A BIRTHDAY SALUTE…
By WALT GROGAN
It’s one of my favorite days of the year — Henry Boltinoff’s birthday!
Boltinoff was born 112 years ago, on February 19, 1914, and his work was ubiquitous in many of DC’s titles, like Action Comics, Batman, Detective Comics, and Superman, from the 1940s to the early 1970s. His most famous filler strips, which were often 3/4 of a page to a full page, were undoubtedly Cap’s Hobby Hints and Super-Turtle!
This year, however, we’re spotlighting Boltinoff’s laughably inept, perpetually lazy, yet ultimately kind-hearted beat policeman, Casey the Cop! And if you read to the end you’ll see that there was actually some continuity as the cartooonist revisited a previous strip to add a new wrinkle!
So, here he is in 13 classic strips — Henry Boltinoff’s Casey the Cop!
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MORE
— CAP’S HOBBY HINTS: A Charming World of Silver Age Fun. Click here.
— SUPER-TURTLE: Up, Up and Away With HENRY BOLTINOFF’s Terrific Terrapin. Click here.
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A 10-year-old Walt Grogan fell in love with the Big Red Cheese thanks to essays written by Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson in the paperback edition of All in Color for a Dime, released in 1970 and bought for him by his father off a paperback spinner rack in a liquor store on the South Side of Chicago. Walt runs The Marvel Family Web Facebook page devoted to all incarnations of the Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel and blogs about Captain Marvel at shazamshistorama.com.
