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Speigle, Dan

Born December 12, 1920;

Cosmopolis, Washington, USA

Maverick Comic Book Artist

Dan Spiegle is a comic book and cartoon artist, best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies including Dell Comics, DC Comics and Marvel Comics.

Spiegle began work on Maverick comics before any publicity photographs of James Garner were available, so he met the actor on the set. The resultant drawings of Garner in the subsequent comics are eerily exact. In 1972, Spiegle explained in an interview:

"I would say my favorite was Maverick, which ran about three years — fairly successful, considering the run of other western strips published then. I was assigned this strip even before they had stills available for the show, so I was sent down to Warner Bros. to see it in production — where I met James Garner, which is perhaps the reason I enjoyed it so much. Having met the star, I was extra careful to make the drawings I did look as parallel to the real person as possible. I put my all into that strip, having fun all the way."[1]