Robert Schaefer, 1926-2006



Mark Evanier is reporting that the writer Robert Schaefer, half of the Robert Schaefer/Eric Freiwald team, died December 14 in his Southern California home. A prolific television series writing team in the 1950s, Schaefer and Freiwald also wrote an enormous number of comic books for the Western Publishing Company, specializing in Dell's television show comics and working most diligently in a period from the late 1950s through the middle 1960s.

Among the titles the team penned were series based on TV shows like Rawhide and Zorro, adaptations of Disney movies like The Absent-Minded Professor, a small but not insignificant number of scripts for the classic Disney characters like Donald Duck, and, Evanier notes, early classic issues of Magnus, Robot Fighter. Although the Western comics have never been as vigorously indexed the way companies doing superhero comics have been, this search indicates the variety if not the volume of the Schaefer/Freiwald contribution to comics. Schaefer retired from writing in 1984.
 
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