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Gaylord McIlvaine DuBois, or Du Bois was born August 24, 1899 in Winthrop, Massachusetts and died in Orange City, Florida October 20, 1993. In his lifetime he wrote well over 3000 comic book stories and comic strips as well as Big Little Books and adventure novels. Most notably, Gaylord Dubois wrote Tarzan for Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 until 1971. Among other genre he wrote several Westerns including Roy Rogers, Red Ryder, Gene Autry, Bonanza and others. His early career included many cartoons including Raggedy Ann, Our Gang, Tom and Jerry and Uncle Wiggily. Additionally he penned the scripts for Turok, Lassie, Space Family Robinson (Lost in Space),King of the Royal Mounted,and his own creation Brothers of the Spear. He also wote several one shot comics]] including Abraham Lincoln, Moses and the Ten Commandments, Around the World in 80 Days, [1] William Edward Burghardt DuBois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an African-American civil rights leader and scholar. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Big Little Books began in 1932, published by the Whitman Publishing Company in Racine, Wisconsin. ... James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. ... Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing cteated for comic books distributed to newstands. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), became famous as Roy Rogers, a singer and cowboy actor. ... Red Ryyder was a popular American comic strip cowboy created by Fred Harman, an artist and former partner of Walt Disney. ... Gene Autry. ... The Bonanza logo was superimposed upon a map of a wild west frontier area. ... Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. ... A poster for the 1931 Our Gang comedy Love Business featuring depictions of (from left to right): Pete the Pup, Jackie Cooper, and Norman Chubby Chaney. ... Tom and Jerry may refer to: Tom and Jerry are the main characters in Life in London, or Days and Nights of Jerry Hawthorne and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom by Pierce Egan Tom and Jerry (MGM), a series of theatrical animated cartoons produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, featuring a... Howard R. Garis, (25 April 1873-6 November 1962), a native of Binghamton, New York, was an American author, most famous for his childrens book series Uncle Wiggily and the Bobbsey Twins. ... Turok is the name of a fictional comic book character. ... Lassie filming on location in Florida photo courtesy State Archive of Florida Lassie, a Rough Collie, is the worlds most famous dog [1] and a fictional character who has starred in (or, more properly, in variations been the subject of) many movies, TV shows, and books from 1938 through... Space Family Robinson was an original science-fiction comic book series published by Gold Key Comics. ... Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series produced between 1965 and 1968 by television producer Irwin Allen. ... Brothers of the Spear was a long-running comic book series created by Western Publishing, and published first for Dell Comics and then later for Gold Key Comics. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was an American politician who served as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872. ...



 
 

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