Bob Wood Archives

Daredevil Comics #11 reached newsstands on April 28, 1942, according to copyright records, the same week that publisher Lev Gleason and the same editorial team of Charles Biro and Bob Wood released Crime Does Not Pay #22, the comic book that turned true crime into a major genre This is still a superhero anthology, not[...]

Superman was about to transform the business, but Bob Wood's signed cover still sells the comic with a visual gag: a theater promises that "children in arms" will be admitted free, so one child arrives at the ticket booth carrying another The title itself is part of a complicated piece of early comic-book history William[...]

According to one comics industry legend as related in Blab! #6 (among other places) it was Charles Biro who was the originator and driving force behind the Crime Does Not Pay concept, laying out the idea for his Lev Gleason co-editor Bob Wood in a Broadway bar.  If that's true, the title was a long time[...]

That warning was particularly interesting because co-creator Bob Wood would later go on to become an editor for publisher Lev Gleason, co-creating the notorious comic book title Crime Does Not Pay — not to mention other notoriety.  But in 1940, Bob Wood and one of his brothers, Dick Wood, created a superhero in The Target[...]

Donald Molony was called a hero in the aftermath of the 1945 collision of a B-25 with the Empire State Building. Then he became a comic book hero.

The series, created by Charles Biro and Bob Wood and featured art by Biro and George Tuska, is considered the start of the crime comic genre and was the first true-crime comic At its best the book sold over 6 million copies per issue. The musical, created by award-winning Calgary composer David Rhymer and musician and[...]