Born: 1917 November 27 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: 2009 October 21 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography: Henkel created Abdul the Arab, Captain Fortune, Comet Kelly, Chic Carter, Gallant Knight, and Wings Wendell.
Additional bibliography found in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #48, May 2005.
Henkel is known to have written his own comics during the 1930s. He did an unknown number of gag cartoons during his career. Co-owner with Hal Lockwood, from 1953 to an unknown date, of a company that produced educational and industrial film strips and slides. Henkel spent the 1960s onwards working in advertising.
Notes: S. L. Henkle pen name used in conjunction with Stan Lee (http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=HENKEL%2c+S.+L.)
Washington School of Art ? to ?
Publication Title: All About America
(magazine) - Role: artist
- Year: 1996
Employer Name : Colorful Story Books, Inc.
Work Title: All About America, Giant Story Coloring Book with Baldy Eagle
Notes: Author and illustrator.
Publication Title: Giant Story Coloring Book
(magazine) - Role: artist
- Year: 1988
Employer Name : Colorful Fund Raising
Work Title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Publication Title: Giant Story Coloring Book
(magazine) - Role: artist
- Year: 1977
Employer Name : Colorful Fund Raising Inc.
Work Title: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Notes: Cover and interior artwork by Henkel.
Publication Title: The Baum Bugle
(magazine) - Role: artist
- Year: 1988
Employer Name : International Wizard of Oz Club
Work Title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz Giant Story Coloring Book
Notes: Cover reproduction of Giant Story Coloring Book, The Patchwork Girl of Oz in The Baum Bugle (International Wizard of Oz Club, series) v42#3 (Whole number 123), Winter 1988.