He quickly graduated to backgrounds, then inking. This would have been the period that Wood was working as one of Wunder's assistants, inking backgrounds and perhaps lettering.Īlso during 1949, Wood got a foot in the door at Fox Publications, doing lettering on romance comics. The following year, Wood became an assistant to George Wunder, who'd taken over drawing Terry and the Pirates.Ī George Wunder Terry and the Pirates daily from 1949. Learning that Will Eisner was looking for artists, Wood hurried over and was hired on the spot to draw backgrounds on The Spirit. Wood visited the Charles William Harvey Studio where Severin was working and was introduced to Charles Stern, Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman. Wood's luck began to turn when he met John Severin in a publisher's waiting room in October 1948. After demob in 1948, Wood found work as a waiter, and lugged his bulging portfolio around New York, trying to get drawing work from any publisher who'd let him in the door. In 1946, he transferred to the US Army Airborne 11th Paratroopers and was posted to occupied Japan. Wood graduated from high school in 1944 and enlisted in the Merchant Marine. In love with drawing, he once dreamed he found a magic pencil that could draw anything. As a child he devoured the great newspaper strips, like Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Terry and the Pirates. WHO IS WALLY WOOD? Wallace Allan Wood was born in Menahga, Minnasota on 17 July 1929. Admittedly, at the time, I certainly wasn't aware of the brilliant work he'd done on the EC science-fiction titles, but my sensibilities were more in line with the work of Kirby, Ditko and Heck, and this new guy, with his tiny figures and crowded pages, just wasn't ticking any boxes for me. However, as much as I loved the very idea of Daredevil, I wasn't mad about Wally Wood's art in this issue. This may not have been the first time Stan puffed up an artist on the cover of one of his mags, but he'd never done it with this much hyperbole before. It was also Wood's first work on the title, and for Marvel, taking over from his old EC colleague and occasional inker Joe Orlando.ĭaredevil 5 was Wally Wood's first work for Marvel since the four stories he'd done for Atlas around the middle of 1956, shortly after the tragic collapse of EC Comics, and uncredited pencil job under Colletta inks for Love Romances 96 (Nov 1961), coincidently the same month that Fantastic Four 1 came out.Īt the time I was mesmerised by the idea of a blind superhero and - not knowing Wally Wood from Adam - Stan's cover blurb trumpeting the arrival of "the brilliant artistic craftsmanship of famous illustrator Wally Wood" completely passed me by. THE VERY FIRST DAREDEVIL comic I ever saw - around Easter 1965 - was Daredevil 5 (Dec 1964), with its striking Wally Wood cover and interior art.
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