Mort Meskin, the Glossary
Morton Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995)Social Security Death Index, SS# 071-16-1099.[1]
Table of Contents
57 relations: Advertising, Al Jaffee, Archie Comics, Art Students League of New York, Artist, Black Terror, Boys' Ranch, Brooklyn, Citizen Kane, Comic book, Crestwood Publications, DC Comics, Eisner & Iger, Eisner Awards, Fiction House, Fighting Yank, Film, Flash (Jay Garrick), Golden Age of Comic Books, Groo the Wanderer, Harry "A" Chesler, Horror fiction, Jerry Robinson, Jews, Jim Steranko, Joe Sinnott, Johnny Quick (Johnny Chambers), Jumbo Comics, Lee Falk, Lev Gleason Publications, List of Archie Comics characters, List of Eisner Award winners, Mad (magazine), Marvel Comics, New York (state), Newspaper, Pratt Institute, Prince Ra-Man, Pulp magazine, San Diego Comic-Con, Science fiction, Secondary school, Sergio Aragonés, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Shield (Archie Comics), Silver Age of Comic Books, Spain Rodriguez, Spark Publications, Standard Comics, Starman (Ted Knight), ... Expand index (7 more) »
Advertising
Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.
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Al Jaffee
Allan Jaffee (born Abraham Jaffee; March 13, 1921 – April 10, 2023) was an American cartoonist. Mort Meskin and al Jaffee are Jewish American comics creators.
Archie Comics
Archie Comic Publications, Inc., is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York.
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Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City.
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Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.
Black Terror
The Black Terror is a fictional comic book superhero who originally appeared in Exciting Comics #9, published by Nedor Comics in January 1941.
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Boys' Ranch
Boys' Ranch is a six-issue American comic book series created by the veteran writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Harvey Comics in 1950.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.
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Comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
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Crestwood Publications
Crestwood Publications, also known as Feature Publications, was a magazine publisher that also published comic books from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Eisner & Iger
Eisner & Iger was a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during the late-1930s and 1940s, a period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Mort Meskin and Eisner & Iger are Golden Age comics creators.
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Eisner Awards
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are awards for creative achievement in American comic books.
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Fiction House
Fiction House was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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Fighting Yank
The Fighting Yank is the name of several superheroes, first appearing in Startling Comics #10 (Sept 1941).
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Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Flash (Jay Garrick)
Jason Peter "Jay" Garrick is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Golden Age of Comic Books
The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956.
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Groo the Wanderer
Groo the Wanderer is a fantasy/comedy comic book character created by Sergio Aragonés.
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Harry "A" Chesler
Harry Chesler (January 12, 1897, or January 12, 1898 (sources differ) at the United States Social Security Death Index. from the original on January 18, 2012. – December 29, 1981), often credited as Harry "A" Chesler, with the "A" an affectation rather than a true initial, was the entrepreneur behind the first comic book packager of the late-1930s to 1940s Golden Age of comic books, supplying comics features and complete comic books to publishers testing the waters of the emerging medium.
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Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.
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Jerry Robinson
Sherrill David "Jerry" Robinson (January 1, 1922 – December 7, 2011) was an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s. Mort Meskin and Jerry Robinson are Golden Age comics creators and Jewish American comics creators.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jim Steranko
James F. Steranko (born November 5, 1938) is an American graphic artist, comic book writer/artist, comics historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator.
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Joe Sinnott
Joseph Leonard Sinnott (October 16, 1926 June 25, 2020) was an American comic book artist.
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Johnny Quick (Johnny Chambers)
Johnny Quick is a Golden Age DC Comics character with the power of superhuman speed.
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Jumbo Comics
Jumbo Comics was an adventure anthology comic book published by Fiction House from 1938 to 1953.
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Lee Falk
Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross (April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. Mort Meskin and Lee Falk are Jewish American comics creators.
Lev Gleason Publications
Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Stone Gleason (1898–1971), was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including Daredevil Comics, Crime Does Not Pay, and Boy Comics.
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List of Archie Comics characters
The following is a list of characters in the Archie Comics universe.
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List of Eisner Award winners
The following is a list of winners of the Eisner Award, sorted by category.
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Mad (magazine)
Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine first published in 1952.
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Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York.
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Prince Ra-Man
Prince Ra-Man is a fictional comic book magician published by DC Comics.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.
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San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con (also referred to as Comic-Con or SDCC) is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, since 1970.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born September 6, 1937) is a Spanish-Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer.
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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, is a fictional American comic book jungle girl heroine, originally published primarily by Fiction House during the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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Shield (Archie Comics)
The Shield is the name of several superheroes created by MLJ (now known as Archie Comics).
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Silver Age of Comic Books
The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and widespread commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those featuring the superhero archetype.
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Spain Rodriguez
Manuel Rodriguez (March 2, 1940 – November 28, 2012), better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman.
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Spark Publications
Spark Publications was a short-lived comic book publisher in the mid-1940s, during the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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Standard Comics
Standard Comics was a comic book imprint of American publisher Ned Pines, who also published pulp magazines (under a variety of company names that he also used for the comics) and paperback books (under the Popular Library name).
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Starman (Ted Knight)
Starman (Theodore Henry "Ted" Knight) is a fictional superhero appearing in media published by DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Justice Society of America.
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The Shadow
The Shadow is a fictional character created by American magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson.
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Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins (Perlson; August 17, 1938 – April 10, 2024) was an American cartoonist. Mort Meskin and Trina Robbins are artists from Brooklyn and Jewish American comics creators.
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Vigilante (character)
Vigilante is the name used by several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Whizzer (comics)
Whizzer is the name of several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Wildcat (DC Comics)
Wildcat is the name of several fictional characters, all DC Comics superheroes, the first and most famous being '''Theodore''' "'''Ted'''" '''Grant''', a long-time member of the Justice Society of America (JSA).
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Wizard (Archie Comics)
The Wizard is a superhero created by Will Harr and Edd Ashe Jr.
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Yonkers, New York
Yonkers is the third-most populous city in the U.S. state of New York and the most-populous city in Westchester County.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Meskin
Also known as Morton Meskin.
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