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Notable events of 1951 in comics.
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Michael Sekowsky was an American comics artist known as the penciler for DC Comics' Justice League of America during most of the 1960s, and as the regular writer and artist on Wonder Woman during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Notable events of 1948 in comics.
Notable events of 1950 in comics.
Frank Giacoia was an American comics artist known primarily as an inker. He sometimes worked under the name Frank Ray, and to a lesser extent Phil Zupa, and the single moniker Espoia, the latter used for collaborations with fellow inker Mike Esposito.
Notable events of 1949 in comics.
Notable events of 1942 in comics.
Fred Kida was a Japanese-American comic book and comic strip artist best known for the 1940s aviator hero Airboy and his antagonist and sometime ally Valkyrie during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. He went on to draw for Marvel Comics' 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, in a variety of genres and styles, and then again for Marvel superhero titles in the 1970s. He drew the company's The Amazing Spider-Man newspaper comic strip during the early to mid-1980s. Kida also assisted artist Dan Barry on the long-running strip Flash Gordon from 1958 to 1961 and then again from 1968 to 1971.
Hillman Periodicals, Inc., was an American magazine and comic book publishing company founded in 1938 by Alex L. Hillman, a former New York City book publisher. It is best known for its true confession and true crime magazines; for the long-running general-interest magazine Pageant; and for comic books including Air Fighters Comics and its successor Airboy Comics, which launched the popular characters Airboy and The Heap.
Notable events of 1941 in comics.
Notable events of 1943 in comics.
Jack Kirby was a prolific comics creator who created many American comic books and characters, particularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Jack Schiff was an American comic book writer and editor best known for his work editing various Batman comic book series for DC Comics from 1942 to 1964. He was the co-creator of Starman, Tommy Tomorrow, and the Wyoming Kid.
Robert (Bob) Forgione (1929–1994) was an American comic book and comic strip artist, best known for his work for Marvel Comics during the 1950s when it was also known as Atlas Comics. He studied at the New York Franklin School of Art. Around 1948 he became one of Jerry Robinson's assistants. Between 1951 and 1964, Forgione illustrated 341 comic stories, mostly for Atlas Comics, but also for Charlton, St. John Publications, American Comics Group, DC Comics and Dell Comics. Some of the series where his work appeared include Adventures Into the Unknown, All-American Men of War, Astonishing, Bat Masterson, Forbidden Worlds, Journey Into Unknown Worlds, Lassie, Marines in Battle, Mystic, Our Army at War, Out of the Night, Star Spangled War Stories, Strange Tales, The Thing and Uncanny Tales. He also drew six startling covers for the horror series The Thing from Charlton. During the period of 1962–1963, Forgione worked as an uncredited penciller for the comic strip The Phantom alongside credited artist Sy Barry.
The eighth issue of Strange Adventures achieved some sort of classic status. The cover showed a gorilla in a zoo holding up a slate that read 'Please believe me! I am the victim of a terrible scientific experiment!' This 'Incredible Story of an Ape with a Human Brain' had strong sales, and [editor Julius] Schwartz recalls that 'Irwin Donenfeld called me in and said we should try it again. Finally all the editors wanted to use gorilla covers.'