Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 19 Al Williamson was, at this time, working on jobs for American Comics Group. “I really got to know Wally in 1951,” said Williamson in 1985. “I didn’t see him at all in 1950. I just heard that he had gotten into comics and become a big deal. I saw him once or twice in 1948 or 1949, and I saw some of his work, and I got to see him again in 1951. When I’d go visit in Queens, they would be working there. Joe would show up and work during the day and sometimes work late at night, because a lot of times when I was over there Joe and I would both leave together. I didn’t do that much for the boys. Very little. I’d ink very little or lay out. I was not a very good assistant, unfortunately, so I did very little of that stuff. I suspect I met Sid Check later, in 1953. Sid didn’t show up much; he sort of dropped out. Maybe he was just slow. Sid was very, very good; he had some great ideas. He was actually, I think, a better artist than Joe Orlando; his stuff was more fun to look at. At that time my friendship was with Roy, not so much the other guys. Wally and I became very good friends, I think, in 1951 when I first really got to know him, and I think we were good friends all along.”  ¶ 3:07 PM