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Allen Bert Christman, known professionally as Bert Christman, was an American cartoonist. He is best known as artist of the newspaper comic strip ''Scorchy Smith'', about a pilot-adventurer in the inter-war years. He was also credited with co-creating the original, Wesley Dodd version of the DC Comics character the Sandman. ==Biography== Artist Bert Christman and writer Gardner Fox are generally credited as co-creating the original, Wesley Dodd version of the DC Comics character the Sandman. While the character's first appearance is usually given as ''Adventure Comics'' #40 (cover-dated July 1939), he also appeared in DC Comics' 1939 ''New York World's Fair Comics'' omnibus, which historians believe appeared on newsstands one to two weeks earlier, while also believing the ''Adventure Comics'' story was written and drawn first.〔(The Sandman ) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia: "''Adventure Comics'' #40 wasn't quite the character's first appearance, though. The 1939 issue of ''New York World's Fair Comics'', an extra-big anthology DC put out to capitalize on the eponymous event, contained a Sandman story, and probably hit the stands a week or two before his first ''Adventure'' story (though the one in ''Adventure'' is believed to have been written and drawn earlier)." (Archived ) from the original December 5, 2011.〕〔(''New York World's Fair'' #1 (1939), DC, Detective Comics, Inc. imprint ) at the Grand Comics Database: "First Sandman story to appear in print (before ''Adventure'' #40)."〕 Each of the two stories' scripts were credited to the pseudonym "Larry Dean"; Fox wrote the untitled, 10-page story in ''New York World's Fair'' #1,〔 while he simply plotted, and Christman scripted, the untitled, six-page story, generally known as "The Tarantula Strikes", in ''Adventure'' #40.〔(''Adventure Comics'' #40 ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 Creig Flessel, who drew many early Sandman adventures, has sometimes been credited as co-creator on the basis of drawing the Sandman cover of ''Adventure'' #40,〔 but no other evidence has surfaced. Christman gave up his career as an artist, and joined the U.S. Navy in June 1938 as a pilot cadet. He was serving on the aircraft carrier ''Ranger'' in 1941 when he was recruited to join the American Volunteer Group to fight the invading Japanese in the skies over China and Burma.〔 The AVG would later be famous as the “Flying Tigers.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=J.R. )〕 During his time with the Tigers, Bert made many friends by using his artistic talents to personalize the noses of the P-40Bs of the “Panda Bear” squadron of the AVG with cartoons and caricatures for the pilots. Christman's plane was shot down and he was killed in 1942 while parachuting by the Japanese Army Air Force while flying in defense of the Burma Road. He was buried with the full military honors due to a Colonel in the Chinese Air Force.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allen Bert Christman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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