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CAPLIN, ELLIOT 
 Name and vital stats 
  CAPLIN, ELLIOT [1913-2000] (publisher; editor; writer)  
 Education 
  B.A., Ohio State University; Yale [briefly]  
 Family in arts 
  Brother: Al Capp  
 Member 
  National Cartoonists Society  
 Print Media (non-comics) 
  Agent: Selling dozens of newspaper strips to syndicates  
  Writer: Articles: For pocket books and magazines  
 Performing Arts 
  Writer: Off-Broadway: Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead 1971  
 Other career notes 
  Consultant: Office of Educational Opportunity; Operation Headstart  
  Consultant: Rockefeller Foundation; Treasury Department  
 Additional biography 
  Cartoonist PROfiles #5, #37, 1970/78  
  National Cartoonists Society Albums  
  World Encyclopedia of Comics 1976/99  
 Syndication 
  ABBIE AN' SLATS (ghost wr/) 1946-68  
  ADAM AMES (wr/) 1959-62  
  BEST SELLER SHOWCASE [daily] (wr/) 1977-79 for Universal Press Syndicate  
  BEST SELLER SHOWCASE [Sunday] (wr/) 1977-79 for Universal Press Syndicate  
  BIG BEN BOLT [Sunday] (wr/) 1952-75 for King Features Syndicate  
  BUZ SAWYER [daily] (wr/) 1982-87 for King Features Syndicate  
  BUZ SAWYER [Sunday] (wr/) 1982-87 for King Features Syndicate  
  DARK SHADOWS [daily] (wr/) 1970-72 for NEA / Dan Curtis Productions  
  DARK SHADOWS [Sunday] (wr/) 1970-72 for NEA / Dan Curtis Productions  
  DR. BOBBS (wr/) 1941-50 for King Features Syndicate  
  DR. KILDARE [daily] (ghost wr/) 1962-84 unconfirmed dates for King Features Syndicate  
  DR. KILDARE [Sunday] (ghost wr/) 1962-84 unconfirmed dates for King Features Syndicate  
  HEART OF JULIET JONES, THE [daily] (ghost wr/) 1953-59 perhaps to c79 for King Features Syndicate  
  HEART OF JULIET JONES, THE [Sunday] (ghost wr/) 1953-59 perhaps to c79 for King Features Syndicate  
  LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE [daily] (ghost wr/) 1968-73 for Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate  
  LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE [Sunday] (ghost wr/) 1968-73 for Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate  
  LONG SAM [daily] (ghost wr/) 1958 for United Feature Syndicate  
  LONG SAM [Sunday] (ghost wr/) 1958 for United Feature Syndicate  
  MAW GREEN [Sunday] (wr/) 1968-73 for Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate  
  ON STAGE (ghost wr/) for Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate  
  PETER SCRATCH [daily] (ghost wr/) 1965-67 for New York Newsday  
  PETER SCRATCH [Sunday] (ghost wr/) 1965-67 for New York Newsday  
  Various features (pen/ink/) 1937- on staff for King Features Syndicate  
 Note on comics career 
  Early organizer of meetings leading to Comics Code  
 PARENTS' MAGAZINE PRESS 
  CALLING ALL GIRLS~ (ed/) 1941-43  
  FUNNY BOOK~ (ed/) 1942-43  
  REAL HEROES~ (ed/) 1941-43  
  Support (publ/ed/) 1946-49 [Imprint: TRUE COMICS]  
  TRUE AVIATION PICTURE STORIES~ (ed/) 1942-43  
  TRUE COMICS~ (ed/) 1941-43  
  TRUE COMICS~ (wr/) 1941-48  
 TOBY PRESS 
  Support (publ/ed/) 1949-55  
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