Alias Lettering Checklist

Last update 6/4/2020

During a study of Simon and Kirby letterers a number of individual styles were identified with no hope of determining their actually names. As an memory aid I have given them aliases.

Codes:
   ?:  = questionable attribution

ALBERT ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   5p      "Live Alone And Love It"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "Running Mates"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "Mind Over Moonlight"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "The Happy Bachelor"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Jealousy"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Afraid Of Life"
      #95   (v.11, n.5)     August    1958   5p      "Listening To Love"
      #95   (v.11, n.5)     August    1958   4.67p   "Hold Back The Tears"
      #95   (v.11, n.5)     August    1958   5p      "Young As Romance"

CAPPY ---------------------------------------------------------------

Headline (Prize)
    #56  (v.8, n.2)    November  1952   6.67p   "An Eye For An Eye"

Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize)
    #43  (v.6, n.1)    October   1952   5.67p   "Ticket to the Gallows"
    #44  (v.6, n.2)    November  1952   5p      "Hotter Than a Firecracker"
    #45  (v.6, n.3)    December  1952   5p      "Easy Money"
    #46  (v.6, n.4)    January   1953   7p      "The Sniper"

CHARLIE ---------------------------------------------------------------

Captain America (Timely)
     #3     May       1941   6p      "The Return Of The Red Skull"
     #3     May       1941   6p      "Hunchback Of Hollywood And The Movie Murder"
     #3     May       1941   6p      "The Queer Case Of The Murdering Butterfly And The Ancient Mummies"

CLEM ---------------------------------------------------------------

Captain America (Timely)
     #2     April     1941   15p     "The Ageless Orientals Who Wouldn't Die"
     #2     April     1941   15p     "Trapped In The Nazi Stronghold"
     #2     April     1941   15p     "The Wax Statue That Struck Death"
     #2     April     1941   6p      "The Valley Of The Mist"
     #3     May       1941   6p      "Tuk, Cave-Boy"
   ? #7     October   1941   7p      "Hurricane"

Marvel Mystery (Timely)
   ? #25    November  1941   5p      "The Patriot"

USA (Timely)
     #1     August    1941   10p     "Mr. Liberty" pages 6-10
     #2     November  1941   7p      "Island Menace" except splash panel

DOUG ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #98   (v.12, n.2)     February  1959   5p      "Secret In My Heart"
      #98   (v.12, n.2)     February  1959   4.67p   "A Husband For My Sister"
      #99   (v.12, n.3)     April     1959   4.67p   "Man Wanted"
      #99   (v.12, n.3)     April     1959   4.67p   "The Love I Lost"
      #101  (v.12, n.5)     August    1959   5p      "Young And Beautiful And Bored"

FRED ---------------------------------------------------------------

Headline (Prize)
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Murder's Reward"
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   4p      "Prophet of Death"
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Blind Man's Death"
    #25  (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Death Takes A Honeymoon"

GEORGIE ---------------------------------------------------------------

Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize)
      #28   (v.4, n.10)    July      1951   6.67p   "Fear, Inc."
      #29   (v.4, n.11)    July      1951   6.67p   "The Time Trap"
      #30   (v.4, n.12)    September 1951   6.67p   "Slave To Habit"
      #30   (v.4, n.12)    September 1951   6.67p   "Trail Of Doom"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   6.67p   "335 Days Of Terror"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   6.67p   "The Little Giant"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   6.67p   "Less Than Zero"
      #31   (v.5, n.1)     October   1951   7p      "Angel Of Death"
      #32   (v.5, n.2)     November  1951   5.67p   "The Deadliest Game"
      #32   (v.5, n.2)     November  1951   6.67p   "Underworld Banker"
      #32   (v.5, n.2)     November  1951   7p      "A Very Careful Guy"
      #33   (v.5, n.3)     December  1951   5.67p   "Straight To The Chair"
      #33   (v.5, n.3)     December  1951   6.67p   "Deadly Dime"
      #35   (v.5, n.5)     February  1952   6.67p   "Merchant Of Death"
      #36   (v.5, n.6)     March     1952   6.67p   "His Big Mouth"
      #37   (v.5, n.7)     April     1952   6p      "Breakout"

