Talk:Dick Sprang

Batman #18, rather than #17
The cite for the DC Batman Archives vol. 3 says the first Sprang art appeared in Batman #17, giving a year but no month. However, the Grand Comics Database: Batman #17 entry lists the cover and three Batman stories as being, variously, by Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Jack Burnley, and Ray Burnley, all personally verified by the artists themselves.

This may be a typo in the Archives or a misremembering on the part of the writer, since, in addition to the above, Sprang himself verified to GCD that his earliest work on the Batman comic was two figures on the cover of Batman #18 (Aug.-Sept. 1943), were reproduced from the art for page 13 of the later-published Detective Comics #84 (Feb. 1944).

So Batman #18 would be Sprang's first published Batman work, and Batman #19 (Oct.-Nov. 1943) would be his first original published Batman work.

I'll used these cites, which link to Sprang's verifications at GCD, to try and explain this in the article as simply as I can. --Tenebrae (talk) 03:54, 13 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Likely that the GCD is more accurate than the Archives in this case, since the GCD is in all probability working from more comprehensive and accurate data than Mr Desris had access to. Obviously memories fade after 40 and 50 years, and matching ghost artists is an inexact science, so we may never know for sure.
 * Or, as you say, it could even simply be a typo on someone's part. Either way, it seems fine as it now is. ntnon (talk) 05:09, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Sprang in Glen Canyon and Family life
Hey there, I am updating a bit of Dick's Glen Canyon and family life info. FYI, Tom RRFWTommartin (talk) 22:22, 11 March 2020 (UTC)