Life Comics, as well as comics for publishers Rural Home, LaSalle, and Leffingwell. For Custom Comics, also called Culver Comics, an ACG division created in 1954, Hughes wrote promotional comics for the likes of police and fire departments, the Brown Shoe company (colloquially known as "Buster Brown Shoes"), Howard Johnson restaurants, the U.S. Air Force, and dozens of other clients. An October 1, 1952 "Statement of the Ownership, Management, and Circulation" published in ACG's Forbidden Worlds #15 gave the publisher's name as Preferred Publications, Inc., 8 Lord St., Buffalo, New York" and the owners as Preferred Publications and "B. W. Sangor, 7 West 81st Street, New York, N. Y." The editor was listed as Richard E.Hughes, 120 West 183rd St., New York, N. Y." and the business manager as "Frederick H. Iger, 50 Beverly Road, Great Neck, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y." An October 1, 1950 statement published in ACG's Cookie #29 gives identical data, with the exception of the publisher and co-owner being listed as "Michel Publications, Inc. 420 DeSoto Ave., St. Louis 7, Mo. Later life and career Hughes additionally wrote radio and television advertisements. His final comics work was uncredited stories for DC Comics' Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, Hawkman and supernatural-mystery anthologies. His final job appears to have been for Gimbel's department store, composing response letters to customer complaints. A Richard E. Hughes was listed as publisher of Toy Market Research Inc.'s biweekly trade magazine Toy Reporter that was premiering October 2, 1961. It is unclear if this is the same Hughes. Hughes died on January 15, 1974, of myelofibrosis Legacy After Hughes' death, his wife donated his papers to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. Hughes posthumously received the Bill Finger Award in 2016. Critical analysis In a review of the Dark Horse Comics collections Herbie: Volume One and Herbie: Volume Two, The New York Times described Hughes' Herbie Popnecker as, Hughes's pseudonyms Pierre Alonzo Ace Aquila Brad Everson Lafcadio Lee Kermit Lundgren Shane O'Shea (for Nemesis, drawn by Pete Costanza, and Herbie, drawn by Ogden Whitney) Greg Olivetti Kurato Osaki Pierce Rand Bob Standish Zev Zimmer (for Magicman, drawn by Pete Costanza) Pictures of Hughes' Pseudonyms In Unknown Worlds (ACG 1960-1967), story and art credits for the first 22 issues were accompanied by drawings of the contributors. Because almost all stories were written by the same writer, the pictures for the story credit