Hugh Stanley White

Hugh Stanley White began his professional art career in advertising, but subsequently became the assistant to established artist Walter Booth on Puck’s Roy the Rover. In 1929 he did his first solo comic work on Amalgamated Press’ nursery comic Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue title, and during the next few years he took on various serials. When Mickey Mouse Weekly was launched, he drew the comic’s two non-Disney strips, the adventure series Ginger Nick the Waler and science-fiction epic Ian on Mu. In later issues he illustrated Flashing Through, Oil and Claw and Phantom City, while also working on Amalgamated Press’ Into Unknown Worlds. Post-war he worked the Atomic Age Comic, Bob Monkhouse’s Tornado strip in Oh Boy!, and Young Marvelman.