MARTY ---------------------------------------------------------------

Foxhole (Mainline)
    #3     February  1955   6p      "Listen To Me, Sam"
    #4     April     1955   5p      "Mayhem In The Sky"
    #5     July      1955   6p      "Kamakaze Joe"
    #5     July      1955   1p      "Morale"
    #5     July      1955   1p      "Bell Bottom Bill"

In Love (Charlton)
    #5     May       1955   1p      "I Led Him On"
    #6     July      1955   1p      "A Love That Was True"
    #6     July      1955   1p      "Altar Bound"
    #6     July      1955   1p      "A Typical Teen Ager"
    #6     July      1955   2p      "Once Too Often"

Young Brides (Prize)
    #11  (v.2, n.5)    January   1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #12  (v.2, n.6)    February  1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #13  (v.2, n.7)    March     1954   .67p    "Good Manners"
    #17  (v.2, n.11)   July      1954   3p      "Every Man For Herself"
    #17  (v.2, n.11)   July      1954   1p      "Price Tag On Love"
    #17  (v.2, n.11)   July      1954   1p      "Til The End Of Time"
    #18  (v.2, n.12)   September 1954   3p      "Worst Of The Lot"
    #18  (v.2, n.12)   September 1954   3p      "The Way To Get A Man"
    #18  (v.2, n.12)   September 1954   1p      "I Was A Convict's Daughter"
    #23  (v.3, n.5)    July      1955   2p      "One Of Those Things"
    #23  (v.3, n.5)    July      1955   1p      "Mamma's Boy"
  ? #24  (v.3, n.6)    September 1955   1p      "Grown Up"

Young Love (Prize)
    #50  (v.5, n.8)    October   1953   1p      "Good Manners"
    #52  (v.5, n.10)   December  1953   1p      "Good Manners"
    #53  (v.5, n.11)   January   1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #54  (v.5, n.12)   February  1954   .67p    "Good Manners"
    #56  (v.6, n.2)    April     1954   1p      "Too Young To Love"
    #58  (v.6, n.4)    June      1954   1p      "A Lesson In Love"
    #58  (v.6, n.4)    June      1954   1p      "I Was Heartsick"
    #62  (v.6, n.7)    October   1954   3p      "So Little Time For Love"
    #63  (v.6, n.9)    December  1954   1p      "The Kid Next Door"
    #66  (v.6, n.12)   August    1955   1p      "A Big Mistake"
    #66  (v.6, n.12)   August    1955   2p      "Dream Girl"

Young Romance (Prize)
    #63  (v.7, n.3)    November  1953   .5p     "Good Manners"
    #63  (v.7, n.3)    November  1953   .5p     "Good Manners"
    #64  (v.7, n.4)    December  1953   1p      "Primitive Horoscope"
    #66  (v.7, n.6)    February  1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #67  (v.7, n.7)    March     1954   .5p     "Good Manners"
    #68  (v.7, n.8)    April     1954   1p      "Good Manners"
    #69  (v.7, n.9)    May       1954   1p      "I Fell For The Office Wolf"
    #72  (v.7, n.12)   August    1954   1p      "An Endless Courtship"
    #72  (v.7, n.12)   August    1954   1p      "My Kind Of Man"
    #74  (v.8, n.2)    November  1954   6p      "A Holiday For Love"
    #74  (v.8, n.2)    November  1954   1p      "I Thought It Was Love"
    #75  (v.8, n.3)    December  1954   1p      "Too Wise To Fall In Love"
    #78  (v.8, n.6)    August    1955   2p      "A Man To Love"
    #78  (v.8, n.6)    August    1955   1p      "Once And For All"
    #78  (v.8, n.6)    August    1955   1p      "Too Fickle To Marry"

MIKEROSS ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Brides (Prize)
      #19   (v.3, n.1)     November  1954   5p      "Love For Sale"

Young Love (Prize)
      #63   (v.6, n.9)     December  1954   6p      "College Romeo"
      #63   (v.6, n.9)     December  1954   6p      "Lovely Liar"
      #63   (v.6, n.9)     December  1954   6p      "Romantic Free-For-All"

