Identifying artists & writers?

[The Amstor Computer]

Magic! Thanks, jd.

[ukdane]

-Pulger- and jdmobius: How the hell do you know all this "secret", useless, information? ;-)

[jdmobius]

I've made a mistake, later episodes of One Eyed Jack were written by M Scott Goodall and Chris Lowder

[jdmobius]

"How the hell do you know all this "secret", useless, information? ;-)"

I was King's Reach Tower in another life!

[-Pulger-]

Sure some pen names were revealed in the 'Action: The Story Of a Violent Comic' book and other useless info I remember from places like this.

[Funt Solo]

I'm getting conflicting information on that one:  

http://members.fortunecity.com/ukko/creators.htm#garres_r

says:

"T.B. Grover A penname for John Wagner and Alan Grant"

(As does www.2000ad.nu/linksproject/, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/ftp/pub/SF-Archives/Misc/SF_Encyclopedia-corrections.html and various others).

However, several sources also say that Wagner used the pseudonym when writing alone as well.

The truth is out there...

[Tordelbach]

"Spence - this writer is credited alternately as "J Spence" and "D Spence" on "The Fists of Danny Pyke". If "D Spence" was a pseudonym used by Wagner, I'll assume that "J Spence" is just a version of that pseudonym. "

I'd still be slighly wary of this - I'm pretty sure I remember an interview from way back where Mills (?) discusses the origins of the (rather good) Danny Pike strip.  I'll try to give the gist of what I remember in case it jogs anyone else's memory:

Whoever it was explained how he was asked to write a strip about a white boxer for Eagle.  He stated that knew almost nothing about boxing, but that even he "...knew that the best boxers were generally black", resulting in the pretty shocking (for those used to the more linear style of 70/80's boys 'sports story) early episode where our hero loses a climactic championship bout to a black opponent, and has to start again from the bottom.
 
Of course, it may well be that I'm confusing a Wagner interview with a Mills one simply because it  raises "issues", and as such is filed under that heading in my "brain".  Now that I struggle with the memory, I begin to see discussions of the origin of Dredd in the same piece, but of course this hardly rules out Mills either...

As before, I think that the interview was in and 80's bog-paper edition of Speakeasy.  Can anyone shed some light?  Where's Logan when u need him?

[Wake]

Quite a few of the aliases are already on this site at the bottom of the droid index page.

Cheers,

Wake

Link: Scroll down

[-Pulger-]

From this very site on a previous thread

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=message&choice=4782.1200000000" target="_blank">Origin of T.B. Grover.

[Eric Plumrose]

>> Whoever it was explained how he was asked to write a strip about a white boxer for Eagle. He stated that knew almost nothing about boxing, but that even he "...knew that the best boxers were generally black".

That interview appeared in a late '80s/early '90s 2000 AD Annual, iirc. Pat was referring to an Action character called 'Blackjack'. 'The Fists of Danny Pike' was written by Wagner who, I think, was the main script writer on 'Blackjack' until Jack Adrian (Chris Lowder) took over.

[cristeen69]

Pulger is correct Jack Adrian is Christopher Lowder. I know Jack.

[cristeen69]

Pulger is correct Jack Adrian is Christopher Lowder. I know Jack.

[W. R. Logan]

Jack Adrian is indeed Chris Lowder and nicely let me use his unused but paid for Dredd script.

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