Vern Henkel
- Born 1917-11-27 · Died 2009-10-21
Henkel created Abdul the Arab, Captain Fortune, Comet Kelly, Chic Carter, Gallant Knight, and Wings Wendell. Additional bibliography found in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #48, May 2005. Henkel is known to have written his own comics during the 1930s. He did an unknown number of gag cartoons during his career. Co-owner with Hal Lockwood, from 1953 to an unknown date, of a company that produced educational and industrial film strips and slides. Henkel spent the 1960s onwards working in advertising.
Comics
- War Comics — 1 issue
- Creepy Worlds — 3 issues
- Sinister Tales — 1 issue
- Honeymoon Library — 1 issue
- Amazing Stories of Suspense — 1 issue
- Kid Colt Outlaw — 2 issues
- Black Magic Comics — 1 issue
- Kid Colt Outlaw Giant — 1 issue
- Justice Traps the Guilty Album — 1 issue
- New Adventure Comics — 1 issue
- Feature Funnies — 14 issues
- Wags [UK] — 4 issues
- Wags [Australia] — 2 issues
- Jumbo Comics — 6 issues
- Feature Comics — 52 issues
- Smash Comics — 40 issues
- Crack Comics — 29 issues
- Mystery Comics — 1 issue
- Wings Comics — 1 issue
- Police Comics — 19 issues
- Military Comics — 24 issues
- Hit Comics — 3 issues
- National Comics — 21 issues
- Crime Does Not Pay — 1 issue
- A-1 — 3 issues
- Blonde Phantom Comics — 2 issues
- The Killers — 2 issues
- Zegra — 1 issue
- My Life — 1 issue
- Sub-Mariner Comics — 1 issue
- Phantom Lady — 1 issue
- My Life, True Stories in Pictures — 1 issue
- Justice — 7 issues
- Crimefighters — 1 issue
- Casey Crime Photographer — 4 issues
- All True Crime Cases Comics — 2 issues
- Blaze the Wonder Collie — 1 issue
- Jungle Lil — 1 issue
- All True Crime — 6 issues
- Suspense — 4 issues
- True Adventures — 1 issue
- Wild Western — 4 issues
- True Adventures — 2 issues
- Marvel Tales — 2 issues
- Western Outlaws and Sheriffs — 1 issue
- Sports Action — 3 issues
- Young Men — 3 issues
- Hollywood Diary — 1 issue
- Crime Can't Win — 1 issue
- Unknown Worlds — 1 issue
- Journey into Unknown Worlds — 1 issue
- Man Comics — 5 issues
- Girl Comics — 1 issue
- Men's Adventures — 5 issues
- Crime Exposed — 5 issues
- Taxi O'Hara Comics — 1 issue
- Space Squadron — 1 issue
- Private Eye — 6 issues
- Sports Action — 1 issue
- War Comics — 5 issues
- Battle — 4 issues
- Marvel Tales — 1 issue
- Two Gun Western — 1 issue
- Crime Cases Comics — 1 issue
- Colossal Comics — 1 issue
- Triumph Comics — 1 issue
- Mystic — 3 issues
- Spy Fighters — 1 issue
- Space Squadron — 1 issue
- Strange Tales — 2 issues
- War Adventures — 2 issues
- Battle Action — 3 issues
- Men in Action — 4 issues
- Spy Cases — 3 issues
- Combat — 3 issues
- Young Men on the Battlefield — 3 issues
- Battlefield — 4 issues
- War Action — 2 issues
- Kent Blake of the Secret Service — 1 issue
- War Combat — 1 issue
- Uncanny Tales — 1 issue
- Kid Colt Outlaw — 2 issues
- Battlefront — 1 issue
- Spook — 1 issue
- Battle! — 1 issue
- Jet Powers — 1 issue
- Rugged Action — 1 issue
- Okay Adventure Annual — 1 issue
- Kid Slade Gunfighter — 1 issue
- Battle Action — 1 issue
- Super Thrill Album — 1 issue
- Mystic — 2 issues
- Zombie — 2 issues
- Giant Gunsmoke Western — 1 issue
- Spellbound — 1 issue
- The Outlaw Kid — 2 issues
- Beware — 1 issue
- Crypt of Shadows — 1 issue
- Jerry Iger's Golden Features — 1 issue
- Airboy — 2 issues
- Pulp Fiction — 1 issue
- Wings Comics — 1 issue
- Millennium Edition: Police Comics No. 1 — 1 issue
- Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales — 2 issues
- Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Battlefield — 1 issue
- Haunted Horror — 1 issue
- Crime Does Not Pay Archives — 1 issue
- Vixens, Vamps & Vipers — 1 issue
- Airboy Archives — 1 issue
- Men of Mystery Comics — 2 issues
- The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! — 1 issue
- A-1 Comics: A Retrospective — 1 issue
- Gwandanaland Comics — 1 issue
- Crypt of Horror — 1 issue
- Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett - The Post-War Years Omnibus — 1 issue
- Atlas Comics Library — 1 issue
- PS Artbooks Softee: Police Comics — 2 issues