1. Joseph P Gill was an American magazine writer and highly prolific comic book scripter.
10 Facts About Joe Gill
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Joe Gill's earliest confirmed credit is the one-page text story "Following Orders" in Novelty Press' Target Comics vol.
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Spillane and Ray Gill insisted Joe go into freelance writing with them.
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When superheroes fell out of favor in the post-war years, Joe Gill began scripting teen-humor, Western and other genre comics for Timely.
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At Charlton, beginning in the early 1950s, Joe Gill became the company's primary staff writer for the next thirty years.
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Joe Gill was known for his speed, often finishing a full-length comics script in a day and writing as much as an estimated 100 to 125 pages a week across a number of genres, from crime fiction to science fiction, romance to war stories.
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Superheroes were a minor part of Charlton; Joe Gill created one of its first, Zaza the Mystic.
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Joe Gill continued to work regularly at Charlton throughout this period, notably on the ongoing Vietnam War feature "Shotgun Harker and Chicken" for Charlton's war title Fightin' Marines.
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In 1983, Joe Gill wrote two stories featuring Secret Agent X-9 for King Features Syndicate.
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When Charlton Comics ceased publication in 1986, Joe Gill retired from comic-book scripting save for an occasional freelance story for DC.