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Virginia Hubbell Bloch (March 23, 1914 – April 15, 2006) was a writer forLev Gleason Publications,MLJ Comics, andDell Comics during theGolden Age of Comics.
After attendingBoston University andNew York University, she settled in Woodstock in 1943 with her first husband, Carl Hubbell, and they worked in the comics industry for years. Under the name Virginia Hubbell she wrote much of the later content of Charles Biro's Daredevil and Boy Comics, as well as the notoriousCrime Does Not Pay.
After the war, she wrote for the Good Comics (1953),Marvel Comics (1955) andSt. John Publications (1955). From 1957, she wrote the seriesLittle Lulu for Dell Comics as the successor toJohn Stanley.
In recent years, she is known to have written an award-winning play, and several children's books, includingGeorgie Gray Mouse with Helen Fletcher, under the name Virginia Hubbell.
Virginia Bloch died on April 15, 2006, aged 92. Bloch was posthumously awarded theBill Finger Award in 2020[1] along with fellow honoreesLeo Dorfman,Nicola Cuti,Gaylord DuBois,Joe Gill, andFrance Herron.
