Jerry DeFuccio

As noted by Mark Evanier: Anyone who visited the Mad offices during his years there probably met and spent time with Jerry.

He was also a devout student of comic book history who was responsible for unearthing much that is today known about vintage funnybooks.

He was very nice to me when I first ventured into the halls of Mad, as he was to just about everyone.At EC Comics during the early 1950s, DeFuccio was an assistant editor and researcher on Harvey Kurtzman's war comics, Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, research that on one day involved taking a trip underwater in a submarine.

For Two-Fisted Tales #33 he wrote "Outpost" (illustrated by John Severin and Will Elder.

DeFuccio's book introductions include Bud Blake's Tiger (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969).