Created by ??
Private eye JERRY JASPER appeared in several black and white comic strip-style stories in the pages of the Private Detective Stories pulp in 1949-50. The stories were later colourized and reprinted in Crime Mysteries.
Oh, we’re told in one story that he’s a “wealthy young playboy” who’s “secretly an astute criminologist,” and he’s certainly a snazzy fellow, dapper in his white fedora and his bowtie, but he’s pretty much cut from the same predictable cloth as almost all of the comic book eyes of his era.
It’s unclear who created Jerry, given that creators were often left uncredited (just ask Bill Finger), and the work was often unsigned, or only signed by the artist. Not that there’s a mad rush to claim credit, mind you.
COMIC STRIPS
- “Dance of Death” (February 1949, Private Detective Stories; art by Ray McClelland)
- “The Hanging Corpse” (April 1949, Private Detective Stories; art by Ray McClelland)
- “The Treasure Car” (June 1949, Private Detective Stories; art by Dick Steele)
- “Murder En Route” (September 1949, Private Detective Stories; art by Ray McClelland)
- “The Vanished Secretary” (December 1949, Private Detective Stories; art by Ray McClelland)
- “Blackmail Breeds Murder” (January 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Newt Alfred)
- “The Mysterious Tip-Of” (Febrary 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Newt Alfred)
- “Murder Goes Backstage” (March 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Newt Alfred)
- “Murder in the Club Chair” (April 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Newt Alfred)
- “Campus Crack-Down” (May 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Robert McCarty)
- “Death Comes to Tea” (June 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Keats Petree)
- “Murder Backfires” (August 1950, Private Detective Stories; art by Ken Battlefield)
REPRINTS
- CRIME MYSTERIES
(1952-54, Ribage Publishing Corp.)
15 issues
