Number 1608: Herman goes to the birds; Wood’s Munsters story

 A tip of the Pap-cap to Ken Landgraf, who supplied the raw scans for this 1965 story from Gold Key’s The Munsters #8. Wallace Wood and his assistants did the artwork. According to an e-mail from Landgraf:

I spoke to [Dan] Adkins before he died...He and [Richard] Bassford penciled the job. Most likely they used faces from other Munster comics... Wood inked all the main figures, the assistants mostly filled in black areas and worked on inking the backgrounds ... KEN

Thanks, Ken. That provides an interesting insight into the Wallace Wood studio of the era. “Strictly For the Birds” isn’t a great story, and just pops up in the midst of a series mostly written, penciled and inked by artist Fred Fredericks. But anything done by Wood has its place on any Golden Age fan’s comic radar.

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Number 1398: Herman Munster, Creepy Creature

Yesterday I featured a Mandrake comic drawn by Fred Fredericks; today even more by Fredericks.

Harold “Fred” Fredericks Jr was born in 1929 and became a cartoonist after the war. His work on The Munsters is some really fine work. Our knowledgeable friend, Alberto Becattini, who provides much information on Dell/Gold Key comics to the Grand Comics Database, credits Fredericks with not only the artwork, but the script and the lettering. About the only things not credited to Fred are the coloring and running the printing press. Fredericks is a man with several dimensions to his talent. Alberto also gives credit to him for the strip, “Liddle Wolfgang,” which is drawn in the style of Jay Ward’s Fractured Fairy Tales TV cartoons. I’m showing that three-page story, also. Fredericks had the gift for comic exaggeration, and it shows in both examples.

From The Munsters #4 (1965):

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