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Vern Henkel has 422 credited comics indexed across 60 series, working as cover, writer, penciller, inker.
Henkel created Abdul the Arab, Captain Fortune, Comet Kelly, Chic Carter, Gallant Knight, and Wings Wendell. Additional bibliography found in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #48, May 2005. Henkel is known to have written his own comics during the 1930s. He did an unknown number of gag cartoons during his career. Co-owner with Hal Lockwood, from 1953 to an unknown date, of a company that produced educational and industrial film strips and slides. Henkel spent the 1960s onwards working in advertising.
Bibliography
Hit Comics
1940–1950
Writer · Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
A-1
1945–1955
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Spy Cases
1950–1953
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Young Men
1950–1954
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Sports Action
1950–1952
Cover · Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Mystic
1951–1957
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Battle Action
1952–1957
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Combat
1952–1953
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Young Men on the Battlefield
1952–1953
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Creepy Worlds
1962–1989
Penciller · Inker
3 issues →
Wags [Australia]
1936–1940
Writer · Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Blonde Phantom Comics
1946–1949
Inker
2 issues →
The Killers
1947–1948
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
All True Crime Cases Comics
1948–1949
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Marvel Tales
1949–1957
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Kid Colt Outlaw
1949–1979
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
True Adventures
1950–1951
Cover · Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Strange Tales
1951–1968
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Kid Colt Outlaw
1952–1960
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
War Action
1952–1953
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
War Adventures
1952–1953
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Mystic
1960–1966
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Zombie
1961–1961
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
The Outlaw Kid
1970–1975
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Airboy
1986–1989
Inker
2 issues →
Men of Mystery Comics
1999–2020
Writer · Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales
2007–2013
Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
PS Artbooks Softee: Police Comics
2025–
Writer · Penciller · Inker
2 issues →
New Adventure Comics
1937–1938
Writer · Penciller · Inker
1 issue →
Wings Comics
1940–1954
Inker
1 issue →
Mystery Comics
1940–1941
Writer · Penciller · Inker
1 issue →
Sub-Mariner Comics
1941–1949
Cover
1 issue →
Crime Does Not Pay
1942–1955
Penciller · Inker
1 issue →
Phantom Lady
1947–1949
Penciller · Inker
1 issue →
Zegra
1948–1949
Writer · Penciller · Inker
1 issue →
My Life, True Stories in Pictures
1948–1950
Penciller · Inker
1 issue →