Gaylord DuBois

Gaylord DuBois
BornGaylord McIlvaine Du Bois
(1899-08-24)August 24, 1899
Winthrop, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedOctober 20, 1993(1993-10-20) (aged 94)
Orange City, Florida, U.S.
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
Western comics
Tarzan comics
AwardsBill Finger Award posthumously 2020[1]

Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois[2] (sometimes written DuBois;[3] August 24, 1899 – October 20, 1993)[4] was an American writer of comic book stories and comic strips, as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. Du Bois wrote Tarzan for Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 until 1971, and wrote over 3,000 comics stories over his career.

An avid outdoorsman, Du Bois had a true affinity for writing stories with natural settings. His forte was in Westerns, as well as jungle comics and animal reality comics. He created many original second features for Western Publishing (e.g., "Captain Venture: Beneath the Sea", "Leopard Girl", "Two Against the Jungle", etc.), but most of his work for the company was in writing stories with licensed characters.

  1. ^ Six Posthumous Recipients to Receive 2020 Bill Finger Award
  2. ^ From his baptism certificate.
  3. ^ He signed it both ways, both capitalized: as two words, and as one word with a capital "B".
  4. ^ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JYMM-L4W : accessed 12 Mar 2013), Gaylord M Dubois, 20 October 1993.