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Elliot Caplin was born on 25 December, 1913 in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., is an American comics writer (1913–2000). Discover Elliot Caplin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 25 December 1913
Birthday 25 December
Birthplace New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Date of death 20 February, 2000
Died Place Stockbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Ruth

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Elliot Caplin Net Worth

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1913

Elliot Caplin (December 25, 1913 – February 20, 2000) was an American comic strip writer best known as the co-creator (with Stan Drake) of The Heart of Juliet Jones.

His name is sometimes spelled with one extra letter: Elliott A. Caplin.

He was the younger brother of Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner.

1936

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Caplin graduated from Ohio State University in 1936.

1937

Beginning in 1937, he was employed as a writer for King Features Syndicate.

He entered the comic book field as editor of True Comics for the Parents Magazine Institute.

1940

By 1940, he was an editorial director with the magazine Parents, leaving during World War II to serve with the Navy in the South Pacific.

1948

In the post-World War II years, he returned to Parents, continuing as an editor there until 1948.

Caplin co-created the strips Dr. Bobbs, Peter Scratch, and Big Ben Bolt, and served as writer for strips by others, including Abbie an' Slats, Long Sam, and Little Orphan Annie.

He adapted author Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series into a comic strip.

1949

He founded the comic book publisher Toby Press, which operated from 1949 to 1955.

1970

In the early 1970s, Caplin wrote Meegan's Game, a play about arrested adolescence.

1974

Directed by Paul E. Davis, it had a 1974 workshop production for several weekends at the Cricket Theatre on Second Avenue in an effort to interest potential backers.

1982

The play was eventually produced in 1982.

Among his many other plays are A Nickel for Picasso, a fictionalized account of his brother losing his leg.

He also wrote a book about his brother, Al Capp Remembered.

Caplin lived in Larchmont, New York, with his wife Ruth and their three children, Donald, Joan and Toby.

2000

He died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 2000.