Creator/Eastern Color

James McCague

James McCague has 22 credited comics indexed across 3 series, working as writer, penciller, inker.

James McCague was a comic strip creator whose only known comic strip successfully syndicated was Bill and Davey with the Watkins Syndicate, from September 16, 1935, to August 10, 1940. McCague was credited as writing and drawing the comic strip. In the 1940 U.S. Census, McCague listed himself as a "syndicate contract cartoonist" confirming he did draw as well as write the comic strip. It was reprinted (some of which might have been unprinted material from the syndicate's inventory) starting in The Comics (Dell, 1937 series) #6 (February 1938) to issue #11 (March 1939). The run moved to Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #18 (March 1940) to #23 (August 1940). Then the strip's last comic book run was in Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #1 (August 1940) ending with #11 (March 1942). Per the General Fiction Magazine Index, he was a writer and railroad clerk (per the 1930 U.S. Census he listed his occupation as a locomotive engineer). McCague is known to have written two pulp magazine stories, "The Big Ivy" in Bluebook (McCall Corporation, 1952 series) v102#1 (November 1955) and "The Railroad into Hell" in Adventure (Popular Publications, Inc., 1934 series) v134#5 (June 1958).