Young Romance (Prize)
      #75   (v.8, n.3)     December  1954   6p      "Personal Secretary"
      #75   (v.8, n.3)     December  1954   6p      "Light Of Love"
      #75   (v.8, n.3)     December  1954   6p      "Too Plain For Love - Problem Clinic"

PHILLIP ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
    #101 (v.12, n.5)     August    1959   4.67p   "Man In The House"
    #102 (v.12, n.6)     October   1959   5p      "Miss Make Pretend"
    #102 (v.12, n.6)     October   1959   4.67p   "Beautiful But Smart"

RAY ---------------------------------------------------------------

Adventure (National/DC)
      #102   February  1946   10p     "The Dream Of Peter Green"

Boy Commandos (National/DC)
      #12    September 1945   3p      "Coast Guard Reconnaissance"

Picture News (Lafayette Street Corp)
      #1     January   1946   4p      "You Can't Loose A Faithful Dog"

Real Fact (National/DC)
      #1     March     1946   2p      "The Rocket Lanes Of Tomorrow"
      #1     March     1946   4p      "Pirate Or Patriot?"
      #2     May       1946   2p      "A World Of Thinking Machines"

Star Spangled (National/DC)
      #53    February  1946   10p     "The Poet Of Suicide Slum"
      #54    March     1946   10p     "Dead-Shot Dade's Revenge"
      #55    April     1946   10p     "Gabby Strikes A Gusher"
      #59    August    1946   10p     "Answers, Inc."
      #60    September 1946   10p     "Steve Brodie da Second"
      #63    December  1946   10p     "Code of the Newsstand"
      #64    January   1947   10p     "Criminal Cruise"

World's Finest (National/DC)
      20            Winter    1945  3p "Foxhole Sailor"

SAM ---------------------------------------------------------------

Captain America (Timely)
      #7     October   1941   7p      "Race Against Doom"
      #8     November  1941   5p      "Plague of Death"
      #8     November  1941   7p      "Carnival of Crime"
      #8     November  1941   7p      "Father Time"
      #9     December  1941   7p      "Hurricane" pages 1-4
      #10    January   1942   5p      "Headline Hunter"
      #10    January   1942   7p      "Hurricane"

USA (Timely)
      #2     November  1941   17p     "The Fiends of the Seas" pages 13-17

SID ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #55     March     1953   7p      "Heartless"
      #55     March     1953   6p      "The Other Woman"

SIR ---------------------------------------------------------------

Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize)
      #15   (v.3, n.3)     April     1950   6.67p   "Trial By Fire"
      #15   (v.3, n.3)     April     1950   7p      "The Sheriff''s Vow"
      #15   (v.3, n.3)     April     1950   7.67p   "Death On The Assembly Line"
      #16   (v.3, n.4)     June      1950   10p     "Carnival Of Crime"

Headline (Prize)
      #42   (v.5, n.6)     July      1950   7p      "Boomerang"

Young Romance (Prize)
      #26   (v.4, n.2)     October   1950   8p      "Hired Wife"

SLIM ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Romance (Prize)
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   5p      "Man-Hater"
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   4p      "The Waiting Game"
      #91   (v.11, n.1)     December  1957   5p      "That Certain Something"
      #92   (v.11, n.2)     February  1958   5p      "Lovable Dud"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Last Year's Love"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   4p      "I Want To Dance"
      #93   (v.11, n.3)     April     1958   5p      "Empty Words"
      #96   (v.11, n.6)     October   1958   5p      "Infatuation"

TOOBIE ---------------------------------------------------------------

Young Love (Prize)
      #73   (v.8, n.1)     December  1956   6p      "The Troublemaker"

Young Romance (Prize)
      #86   (v.10, n.2)    February  1957   7p      "His Heart Was Blind"
      #86   (v.10, n.2)    February  1957   7p      "Was I To Be Hurt A Second Time"
      #86   (v.10, n.2)    February  1957   7p      "I Took The Easy Way Out"
      #87   (v.10, n.3)    April     1957   7p      "Was I Too Possessive"
      #88   (v.10, n.4)    June      1957   7p      "Why Don't They Leave Me Alone"

