales'' #23 (1975) * ''The Witching Hour (DC Comics), The Witching Hour'' #15 (1971) * ''Wonder Woman'' #195, 269 (inker) (1971–1980) * ''Young Love (comics), Young Love'' #84 (inker) (1971)


EC Comics

* '' Aces High'' #1–5 (1955) * ''Confessions Illustrated'' #1 (1956) * ''The Crypt of Terror'' #18 (1950) * ''Gunfighter (comics), Gunfighter'' #13–14 (1950) * ''The Haunt of Fear'' #15–16, 4–5, 24 (1950–1954) * '' Mad'' #1–20, 23–49, 57–70, 72–86, 90 (1952–1964) * ''Modern Love'' #5–8 (1950) * ''Moon Girl (EC Comics), A Moon, a Girl ... Romance'' #10–12 (1949–1950) * ''
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'' #1–2 (1954–1955) * ''Saddle Romances'' #10–11 (1950) * ''
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'' #2–15 (1952–1954) * ''Tales from the Crypt (comics), Tales from the Crypt'' #21, 24–27 (1950–1952) * ''Three Dimensional EC Classics'' #1 (1954) * ''
Two-Fisted Tales ''Two-Fisted Tales'' is an anthology war comic published bi-monthly by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The title originated in 1950 when Harvey Kurtzman suggested to William Gaines that they publish an adventure comic. Kurtzman became the editor o ...
'' #18–28, 30–35, 41 (1950–1955) * ''
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'' #1–2, 4–5 (1955) * ''The Vault of Horror (comics), Vault of Horror'' #12–14, 39 (1950–1954) * ''
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'' #13–17, 6–14, 17 (1950–1953) * ''Weird Science (comics), Weird Science'' #12–13, 5–22 (1950–1953)


Marvel Comics

* ''Astonishing Tales'' #1–4 (Doctor Doom) (1970–1971) * ''Avengers (comics), Avengers'' #20–22 (inker) (1965) * ''Captain America (comic book), Captain America'' #127 (inker) (1970) * ''Tigra, Cat'' #1 (inker) (1972) * '' Daredevil'' #5–11 (1964–1965) * ''Journey into Mystery'' #39, 51 (1956–1959) * ''Journey into Unknown Worlds'' #51 (1956) * ''Kull of Atlantis#Comics, Kull the Conqueror'' #1 (inker) (1971) * ''Marvel Spotlight'' #1 (Red Wolf (comics), Red Wolf) (inker) (1971) * ''Marvel Tales (1949–1957), Marvel Tales'' #152 (1956) * ''Mystic Comics, Mystic'' #52 (1956) * ''Strange Tales'' #134 (Human Torch and the Thing (comics), Thing) (inker) (1965) * ''Tales of Suspense'' #71 (Iron Man) (inker) (1965) * ''Tower of Shadows'' #5–8 (writer/artist) (1970) * ''Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction'' #1 (writer) (1975) * ''Western Gunfighters'' #22 (1956)


Tower Comics

* ''Dynamo'' #1–4 (1966–1967) * ''
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'' #1–20 (1965–1969)


Warren Publishing

* '' 1984'' #1–2, 5 (1978–1979) * ''Blazing Combat'' #3–4 (1966) * ''Comix International'' #1 (1975) * ''
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'' #38, 41, 55, 75, 78, 91 (1971–1977) * ''
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'' #5, 11, 14, 60–61, 131 (1966–1974) * ''Famous Monsters of Filmland'' #58 (1969) * ''Galactic Wars Comix'' #1 (1978) * ''Monster World'' #1 (1964) * ''Vampirella'' #9–10, 12, 19, 27, ''Annual'' #1 (1971–1973) * ''Warren Presents'' #1, 3 (1979)


Footnotes


References

* Stewart, Bhob, and Catron, J. Michael, editors, ''The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood'' Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 * Gilbert, Michael T
"Total Control: A Brief Biography of Wally Wood"
''Alter Ego (magazine), Alter Ego'' vol. 3, No. 8 (Spring 2001)
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* Wood, Wally. ''The Marvel Comics Art of Wally Wood''. New York: Thumbtack Books, 1982, hardcover.


External links


Wallace Wood EstateReport to Readers: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2
at The Comics Journal

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and photo album

* Steve Stiles, Stiles, Steve]
"Wallace Wood: The Tragedy of a Master S.F. Cartoonist"
SteveStiles.com, n.d



IsThisTomorrow.com, n.d



American Art Archives



BPIB.com (fan site), n.d

* Includes
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at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators * *
Merry Marvel Marching Society recording
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