Hank Chapman

Hank Chapman (1915-1973) wrote steadily for a variety of comics publishers between 1940 and 1967, usually uncredited, but he has been identified as the author of several hundred stories. In the 1940s, he worked on the serialized battles between The Human Torch and The Sub-Mariner in Marvel Mystery Comics . He was also an editor at Fox Comics from 1949 to 1953, but is most known for his war stories while on staff at Atlas in the 1950s and at DC in the '50s and '60s. In addition to Atlas titles...See more

Hank Chapman (1915-1973) wrote steadily for a variety of comics publishers between 1940 and 1967, usually uncredited, but he has been identified as the author of several hundred stories. In the 1940s, he worked on the serialized battles between The Human Torch and The Sub-Mariner in Marvel Mystery Comics . He was also an editor at Fox Comics from 1949 to 1953, but is most known for his war stories while on staff at Atlas in the 1950s and at DC in the '50s and '60s. In addition to Atlas titles like Battle, Battlefront, Combat Casey , and War Action , Chapman wrote for a variety of genres, including horror ( Adventures Into Terror ), Westerns, crime, and romance. Beginning in 1955, Chapman is estimated to have written more than a hundred war stories for DC titles like Our Army at War and G.I. Combat . See less