Dick Wood
| Richard Wood | |
| Biographical information | |
| Born: | n/a |
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| Died: | n/a |
| Nationality: |  American
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| Occupation: | Writer |
| Website: | N/A |
Richard "Dick" Wood (pen name Dick Hamilton) is an American scriptwriter for comic books.
Wood's most distinctive stylistic quirk lies in his interjections. Y-yipes and Thunderation, among other things, are interjections Wood uses elsewhere. Some singular expressions from the two stories in Mandrake the Magician #2 indicate Wood as the script-writer, as: Suffering Hannah and Great suffering Caesar. [1]
Wood might be the writer of both stories in Mandrake the Magician #3. As in succeeding stories, Lothar refers to himself as Lothar, not I, and his dialogue gets a bit dumber.
Mandrake the Magician by Dick Wood (1966-1967)
| Issue | Title | note |
|---|---|---|
| Mandrake the Magician #1 | "Menace of the City Jungle" | 2 x Yipes, What in thunderation, Yikes, Great cats! |
| Mandrake the Magician #1 | "The Flying Phantom" | 2 x Thunderation, Great ghost! |
| Mandrake the Magician #2 | "Specter from Space" | Suffering Hannah, Great grief |
| Mandrake the Magician #2 | "The Phantom Casino" | 3 x Yipes, Great suffering Caesar, Yikes, Mumbo Jumbo |
| Mandrake the Magician #3 | "The Doomsday Man" | Yipes, Great grief |
| Mandrake the Magician #3 | "The Terror of the Haunted Desert" | Yipes |
| Mandrake the Magician #4 | "The Black Wizard"[1] | Great guns! |
| Mandrake the Magician #5 | "The Fear Mongers"[2] | What in thunder?, Great grief |
| Flash Gordon #1 | "Midnight with Mandrake" | Yipes, What in Sam Hill? |
The Phantom by Dick Wood
In the Phantom issues 31 and 32 (Charlton Comics) Dick Wood is credited as the writer of the stories "The Phantom of Shang-Ri-La" (Great Hannah, Thunderation, Great Caesar) and "The Pharaoh Phantom" (Thunderation).
One find similar Wood expressions like this and above in some of the Phantom stories by King Comics:
- Mandrake the Magician #2 - "The Pirate Raiders"[1] (Yikes)
- Mandrake the Magician #4 - "The Girl Phantom"[1] (Great ghost. Mumbo Jumbo)
- The Phantom #20 - "The Adventures of the Girl Phantom" (Yipes, What in thunder)
- The Phantom #20 - "The Invisible Demon" (Yipe)
- The Phantom #23 - "Delilah"[3] (What in thunder, Where in thunderation)
- The Phantom #26 - "The Pearl Raiders"[3] (Yikes)
- The Phantom #28 - "Diana's Deadly Tour"[3] (Great suffering Hannah, Mumbo jumbo)
Note
References
[1] O'Hearn, Martin. "Who Created the Comic Books?", Monday, November 14, 2011.