Joe Giella said in a 2012 interview that he was the artist of the "Captain Codfish" feature, in this passage from the "Newsday" article "Long Islanders Behind Batman Comics" by Daniel Bubbeo, Aug. 16, 2012 on web, Aug. 18, 2012 pp. B4-B5 in print, at http://tinyurl.com/9uxax8c:
"Especially since Giella remembers how hard it was as a teenager to gain a foothold in the comic book universe. Like many cartoonists, his career started as a freelancer, in his case working for Hillman Periodicals on a long-forgotten comic called Captain Codfish, a less-eccentric 1940s ancestor of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.' 'I was 17, and when your parents are struggling to keep the house going, the first son in the family, especially in an Italian family, had to go to work,' Giella explains."