Joe Gill, 1919-2006



Mark Evanier has confirmed rumors that the prolific comic book writer Joe Gill passed away last month, and provides an affectionate obituary.

Gill was born in 1919, and did his first comics writing for Martin Goodman's Timely, which would later become Marvel Comics. In the 1950s he shifted to work at Charlton Comics, with a trickle of work starting in 1954 that become a flood by 1956. Gill became Charlton's workhorse script writer from that moment until the company closed its doors thirty years later. He is probably best known for his work on Charlton's mid-1960s superhero books, including Gill co-creations like Captain Atom.

Gill also apparently worked for DC Comics through former Charlton editor Dick Giordano, although the only thing that I can find in a brief scan of the admittedly massively incomplete comics catalog sites is a dialog assignment from a E. Nelson Bridwell plot.

Evanier notes that Gill was among a handful of men that could be considered the most prolific writers to work in the field, at a time when comics' newsstand availability and brutal production schedules made this a valuable commodity.
 
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