Gaylord DuBois

Who was Gaylord DuBois?

Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois was a prolific American writer of comic book stories and comic strips, as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. He wrote well over 3,000 comics stories.

An avid outdoorsman, Du Bois had a real affinity for writing stories with natural settings. His forte was in Westerns, as well as jungle comics and animal reality comics. He created many original second features for Western Publishing, but most of his work for the company was in writing stories with licensed characters. Perhaps most notably, Du Bois wrote Tarzan for Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 until 1971.