1. Ogden Whitney is best known as co-creator of the aviator hero Skyman and of the superpowered novelty character Herbie Popnecker and his alter ego, the satiric superhero the Fat Fury.
23 Facts About Ogden Whitney
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In 2007, Ogden Whitney was one of two comics creators inducted into the comic-book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, as a "Judges Choice".
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Ogden Whitney's earliest recorded comic-book credit is drawing the six-page story "In the Pit of Dagan", written by Gardner Fox and starring adventurer Cotton Carver, in Adventure Comics No 42, published by DC Comics predecessor National Comics.
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Ogden Whitney continued on the feature, and briefly succeeded artist Creig Flessel on the more prominent and enduring character the Sandman with issue No 46.
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Ogden Whitney continued on both features for two more issues before working primarily for Columbia Comics for the remainder of the decade, co-creating Skyman with writer Fox in Big Shot Comics No 1.
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Fox and Ogden Whitney collaborated on such additional Big Shot Comics characters as the Cloak, and the demon-masked war correspondent and World War II Axis-fighter the Face.
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Ogden Whitney was inducted into the US Army in January 1943.
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Ogden Whitney drew no comics while on furlough, but did some comics work "after hours" in the camp office.
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Ogden Whitney served in the Philippines during World War II, in a unit with fellow comic artist Fred Guardineer.
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The Fox-Ogden Whitney team continued on Big Shot Comics confirmably through No 44 and almost certainly beyond; Big Shot No 97, for example, contains a Ogden Whitney written-and-drawn Skyman story.
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Ogden Whitney drew the company's official adaptation of the 1948 movie Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman, published the same year in the umbrella title A-1 as Joan of Arc.
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Ogden Whitney is tentatively credited as artist for the similar adaptation of Destination Moon in Fawcett Comics' of that title, known as Fawcett Movie Comic No 3.
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Ogden Whitney additionally did some work for Ziff-Davis' Amazing Adventures and Skypilot, and did his earliest known work for the future Marvel Comics, then called Atlas Comics, with a four-page story in Apache Kid No 8.
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Ogden Whitney soon began contributing work as well to the Atlas horror titles Spellbound, Marvel Tales and Adventures into Terror.
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Ogden Whitney drew countless stories and covers for, primarily, Adventures into the Unknown and Forbidden Worlds from 1950 to 1965.
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Ogden Whitney's parents were blithely unaware of either his powers or of his eventual superhero-satire identity as the Fat Fury.
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Ogden Whitney drew all the stories and almost all the covers for what became a cult-hit comic.
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Ogden Whitney wrote and drew the lead story in the mostly reprint revival of the title, in No 103, and penciled a nine-page backup story, "Invitation to a Gunfight", by writer Marv Wolfman, in the following issue, marking his last known comics work.
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Also in the mid-1960s for Marvel, Ogden Whitney drew issues of what was then the romantic-drama series Millie the Model and its sister title, Modeling with Millie.
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Mad magazine editor Jerry DeFuccio wrote that circa 1965, Ogden Whitney lived in Manhattan at.
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Ogden Whitney supported the family with her private secretary job in the area of the Empire State Building.
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Richard E Hughes, editor at American Comics Group, was especially helpful to 'old-timers' [and] gave Whitney work, though Ogden seemed absorbed in trying storyboard continuity samples to crack the advertising field.
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In 2007, Ogden Whitney was one of two comics creators inducted into the comic-book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, as a "Judges Choice" along with Robert Kanigher.