Larry Nadle


Lawrence Malcolm "Larry" Nadle was a comic book editor and writer who was known for his work for DC Comics' romance comics, celebrity comics, and other humor-centric titles. Todd Klein has noted that Nadle's career in comics began "around 1943-44", as an editor for All-American Publications.
Nadle also wrote scripts for radio and television, and produced the comic strip version of the situation comedy I Love Lucy. As well, he served as Robert Lewis May's ghost writer on the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer comic strip, and created the character "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

Allegations of impropriety

Fellow editor George Kashdan said that Nadle "paid himself for stories that did not exist", and that prior to audits, Nadle "would take an old script and change the title page to the title of the new story that he bought for himself".
Similarly, artist John Romita alleged that Nadle solicited kickbacks from artists from whom he would then commission stories, in order to pay his gambling debts.
Bob Oksner likewise stated that Nadle solicited kickbacks, and described how, when he was writing and drawing The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, Nadle persuaded him to allow his writing credit to be transferred to another cartoonist who "was in great debt to DC"; in reality, Nadle was keeping the money, and when this was discovered after Nadle's death, Oksner was nearly fired.
Bob Haney called Nadle "a horse player with a heart problem".
Craig Shutt has noted that Nadle participated in the practice of "redo stories", whereby a comic would "replicate major plot points or complete storylines , often using the same scenes if not the exact pacing".

Personal life

Nadle's brother was cartoonist Martin Naydel, perhaps best known as the creator of the Jumble.