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Murphy Anderson

Murphy Anderson (1926 - 2015) was active/lived in New York, North Carolina.  Murphy Anderson is known for Comic strip and comic book art, superhero drawing.

Following is The New York Times obituary of Murphy Anderson.

"Murphy Anderson, Longtime Artist for DC Comics, Dies at 89"
By George Gene Gustine, October 27, 2015

Murphy Anderson, a comic book artist best known for drawing superheroes for DC Comics from the 1950s to the ’70s, died on Thursday in Somerset, N.J. He was 89.

The cause was heart failure, said his son, Murphy III.

Born in Asheville, N.C., on July 9, 1926, Mr. Anderson began drawing professionally in 1944 for Fiction House, a pulp publisher that had entered the comics field in the late 1930s. He followed that with a two-year stint, from 1947 to 1949, on a “Buck Rogers” newspaper strip before landing at what would become his longtime home, DC Comics, which was known at the time as National Comics.

Mr. Anderson would pencil or ink nearly every major series the company published, including Superman, Hawkman and The Brave and the Bold, which introduced the Justice League of Amer   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3675 characters.]  Artist bio

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