Dan Spiegle (born October 12, 1920) is a comic book and cartoon artist and illustrator (penciller and inker).
He began his professional cartoonist career in 1949 drawing Hopalong Cassidy for the Mirror Syndicate. He continued to draw this strip after it was bought out by King Features in 1951, until it was canceled.
He then moved to Western Publishing Company drawing various comics for the Gold Key Comics line. This included the comic Space Famil...
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Dan Spiegle (born October 12, 1920) is a comic book and cartoon artist and illustrator (penciller and inker).
He began his professional cartoonist career in 1949 drawing Hopalong Cassidy for the Mirror Syndicate. He continued to draw this strip after it was bought out by King Features in 1951, until it was canceled.
He then moved to Western Publishing Company drawing various comics for the Gold Key Comics line. This included the comic Space Family Robinson, Korak, Brothers of the Spear, and many of their mystery/occult titles, as well as titles based on television series such as Maverick; Spiegle began work on Maverick comics before any publicity photographs of series star James Garner were available, so he met the actor on the set and the resultant drawings of Garner in the subsequent comics are eerily exact. Spiegle explained in an interview linked to below: "I would say my favorite was Maverick, which ran about three years----fairly successful, considering the run of other western...
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