15 Facts About Doug Wildey

Douglas Samuel Wildey was an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for originally conceptualizing and co-creating the classic 1964 American animated television series Jonny Quest for Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Doug Wildey did World War II military service at Naval Air Station Barbers Point in Hawaii, where he began with his artistic talent and creative animation career as a cartoonist for the base newspaper.

Doug Wildey went on to draw primarily Western stories for Youthful Magazines comics including Buffalo Bill, Gunsmoke, and Indian Fighter.

Doug Wildey contributed to the publishers Master Comics, Story Comics, Cross Publications and possibly others, puckishly observing that he'd worked for every publisher except EC, "the good one".

Doug Wildey's art appeared in the Atlas horror-fantasy comics Journey into Unknown Worlds, Marvel Tales, Mystery Tales, Mystic, Strange Tales, Uncanny Tales, and others.

The Outlaw Kid was a monthly opportunity for Doug Wildey to hone and develop his burgeoning art skills.

Doug Wildey had this glamorous European background, and raced on American tracks.

Doug Wildey eventually worked on the animated series for about 12 to 14 weeks, after which, he then recalled and carried on and over in 1986.

Doug Wildey wrote and drew a presentation, using such magazines as Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Science Digest "to project what would be happening 10 years hence", and devising or fancifully updating such devices as a "snowskimmer" and hydrofoils.

When Hanna-Barbera could not obtain the rights to Jack Armstrong, the studio had Doug Wildey rework the concept.

Doug Wildey then went on to work on several other animated series including Herculoids, Jana of the Jungle, Return to the Planet of the Apes, The Godzilla Power Hour, Mister T, and Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos.

Comico reprinted several of his Rio stories in a June 1987 one-shot, and Doug Wildey produced new Rio stories for Dark Horse Comics' two-issue miniseries Rio at Bay.

Doug Wildey died of a congenital heart failure in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 4,1994.

Doug Wildey was around 72 years old at the time of his death.

Doug Wildey was surrounded by numerous family members and working colleagues by his side.