Startling Comics
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Hartley also put in a 9-issue stint as artist on the bimonthly Linda Carter, Student Nurse title, again working from Stan Lee scripts. The strip was syndicated by Field Enterprises. Hartley also provided artwork for Stan Lee's short-lived newspaper comic strip about scouting, Mrs. Around this same time Hartley is reported to have briefly written and drawn a syndicated cartoon panel entitled Suburbia , but the syndicate which distributed it is unknown, as is the reason why it appeared for such a brief period of time. This cutback must have been fairly brief, however, because Hartley's work was appearing soon after in a large number of romance, western, and mystery titles under the Atlas imprint, such as Secret Story Romances, True Secrets, Meet Miss Bliss, Western Outlaws, Quick Trigger Action, Annie Oakley, Wild Western, Western Gunfighters, Marvel Tales, World of Suspense, Journey Into Mystery, Astonishing, and Mystery Tales. During this time Hartley did artwork again for Ace Periodicals, some of which appeared in Ace's Ten-Story Love comic in 1955. There appears to be a very small gap in Hartley's output for Lee in early 1955, reportedly due to Atlas/Timely/Marvel becoming backlogged and cutting back on freelancers for a while around August 1954. The horror and mystery comics were gaining in popularity as well, and Hartley contributed to Mystic, Spellbound, Strange Tales, Adventures Into Terror, and Mystery Tales. He also did covers and interior stories for many romance comics including Love Tales, Love Adventures, Lovers, Love Romances, Girl Comics, Girl Confessions, and My Own Romance. By 1951 Hartley appears to have been freelancing almost exclusively in comics for Atlas/Timely/Marvel, either writing his own stories or drawing from Stan Lee scripts.
In 1949-50 he was still contributing features such as "Lorrie" to the Cookie, The Funniest Kid in Town comic, published under the ACG banner. Hartley contributed to All Romances, Glamorous Romances, Dotty , Dotty and Her Boyfriends, and Vicky, all published by Ace Comics in 1949. By '48 he was also working on the actual Patsy Walker title with Lee as well as on Atlas/Timely/Marvel's Nellie the Nurse magazine.