Patricia Highsmith, Funnybook Writer?

I'm always the last one to pick up on these kinds of historical footnotes, but I guess the latest biography of the writer Patricia Highsmith talks about her writing comics both on salary and on a freelance basis, including work on such characters as Marvel's notorious "Jap-Buster Johnson," kind of a xenophobic Punisher with access to tools of war. She also apparently worked for the various Nedor Comics imprints. I know that folks sometimes strain for writers that wrote for comic books that went on to actual writing careers of note -- there's a famous quote from one of those mean DC editors about how comics were a black hole from which no real writer escaped -- so it surprises me that I hadn't heard this one before. It sounds true: I would assume the biography was properly vetted, and the only part that reads as odd to me is that the job enabled her to travel, which is more of a modern construction than one of funnybook writers in the '40s.
I can't find a specific credit for Highsmith, but that's Jap-Buster Johnson
 
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