First and Last Drago, Dondi The Daily Cartoonist


Saved From The Paper Drive Dondi in "Five Dollars for Luck"

Dondi, the brainchild of cartoonist Gus Edson, became a successful syndicated comic strip; the little boy came into the nation's homes and hearts for the next 34 years.


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Dondi (1955-1968) contains approximately 3,553 pieces of original artwork for the comic strip of the same name as well as five proofs. There are 3,022 daily strips and 531 Sunday strips. There are 3,022 daily strips and 531 Sunday strips.


Dondi comic strip by Irwin Hasen, in Shannon Weathers's Irwin Hasen

We want to give a special thanks to Irwin Hasen, an extraordinary gentleman, artist and friend. Classic Comics Press. Two volumes of Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen's Dondi are available. Despite the fact that we feel this hugely neglected comic strip warrants a further look, at this time there are no plans to continue the series. We apologize to the.


1276 Dondi (Dell Comics / Western Publishing)

Dondi was 37 when he died, on Oct. 2, 1998, of complications of AIDS.. Nicknamed Dondi as a child, after the popular comic strip of an Italian orphan adopted by an American soldier during World.


ComicConnect Hasen, Irwin IRWIN HASEN'S DONDI Sunday Strip VG/F 5.0

Dondi became a syndicated comic strip in the Chicago Tribune. The little boy came into the nation's homes and hearts for the next 34 years. Dondi was the brain child of Gus Edson.


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Irwin Hasen, the cartoonist and comic-book artist who drew, and helped create, " Dondi ," the widely syndicated comic strip about a lovable, wide-eyed World War II orphan, died on Friday in.


For Irwin Hasen, a Life With ‘Dondi’ The New York Times

Dondi, Green Lantern, Wildcat. Irwin Hasen (July 8, 1918 - March 13, 2015) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator (with Gus Edson) of the Dondi comic strip. [1] He also had a significant run on DC Comics ' original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, in the 1940s as well as creating Wildcat (who became a superhero after seeing a Green.


Saved From The Paper Drive Dondi in "Five Dollars for Luck"

Dec. 16, 2011. IRWIN HASEN, 93, says the happiest moment in his life came early one morning in September 1955, when he had just begun drawing the comic strip "Dondi.". "I was on 42nd Street.


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Dondi. Dondi was a comic that was popularized in the 40s to mid-80s by Irwin Hasen and Gus Edson. It starred the titular character, a war-orphan named Dondi as he has hilarious and interesting escapades throughout his hometown of Midville. Originally, Dondi's backstory was that of a five-year-old of Italian descent orphaned by the events of.


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Early life. Born in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, Dondi was the youngest of five children. He was of African American and Italian American descent. He attended a Catholic school during his sophomore years. By 1975, East New York became an unstable region with racial tensions and social conflicts such as the prominence of gangs.


Sugartown, USA! Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen's 'Dondi' starring Patti Page!

The early comic strip story discussed Dondi's Italian history and new American life. Later, during and after the Korean and Vietnam wars, Dondi's heritage in the strip changed to fit a similar story in the later wars. A film adaptation of Dondi premiered in 1961. Date Made: 1966-08-17.


Hake's "DONDI" 1956 DAILY STRIP ORIGINAL ART BY IRWIN HASEN CUSTOM

Irwin Hasen was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the Dondi comic strip. He also had a significant run on DC Comics' original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, in the 1940s as well as creating Wildcat for the same publisher. Introduction Irwin Hasen; Early life; Career Comic books Comic strips Instruction;


Irwin Hasen Dondi Signed 8x10 Sketch Certified Authentic JSA COA

Dondi is a daily comic strip about a large-eyed war orphan of the same name. Created by Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen, it ran in more than 100 newspapers for three decades (September 25, 1955, to June 8, 1986).


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Dondi was a daily comic strip about a large-eyed war orphan of the same name. Created by Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen, it ran in more than 100 newspapers for three decades (September 25, 1955 to June 8, 1986). Interviewed before a Comic-Con audience in San Diego, illustrator Hasen told TV-comics scripter Mark Evanier the origin of the strip during a trip to Korea: I belonged to the National.


DONDI, in JOE JUSKO's Irwin Hasen Comic Art Gallery Room

At the strip's peak in the early 1960s, Hasen won the National Cartoonist Society's Story Comic Strip Award in 1961 and 1962. Dondi was also popular enough to spawn a live action film in 1961, produced by schlockmeister Albert Zugsmith of Sex Kittens Go To College fame, and starring a pre-Fugitive David Jansen, with unknown David Kory playing.


First and Last Drago, Dondi The Daily Cartoonist

The National Cartoonists' Society awarded it plaques in 1961 and '62, for "Best Story Strip". Edson continued to write Dondi until his death in 1966. Hasen then wrote it for a brief time, but soon hired Bob Oksner (whose extensive DC Comics credits include Leave It to Binky and Angel & the Ape) to supply plots. Hasen and Oksner stayed with the.

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