Editing Tower Comics (section)

== History ==
Tower publisher Harry Shorten "cut a dream deal with Wally Wood" in which Shorten would be the managing editor and "Wood would be granted a wide latitude of creative and business freedom devoid of a 9-to-5 office job or hefty administrative duties, and be allowed to concentrate on creating characters and concepts for an expanding line of [[superhero comics]]".

When it became obvious Wood could not handle the volume of material Shorten wanted to publish, he hired Samm Schwartz, who Shorten knew from both men's many years at [[Archie Comics]].<ref name=Irving>Irving, Chris. "Rise and Fall of Tower Comics: Chris Irving on the History of the Short-Lived Comics Publisher", [https://issuu.com/twomorrows/docs/cba14preview/4 ''Comic Book Artist'' #14] (TwoMorrows Publishing, July 2001), pp. 12–14.</ref> Schwartz handled the scheduling of all the material and assignments of scripts and art other than Wood's own.<ref>Klein, Robert and Michael Uslan. "Introduction", ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archives'' Volume 1 (DC Comics, 2002).</ref> Schwartz's ''Tippy Teen'', an ''[[Archie Comics|Archie]]''-style comic about the adventures of a spunky teenaged girl, ran 27 issues. ''Tippy Teen'' and its spin-off, ''Go-Go and Animal'', featured many stories drawn by Schwartz, as well as contributions from moonlighting Archie artists like [[Harry Lucey]] and [[Dan DeCarlo]]. 

Other notable creators associated with Tower included [[Dan Adkins]], [[Gil Kane]], [[Reed Crandall]], [[Steve Ditko]], [[Richard Bassford]], [[Len Brown (comics)|Len Brown]], [[Steve Skeates]], [[Larry Ivie]], [[Bill Pearson (American writer)|Bill Pearson]], [[Russ Jones]], [[Roger Brand]], and Tim Battersby-Brent.<ref name=Irving />