Russ Heath, the Glossary
Russell Heath Jr. (September 29, 1926 – August 23, 2018) was an American artist best known for his comic book work, particularly his DC Comics war stories and his 1960s art for Playboy magazine's "Little Annie Fanny" feature.[1]
Table of Contents
104 relations: Aardvark-Vanaheim, Advertising agency, Alter Ego (magazine), American Revolutionary War, Americana (culture), Ancient Rome, Atlas Comics (1950s), Benton & Bowles, Big Apple Comic Con, Black Rider (character), Blam (Lichtenstein), Brattata, Captain America Comics, Carl Burgos, Cary Bates, Charles Marion Russell, Comic Art Professional Society, Comic book, Comic Book Resources, Commercial art, Crime comics, DC Comics, DK (publisher), EC Comics, Flashback (narrative), Frontline Combat, G.I. Combat, Gofer, Harvey Kurtzman, Haunted Tank, Holyoke Publishing, Horror comics, Inker, Inkpot Award, Inkwell Awards, Io9, Iron Fist (character), Joe Kubert, Journey into Mystery, Journey into Unknown Worlds, Kid Colt, Lambiek, List of Marvel Comics characters: M, Little Annie Fanny, Long Beach, California, Mad (magazine), Mark Evanier, Marvel Comics, Marvel Mystery Comics, Menace (Atlas Comics), ... Expand index (54 more) »
- Advertising artists and illustrators
- Mad (magazine) cartoonists
Aardvark-Vanaheim
Aardvark-Vanaheim is a Canadian independent comic book publisher founded in 1977 by Dave Sim and Deni Loubert and is best known for publishing Sim's Cerebus.
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Advertising agency
An advertising agency, often referred to as a creative agency or an ad agency, is a business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising and sometimes other forms of promotion and marketing for its clients.
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Alter Ego (magazine)
Alter Ego is an American magazine devoted to comic books and comic-book creators of the 1930s to late-1960s periods comprising what fans and historians call the Golden Age and Silver Age of Comic Books.
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
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Americana (culture)
Americana artifacts are related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Atlas Comics (1950s)
Atlas Comics was the 1950s comic-book publishing label that evolved into Marvel Comics.
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Benton & Bowles
Benton & Bowles (B&B) was a New York–based advertising agency founded by William Benton and Chester Bowles in 1929.
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Big Apple Comic Con
The Big Apple Comic Con is a New York City comic book convention, the longest-running comic book/speculative fiction/pop culture convention in New York City.
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Black Rider (character)
The Black Rider is a fictional Western character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Blam (Lichtenstein)
Blam (sometimes Blam!) is a 1962 painting by Roy Lichtenstein falling within the pop art idiom.
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Brattata
Brattata is a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book style of using Ben-Day dots and a text balloon.
Captain America Comics
Captain America Comics is a comic book series featuring the superhero character Captain America.
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Carl Burgos
Carl Burgos (born Max Finkelstein; April 18, 1916 – March 1984 Note: Gives only month and year of death.) was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), during the period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books. Russ Heath and Carl Burgos are Golden Age comics creators and Marvel Comics people.
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Cary Bates
Cary Bates (born 1948) is an American comic book, animation, television and film writer. Russ Heath and Cary Bates are dC Comics people and Silver Age comics creators.
Charles Marion Russell
Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West.
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Comic Art Professional Society
The Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.
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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.
Comic Book Resources
CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.
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Commercial art
Commercial art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising.
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Crime comics
Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction.
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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.
DK (publisher)
Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.
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EC Comics
E.C. Publications, Inc., (doing business as EC Comics) is an American comic book publisher specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.
Flashback (narrative)
A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
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Frontline Combat
Frontline Combat is an anthology war comic book written and edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published bi-monthly by EC Comics.
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G.I. Combat
G.I. Combat is an American comics anthology featuring war stories.
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Gofer
A gofer, go-fer or gopher is an employee who specializes in the delivery of special items to their superior(s).
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor. Russ Heath and Harvey Kurtzman are mad (magazine) cartoonists.
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Haunted Tank
The Haunted Tank is a comic book feature that appeared in the DC Comics anthology war title G.I. Combat from 1961 through 1987.
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Holyoke Publishing
The Holyoke Publishing Company was an American magazine and comic-book publisher with offices in Holyoke, and Springfield, Massachusetts, and New York City, Its best-known comics characters were Blue Beetle and the superhero duo Cat-Man (later rendered as Catman, sans hyphen) and Kitten, all inherited from defunct former clients of Holyoke's printing business.
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Horror comics
Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction.
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Inker
The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production.
Inkpot Award
The Inkpot Award is an honor bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International.
