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Edd Ashe, born Edmund Marion Ashe Jr., (August 11, 1908 - September 4, 1986) was a creator of comic strips and a comic book artist in the United States. [1] He wrote the strip Guy Fortune that ran in the Pittsburgh Courier from August 19, 1950, until October 22, 1955. He also illustrated The American Weekly . [2]

He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. [2] His father was an artist and head of Carnegie Tech's art department. [3]

He was a white Golden Age comic book artist. [4] He and Nathaniel Nitkin created Bomber Burns. [5]

His second marriage was to Beatrice Bishop in 1941. She was the daughter of a prominent hotelier on Long Island and died February 8, 1983. [2]

Guy Fortune

The Guy Fortune comic strip was about a secret agent who was African American. It was pioneering. [6] A 1955 strip features Fortune in Pakistan teaching a young prince baseball. [7]

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