Jerry DeFuccio
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Jerry DeFuccio (born July 3, 1925; died August 10, 2001) was an American comic book writer and editor, known primarily for his work at Mad, where he was an associate editor for 25 years. In addition to his work on that magazine, he was closely involved in many of the Mad paperbacks, editing Clods' Letters to Mad and many other reprints and spin-offs.
Guests and visitors to Mad usually wound up chatting in DeFuccio's office, as noted by Mark Evanier, "Anyone who visited the Mad offices during his years there probably met and spent time with Jerry. He was the magazine's historian, researcher and unofficial greeter. He was also a devout student of comic book history who was responsible for unearthing much that is today known about vintage funnybooks. He was very nice to me when I first ventured into the halls of Mad, as he was to just about everyone."
At EC Comics during the early 1950s, DeFuccio was an assistant editor and researcher on Harvey Kurtzman's war comics, Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, research that on one day involved taking a trip underwater in a submarine. He wrote scripts for EC and also contributed one-page text pieces to several EC titles. For Frontline Combat he wrote "War Dance!" and "Belts n' Celts" (both illustrated by John Severin) and "Wolf!" (illustrated by Wally Wood). Some of his EC contributions appeared under the pseudonym Jerry Dee. He later did scripts for the line of war comics published by DC Comics, including Star Spangled War and Our Fighting Forces.
DeFuccio's book introductions include Bud Blake's Tiger (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969). As an expert on comic book history, he contributed to such publications as Squa Tront, Graphic Story Magazine, The Comics Journal, Wonderworld and The Comic Book Price Guide. He also worked briefly for Mad's rival, Cracked, after leaving Mad. DeFuccio died of cancer on August 10, 2001.
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Comics Interview 120. Jerry DeFuccio interviewed in 1993 by Bill Kieffer.
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[edit] EC Comics stories (1950s)
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[edit] DC Comics stories (1970-1972)
- G.I. Combat #152
- Our Fighting Forces #124
- Star Spangled War #162
- Tomahawk #134
- Weird War Tales #2
| Contributors to Mad "The Usual Gang of Idiots" |
| Editors |
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| Jerry DeFuccio | Al Feldstein | John Ficarra | Harvey Kurtzman | Nick Meglin |
| Writers |
| Anthony Barbieri | Dick DeBartolo | Desmond Devlin | Stan Hart | Frank Jacobs | Tom Koch | Arnie Kogen | Barry Leibmann | Jay Lynch | Andrew J. Schwartzberg | Larry Siegel | Lou Silverstone | Mike Snider |
| Writer-Artists |
| Sergio Aragonés | Dave Berg | John Caldwell | Don Edwing | Al Jaffee | Don Martin | Paul Peter Porges | Antonio Prohías |
| Artists |
| Tom Bunk | Bob Clarke | Paul Coker, Jr. | Jack Davis | Mort Drucker | Will Elder | Drew Friedman | Bernard Krigstein | Peter Kuper | Hermann Mejia | Norman Mingo | Tom Richmond | Jack Rickard | John Severin | Angelo Torres | Rick Tulka | Sam Viviano | Basil Wolverton | Monte Wolverton | Wally Wood | George Woodbridge | Bill Wray |
| Photographers |
| Irving Schild |
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