Vic Lockman (Victor Lockman)

Vic Lockman was an incredible man with an incredible talent. He was an artist. Comics and comic book art was his forte and what he was best known for. If you ever met Vic in person, he was sort of a comic in real life! His stories, sense of humor and ability to make people laugh and smile, were unlike anyone else I have ever met. I read an article on Vic not long ago and the author stated, " Vic might have been the most prolific comic book writer of all time and the least well-known." He went on to say "Lockman's stories ran among scripts by others in all the Disney comics, all the Warner Brothers comics, all the Walter Lantz comics, all the Hanna-Barbera comics and any other "funny" comics produced out of Western's Los Angeles office. He was the main guy behind a seventies comic called The Wacky Adventures of Cracky and he has been credited with creating the Disney character, Moby Duck. For years, a division of the Walt Disney company in Burbank was also producing comic book material for European publishers who needed more pages than they got by translating all the Gold Key books. Lockman also did hundreds of scripts for them. Vic wrote thousands of comic book stories for Western Publishing Company beginning around 1950. These were for their Dell and Gold Key comics." It is said that Vic likely wrote over 8000 comics and stories during his time with those publishing companies. There is so much I could say about him, but I think Vic said it all best himself when he wrote his "mini- autobiography". In Vic's own words.... here is his story.

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