Number 1763: “Another successful mission for the Perimeter Patrol!”

Henry Sharp, credited with drawing “The City of Light” for Ziff-Davis’ Amazing Adventures #6 (1952), went into television, and in the 1960s became the story editor for the hit show, The Wild, Wild West.* He was the only writer to have episodes in all four seasons of the series. There is an online, abridged article from Cinefantastique, where Sharp tells the story of his contribution to the hit show: “Story Editor Henry Sharp” by Craig Reid.

Henry was also a fine comic book artist, as evidenced by his work on this story, and a pair of stories for Strange Adventures I showed last year. See the link below.

*The Wild, Wild West owed a lot to the success of the James Bond movies, but I always thought of The Wild, Wild West as being a comic book on film. Like comics, it took fantastic concepts, action-filled science fiction plots, and incredible villains, just as comic books did. I thought it closer in tone to comic books than the spoof Batman TV series.

Henry Sharp drew these two stories for Julius Schwartz, which I showed last December.

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