Gary T. Poole

Gary T. Poole is a former editor-in-chief at Western Publishing, Inc., New York (Golden Press, Periodicals Division) and has had several books published, including The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, which was made into a movie starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts, and Ghostbusters II Jokebook for the movie starring Bill Murray. Other published works include TV Comedians, Movie Monsters, Laugh Yourself Well, In My Opinion, Tales of the Spookynatural, and The Skyblue Frame, a Hardy Boys Mystery, plus a series of children's books called the Itsy-Bitsies.
Gary T. Poole was born in 1931 in Gaffney, South Caolina. He moved to New York City in 1949
to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
He also created scripts for Warner Bros. cartoon characters Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Yosemite Sam and others including Little Lulu and Bullwinkle for Gold Key Comics,
Western Publishinc Company in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968 he was invited to come in and work fulltime as Feature Editor for Golden Magazine for Boys and Girls. A year later he was made Editor-in-chief of that magazine where he remained until 1974 when he left to begin writing books.
A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 1951, in New York City, Gary has worked in radio as a disk jockey and talk show host and spent seven years as master of ceremonies for the Network Television Preview Theater in New York City, testing pilot films in front of live audiences. He was also writer/producer of "The Laugh Factory," a cable television show featuring upcoming standup comedians.
While writing is his primary occupation, Poole is also an artist and has illustrated several of his books. His cartoons have appeared in magazines and newspapers.
Poole performs regularly on radio on "Awake with Drake" in Spartanburg, South Carolina (103.3FM) with the Merriment Players doing satires of old-time radio shows. He is also in demand as a speaker and lectures widely at colleges, universities and corporations.
Poole's latest book Radio Comedy Diary, a study of the golden age of radio, was published by McFarland & Company, Inc in 2001.
He can be found on this website: Gary Poole GCD.
References: Who's Who in 1974-1975.
He moved to Teaneck, NJ in 1976 and continued as a freelance writer for Gold Key Comics and
Modern Publishing Co. Inc., in New York City.
In l984 he moved to St. Louis to work as a copywriter for D'Arcy. Macmanus & Macius Advertising which later became D'Arcy Macius, Benton & Bowles. Left there in 1986 and moved to Spartanburg, SC to take a job as Creative Services Director at WSPA-AM/FM where he remained until he retired in l994. He is alive and well and still active writing and drawing cartoons and appearing with local radio legend Bill Drake (now on WOLT-FM, Spartanburg) with the aforementioned Merriment Players.

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