Doc Savage - 'Thunder in a Testtube' (Shadow Comics v8#5, August 1948).
Peggy Zangerle was an American portrait artist, with a short stint in comic books during the 1940s.
Early life
Born in 1925, Margaret Zangerle attended J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as part of the Class of 1943. During high school she won an art distinction at La Salle College and at Gimbel's.
Comic books
By 1948, Zangerle was sharing an art studio with the comic artist Joe Maneely and the newspaper cartoonist George A. Ward in Philadelphia's Flo-Mar Building, at 3160 Kensington Avenue, Room 501. Just like Maneely, she joined the comic industry, working for a couple of titles published by Street & Smith. While Maneely moved on to become a star at Atlas Comics during the 1950s, Peggy Zangerle's tenure in comics was short. Her only known credits are single stories in 1948 issues of 'Ghost Breakers' (issue #2), 'Red Dragon Comics' (issue #4) and 'Shadow Comics' (drawing 'Doc Savage' in issue #5).
Later life and death
Later in life, Zangerle was an accomplished portrait artist in the Philadelphia and southern New Jersey area. Her works have been permanently installed in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., Villanova University and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. For nearly 20 years, Zangerle also taught oil painting, pastels and portraiture at the Ventnor City Cultural Arts Center in Ventnor, New Jersey.
For most of her life, she suffered from Paget's disease, a degenerative bone disease. She died in 1997. In 2002, the artist was the subject of a retrospective exhibit at the Atlantic City Art Center.
'The Garden of Paradise' (Red Dragon Comics #4, August 1948).