I'm now down to 42 Aquaman stories left to collect from the Golden Age (or at least, pre-1955). That sounds like a lot, I know. But there are 193 Aquaman stories before his first Silver Age origin, and 468 Aquaman stories total (including Atlantis Chronicles, if I counted correctly). That makes it less than 10% of the total left for me to find. Ok, it's the hardest 10% to find, but still, I'm making progress in reading all the stories. I no longer believe that reading every Aquaman story is impossible.
The latest batch was from England. Yes, they were B&W reprints, but at least I was able to read the stories! My wantlist is getting smaller and smaller...
Now, on to something slightly different. I know this may be a longshot, but I'm hoping someone out there who reads my blog has some information. I'm starting to write biographies of Aquaman creators for my website. While it won't be hard to get information for most of the modern, or even Silver Age, creators, I'm having a lot of trouble finding information about two of the first four Aquaman artists. Paul Norris and Ramona Fradon are both alive and have done interviews and such, so they aren't difficult to find facts for. But I have almost nothing on Louis Cazeneuve and John Daly.
Louis Cazeneuve (1908-1977) was born in Argentina. He had a younger brother by the name of Arturo who was apparently ashamed of his comic book work. Louis did a couple of works in Argentina, then moved to the US and worked for just about all the publishers at one point or another. Beyond that, I have nothing about him except a list of his works. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to find out more information about him? I don't want you to do my research for me, that's the fun part! But I could use some suggestions on where to start.
John Daly is more of a mystery. I don't have any birthdate for him. His comics career seems to have gone from 1940-1956. He may have been in advertising before comic books. Same as above, anyone know where I can start looking for more information?
If anyone can direct me to someone or someplace I can find more information, thank you! When my Aquaman page is finished, some day in the long distant future, I hope to have a lot of information that many people wouldn't think of looking for there along with all the obvious stuff.
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