Sid Jacobson
[1] It was at Harvey that Jacobson met artist Ernie Colón, whose work he edited for many years both there and at Star Comics.[4] In addition to editing the entire Star line, Jacobson contributed scripts to some of the titles such as Wally the Wizard and Top Dog.[5] He wrote comics adaptations of the films Santa Claus: The Movie (1985),[6] Labyrinth (1986), Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987), and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988).[5] During this period, Jacobson published the novel Streets of Gold (Pocket Books, 1985), a fictionalized history of his family's immigration journey from the shtetls of Russia to the United States.[1] On July 23, 2022, at age 92, Jacobsen died at a hospice facility in San Mateo, California, from complications of a stroke after contracting COVID-19.