Dan Spiegle was an American comics artist and cartoonist best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies, including Dell Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics.
14 Facts About Dan Spiegle
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Dan Spiegle was born in Cosmopolis, Washington, in 1920, and raised there and in Honolulu, Hawaii, and northern California.
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Dan Spiegle began his professional cartoonist career in 1949 drawing the comic strip Hopalong Cassidy for the Mirror Enterprises Syndicate.
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Dan Spiegle continued to draw this strip after it was bought out by King Features in 1951, until it was cancelled in 1955.
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Dan Spiegle soon expanded to drawing Four Color features of TV series ranging from The Untouchables to Sea Hunt.
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Dan Spiegle began work on Maverick comics before any publicity photographs of series star James Garner were available, so he met the actor on the set and the resultant drawings of Garner in the subsequent comics are eerily exact.
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Dan Spiegle continued on these titles as licensor Western Publishing Company moved away from its business partner Dell to publish comics itself under its Gold Key Comics imprint.
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In 1966, at the height of popularity of the James Bond film series, Dan Spiegle provided naturalistic backgrounds and human characters while cartoon animal artist Paul Murry drew Mickey Mouse and Goofy for the short-lived Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent.
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Dan Spiegle drew the comic book adaptation of the 1979 Walt Disney Pictures feature film The Black Hole.
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Dan Spiegle later moved to DC Comics, and worked on many of their features, such as Unknown Soldier, Tomahawk, Jonah Hex, and Teen Titans Spotlight until the early 1990s.
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Evanier and Dan Spiegle did all five issues of Hollywood Superstars for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint.
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Dan Spiegle provided the art for Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient and Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny, published by Dark Horse Comics.
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Dan Spiegle drew Nintendo Power magazine's "Nester's Adventures" feature in its later stages until it was discontinued in 1993.
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Dan Spiegle died on January 28,2017, at the age of 96.