While much of Cartoon Art Production’s output was due to the industriousness of Dennis M Reader, they did have other talents, such as Crewe Davies, who drew Dane Jerrus, Agent One of the Interplanetary Solar Force, and Captain Magnet.
Another key creator who worked between Glasgow and Dundee was Irish artist Paddy Brennan, who became a DC Thomson creator. His first published work was for The Magno Comics (1946), a one-shot published by Cartoon Art Productions, for which he drew ‘Jeff Collins - Crime Reporter’. Brennan then produced the wonderfully offbeat Marsman Comics (1948), a single issue also for Cartoon Art Productions. He then went on to work for their flagship title, Super-Duper Comics, which ran until 1950,
It was in 1950 that the company seems to have shut down, possibly due to the fact that an exhausted Reader had quit by this point. Also the boom in post war comics and printing while ink and paper were still rationed until the early 1960s.
The address was 141 Bath Street, Dick Glasgow
In the early 1980s, via an address given me by Gerald Swan (far from interested in his own comics history) I contacted one of the surviving CAP owners and even though public domain at that point I did pay a fair price for the characters and titles.
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