Born: 1909 August 7 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Died: 1997 February 6 in Los Angeles, California, United States
Biography: Sheldon H. Stark, (1909-1997) cartoon editor for New Fun #1-2. Stark has been credited by some with the script for the “Oswald the Rabbit” strips and may have contributed to some of the other unattributed scripts.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York to Russian emigrants. As classmates at both the Lincoln School and later Dartmouth, Stark became a close friend of Nelson Rockefeller. Stark scripted two newspaper strips in the 1930’s, “Chip Collins Adventurer” and “Inspector Wade”, which was reprinted in comic book form in Magic Comics. He would also collaborate with Jerry Robinson on the “Jet Scott” daily strip that ran in The New York Herald Tribune from 1953 - 1955.
But Stark was best known for a prodigious and long career as a writer of both radio, (including “Green Hornet” and “The Lone Ranger”) and as a television writer, (including “Studio One”, “Wagon Train,” “Batman”, “Green Hornet,” “The Man from UNCLE” and “Quincy”). His first play “Time of Storm”, which addressed the dangers of McCarthyism won a 1954 “Best of Season” Award. Long active in industry issues, Stark helped form the Radio Writers Guild and later taught screenwriting at UCLA.
Notes: Biography provided by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson from her notes for Famous First Edition: New Fun #1 #C-63 (2020).
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