Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff (1914- April 19, 2001) was born in New York City. He did several humor strips for DC Comics, where his brother Murray Boltinoff was an editor. These included Abdul the Fire Eater, Bebe, Billy, Buck Skinner, Cap's Hobby Center, Cap's Hobby Hints, Casey the Cop, Charlie Cannonball, Chief Hot Foot, Cora the Carhop, Dexter, Doctor Floogle, Doctor Rocket, Dover & Clover, Elvin, Freddie the Frogman, Hamid the Hypnotist, Homer, Honey in Hollywood, Hy the Spy, Hy Wire, Jail Jests, Jerry the Jitterbug, King Kale, Lefty Looie, Lem 'n' Lime, Lionel and His Lions, Little Pete, Little Pocahontas, Lucky, The Magic Genie, Moolah the Mystic, No-Chance Charley, Ollie, On the Set, Peter Puptent, Prehistoric Fun, Shorty, Stan, Super Turtle, Warden Willis, and numerous others, very often with letterer Gaspar Saladino. He worked on the comic strips This and That (1946), Woody Forrest (1960), Stoker the Broker (1960-), and Hocus-Focus ( through 2001). He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for his work on the strip for 1981. He also received their Humor Comic Book Award for 1970.