List from The Ten-Cent Plague Edit

In the Appendix of David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague, he put a list of creators who stopped working in comics after the social backlash and Senate crackdown of the '50s. I've extracted the women's names from the list and started to go through and research them. If you'd like to pitch in, by all means! If you don't feel like writing anything up and you just want to leave some notes, that would also be fantastic. And if you have Hajdu's book, he has some information on quite a few of these women, so it wouldn't be a bad place to start.

Good resources:

• Lambiek.net
• Atlas Tales
• The Grand Comics Database
• Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999
• BIP Comics - Indicia Data (best for editors)
• Working the Margins: Women in the Comic Book Industry
• Trina Robbins's history books

NOTES:

1. Professional credit names are preferred; where a creator's professional name changes mid-career (i.e. marriage), the earliest professional name + the new surname is preferred.
2. Names with a ? after them are people of whom I am unsure of their gender.
3. A word of caution on research with Atlas Tales: Timely/Atlas published a lot of girl's magazines composed mainly of text articles with a few comic stories. Also, many articles were written by men with female psuedonyms. Try to verify that the writers actually existed and wrote comics before adding them.

The ListEdit

• Nina Albright (artist)
• Elaine Allen (editor)
• Louise Altson (artist)
• Sally Anderson (editor) [1]
• June Andrus (editor) [2]
• Joan Appleton (editor) [3]
• Ruth Arcaro
• Jean Atkins
• Ruth Atkinson
• Valerie "Violet" Barclay
• Eugenia Bedell (writer) [4]
• Joan Ben-Avi (publisher)
• Lauretta Bender (child neuropsychiatrist/editorial advisor)
• Helen Bennett (writer/support staff) [5]
• Angela Berg (business mgr) [6]
• Ade Bethune (artist) [7]
• Elaine Bierman (editor, writer) [8]
• Toni Blum
• Gloria Bley/Bye (editor) [9]
• Ivy Bolton (text writer) [10][11]
• Leigh Brackett
• Mary Burke (writer) [12]
• Cora Calnoun (writer) [13]
• Catherine Caposella (bookkeeping) [14]
• Vera Cerruti (editor) [15]
• Lillian Chestney (artist) [16][17][18]
• Eleanore Claire (artist) [19][20]
• Ellen Cole (editor, letterer) [21]
• Vesta Condon (text writer) [22][23]
• Gertrude Crampton (text writer) [24][25]
• Eda Crist (text writer) [26][27]
• Rachael Croft (writer) [28]
• Betty Cummings (writer) [29]
• Gloria Dennis (writer) [30]
• Anne DeStefano (editor) [31]
• Anahid Dinkjian (writer, inker) [32]
• Esther Douty (writer) [33][34]
• Jill Elgin
• Blanche Fago (editor) [35]
• Barbara Fairbanks (writer, artist) [36][37]
• Eileen Fiel (writer) [38][39]
• Sophie Friedman (writer) [40]
• Evelyn Goodman (writer) [41]
• Jean Goodman (co-owner, editor) [42][43]
• Eleaner Grupsmith (co-owner) [44]
• Theda Hall (photographer)
• Bonnie Hano (editor) [45]
• Gwen Hansen (writer, editor) [46]
• Laverne Harding (artist) [47]
• Ruth Harris (inker) [48]
• Miriam Hecht (writer) [49]
• B.J. Heyman (editor) [50]
• Andrea Hill (writer) [51]
• Betty Hill (writer, editor) [52][53]
• Louise Hill (editor) [54][55]
• Ora Hope (writer) [56]
• Phyllis Hoffman (editor) [57]
• Fran Hopper
• Virginia Hubbell (writer) [58][59][60]
• Etta Hulme
• Dorothy Hunter (artist) [61]
• Margaret Isbella (writer) [62]
• Ruby Kast (office support/secretary)
• Dotty Keller (artist) [63]
• Marion Kirby (co-owner) [64]
• Alice Kirkpatrick (artist) [65]
• Eve Koridor (real?) [66]
• Natalie Krigstein
• Marjorie Lazarus (writer) [67]
• Jean Levander (artist) [68][69]
• Irene Little (inker) [70][71]
• Pauline Loth (artist) [72][73]
• Isabel Mangum (writer) [74]
• Hazel Mart (artist) [75]
• Joan Maurer (writer) [76][77]
• Marion McDermott (editor) [78]
• Ann Meredith (editor) [79][80][81]
• Ruth Moore (writer) [82]
• Lorraine Murphy (writer) [83]
• Zoe Newman (writer) [84][possibly?][Ex-husband's obit]
• Marjorie Olsen (writer) [85]
• Ramona Patenaude (artist) [86]
• Marjorie Pearson (text writer) [87][88]
• Thelma Peters (text writer) [89][90]
• Joan Pringle (writer) [91]
• Virginia Provisiero; aka "Ginny" Editor, Fawcett Interview [92][93]
• Yvonne Rae (writer, editor, letterer) [94] apocryphal but convincing story about a possible credit
• Edna Richter (writer) [95]
• Ruth Roche
• Rosalind Ross (writer) [96][97]
• Ruth Ruhman (artist) [98][99]
• Marie Sarafianos [100] (writer, editor)
• Helen Doig Schmid (writer, editor) [101][102]
• Hanna Schreiberg (business manager)
• Suzanne Seaborne (inker) [103][104][105]
• Joy Seligsohn
• Mercedes Shull (editor) [106][107][108]
• Nancy Siegel (business)
• Elizabeth Sloan (byline of Betty Cummings)
• Christine Smith (writer, layouts) [109][110]
• Marcia Snyder (artist)
• Beverly Souser (editor, writer) [111]
• Hilda Terry (cartoonist)
• Alberta Tewks aka "Al Tews" letterer (Timely) writer (Holyoke) artist
• Marrylen Townsend (artist) [112]
• Barbara Clark Vogel
• Mary Wallace (writer) [113]
• Linda Walter (artist) [114]
• Joan Wenzel (artist) [115], possibly [116]
• Jane Werner (writer) [117]
• Lily Renée Wilheim Phillips (artist)
• Priscilla Willard (artist, inker) [118]
• Janice Valleau Winkleman (artist) [119][120]
• Kay Woods (editor) [121][122]
• Sandy Woolf (writer) [123]
• Rose Wyn (publisher)
• Peggy Zangerle (artist) [124]

