Who are the individuals who have made great contributions to the comic book arts? Who are the writers, artists, editors, publishers and others who have plied their craft in insightful ways? The Overstreet Hall of Fame, which spotlights many such creators and leading figures, is featured in The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics.

The Marvel and Superman Families seldom looked better when handled by the skilled hand of Kurt Schaffenberger. Tackling the Big Red Cheese in the Golden Age for Fawcett Comics and the Bronze Age for DC Comics, the talented artist was also recruited by Otto Binder in 1957 to work on the Superman family of titles. He continued to work at DC for the next three decades, where he was the lead artist on Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane for the entirety of its first decade.

It’s been said that Schaffenberger’s rendition of Lane became the “definitive” version of the character, and the artist was often asked by DC editor Mort Weisinger to redraw other artists’ depictions of her in other DC titles in which she appeared. He retired from comics in the 1980s soon after inking the second chapter of Alan Moore’s pre-Crisis Superman tale, “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” Schaffenberger passed away on January 24, 2002.

– Scott Braden

The most recent inductees into The Overstreet Hall of Fame are featured in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #43, which is now on sale. Those inducted up to that point are featured in The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics.