bigbenbolt

CREATOR - STORY

Name: Elliot Caplin.
Personal dates: Born 1913 in Connecticut, USA. Died 2000 in Massachusetts, USA.
Other creations: The Heart of Juliet Jones.
Successors: None.
Comments: Caplin's older brother was Al Capp, the creator of Li'l Abner.

CREATOR - GRAPHICS

Name: John Cullen Murphy.
Personal dates: Born 1919 in New York, USA. Died 2004 in Connecticut, USA.
Other creations: None.
Successors: Gray Morrow.
Comments: In 1971 Murphy took over the graphics work on Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. Foster continued to write his stories until 1980, when Murphy's son, also named John Cullen Murphy, took over the writing.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1950. Stopped in 1978.

This is the story about a pleasant college graduate's many adventures in and around his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. The series started with Ben Bolt as a heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and most of the first stories evolve around his fights in the ring.
After a few years the creators probably realized that the main theme of following a boxer's career was somewhat limited, so in 1955 they stopped Bolt's career by giving him a hand injury and throughout the rest of the series he functioned as a reporter for a boxing magazine. This gave his creators the freedom to produce more varied stories.