Other Golden Age creators Edit

• Jean Alipe [125]
• Ann Brewster (artist) [126] ; [127] ; [128]
• Anne Quattrocchi [129]
• Betty Kathe (Kathryn Bernstein) - [130]
• Bobbie Ross (Edith Roberta Ross - editor [131]
• C.L. Moore (Catherine Louise)
• Claire S. Moe (aka Vic Todd, Orville Wells) - [132] ; [133] ; [134]
• Clara Elsene Peck (artist) [135]
• Connie Naar [136]
• Corinne Boyd Dillon (artist, writer) [137]
• Daisy Swayze [138]
• Dolores Carroll (artist) [139]
• Dorothy Woolfolk - [140]
• Edna Hagen (editor) [141]
• Edwina Dumm (cartoonist) [142]
• Eleanor Brody (also Zena?) [143]
• Eileen Toomey [144]
• Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne - [145]
• Emma C. McKean [146]
• Georgette Sauterel - [147]
• Gerda Gattel [148]
• Gloria Kamen - [149] ; [150] ; sister of Jack Kamen (?)
• Grace Jacquet - co-owner, Funnies Inc.
• Helen Meyer [151]
• Isabel Hewson [152]
• Isabel Magnum [153]
• Jean Hotchkiss
• June Hill - [154]
• Karen Karol [155]
• Lina Buffolente [156]
• Lucy Feller - [157] ; [158]
• Margaret Wroten [159]
• Marilyn Mercer [160]
• May Mann - [161]
• Merna Gamble - [162]
• Olive Bailey [163]
• Priscilla Ward (same as P. Willard?) [164]
• Rosemary Volk [165]
• Ruth Leslie - [166]
• Ruth Plumly Thompson - [167] ; [168] ; [169]
• Serena Summerfield [170]
• Terry Szenics [171]
• Veda Lufkin (letterer) [172]
• Virginia Drury Toomey, "Ginger" - [173] ; [174]
• Vivian Lipman-Berg - [175] ; [176]