Dick Wood

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Richard Wood
Biographical information
Born: n/a
Died: n/a
Nationality: Mini usa.gif American
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"[footnotes 1] Great guns!
Mandrake the Magician #5 "The Fear Mongers"[footnotes 2] What in thunder?, Great grief
Flash Gordon #1 "Midnight with Mandrake" Yipes, What in Sam Hill?

Note

  1. Uncredited at GCD
  2. Credited to Gary Poole at GCD

References

[1] O'Hearn, Martin. "Who Created the Comic Books?", Monday, November 14, 2011.