Don C. Cameron
Don C. Cameron
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Donald Clough Cameron was aGolden Age comic book writer. After starting out as a crime reporter for theDetroit Free Press in the 1920s, he worked for two years at theWindsor Star in Ontario, Canada. He moved to New York in the 1930s. In the early 1940s, he started - not quite successfully - writing for the pulps. From 1939 to 1941, several novels (Murder's Coming;Grave Without Grass;And So He Had to Die) were published by Henry Holt, followed later byDig Another Grave (1946) andWhite for a Stroud (1947) for Mystery House. It may be around this time that he sold some stories to Fawcett. He wrote Batman scripts forBatman, andDetective Comics, and supposedly created the Penguin (Although this has never been confirmed), he also wrote scripts forWorld's Finest Comics and Superman stories for the latter as well as forthe eponymous title and forAction Comics. Cameron createdLiberty Belle forBoy Commandos and continued the feature inStar-Spangled Comics for several years, receiving a rare byline; he also did severalNewsboy Legion stories. ForAction Comics, he also wroteVigilante,Congo Bill andZatara scripts. The last issues ofMore Fun Comics saw several Cameron scripts for theSuperboy andJohnny Quick features. From 1946 on, Cameron didSuperboy,Johnny Quick,Aquaman,Green Arrow andShining Knight scripts (including the very last one) forAdventure Comics; earlier, he had written a singleStarman story for the 91st issue. The post-war years saw a gradual shift in his work: While he continued to write superhero stories, he also penned scripts for several western features:Full Steam Foley forWorld's Finest Comics,Pow Wow Smith forDetective Comics,Cowboy Marshal,Rodeo Rick,Wyoming Kid and, especially,Nighthawk forWestern Comics. Additionally, in 1948, Cameron was writing a serialized exposé of Communist infiltration of Canadian trade unions which was syndicated in American and Canadian papers. He had written more than two dozen scripts for theHopalong Cassidy title and started work on a book about occultism titled "Stones at odds" when he died from cancer in November 17, 1954, in New York City.