WYATT ---------------------------------------------------------------

Clue (Hillman)
      (v.2, n.1)    March     1947   8p      "King Of The Bank Robbers"
      (v.2, n.2)    April     1947   13p     "The Short, Dangerous Life Of Packy Smith"

Frankenstein (Prize)
   ?  #7     May       1947   5.5p      "Justice Finds A Cop Killer"

Headline (Prize)
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   7p      "The Last Bloody Days Of Babyface Nelson"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   7p      "The Doctor Is Missing"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   7p      "The Bear Skull Trail To Death"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   10p     "Burned At The Stake"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   8p      "To My Valentine"
      #23    (v.2, n.11)   March     1947   5p      "Killer In The Kitchen"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   9p      "Trapping New England's Chain Murderer"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   7p      "Murder On A Wave Length"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   7p      "Grim Pay-Off For The Pinball Mob"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   8p      "A Phantom Pulls The Trigger"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   8p      "You Can't Forget A Killer"
      #24    (v.2, n.12)   May       1947   4p      "The Case Of The Floating Corpse"
      #25    (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Masquerade Of Eddie The Doll"
      #25    (v.3, n.1)    July      1947   7p      "Pay Up Or Die"

Laugh (Archie)
      #24    September 1947   6p      "Pipsy"

My Date (Hillman)
      #1     July      1947   14p     "My Date With Swifty Chase"

Punch & Judy (Hillman)
      (v.2, n.9)    April     1947   1p      "Rover The Rascal"
      (v.2, n.12)   August    1947   6p      "The Mystery Crooner"

Real Clue Crime Stories (Hillman)
      (v.2, n.4)    June      1947   8p      "Mother Of Crime"
      (v.2, n.7)    September 1947   7p      "The Mad White God Of Palm Island"

XAVIER ---------------------------------------------------------------

Adventure (National/DC)
      #72    March     1942   10p     "Riddle Of The Slave Market"
      #73    April     1942   10p     "The Buzzard's Revenge"
      #73    April     1942   10p     "Bells Of Madness"
      #74    May       1942   10p     "The Man Who Knew All The Answers"
      #74    May       1942   9p      "Scavenger Hunt"
      #75    June      1942   9p      "Beware Of Mr. Meek"
      #75    June      1942   10p     "The Villain From Valhalla"
      #76    July      1942   10p     "Mr. Noah Raids The Town"
      #76    July      1942   9p      "The Legend Of The Silent Bear"
   ?  #77    August    1942   10p     "Dreams Of Doom"
      #77    August    1942   9p      "The Stone Of Vengeance"
      #78    September 1942   9p      "The Lady And The Tiger"
   ?  #80    November  1942   9p      "Man Trap Island"
   ?  #91    April     1944   10p     "Courage a la Carte"

Boy Commandos (National/DC)
      #4     Fall      1943   6p      "Flames At Dawn" pages 1, 5
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Brooklyn Revere's Ride" pages 7-10, 12, 13
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Madman At Mr. Cloud" pages 16-21
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Toinette The Terrible"
      #4     Fall      1943   9p      "Bugle Of The Brave"
      #4     Fall      1943   4p      "Road To Berlin"
      #5     Winter    1943   11p     "A Town To Remember" pages 1, part 2, 3-11

Detective (National/DC)
      #64    June      1942   12p     untitled page 1
      #65    July      1942   12p     untitled
      #66    August    1942   12p     "The Sphinx Speaks"
      #82    December  1943   11p     "The Romance Of Rip Carter" pages 1, 2, 4, 6-11

Star Spangled (National/DC)
      #7     April     1942   13p     "Newsboy Legion"
      #8     May       1942   13p     "Last Mile Alley"
      #9     June      1942   13p     "The Rookie Takes The Rap"
      #10    July      1942   10p     "Kings For A Day"
      #11    August    1942   13p     "Paradise Prison"
      #30    March     1944   11p     "The Lady Of Linden Lane"

World's Finest (National/DC)
      #6     Summer    1942   10p     "The Adventure Of The Magic Forest"
      #7     Fall      1942   10p     "A Modern Arabian Night-Mare"