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Wally Wood

Wally Wood (1927 - 1981) was active/lived in New York, California, Minnesota.  Wally Wood is known for Comic-book illustrator, science fiction.

Wally Wood was born in 1927, and studied at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York and as an assistant to George Wunder who was drawing Terry and The Pirates.  Early in 1949 he met Renaldo Epworth, who brokered comic book stories for some of the low-end publishers.

His first assignment was a Fox romance comic, My Confession, from October of 1949.  Wood was just out of the Marines and was age 22, when Epworth placed him with two separate aspiring young cartoonists, Marty Rose and Harry Harrison, to produce stories for Fox in 1949 and 1950.

While producing romance, crime and adventure comics for Victor Fox in 1950, at minimum wage, he branched out to other companies.  Wood was an immediate regular, when the unforgettable science fiction comics, Weird Fantasy and Weird Science, came out in 1950.

At the age of 25, Wood got the job for Will Eisner's The Spirit, a Sunday supplement comic.  B   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5331 characters.]  Artist bio

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