Henry Boltinoff

Henry Boltinoff (February 19, 1914 [ [http://www.cbgxtra.com/default.aspx?tabid=42&view=topic&forumid=34&postid=154 "Comics Industry Birthdays" at the CBGXtra Forum] by "Comic Buyer's Guide"'s Maggie Thompson and John Jackson Miller. Accessed August 16, 2008] - April 19, 2001) was born in New York City. He did several humor strips for DC Comics, where his brother Murray Boltinoff was an editor. These included "Abdul the Fire Eater," "Bebe," "Billy," "Buck Skinner," "Cap's Hobby Center," "Cap's Hobby Hints," "Casey the Cop," "Charlie Cannonball," "Chief Hot Foot," "Cora the Carhop," "Dexter," "Doctor Floogle," "Doctor Rocket," "Dover & Clover," "Elvin," "Freddie the Frogman," "Hamid the Hypnotist," "Homer," "Honey in Hollywood," "Hy the Spy," "Hy Wire," "Jail Jests," "Jerry the Jitterbug," "King Kale," "Lefty Looie," "Lem 'n' Lime," "Lionel and His Lions," "Little Pete," "Little Pocahontas," "Lucky," "The Magic Genie," "Moolah the Mystic," "No-Chance Charley," "Ollie," "On the Set," "Peter Puptent," "Prehistoric Fun," "Shorty," "Stan," "Super-Turtle," "Warden Willis," and numerous others, very often with letterer Gaspar Saladino. He worked on the comic strips "This and That" (1946), "Woody Forrest" (1960), "Stoker the Broker" (1960-), and "Hocus-Focus" ( through 2001). He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for his work on the strip for 1981. He also received their Humor Comic Book Award for 1970.

References

*Strickler, Dave. "Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index." Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1.

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External links

* [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards.asp NCS Awards]
* [http://www.dcindexes.com/boltinoff/ The Henry Boltinoff Hall of Fame Gallery at Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics]
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/h_boltin.htm Henry Boltinoff page at Don Markstein's Toonopedia]