4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 576

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #576 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0911064019
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 11/5/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Angel (#1) by Matt Casson. 8/54.

Best of three copies graded by CGC to date. (4/12)

Stories Include:

1. [Untitled story inside front cover]

2. The Picnic

3. Angel's Pets

4. The Secret Club

5. The Fountain

6. [Untitled story inside back cover]

7. [Untitled story on back cover]

Interesting info:

After WWII, he returned to cartooning, drawing the comic strip Jeff Crockett from 1948 to 1952 for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate. He was recalled to active military duty in 1952 for service in the Korean War. After a 1953 honorable discharge, he was back at the drawing board for the Publisher/Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate (1953–66) with the children’s strips Sparky and Angel.

He co-created It’s Me, Dilly with Alfred James (pseudonym for Alfred Andriola of Kerry Drake) and worked on the strip from 1958 to 1962. In the 1970s, Casson collaborated with William F. Brown on the comic strip Mixed Singles, later renamed Boomer. It was marketed by United Feature Syndicate until 1981. In 1988, when cartoonist Gordon Bess found himself unable to continue his internationally known Redeye daily comic for King Features Syndicate, he handed it over to a collaboration of Casson as illustrator and Bill Yates as writer. When Yates himself became ill in 1999, Casson took over both writing and art for the strip, a role he continued until his death in 2008.

Mel Casson was married to Mary Lee Culver Casson, an opera singer and actress, from 1965 to his death. He had one daughter, Culver. He lived in Westport, Connecticut nearly all of his married life.
  
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