Editing Jack Cole (artist) (section)

===Early work===
In 1936, having married childhood sweetheart Dorothy Mahoney soon after graduating [[High school (North America)|high school]], Cole moved with his wife to [[New York City]]'s [[Greenwich Village]]. After spending a year attempting to break in as a [[magazine]]/[[newspaper]] illustrator, Cole began drawing for the studio of [[Harry "A" Chesler]], one of the first comic-book "packagers" who supplied outsourced stories to publishers entering the new medium. There, Cole drew such features as "TNT Todd of the FBI" and "Little Dynamite" for [[Centaur Publications]] comics such as ''Funny Pages'' and ''Keen Detective Funnies''. He produced such additional features as "King Kole's Kourt" (under the [[pseudonym]] Geo. Nagle), "Officer Clancy", "Ima Slooth", "Peewee Throttle", and "Burp the Twerp: The Super So-An'-So" (the latter two under the pseudonym Ralph Johns).