Letterer Index
| I don't know anything about lettering. Can't do it. Can't tell 'em apart after it's been done. The following collection of lettering samples is based for the most part on the Eclipse Official Indexes to Justice League, Legion, Hawkman, Teen Titans and Doom Patrol. I believe all those lettering id's were made by Mike Tiefenbacher. To that I added Joe Desris's id's of early Batman letterers. Presumably with this table and these samples, one should be able to figure out who lettered just about every DC story of the 50's and 60's. Good Luck. |
| Artist | Type | Sample Work | Issue | Dates of DC career | ||
| Berg, Vivian | Doom Patrol | 117 | 65-66 | |||
| Costanza, John | Justice League | 88 | 69-72 | |||
| D'Agostino, Jon | Teen Titans | 18 | 68 | |||
| Ferguson, Howard | Adventure | 88 | 42-44 | |||
| Field, Herb | Doom Patrol | 104 | late 60's | |||
| Gordon, Pat | Detective | 86 | 40's | |||
| Holloway, Ray | Justice League | 68 | 68-70 | |||
| Huffine, David | Adventure | 330 | 65-66 | |||
| Jetter, Charlotte | Adventure | 368 | 68 | |||
| Leferman, Shelly | Atom and Hawkman | 39 | 66-82 | |||
| Letterese, Joe | Adventure | 267 | 50-80 | |||
| Letterese, Joe | cover | Superboy | 89 | 50-80 | ||
| Oda, Ben | Showcase | 6 | 58-85 | |||
| Robinson, Jerry | Detective | 36 | 40 | |||
| Rosen, Joe | Mr. District Attorney | 2 | 44-54 | |||
| Roussos, George | Detective | 79 | 41 | |||
| Saladino, Gaspar | Brave and Bold | 28 | 51-91 | |||
| Saladino, Gaspar | cover | Justice League | 49 | 51-91 | ||
| Schnapp, Ira | Detective | 71 | 38-68 | |||
| Schnapp, Ira | cover | Brave and Bold | 30 | 38-68 | ||
| Shuster, Frank | 41 | |||||
| Snappin, Milt | Justice League | 30 | 49-87 | |||
| Snappin , Milt | cover | Adventiure | 328 | 49-87 | ||
| Sprang, Dick | Detective | 85 | 44 | |||
| Starkman, Stan | My Greatest Adventure | 81 | 50-68 | |||
| Waldinger, Morris | Doom Patrol | 115 | 51-78 | |||
| Unknown ("Crash!") | Jimmy Olsen | 13 | c. 1956 | |||
| Wouldn't you know it? The one letterer who's work I can identify and I don't know his name. He always breaks the first letter in "CRASH!" and "CRACK!" in half. Seems to disappear after the mid-fifties, or perhaps he just got tired of the gimmick. Could be any one of the letterers in the above list or somebody else entirely. If anybody knows, please tell me. | ||||||
Thanks to Jerry Bails, Mike Tiefenbacher, Joe Desris and the guys at alt.binaries.picutres.comics