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Inkwell Awards
The Inkwell Award, sometimes shortened to the Inkwells, is an award given for inking in American comic books.
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Io9
io9 is a sub-blog of the technology blog Gizmodo that focuses on science fiction and fantasy pop culture, with former focuses on science, technology and futurism.
Iron Fist (character)
Iron Fist (Daniel Thomas "Danny" Rand) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Joe Kubert
Joseph Kubert (September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. Russ Heath and Joe Kubert are dC Comics people, Golden Age comics creators, Inkpot Award winners, Marvel Comics people and Silver Age comics creators.
Journey into Mystery
Journey into Mystery is an American comic book series initially published by Atlas Comics, then by its successor, Marvel Comics.
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Journey into Unknown Worlds
Journey into Unknown Worlds is a science-fiction/horror/fantasy title from Atlas (pre-Marvel) Comics published during the 1950s.
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Kid Colt
Kid Colt is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Lambiek
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (– Bussum). His son Boris Kousemaker has been the owner since 2007.
List of Marvel Comics characters: M
M-11 is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Little Annie Fanny
Little Annie Fanny is a comics series by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder.
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Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Mad (magazine)
Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine first published in 1952.
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Mark Evanier
Mark Stephen Evanier (born March 2, 1952) is an American comic book and television writer, known for his work on the animated TV series Garfield and Friends and on the comic book Groo the Wanderer. Russ Heath and Mark Evanier are dC Comics people and Inkpot Award winners.
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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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Marvel Mystery Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics (first issue titled simply Marvel Comics) is an American comic book series published during the 1930s–1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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Menace (Atlas Comics)
Menace was a 1953 to 1954 American crime/horror anthology comic book series published by Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursor of Marvel Comics.
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Michael Golden (comics)
Michael Golden is an American comics artist and writer best known for his late-1970s work on Marvel Comics' The Micronauts and The 'Nam, as well as his co-creation of the characters Rogue and Bucky O'Hare. Russ Heath and Michael Golden (comics) are 21st-century American artists, dC Comics people and Marvel Comics people.
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Mister Miracle
Mister Miracle is the name of three fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Montclair High School (New Jersey)
Montclair High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Montclair, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Montclair Public School District.
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Montclair, New Jersey
Montclair is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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Mystic Comics
Mystic Comics is the name of three comic book series published by the company that eventually became Marvel Comics.
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National Cartoonists Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
New Media Distribution/Irjax Enterprises was a comic book distributor and publisher active from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
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Newsarama
Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry.
Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!
Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! (sometimes Okay Hot-Shot) is a 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that uses his Ben-Day dots style and a text balloon.
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Our Army at War
Our Army at War is an American comic book anthology published by DC Comics that featured war-themed stories and featured the first appearances of Sgt. Rock and Enemy Ace.
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Paul Levitz
Paul Levitz (born October 21, 1956) is an American comic book writer, editor and executive. Russ Heath and Paul Levitz are dC Comics people and Inkpot Award winners.
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Penciller
A penciller (or penciler) is an artist who works on the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms, with a focus on the initial pencil illustrations, usually in collaboration with other artists, who provide inks, colors and lettering in the book, under the supervision of an editor.
Plastic Man
Plastic Man (Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a superhero first appearing in Police Comics #1, originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics, appearing in their American comic books.
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Playboy
Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.
Playboy Mansion
The Playboy Mansion, also known as the Playboy Mansion West, is the former home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, who lived there from 1971 until his death in 2017.
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Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.
Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
Robert Kanigher
Robert Kanigher (June 18, 1915 – May 7, 2002)Social Security Death Index, social security #116-07-5117. Russ Heath and Robert Kanigher are dC Comics people, Golden Age comics creators and Silver Age comics creators.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.
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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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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
Saturday-morning cartoon
"Saturday-morning cartoon" is a colloquial term for the original animated series and live-action programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the United States on the "Big Three" television networks.
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Sea Devils (comics)
The Sea Devils are a team of characters in comics published by DC Comics.
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St. John Publications
St.
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Star Spangled War Stories
Star Spangled War Stories is the title of a comics anthology published by DC Comics that featured war-themed characters and stories.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.
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Strange Tales
Strange Tales is a Marvel Comics anthology series.
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Superhero
A superhero or superheroine is a stock character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero; typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime.
Surplus store
A surplus store or disposals store is a business that sells items and goods that are used, purchased but unused, or past their use by date, and are no longer needed due to excess supply, decommissioning, or obsolescence.
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Taschen
Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany.
The Hero Initiative
The Hero Initiative, formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping comic book creators, writers, and artists in need.
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The Losers (comics)
The Losers is the name of a war comic book feature published by DC Comics.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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Timely Comics
Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.
