The Newer Cartoonists

By John Ryan Panel by Panel Pg 195

“Gem Comics was the title that Frank Johnson Publications chose as their continuing title, late in 1946. By this time many of the old guard had moved onto other fields and younger, less experienced artists had moved in to replace them. There was still ‘Supa Dupa Man’ and ‘Wocko the Beaut’ from Mercier, ‘Shadowman’ from Boradley, and NM Sherlock (Lock) contributed one- page fillers of his long running navy character, ‘Prendergrast’- but, broadly, Gem Comics belonged to the newer cartoonists”