tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36203901.post116114801471042970..comments2024-01-09T12:40:43.560-07:00Comments on Gaylord Du Bois: the DuBois namewourpethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13843362362313861401noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36203901.post-22446462936542286422009-02-15T18:24:00.000-07:002009-02-15T18:24:00.000-07:00Thanks for clarifying, Wendy.Good news -- Gaylord'...Thanks for clarifying, Wendy.<BR/><BR/>Good news -- Gaylord's TARZAN stories are being reprinted in lush new hardbound editions!<BR/><BR/>http://sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/53225.htmlJesse Hammhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02253641550766389238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36203901.post-34596228758962281102007-01-18T12:39:00.000-07:002007-01-18T12:39:00.000-07:00jesse...
It's Doojesse...<br /><br />It's Doowourpethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13843362362313861401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36203901.post-1161319421631496362006-10-19T22:43:00.000-06:002006-10-19T22:43:00.000-06:00Excellent!When Gaylord Du Bois was credited, spell...Excellent!<BR/><BR/>When Gaylord Du Bois was credited, spelling was not consistent, and I had wondered, though I have stuck with the spelling used by Randall Scott in his transcription of the Account Books.<BR/><BR/>I say, "When Gaylord Du Bois was credited." That was only when his name appeared, crediting him as the writer. Mostly, it does not appear at all. Comic book stories routinely did not contain creator credits back in the late '30s through to the late '60s. (Stan Lee at Marvel Comics changed that.)<BR/><BR/>Western Publishing (for whom GDB worked) finally put in creator credit boxes in some of his comics in the 1970s. How it may have appeared (DuBois or Du Bois) could have depended on the editor or the letterer, and would not necessarily have been how GDB himself might have signed his work, had he signed it.<BR/><BR/>Moreover, many of the Big Little Books written by Du Bois were signed "Buck Wilson." His Tailspin Tommy BLBs credited only the comic strip's creator, Hal Forrest. GDB wrote the first Lone Ranger novel, and was credited as the author in the first printing; but later printings were brought into conformity with ghost-written sequels, all credited to the Loner Ranger's creator, Fran Stryker (who created the LR for radio).<BR/><BR/>GDB produced "work for hire." GDB wrote "juvenile fiction": BLBs, adventure novels, comic strips (he was one of the ghost writers for two newspaper strips, circa 1939-1940, King of the Royal Mounted, and Red Ryder), and comic books. He did not own the rights to anything he wrote, and much or most of what he wrote for was licensed, to begin with; such as his long-running assignments writing the comic-book adventures of Tarzan (probably his best-know work -- he put in over 20 years on it), and Roy Rogers (over 15 years writing Roy Rogers Comics).<BR/><BR/>I spell it Du Bois.<BR/><BR/>It is nice to know that is how it is written on his birth certificate.David Portahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04418202105349008071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36203901.post-1161231261101869482006-10-18T22:14:00.000-06:002006-10-18T22:14:00.000-06:00But is it "doo" or "dyu"?But is it "doo" or "dyu"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com