The Man within the Background

I’ve been remiss in posting loads at this time, but I’ve also been discovering out an excellent deal of comics that tumble originate air the aim of this blog; I’m working my manner thru a pair of sequence, including the Seventies Flash complications and Cerebus.

However as it occurs, I got a hankering to read the Action Superman tales starting from narrate #200, and I started noticing the particular person within the background of an excellent deal of scenes plight at the Day by day Planet areas of work. And I attain indicate loads. Action #200:

Action #202

That’s the correct occasion I will accept to this level of him having any lines, but he appears moderately usually:

Usually he’s portly, sometimes he’s quite svelte:

However the pipe and the bald head are completely ubiquitous. Well, the bald head is, infrequently he does rob the pipe out of his mouth:

He’s also the exiguous man in this image which used to be pointed out by longtime commenter Ralph C:

There’s no longer truly any mystery here; interestingly Superman artist Wayne Tiresome place editor Mort Weisinger into an excellent deal of panels as an interior shaggy dog memoir.

Change: For a more biting see at Mort Weisinger from Tiresome, test here. Hat tip to commenters Wordsmith for the suggestion and Diane for the hyperlink.