Mark Evanier has a longer, touching remembrance of writer Arnold Drake who passed away on Monday:
Arnold was one of my favorite comic book writers before I knew who he was…even before I knew that the guy who wrote those Tommy Tomorrow stories I thought were so great was the same guy who’d written all those Challengers of the Unknown comics I liked so much. There were no credits then and when I later did learn who’d written what, I could see the connection. Arnold’s writing was a little wittier, a little sharper than most of the others then scripting books by the tonweight for DC. He seemed to presuppose a little more intelligence on the part of the readers. He didn’t explain everything four times the way some of the other writers did. He expected us to “get it.”
You are doing a wonderful thing here on the Internet. I wish you the very best. Kindest regards.
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