of Marvel Comics and Denis Kitchen's Kitchen Sink Press, featured two strips by Wolverton, "Calvin" and "Weird Creatures". Personal life In 1934, Wolverton married his Vancouver High School classmate Honor Lovette (class of 1927). They remained married until his death. Wolverton was baptized into Herbert W. Armstrong's Radio Church of God in 1941 and was ordained as an elder in 1943. As a board member of that church, he was one of the six people, including Armstrong and his wife, who reincorporated the church in 1946 when it moved from its original headquarters in Oregon to California. Wolverton died on December 31, 1978, at age 69. Wolverton's son, editorial cartoonist Monte Wolverton, has worked for The Plain Truth and contributed to Mad. Bibliography Books Books by Wolverton or collecting his work include: The Bible Story (1961) Wolvertoons: The Art of Basil Wolverton (1990) () Wolverton in Space (1997) () Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper (2001) () The Basil Wolverton Reader Vol.1 (2003) () The Basil Wolverton Reader Vol.2 (2004) () Basil Wolverton: Agony & Ecstasy (2007) () (reprints from The Bible Story) The Original Art of Basil Wolverton (2007) () The Wolverton Bible (2009) () The Culture Corner (2010) () Spacehawk (2012) () Creeping Death from Neptune: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 1 (2014) () Brain Bats of Venus: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 2 (2019) () Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton'' (2021) () References External links 1909 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American artists American comics artists People from Vancouver, Washington Churches of God Christians Golden Age comics creators Mad (magazine) cartoonists People from Central Point, Oregon Vaudeville performers Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductees EC Comics