Dan Spiegle was a comic book and cartoon artist and illustrator (penciller and inker). He had a long career in drawing comics based on movie and television characters, and worked for companies like Dell, DC and Marvel.
Spiegle began his professional cartoonist career in 1949 drawing Hopalong Cassidy for the Mirror Syndicate. He continued to draw this strip after it was bought out by King Features in 1951, until it was canceled. He then moved to Western Publishing Company drawing various comics for the Gold Key Comics line. This included the comic Space Family Robinson, Korak, Son of Tarzan, Brothers of the Spear, and many of their mystery/occult titles, as well as titles based on television series such as Maverick; Spiegle began work on MaveDan Spiegle was a comic book and cartoon artist and illustrator (penciller and inker). He had a long career in drawing comics based on movie and television characters, and worked for companies like Dell, DC and Marvel.
Spiegle began his professional cartoonist career in 1949 drawing Hopalong Cassidy for the Mirror Syndicate. He continued to draw this strip after it was bought out by King Features in 1951, until it was canceled. He then moved to Western Publishing Company drawing various comics for the Gold Key Comics line. This included the comic Space Family Robinson, Korak, Son of Tarzan, Brothers of the Spear, and many of their mystery/occult titles, as well as titles based on television series such as Maverick; Spiegle began work on Maverick comics before any publicity photographs of series star James Garner were available, so he met the actor on the set and the resultant drawings of Garner in the subsequent comics are eerily exact.
In 1966, at the height of the James Bond craze, Spiegle provided realistic backgrounds and human characters while funny animal artist Paul Murry drew Mickey and Goofy for the short-lived Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent. While mostly known for his realistic style, he also proved capable of handling more cartoony material such as Scooby Doo.
Spiegle later moved to DC Comics and worked on many of their features, such as Batman, Unknown Soldier, Tomahawk, Jonah Hex and Teen Titans, until the early 1990s. His most notable work was the Nemesis backup series in Brave and the Bold, and on Blackhawk with Mark Evanier.
Although the character of Crossfire was created by Mark Evanier and Will Meugniot in DNAgents published by Eclipse Comics, Spiegle is the artist most associated with Crossfire. With Evanier writing, Spiegle penciled and inked every issue of Crossfire, as well as Crossfire and Rainbow, and Whodunnit? (featuring Crossfire). Evanier and Spiegle also did all five issues of Hollywood Superstars for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint. Both series had as their milieu the entertainment industry and drew on Evanier's years working as writer for television and films.
Spiegle provided the art for Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient (1993–1994) and Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny (1995) published by Dark Horse Comics. Spiegle also re-teamed with Mark Evanier on three issues of Archie Comics' iteration of Scooby Doo. He is also credited with doing the artwork for Nintendo Power magazine's Nester's Adventures comic (formerly Howard & Nester) in its later stages until it was discontinued in 1993. In the mid-1990s he took over doing art for the short-lived revival of the comic strip Terry and the Pirates after Tim and Greg Hildebrandt left. Spiegle worked with the Bank Street College of Education as an illustrator of a number of "Bank Street Classic Tales" published in Boys' Life magazine, Bible Stories for the American Bible Society, and he teamed up with Evanier again for a new Crossfire story....more
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