Posted By Dan Greenfield on Apr 1, 2024 | 3 comments

The celebrated Mr. K pays a BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to one of comics’ greats…

By PAUL KUPPERBERG

There’s an argument to be made for the idea that if Sheldon Mayer hadn’t been where he was when he was, comic books might look very different today.

For starters, his happened to be the hand that plucked Siegel and Shuster’s Superman from the slush pile and brought it to the attention of a publisher. Mayer also created a few memorable characters of his own, including those irresistible toddlers, DC’s Sugar and Spike. I really can’t think of much to add to what I wrote about Mr. Mayer last year when I presented the first 13 pages of my stash of Xeroxes of unpublished S&S stories, so here are 13 MORE PAGES OF PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED SUGAR AND SPIKE STRIPS BY SHELLY MAYER:

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— PAUL KUPPERBERG: Dig 13 Pages of Previously Unpublished SUGAR AND SPIKE Strips by SHELLY MAYER. Click here.

— 13 COOL THINGS About SHELDON “SHELLY” MAYER. Click here.

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PAUL KUPPERBERG was a Silver Age fan who grew up to become a Bronze Age comic book creator, writer of Superman, the Doom Patrol, and Green Lantern, creator of Arion Lord of Atlantis, Checkmate, and Takion, and slayer of Aquababy, Archie, and Vigilante. He is the Harvey and Eisner Award nominated writer of Archie Comics’ Life with Archie, and his YA novel Kevin was nominated for a GLAAD media award and won a Scribe Award from the IAMTW. Now, as a Post-Modern Age gray eminence, Paul spends a lot of time looking back in his columns for 13th Dimension and in books such as Direct Conversations: Talks with Fellow DC Comics Bronze Age Creators and Direct Comments: Comic Book Creators in Their own Words. His latest, Direct Creativity: The Creators Who Inspired the Creators, is due out in April.

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