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Toy soldier
A toy soldier is a miniature figurine that represents a soldier.
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Two Gun Kid (comic book)
Two Gun Kid is the name of a comic book title featuring the character Two Gun Kid originally published by Timely Comics beginning in 1948, by Atlas Comics from 1953 to 1961, and later by Marvel Comics.
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Two-Gun Kid
The Two-Gun Kid is the name of two Western fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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TwoMorrows Publishing
TwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
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Uncanny Tales (comics)
Uncanny Tales is the name of two American science-fiction / horror comic-book series, published in the 1950s and the 1970s. The first volume was by Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursor of Marvel Comics, and the second volume by Marvel. It is also the title of a British comics digest.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).
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University of Michigan Press
The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.
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Van Nuys
Van Nuys is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
Venus (comic book)
Venus is an American romance comic book published by Timely Comics (Marvel's predecessor) in the United States.
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War comics
War comics is a genre of comic books that gained popularity in English-speaking countries following World War II.
Western comics
Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century.
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Westport, Connecticut
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast.
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Whaam!
Whaam! is a 1963 diptych painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein.
Wild Western
Wild Western (originally titled Wild West) is a Western comic book series that was published by Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics.
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Will Elder
William Elder (born Wolf William Eisenberg; September 22, 1921 – May 15, 2008) was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952. Russ Heath and Will Elder are Inkpot Award winners.
Will James (artist)
William Roderick James (June 6, 1892 – September 3, 1942) was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West.
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Witness (character)
The Witness is the name of at least three fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Advertising artists and illustrators
- Alan Aldridge
- Alfred Leete
- Art Saaf
- Atsushi Kamijo
- Cal Schenkel
- D. Bruce Berry
- Dan Brereton
- Emilio Coia
- Franziska Schlopsnies
- George Papp
- Grant Miehm
- Greg LaRocque
- Irv Novick
- James Sherman (comics)
- Jan Kruis
- Jane Bark
- Jesse Santos
- Jim Aparo
- Joe Harris (illustrator)
- Joe Simon
- John Calnan
- Johnny Moncada
- Leopoldo Pomés
- Marc Hempel
- Neal Adams
- Nick Cardy
- Paris Cullins
- Pat Broderick
- Rafael Albuquerque
- Richard Black
- Rudy Nebres
- Russ Heath
- Sam Kweskin
- Samuel Burgess-Johnson
- Saul Mandel
- Tom Sutton
- Win Mortimer
- Yen Shui-long
Mad (magazine) cartoonists
- Al Jaffee
- Angelo Torres
- Antonio Prohías
- Basil Wolverton
- Bernard Krigstein
- Bob Clarke (illustrator)
- Bob Jones (illustrator)
- Bob Staake
- Dave Berg (cartoonist)
- Don Martin (cartoonist)
- Duck Edwing
- George Woodbridge (illustrator)
- Gerry Gersten
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Hermann Mejía
- Jack Davis (cartoonist)
- Jack Rickard
- James Warhola
- Jay Lynch
- John Caldwell (cartoonist)
- John Putnam (comics)
- John Severin
- Kevin Pope (cartoonist)
- Monte Wolverton
- Mort Drucker
- Norman Mingo
- Paul Coker
- Paul Peter Porges
- Peter Kuper
- Rick Tulka
- Roger Price (humorist)
- Russ Heath
- Sam Viviano
- Sergio Aragonés
- Tom Bunk
- Tom Fowler (cartoonist)
- Tom Richmond (illustrator)
- Wally Wood
- Ward Sutton
- William Wray (artist)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Heath
, Michael Golden (comics), Mister Miracle, Montclair High School (New Jersey), Montclair, New Jersey, Museum of Modern Art, Mystic Comics, National Cartoonists Society, New Jersey, New Media/Irjax, Newsarama, Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!, Our Army at War, Paul Levitz, Penciller, Plastic Man, Playboy, Playboy Mansion, Pop art, Relief, Robert Kanigher, Roy Lichtenstein, San Diego Comic-Con, Satire, Saturday-morning cartoon, Sea Devils (comics), St. John Publications, Star Spangled War Stories, Stereoscopy, Strange Tales, Superhero, Surplus store, Taschen, The Hero Initiative, The Losers (comics), The Village Voice, Timely Comics, Toy soldier, Two Gun Kid (comic book), Two-Gun Kid, TwoMorrows Publishing, Uncanny Tales (comics), United States Army Air Forces, University of Michigan Press, Van Nuys, Venus (comic book), War comics, Western comics, Westport, Connecticut, Whaam!, Wild Western, Will Elder, Will James (artist), Witness (character), World War II.