Dan Spiegle

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Dan Spiegle (born October 12, 1920) is a comic book and cartoon artist and illustrator (penciller and inker).

He 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 cancelled.

He then moved to Western Publishing Company drawing various comics for the Gold Key Comics line. This included the comic Space Family Robinson, Korak, Brothers of the Spear, and many of their mystery/occult titles. While mostly known for his realistic style he also proved capable of handling more cartoony material such as Scooby Doo. 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. As comic book historian Scott Shaw! notes "What’s even weirder about these stories is that in them, none of the “real” human characters seem to notice anything remotely unusual about occupying space with a three-foot-tall talking cartoon mouse!"

Spiegle later moved to DC Comics and worked on many of their features such as Batman, Unknown Soldier, Blackhawk, 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.

He would co-create Crossfire with Mark Evanier at Eclipse Comics. Evanier and Spigle also did five issues of Hollywood Superstars for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint. Both series had as their milleu the entertainment industry and drew on Evanier's years working as writer for television and films.

More recently he 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. 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. He is currently providing comic-style stories for Boys' Life magazine.